Australia gives $104 million to fighting malaria

affiliate marketing SYDNEY (AP) — Australia will spend more than 100 million Australian dollars ($ 104 million) over the next four years to help reduce deaths from malaria in the Asia-Pacific region.Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced at a malaria conference in Sydney on Friday the money would support several country and regional programs....

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Fuel scarce as East Coast struggles to recover

NEW YORK (Reuters) - From New York City's Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and officials on Friday faced growing evidence of widespread destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy, mounting anger over delayed relief and a rising death toll. The total killed in one of the biggest storms to hit the United States jumped by a third on Thursday alone, to 98....

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Clinton calls for overhaul of Syrian opposition

affiliate marketing ZAGREB (Reuters) – The United States called on Wednesday for an overhaul of Syria‘s opposition leadership, saying it was time to move beyond the Syrian National Council and bring in those “in the front lines fighting and dying”.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signaling a more active stance by Washington in attempts...

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Apple's Cook fields his A-team before a wary Wall Street

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook's new go-to management team of mostly familiar faces failed to drum up much excitement on Wall Street, driving its shares to a three-month low on Wednesday. The world's most valuable technology company, which had faced questions about a visionary-leadership vacuum following the death of Steve Jobs, on Monday stunned investors by announcing...

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“A Late Quartet” Review: classical-music drama gets soapy but actors avoid the false notes

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – “A Late Quartet,” as it turns out, has more than one meaning: The film’s musicians spend most of the movie grappling with Beethoven’s Opus 131, the String Quartet No. 14 in C# Minor, which was one of the composer’s “late quartets,” completed the year before his death.But the title also...

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Alternative Therapies Help Many Arthritis Patients

affiliate marketing Researchers have confirmed that complementary and alternative therapy (CAT) can help many arthritis patients manage their condition. Their results suggest that the majority of patients who used CAT plus prescribed medication believed they benefited from the alternative treatment.The scientists published their findings...

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Storm leaves death, tears in its wake

Death blew in on the superstorm's wild winds and sea water torrents, claiming 90-year-olds and children with capriciously toppling trees, taking tall-ship adventurers in mountainous Atlantic waves and average folks just trying to deal with a freakish snowstorm. It felled both heroes rushing into harm's way and, ironically, people simply following advice to play it safe at home.At least 72 died as...

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Apple's iPad mini packs full-sized punch but screen inferior: reviews

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's entry in the accelerating mobile tablet race squeezes about 35 percent more viewing space onto a lighter package than rival devices from Google or Amazon.com Inc, but it sports inferior resolution and a lofty price tag, two influential reviewers wrote on Tuesday. The iPad mini, which starts at $329 versus the $199 for Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's...

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Swift’s ‘Red’ sells 1.2 million copies in debut

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift‘s new album is called “Red,” but its true color is a brilliant platinum. The 22-year-old sold 1.2 million copies of her latest album in its first week — the largest sales week for any album in a decade.Nielsen SoundScan confirmed the blockbuster sales on Tuesday night. “Red” marks Swift’s...

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Hurricane Babies: Myths and Realities

affiliate marketing Robyn Moreno, due to give birth, paid little attention to Hurricane Sandy, until police circled her Battery Park City neighborhood in Lower Manhattan and ordered mandatory evacuations in anticipation of a record tidal surge.Just before the historic storm hit New York City, the 36-year-old freelance writer and her...

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