BDA's tree-planting an expensive exercise in futility? The Hindu The ambitious Rs. 100-crore tree-planting project initiated by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), which has come under criticism for the destruction of a vast natural grassland, has just got more expensive. | The cost of the project has been pumped up by 40 per cent to Rs. 140 crore even as ...
The eagles have landed Irish Times 12White-tailed eagles, which have been reintroduced into Killarney National Park.Red kite chicks, which are now thriving on Ireland's east coast. Photographs: Valerie O'Sullivan, Marc Ruddock, Eamonn Keogh | AMY STRANGE | Attempts to reintroduce some birds of prey to the Irish countryside are enjoyi...
Grand Lake device will send water data to web Tulsa World PENSACOLA - Plans are under way to make Grand Lake water quality data available to the public in real time, the Grand River Dam Authority said. | Grand Lake is among the area lakes that struggled this summer with an outbreak of blue-green algae, a to...
BDA's tree-planting an expensive exercise in futility? The Hindu The ambitious Rs. 100-crore tree-planting project initiated by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), which has come under criticism for the destruction of a vast natural grassland, has just got more expensive. | The cost of the project has been ...
Canterbury a Mecca for job seekers NZ Herald | NZ's total of building trades workers needs to double to 155,400 over the next five years, say training groups. | "Come south, young family" is the message coming out of Canterbury after a dramatic jump in job vacancies to help rebuild the earthqua...
Two Windows Phone Mango Devices Unveiled by HTC Newsfactor HTC came on big with Windows Phone 7 devices last year, and now the Taiwanese handset maker is doing a repeat performance with Windows Phone Mango. HTC just unveiled the Titan and the Radar smartphones. | Although Microsoft and Nokia have a strategic...
Michael Arrington: The Kingmaker Who Would Be King The New York Times | More News From ReadWriteWeb | In U.S., QR Codes Are Still Mostly For Traditional Advertising The Slow Hunch: How Innovation Is Created Through Group Intelligence Mobile Credit Card Swiping Battle Continues: A Look at 4 Rival Technologies IPad Rippl...
The Miami-Dade urban sprawl redevelopment partnership The Examiner | If we build three million new houses by 2020, where will we grow all the stuff needed to feed the people who live in them? | -Jeremy Clarkson (The Sunday Times, Oct. 21, 2007) | Miami-Dade County is one of the densest demographic regions within Flo...
Call of Duty Elite premium membership explained, mobile apps incoming Joystiq Here's the thing about Call of Duty Elite so far: It's confusing. Even Chacko Sonny, studio head of Beachhead Studios, agrees that the information shared about the service hasn't exactly been clear. "There's been a lot of review internally in the org...
Rosa (2011) Short Film Trailer: Jesus Orellana IMDb | Rosa Short Film Trailer. Jesus Orellana's Rosa (2011) short film begins in "the near future, humanity has disappeared, leaving behind a large megalopolis devoid of natural life. From the destruction awakes Rosa, a robot part of the Kernel project, ...
ATVs often reviled in Vt., but popular this week Philadelphia Daily News | DAVE GRAM | The Associated Press | BETHEL, Vt. - All-terrain vehicles, reviled by environmentalists and others for their noise and the erosion they can cause in sensitive forest ecosystems, are about to be banned from state land by Gov. Peter Shuml...
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Water crisis prompts rethink on food: UN Breitbart | In many high-intensity food-producing regions, including the plains of nort... | World map showing the percentage of people in individual countries with acc... | Population growt...
Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me... The Observer Google founders Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin ensured that only a minority of shareholders were given voting rights. Photograph: Stuart Ramson/Associated Press | Once upon a ti...
As PCs Wane, Companies Look to Tablets The New York Times | Although the world is dependent on personal computers, making them has not been a great business for most American companies for almost a decade. The New York Times | George Frey...
In Board Nominee, News Corp. Scores a Savvy Investor The New York Times | So what does News Corporation want with James W. Breyer? | On Friday, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire announced that Mr. Breyer, a prominent partner at the venture capital firm Accel, has been nominated to join its board of directors. | It̵...
AT&T;/T-Mobile Block Harms Job Creation The Street | By Bruce Mehlman | NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Consumer confidence is plunging. Economic growth has stalled. Foreclosures persist, the European debt debacle continues, U.S. unemployment remains high and America's annual government deficits are north of...
BDA's tree-planting an expensive exercise in futility? The Hindu The ambitious Rs. 100-crore tree-planting project initiated by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), which has come under criticism for the destruction of a vast natural grassland, has just got more expensive. | The cost of the project has been pumped up by 40 per cent to Rs. 140 crore even as a significant proportion of newly planted saplings...
Cameron 'fails to keep his promise to back tourism' The Daily Telegraph Related Articles | Families 'should skip foreign holidays' 30 Aug 2011 | Passenger shortage threatens higher flight taxes 27 Aug 2011 | Foreign visitors 'put off by riots' 24 Aug 2011 | Rail fares up 8pc as inflation rises 16 Aug 2011 | London hotel rates to soar during Olympics 05 Aug 2011 | 'Cheap flights era over' warns IAG boss Willie Walsh 30 ...
