People's Daily Online -- Most global CEOs view China as market opportunity: survey

People's Daily Online -- Most global CEOs view China as market opportunity: survey: "More than 70 percent of the 1410 CEOs (chief executive officer) surveyed say their company plans to do business over the next three years in at least one of the BRIC countries, named Brazil, Russia, India and China."

Leaders at Davos appeal for eradicating poverty in Africa

"African nations should focus on boosting primary education and good governance while the western countries should remove agriculture tariffs, according to several leading world figures in the World Economic Forum. The panelists in the African development debate on Friday said that the world should shake off 'poverty fatigue' and follow through on the momentum and 'mountain of good will' generated from 2005 toward the goal of eradicating poverty in Africa."

Wired News: Spin Doctors Create Quantum Chip

Wired News: Spin Doctors Create Quantum Chip: "University of Michigan scientists have created the first quantum microchip, which could be a giant stride in the race to produce a new generation of brawny, super-fast computers.

Working with individual ions is key to building powerful computing machines that will exploit quantum physics -- instead of transistors -- and trump the power of today's most powerful supercomputers.

So, on a semiconductor chip roughly the size of a postage stamp, the Michigan scientists designed and built a device known as an ion trap, which allowed them to isolate individual charged atoms and manipulate their quantum states.

An ion expresses a positive or negative charge, depending on whether its parent atom has a missing or an extra electron. And ions are the preferred building blocks for a quantum system."

Ekstremisme kan ikke bekjempes med våpen

"Sikkerhetsberedskapen rundt Musharraf er like høy som når USAs president George Bush er på reise.

Gjør mest
- Ekstremisme er en sinnstilstand, og kan ikke bekjempes med militære handlinger. Vi må bekjempe ekstremisme med både politiske og sosiale virkemidler, sa han.

- Det trengs en muslimsk renessanse for å forstå den virkelige islam og korrigere bildene inni oss selv og inntrykket som resten av verden har, sa han."

Mujuru - Zimbabwe's female VP

People's Daily Online -- Zimbabwe's female VP unveils ambition to succeed Mugabe: "Mujuru, who was appointed to her position in 2004, however called on the women to uphold their cultural values which she described as a source of dignity.

Women, she said, made good leaders as they were generally peace loving and had softer hearts, characteristics which they should exploit in solving problems."

Norwegian government launches onlind forum to combat trafficking

"http://www.Sexhandel.no is financed by the Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Women and Children, made by the Government of Norway.

This website is made by Reform –Resource Center for Men on behalf of the Ministry of Children and Equality.

The measure of the website is to curtail the demand that creates a market for human trafficking. The website is meant to encourage a debate and to draw attention to the link between prostitution and trafficking.

Sexhandel.no contains information and facts about prostitution and trafficking, and offers the opportunity to participate in discussions on the web as well as counselling by phone. "

Wired: Biggest Discoveries of 2005

"Paleontologists in March accidentally stumbled upon the first soft tissue from a dinosaur -- some cells and blood vessels from a 68 million-year-old female Tyrannosaurus rex. They had to split a thigh bone to remove it from a remote dig, and it's expected to be a goldmine of dino physiology. Previously, it had been assumed tissue couldn't survive longer than 100,000 years."

Booming nations 'threaten Earth'

"Earth lacks the water, energy and agricultural land to allow China and India to attain Western living standards, a US think-tank has warned."

Energising the quest for 'big theory'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Energising the quest for 'big theory': "About 100m below us, in a tunnel that runs in a ring for 27km (17 miles), the LHC is being assembled from its constituent parts like a vast, impossibly complex Meccano set.

When it is switched on for a pilot run in summer 2007, this huge physics experiment will collide two beams of particles head-on at super-fast speeds, recreating the conditions in the Universe moments after the Big Bang.

The beam collisions should create showers of new particles, revealing new physics beyond the Standard Model. In order for that to happen, the LHC needs to reach much higher energies than previous colliders."