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How to Make Windows 8 Look Like Win 7 on Your PC
2013-11-21 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Windows 8's blah reception from many computer users may have been due at least in part to a peculiar trait that we humans have, and that's our obsession with improvement. Improving our lot has been a fixation throughout virtually all of human history, so it shouldn't come as any great surprise that Microsoft couldn't help itself when it became time to update its OS.
Dance review: 'The Show Must Go On'
2013-11-20 15:33:49| Footwear - Topix.net
A mix of professional and amateur dancers perform in "The Show Must Go On," part of the Festival Jerome Bel at Stanford, a survey of culture and dance.
Poor countries walk out of UN climate talks as compensation row rumbles on
2013-11-20 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Representatives of most of the world's poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the US and other developed countries insisted that the question of who should pay compensation for extreme climate events be discussed only after 2015. The orchestrated move by the G77 and China bloc of 132 countries came during talks about "loss and damage" how countries should respond to climate impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to, such...
EUs Targeting of Oil Sands Could Have Spillover Effect on Keystone XL
2013-11-19 18:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said a move by the European Union to target the oil sands could have an indirect impact on the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline project because it will stigmatize Canadian oil. Canada has spent months fighting the European Union's proposed fuel quality directive which is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under the proposal, oil from the oil sands would be labelled particularly dirty, creating a disincentive for European refiners to import Canadian...
VIDEO: EU plans quota laws for women on boards
2013-11-19 14:48:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The EU Commission is considering forcing companies to increase the number of women on their boards.
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