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What is altitude sickness? Causes, symptoms and treatment

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 23 May 2016
Up to half of all people who ascend above 2500 metres suffer severe altitude sickness, according to a survey of the medical literature, published in the British Medical Journal in 2010 ... Some studies have reported men are more at risk of developing altitude sickness than women.  ... according to the British Medical Journal review. ....

Furniture cut-and-sew job tax credit continues until 2019

Edit The Miami Herald 23 May 2016
Legislators renewed the credit for each new cut-and-sew job — work cutting and sewing fabric and leather upholstery — until Jan ... Neither the state Department of Revenue nor the Mississippi Development Authority was able to provide information on the number of companies using the tax credit, The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (http.//bit.ly/1WanAZV) reported ... ....

Australian university life's nasty little secret: campus rape

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 23 May 2016
She reported the attack to the university's Safer Community Unit, which employed four former Victorian Police officers ... Earlier this week, it was revealed that students' sexual encounters were broadcast over a PA system at one University of Sydney college while residents at a neighbouring college published a journal that "slut shamed" female students....

Zhangjiagang Rural Commercial Bank receives IPO nod

Edit China Daily 23 May 2016
Some of them wish to list in Shanghai, Shenzhen or Hong Kong, while at least six are eyeing the National Equities Exchange and Quotations, an over-the-counter board, according to the China Stocks Journal ... According to an EY annual report on China's banking industry in 2015 released last month, rural banks managed to post high double-digit growth due ......

Bauer Media Group Gets the Scoop at the Canon Media Awards

Edit Scoop 23 May 2016
Bauer Media Group has secured a slew of prestigious awards at the 2016 Canon Media Awards presented last night in Wellington. North & South, The Listener and Metro have validated their commitment to investigative journalism with a host of wins in ... ....

Canon Media Awards Recognise RNZ Journalism

Edit Scoop 23 May 2016
RNZ's journalism has been recognised with three major awards at the Canon Media Awards announced in Wellington this evening ... ....

Mexico seeks to counter ‘Trump emergency’

Edit The Miami Herald 23 May 2016
Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, was recently stuck in Mexico City traffic, overcome with frustration – not by the congestion, but by something that was irritating him even more. Donald J. Trump. He grabbed his phone, turned the lens on himself and pressed record ... The voices have included at least two former Mexican presidents, top government officials, political analysts, academics, editorial writers and cultural figures....

The Olympic sinkhole

Edit Deseret News 23 May 2016
WASHINGTON — Brazil can't seem to catch a break. It's suffering the worst economic slump in decades; its president may be thrown out of office; it's contending with the Zika virus ... No more ... "In most cases the Olympics are a money-losing proposition for host cities," they write in the spring issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. For instance, they report that London's 2012 Summer Olympics cost $11.4 billion ... Robert J ... ....

After Oscar-winning film on ‘honor killings,’ Pakistani director finds a happier note: jazz

Edit The Oklahoman 23 May 2016
MUMBAI, India — The news from Pakistan is often bad. Suicide bombers killing civilians. Islamist radicals gaining influence. Hunger and disease stalking teeming cities and tumbledown slums. Endless government corruption and mismanagement ... Q. Why did you want to tell a story about Pakistani jazz musicians?. A ... Q ... But in Pakistan, every time an honor killing is reported, it is now headline news, there are news shows dedicated to it, editorials....

Miami Gardens making progress

Edit The Miami Herald 23 May 2016
Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert III wears Superman cufflinks; they are not so much a fashion statement but a declaration of what he wants to do with Miami-Dade’s third-largest city. Protect it ... Such a renaissance is a hard sell for any community, but in a confident tone Mr ... Tuesday, Mr ... As he recently told the Editorial Board, he wants residents, some shell-shocked from the violence that befell parts of the city last year, to believe....

Breakthrough as new form of light discovered

Edit The Hindu 23 May 2016
In a breakthrough, scientists have discovered a new form of light, which will impact our understanding of the fundamental nature of light. One of the measurable characteristics of a beam of light is known as angular momentum ... This difference though small is profound, researchers said. Changes of light property ... New possibilities ... The research was published in the journal Science Advances. ....

Women lead well and show light at the end of the tunnel

Edit DNA India 23 May 2016
--> ... Jayalalithaa too had focussed on populist measures to beat anti-incumbency ... An American think tank, Brookling Institution, in its 2014 Global Metro Monitor report ranked Kolkata 32nd in the exhaustive list of 300 world cities on the basis of "two key economic indicators — annualized growth rate of real GDP per capita and annualized growth rate of employment" ... My journalism is without borders.The world is my family ... ....

How to write a successful term paper

Edit The Examiner 23 May 2016
Writing a term paper can be very challenging, scary and cumbersome to students, especially to those who are writing one for the first time ... 1) ... 2) ... Find sources of information that are credible and reliable, such as the Library of Congress website (http.//www.loc.gov/), an online encyclopedia (http.//www.britannica.com/), journal articles (http.//articles.latimes.com/1994-05-15/realestate/re-58174_1_true-geraniums), or other sources ... 3)....
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