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Top Chinese food and drug official under investigationBeijing (AFP) June 14, 2010 A top official at China's food and drug safety watchdog has been sacked and is under investigation, state media said, three years after the agency's former head was executed for corruption. Zhang Jingli, deputy chief of China's State Food and Drug Administration, is being investigated for "suspected serious disciplinary violations," the official Xinhua news agency reported. Zhang, 55, has been removed from the post he took up in 2003, the report said, citing a Communist Party body tasked with ro ... read more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 09, 2010The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, known as TRMM is a "flying rain gauge" in space, and can provide rainfall estimates from its position in orbit around the Earth. Data accumulated from TRMM enabled visualizers to create a map of rainfall generated by Cyclone Phet as it marched through the Arabian Sea from May 31 to June 6. The heaviest rainfall occurred over open waters, b ... more  
Provo UT (SPX) Jun 09, 2010Every minute, 10,000 gallons of water mysteriously gush out of the desert floor at a place called Ash Meadows, an oasis that is home to 24 plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world. A new Brigham Young University study indicates that the water arriving at Ash Meadows is completing a 15,000-year journey, flowing slowly underground from what is now the Nevada Test Site. ... more  
Berlin (UPI) Jun 8, 2010 A genetically modified variety of corn produced by a U.S. supplier and banned in the European Union has been sown accidentally across Germany, as the conflict over GM food products continues. The NK603 variety from U.S. company Pioneer Hi-Bred contaminated seeds sown in several states on at least 5,000 acres of farmland, according to findings by the environment ministry of Lower Saxony ... more |
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Warsaw braces for flood, Slovakia and Hungary reelWarsaw (AFP) June 7, 2010 Warsaw braced Monday for a new flood crest on the mighty Vistula river, as Budapest sandbagged its tourist quarter against the swollen Danube and Slovakia reeled from its worst flood in centuries. Heavy rains pounding central and eastern Europe have broken defences all along the Vistula, Poland's largest river which winds from the mountainous south to the Baltic Sea in the north, causing weeks of flooding. The crest, or high point of the flood, is moving north and is forecast to surge into the P ... read more |
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