Though Canada has been able to hold out the brunt of downturn, it is falling behind other countries in business-driven technological research and development even if it has the potential to succeed provided that all sectors step up their performance. Don’t brush this statement aside considering it as peanut. This happens to be the appraisal of Canada’s Science, Technology and Innovation Council and has come to the fore through a new report. State of the Nation 2008 is the council’s first public report that graphs Canada’s technological progress and compares Canadian performance to the world’s science, technology and innovation leaders.
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Is Ayesha Siddiqui the best answer to the spate of radical Islam? I am sure that you are wondering of this person. Well, Ayesha Siddiqui, who lives in Bensonhurst, is just like another hijab-wearing Muslim woman and she is also married and the proud mother of two sons. However there is a difference. She is not like other women from the same religion who are eternal subjects of their husbands. She has perceived an important milestone on the contrary. Ayesha Siddiqui is named New York City College of Technology’s (City Tech’s) 2009 valedictorian and is also the first Pakistani Muslim female student to receive this honor in the history of the Downtown Brooklyn college.
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What is the greatest task of the global community at present? It is to find out an ideal antidote or solution to swine flu which has taken the world by storm. Well, extreme hot weather is an ideal antidote. Is this true? If you care to take Indian views into consideration, this is true. As indicated by them, a sweltering hot day when the mercury climbs to more than 42 degree Celsius may be hard for the common people but the same temperature can stub out the H1N1 swine flu virus at one fell swoop. Reason? The H1N1 swine flu virus finds it difficult to survive high temperatures.
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India is regarded as the prefect example of “Unity in Diversity” where an assortment of races have mingled through ages and this is found not only through cultures but also by means of physical attributes of people of different races. There are, if truth be told, lots of races in India whose average heights are short. What happens to them? According to a recently conducted study in India, kids born to short women are 70 percent more probable to die before age 5 than those born to taller women.
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It seems that the onset of swine flu has alarmed the US federal administration in a new way and for that reason it is gearing up to deal with any such eventuality. How can one be so sure? Well, you have to comprehend the latest stance of Obama administration in that case. The Obama administration desires that the US should spend $63 billion over the next six years so as to contend with global diseases and provide more aid for prenatal and postnatal care, children’s health and fighting tropical diseases.
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