Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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‘World News’
Various world news and ‘world news’… ;-)
Extreme temperature differences
About 40 minutes ago there was an extreme temperature difference measured in the small country of the Netherlands. In the north, on Vlieland (one of the Frisian Islands), the mercury reached 1.3°C (approx. 34.3°F). In the south, in the town of Ell, a temperature of -20.4°C (approx. -4.7°F) was measured. This is a difference of
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The end of (legal) Paddo’s is near…
Starting December 1st 2008, magic mushrooms (also known as “Paddo’s”) will be banned in the Netherlands. This bill is the result of a proposal put forward by the ministers of health and justice, Ab Klink and Hirsch Ballin. The decision, backed by a majority of members of parliament, was taken after a number of accidents
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the Factory of Death… aka Borregaard Sarpsborg
Oops, they did it again… 🙁 Borregaard, a large chemical manufacturer on the outskirts of Sarpsborg, Norway, and as such (one of) the largest employer in this area, has (probably) again managed to infect the area with Legionella, causing an outbreak of Legionellosis (also known as Legionnaires’ disease). Back in 2005 they already quite ‘successfully’
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Jacob Meulie
Today, at 13:33 local time, Jacob Meulie entered this over-populated planet by C-section. He’s a healthy boy of 3980 grams and 52 cms. of length. Marianne needed a couple of hours to recover, but now both mother and son are doing just fine.
CC8 – International Climate Conference and Concert
The Club de Madrid, the Bellona Foundation and the energy company Hafslund ASA have joined forces and will organize a top level climate conference in Norway 5-6 June 2008. It will be an ambitious and solutions-oriented conference which can act in a joint effort to provide input for the international negotiation process on a new
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