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13 hrs ago | Medical News Today

Early Menopause No Predictor Of Hip Fracture

Main Category: Menopause Also Included In: Bones / Orthopaedics Article Date: 10 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST rate article Women who have an early menopause are unlikely to have a long term increased risk of hip fractures associated with menopausal bone density weakening, according to a new study from The Australian National University.

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Related Topix: Menopause, Medicine, Family, Elderly, Women's Health

23 hrs ago | Medical News

Environmental factors, obesity and diabetes: Long-term study launched

Three Singapore biomedical institutions have launched a major, long-term study of pregnant mothers and their fetuses as well as infant children to determine just how profoundly environmental factors early in life influence the onset of diseases such as obesity and diabetes in later years.

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Related Topix: Indonesia, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medicine, Life, Food, Nutrition, Health

Mon Nov 09, 2009

EurasiaNet

In Mongolia, Ambivalence Greets Efforts to Find the Great Khan's Tomb

Joshua Kucera 11/09/09 Part 1 of a Series According to legend, when Genghis Khan died in 1227 in what is now northern China, his lieutenants wanted to keep the death a secret from the Mongols' enemies.

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Related Topix: Mongolia, World News, Asia,

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The West Australian

ANU may complain over Fiji expulsion

The Australian National University is considering making a formal complaint to the Fijian government over its treatment of academic Brij Lal.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Financial Services, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group

Fri Nov 06, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Lesotho: Aids Orphans Get Helping Hand

Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars.

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Related Topix: World News, Lesotho, Africa

Thu Nov 05, 2009

EurasiaNet

Mongolia: Shamanism is Making a Comeback

When Degi, a 24-year-old web designer in Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, hit a pedestrian in July 2008 with his Daewoo sedan, his luck took a turn for the worse.

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Related Topix: Mongolia, World News, Asia, Anthropology, Science

News.com.au

Fijian leader: You work with me or leave

Frank Bainimarama says as his country is suspended from the Commonwealth he doesn't care about the latest dramas / File Bainimarama orders Australian professor out Rudd "won't allow coup culture to spread" Fijian leader says he has no regrets The Australian: Judge triggers expulsions THE row between Australia and New Zealand and Fiji intensified ...

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Travel, Fiji Travel, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Financial Services, Fiji, Australia Travel

Wed Nov 04, 2009

NEWS.com.au

Academic expelled from Fiji

ONE of Australia's leading experts on Fiji has been given 24 hours to leave the Pacific nation after giving media interviews on the current political stand-off. Professor Brij Lal's expulsion is the latest directive to come from Fiji's military regime, just a day after it gave similar marching orders to the top diplomats from Australia and New ...

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Related Topix: Oceania, World News, Fiji, Travel, Fiji Travel, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Financial Services,

KOMO-TV Seattle

Study: Fiddler crabs exchange sex for survival

In the world of fiddler crabs, the best form of protection is, apparently, prostitution, according to an Australian study published Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Human Sexuality, Australia, Oceania, World News

Tue Nov 03, 2009

News.com.au

Database keeps bikes tuned up

A WEB tool to manage bicycle data for elite cyclists will help the athletes ride faster and safer.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, Science, Computer Science

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

ANU students lead the way in carbon fight

Solar panels will be installed on the student concessions building next year. Map: Canberra 2600 The student association at the Australian National University in Canberra will be the first in the country to become carbon neutral.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

English Dong-A

Top Univ. to Offer Preliminary Education for Freshmen

Seoul National University said yesterday that it will provide next year's freshmen with up to four weeks of 'camp education' to help them adjust to college education.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

South China Morning Post

Vice-premier aims to 'enhance trust' in ties with Australia

Vice-Premier Li Keqiang said China was committed to a free-trade agreement with Australia and developing a broader relationship, as he began a three-day visit aimed at cementing ties strained in the past year.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, China, Asia, Li Keqiang, Kevin Rudd

CIO

China Claims Supercomputer Among World's Fastest

China announced its fastest supercomputer yet on Thursday in the country's latest show of its goal to become a world leader in technology.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, CPU, Computers

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Xinhuanet

Defense university builds China's fastest supercomputer

The National University of Defense Technology unveiled Thursday China's fastest supercomputer, which could rival the world's most powerful computing devices.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, World News, China, Asia, CPU, Computers, Science, Computer Science

VietNamNet

Universities under microscope,

New colleges suffer shortage of academic staff The Standing Committee of the National Assembly will propose that the assembly keep a closer watch over universities, according to chairman of the NAa s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children Dao Trong Thi.

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Related Topix: Vietnam, World News

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Newsday

Majored in Chinese language

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Kevin Rudd,

Tue Oct 27, 2009

The Daily Star

Reconstitute teacher recruitment body

A parliamentary body asked the education ministry yesterday to reconstitute the teacher recruiting committee in the wake of alleged irregularities in recruitment in government high schools.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

JoongAng Ilbo English News

Hwang gets suspended jail term for phony work

In an initial ruling that came over three years after his indictment, a Seoul court yesterday sentenced once world-renowned cloning superstar Hwang Woo-suk to a suspended two-year prison term and three years probation for partially fabricating data in papers for the journal Science, misappropriating research funds and illegally trading human eggs.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Stem Cell Research

The Age

Australia denies singling out China on investment

Australia on Monday denied singling out Chinese investors after imposing tough conditions on a breakthrough mining takeover following a series of failed deals.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia,

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