Friday, 08 July 2011
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Satellite Data Aids in Predicting Cholera Outbreaks
BOSTON – The world has seen seven global cholera outbreaks since 1817, and the current one seems to have come to stay. Rising temperatures and a stubbornly persistent, toxic bacteria strain appear to have given the disease the upper hand.
Public health officials are working on vaccines, struggling to improve sanitation in impoverished nations and grasping for ways to predict the outbreaks. One team of researchers has proposed attacking the pandemic using a combination of high- and low-tech: Satellites and sari cloth.
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U.N. Security Council to Take Up Climate Change
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council will debate climate change for the second time in four years, its current chair announced yesterday.
The July 20 discussion, led by the German government, will be a repeat of a 2007 attempt by the United Kingdom to put climate change on the council's agenda. That earlier move garnered sharp criticism from many developing country leaders, who accused the 15-member panel of attempting to strip power from other U.N. groups.
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Status Report on the Launch of Atlantis
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER--4:14 A.M. Eastern time; T–7 hours and counting.
The space shuttle Atlantis is go for launch at 11:26 A.M. Eastern Time, although storms continue to threaten the liftoff with a 70 percent chance of unfavorable conditions. Fueling of Atlantis ’s external fuel tank with more than 1.9 million liters of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen began at Launch Pad 39-A at 2:01 A.M. EDT
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