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/ 23 February 2007
For people who want to ensure their words last for their progeny, Japanese scientists have found a way to put a message literally into genes. A Japanese research team said this week it had developed a technology for storing digital data in the DNA of bacteria, which can survive for millennia in the right conditions.
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/ 23 February 2007
An Israeli couple who bought sandals for an impoverished man has learned the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. They were ordered to pay damages when the recipient of their gift said the footwear caused him back problems. They bought a needy fellow resident a pair of Italian-made orthopaedic sandals in April last year.
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/ 23 February 2007
The Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) on Friday said it would not renew a truce with the government due to expire next week in a blow to a stalled peace process aimed at ending two decades of war. LRA deputy commander Vincent Otti blamed Kampala for violating the truce that was the only significant achievement of peace talks that began last July.
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/ 23 February 2007
Paul Bosland recalls taking a bite of a chilli pepper and feeling like he was breathing fire. He gulped down a soda, thinking, ”That chilli has got to be some kind of record.” The Guinness Book of World Records agreed, confirming recently that Bosland, a regents professor at New Mexico State University, had discovered the world’s hottest chilli pepper.
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/ 23 February 2007
A South African pharmaceutical company is set to start manufacturing antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating people living with Aids with immediate effect. ”Adcock Ingram is now able to tender for government’s ARV requirements and meet the needs of the private healthcare market,” said the company’s managing director, Jonathan Louw.
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/ 23 February 2007
Oscar-winning songwriter Ray Evans, whose long collaboration with partner Jay Livingston produced such enduring standards as Mona Lisa, Buttons and Bows, Silver Bells and Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera), has died. He was 92.
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/ 23 February 2007
Robert Adler, the co-inventor of the wireless television remote control, has died at the age of 93 in Idaho, Zenith Electronics said in a statement. His best-known and arguably most fought-over invention was the TV remote control he developed with Euguene Polley, introduced by Zenith in 1956.
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/ 23 February 2007
World oil prices rose above per barrel on Friday, gaining from news of a slide to stocks of United States gasoline and amid tensions in crude producers Iran and Nigeria that may further affect supplies. In London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for April delivery climbed 67 cents to ,29 per barrel in electronic trading.
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/ 23 February 2007
Twenty domestic employers in KwaZulu-Natal were ordered to produce workers’ records at labour offices by next week ”or face the law”, the Labour Department said on Friday. Spokesperson Zolisa Sigabi said the employers had failed to register their workers with the Unemployment Insurance Fund.
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/ 23 February 2007
Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji of Chad died early on Friday in a Paris hospital after a brain haemorrhage, the ambassador of the impoverished north-central African state said. The premier had been flown from the Chadian capital, Ndjamena, on Wednesday after he collapsed with high blood pressure.