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Company sets up recycling centre with EEG help

Published July 5, 2009, 12:52 am, Zawya

05 July 2009 Dutco Balfour Beatty has successfully set up a new waste recycling centre in its interiors and joinery division in collaboration with Emirates Environmental Group (EEG), according to a recent Build Safe UAE alert.

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S. Illinois counties to study radon gas

Published July 4, 2009, 10:01 pm, Evansville Courier & Press

Ten Southern Illinois counties have been targeted to participate in a study to increase the awareness of radon, a colorless, odorless, tasteless radioactive gas that's often found in homes and has been linked to lung cancer.

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WHAT POWERS THE WESTUranium mill near Paradox gets planning permit

Published July 4, 2009, 8:33 pm, Telluride Daily Planet

Montrose County made a move into the future — or the past, depending on perspective — when its planning commission unanimously approved a uranium mill in Paradox Valley Wednesday night.

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Energy Independence

Published July 4, 2009, 3:23 pm, Foreign Policy Blogs

I want to mark July 4th, Independence Day for Americans, by noting a few good renewable energy stories. There are scores of these stories, all over the world, every week, and I’m just sharing what I think are some of the plums that I’ve been seeing. Renewables are a theme I’ve visited here time and [...]

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Foster wins battle in cancer fight

Published July 4, 2009, 8:12 am, The Union Democrat

Don Foster is Tuolumne County’s version of Superman. In August 2008, after being diagnosed with an extremely rare form of pancreatic cancer, Foster, 53, of Sonora, went on to beat the odds.

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Mouse Study Shows PET Can Measure Effectiveness Of Novel Breast Cancer Treatment

Published July 4, 2009, 3:10 am, Medical News Today

A new study published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine shows that positron emission tomography (PET) scans in mice can be used to determine whether a novel type of breast cancer treatment is working as intended.

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Chinese drywall blamed for odors and corrosion in U.S. homes

Published July 3, 2009, 6:34 pm, Los Angeles Times

Health concerns are raised over the imported building material. Some drywall made with radioactive phosphogypsum, a waste byproduct, was shipped to the U.S. by at least four Chinese-based firms. The final years of the U.S. housing boom and a disastrous series of Gulf Coast hurricanes created a golden opportunity for Chinese drywall manufacturers. With domestic suppliers unable to keep up with ...

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Like a sand filter, but more complicated

Published July 3, 2009, 7:45 am, Farmington Press

Starting several years ago the federal Environmental Protection Agency tightened restrictions on radionuclide contamination in the public water system. Now Farmington is installing the first of a series of treatment plants meant to serve as corrective measures to comply with the new standards.

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Prostate Cancer Patients Disease Free After Five Years Likely To Be Disease Free After 10 Years

Published July 3, 2009, 5:09 am, Medical News Today

Prostate cancer patients who receive brachytherapy and remain free of disease for five years or greater are unlikely to have a recurrence at 10 years, according to a study in the July 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

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SMRMC joins clinical rotation

Published July 3, 2009, 3:16 am, McComb Enterprise-Journal

Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center trustees have approved a proposal for the hospital to be a clinical rotation site for the William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

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  • Solar ghosts may haunt Earth's radioactive atoms - 30 June 2009 - New Scientist: ""Wh at we are seeing may be the heartbeat of the sun," says Sanders. It means that carbon-14 data from Earth, as a proxy for the sun's neutrino activity, could allow us to determine the history of the sun's internal reactor stretching back thousands of years. Quite generally, if Fischbach and Jenkins should ultimately be proved right, nuclear decay would represent a powerful way to detect neutrinos - something that currently requires experiments on a huge scale - and a new type of telescope with which to peer inside the sun."

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