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Le cyborg ou paraphysique du sport

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/17/2013 - 09:18

Personne ne sut mieux
Que feu ( 1792 - 1836 ) Girolamo Segato
Pétrifier, en fait, conserver le corps, c'est curieux
Les organes et tout le reste, tout restait beau
Il mourut avec son secret
De naturaliste, qui laisse le savant niais
Mais feu ( 1852 - 1927 ) le moine bouddhiste bouriate
Itigilov, en refit l'échec et mat
De sa formule de soliste
Malgré la mort, les ans
Toujours le même âge
Le futur du dopage
Le corps toujours élégant
Mais sans aucun dopant
Chimie de la magie

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Who Killed the Syrian Peace Talks?

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 08:05

The long awaited Syrian peace talks — instigated by power brokers Russia and the United States — had already passed their initial due date, and are now officially stillborn.

The peace talks are dead because the U.S.-backed rebels are boycotting the negotiations, ruining any hope for peace, while threatening to turn an already tragic disaster into a Yugoslavia-style catastrophe…or worse.

The U.S. backed rebels are not participating in the talks because they have nothing to gain from them, and everything to lose.

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NATO: chemical arms use in Syria breaks international law

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 04:01

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday the world had made clear that any use of chemical weapons in Syria was unacceptable and a breach of international law.

"This is ... a matter of great concern," he told reporters after talks in Brussels with Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca. "The international community has made clear that any use of chemical weapons is completely unacceptable and a clear breach of international law."

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Euro fund chief: do without IMF in long term

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 04:01

The head of Europe's bailout fund says the region should eventually aim to do without help from the International Monetary Fund.

Klaus Regling's comments in Friday's edition of Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung add to recent hints from other European policymakers that the bloc should aim to handle future emergencies on its own.

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Court rules Oklahoma man can sue over license plate

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 04:00

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a man can sue the state of Oklahoma over its license plates.

The man, Keith Cressman, has argued that the state's standard license plate, which depicts a Native American shooting an arrow into the sky, goes against the separation of church and state, according to a report from Tulsa World.

He sued a number of state officials in 2011. That lawsuit was initially dismissed in 2012 but has since been reinstated by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Supreme Court reaches compromise on breast cancer gene patent

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 04:00

Critics of human gene patents claimed victory Thursday when the Supreme Court ruled that human genes found in nature—or isolated DNA—cannot be patented.

The court also ruled that synthetic forms of DNA—complementary DNA, or cDNA—are patent eligible.

The case of Association for Molecular Pathology vs. Myriad Genetics was brought by the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation. The lawsuit, which was filed in 2009, challenged patents held by Myriad Genetics on two human genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, linked to breast, ovarian and other cancers.

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Key issues facing Iran

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 03:58

NUCLEAR QUESTION: Four rounds of revived talks between Iran and world powers since last year have produced no important headway in the Tehran's impasse with the West. The U.S. and allies worry Iran's uranium enrichment could lead to atomic weapons, which could shift the balance of power in the region and give allies such as Hezbollah access to nuclear material. Iran denies it seeks nuclear arms, often citing a religious edict by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejecting such weapons. Iran says it only seeks nuclear reactors for energy and medical applications.

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Chinese paper: Snowden could be useful to China

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 03:57

A popular Communist Party-backed newspaper urged China's leadership to milk a former U.S. contractor for more information rather than send him home, saying his revelations about secret American surveillance programs concern China's national interest.

Friday's Global Times editorial follows Snowden's allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency hacked 61,000 targets, including hundreds in Hong Kong and mainland China, in an interview published in the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post.

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Nicaragua OKs rival to Panama Canal; study begins

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 03:56

In a matter of weeks, a little-known Chinese tycoon has hired some of the world's top experts in mammoth infrastructure projects and pushed through Nicaragua's congress a bill granting him the exclusive right to develop a multibillion-dollar rival to the Panama Canal.

Now, the real work begins.

Thursday's vote may have given Wang Jing the concession to build a canal across this Central American nation, but his HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. still has to study whether the idea is truly economically viable.

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European growth still on US agenda, not as loudly

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 03:55

A year after President Barack Obama made an emphatic pitch to Europe's economic powers to focus more on economic growth than austerity, much of the eurozone remains mired in or near recession. Obama's appeals have had mixed results in softening the demands on some of the most debt-ridden European nations to cut their spending.

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