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Venezuela reports first swine flu case
May 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Venezuela's health ministry is reporting the country's first swine flu case: a 22-year-old man who arrived on a flight from Panama earlier this week.
Venezuela unveils 14-dollar mobile phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Venezuela is to start selling in May a mobile phone it is billing as one of the world's cheapest: a 14-dollar handset that includes an MP3 player, radio and camera.
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Briefs: Vistula solutions in Venezuela VoIP project
Mar 13, 2006 |
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Envox is using a solution provided by Vistula Communications as part of its Voice over Internet Protocol project in Venezuela.
Venezuela closes foreign tech companies
Oct 07, 2005 |
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Venezuela offices of Microsoft, IBM and other foreign tech companies were closed Thursday on the orders of the government's tax authorities.
Briefs: Verizon sells off Latin America holdings
Apr 03, 2006 |
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Verizon Communications said it will sell its Latin American operations to America Movil for $3.7 billion.
New catfish species named for museum mail supervisor
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Jun 09, 2008 |
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He's not well known like President Bush and musician Neil Young, but Philadelphian Frank Gallagher now has something in common with them: He has a new species named after him.
Keeping beer fresher
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Scientists in Venezuela are reporting an advance in the centuries-old effort to preserve the fresh taste that beer drinkers value more than any other characteristic of that popular beverage. Their study, which ...
Component of asphalt eyed as new fuel source
Sep 23, 2009 |
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The pavement material that cars drive on may wind up in their fuel tanks as scientists seek ways of transforming asphaltenes -- the main component of asphalt -- into an abundant new source of fuel, according to the cover ...
U.S. losing its lead in space, experts warn Congress
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2009 |
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America's once clear dominance in space is eroding as other nations, including China, Iran and North Korea, step up their activities, a panel of experts told the House subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Thursday.
Venezuela to outlaw violent video games, toys
Oct 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Shouts of "Kill him! Kill him!" ring out as the preteens train their virtual assault rifles on the last remaining terrorist and spray him with bullets. Blood splatters. The enemy collapses. And they ...
Extra vitamin D in early childhood cuts adult diabetes risk
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Vitamin D supplements in early childhood may ward off the development of type 1 diabetes in later life, reveals a research review published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Heart disease: B-vitamin pills have no effect
Oct 06, 2009 |
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B-vitamin supplements should not be recommended for prevention of heart disease, say scientists. A Cochrane Systematic Review has shown these supplements do not reduce the risk of developing or dying from the disease.
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