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November 25, 2008
The Transportation Security Administration launched a $1. 3 million advertising campaign designed to have air passengers accept stringent travel rules which have often served as sources of disagreement and annoyances at checkpoints. The ad campaign was conceived after a passenger focus study made for TSA by business consulting company Blue Lime discovered passengers' unquestioning compliance with TSA rules has gone down. According to Blue Lime missing their trip is a greater concern now among American travelers than the threat of an attack on their plane.
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November 24, 2008
Topics airport, mexican, mexico, free, television, passport, aim, celebrity, coffee, picture, clothing, japan, movie, art, food, life, city, man and japanese
His is a life imitating art, Hiroshi Nohara, of Japan has been living at the Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez airport in Mexico City since arriving there on September 2 and he does not want to leave yet. Reminiscent of the Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones starrer, "The Terminal" where Hanks played to role of Viktor Navorski, a man from the fictional country of Krakozhia who arrived at the John F. Kennedy airport in New York only to find out that his country was overtaken by rebels mid-flight, invalidating his passport making him stateless and a fixture in the airport, Nahora has made Benito Juarez airport his "home. "
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October 27, 2008
Six students from Rice University in Houston are creating a beer than contains more of the red wine's healthy ingredients that help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer. The research team's leader, junior Taylor Stevenson, said they are using genetic engineering to create a beer with a higher resveratrol content.
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September 18, 2008
Topics cells, sydney, eggs, egg, aim, technology, dna, skin, medical, help, life and children
Australian scientists from Sydney IVF, a fertility firm, got a license Wednesday to produce cloned human embryos. It is Australia's and the world's first license to obtain stem cells from cloned human embryos. It is expected to generate controversy in medical research over ethical issues.
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September 10, 2008
Topics big, help, planet, computers, aim, science, afp, europe, france, wild, french, light, black, feet, fire and world
In the world's most expensive science experiment, 5,000 scientists, engineers and technicians from nearly three dozen countries will attempt to test the Big Bang theory to understanding the beginning of time. The tests, to re-create what happened immediately after the Big Bang, will be conducted using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located underneath the French-Swiss border, in the European Organization for Nuclear Research laboratory -- better known by its French acronym CERN.
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