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• URANIUM, A CASUALTY OF WAR

  Published: October 27, 2006, 11:50 pm

  Tags: People, Planet, Restrictions, News, Uranium Casualty, Mass, Injury, Fires, Weapons, Fire, Abuse, Use, Usage, War, Destruction, America, Explosion, Injured, Politics

  In a science magazine I'm reading at the moment there is an article about a storage facility in the USA where weapons grade uranium is stored. There is enough uranium for thousands of bombs and this facility is decaying. Is it a disaster waiting to happen?. There have been a number of accidents which could have casued a major explosion and

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• PEOPLE WHO WASTE WATER...

  Published: October 23, 2006, 8:06 am

  Tags: People, Sydney, Use, Usage, Restrictions, Property, Waste, Water

  still go against the water restrictions put inplace by our government. While farmers in the outback are struggling in a draught, people are worried about how their lawn will look. Even though the coast gets the most rain they still feel the need to add more water to their already lush properties. There should be more strict water restrictions

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• Video Game Restrictions to Be Big Election Issue in Britain

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:44 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, Game Related Laws, Britain, Prime Minister Brown, Video Game Restrictions

  well end up with voluntary restrictions placed on video games. “This is not the government telling people what they should do … this is society reaching a conclusion with all those people involved about what are the legitimate boundaries,” Brown said recently at a press conference. These legitimate boundaries, which tell

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• No interest in current accounts any more

  Published: September 20, 2007, 4:04 pm

  Tags: Aib, Halifax, Banks, Saving Money, Crazy Restrictions, Interest Rates

  I wonder is the step announced today by First Direct today a sign of things to come. As detailed here on the Motley Fool, they will no longer be paying any interest on their current accounts. Not that they paid much in the first place, 0.10% on one account, and 2.00% on the other.As I wrote about here previously, Halifax are making a big deal

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• Australian Governement To Ban Certain Plasma TV Models

  Published: October 10, 2007, 4:18 pm

  Tags: Australia, April, Ban, Cenergy, Commissioned, Consulting, Digital, Federal, Firm, Government, Greenhouse, Mandatory, Models, October, Onerous, Plasma, Prepared, Recommends, Report, Requirements, Restrictions, Sale, Technology, Tier, Tougher

  "Most current plasma TV models would be banned from sale in Australia as early as October next year under o read more

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• Apple refusing to accept cash for iPhone, limits 'em to two per person

  Published: October 27, 2007, 1:18 am

  Tags: Apple, Cash, Credit, Iphone, Limit, Limitation, Restrictions

  Filed under: CellphonesCoincidence or not, Apple has stiffened up the requirements to pick up a new iPhone shortly after announcing that 250,000 or so of the 1.4 million it sold in Q4 went to unlockers. In an admittedly intriguing move, Apple has decided that it will "no longer accept cash for iPhone purchases," and moreover, each individual will

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• FCC Moves to Place Restrictions on Cable TV

  Published: November 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Fcc, Moves, Place, Restrictions, Cable, Kevin J Martin, U S Federal Communications Commission, Gene Kimmelman, United States, Verizon Fios, Verizon Communications Inc, Viacom Inc, Consumers Union Of U S Inc, Connecticut, Comcast Corporation, Kagan Research Llc

  The Federal Communications Commission is likely to impose a new regulation on the largely unregulated cable television industry, the first of what may be more to come.

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• Thrift Savings Plan Approves Trading Restrictions

  Published: November 20, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Thrift, Savings, Plan, Approves, Trading, Restrictions, Gregory T Long, Tracey A Ray, Stephen Barr, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, U S Department Of The Treasury

  Alarmed by a surge in stock and bond trading by a small group of government employees, the board that oversees the Thrift Savings Plan voted yesterday for a crackdown on participants who try to beat the market by jumping in and out of the plan every few days.

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• Thrift Savings Plan Approves Trading Restrictions

  Published: November 20, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Thrift, Savings, Plan, Approves, Trading, Restrictions, Gregory T Long, Tracey A Ray, Stephen Barr, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, U S Department Of The Treasury

  Alarmed by a surge in stock and bond trading by a small group of government employees, the board that oversees the Thrift Savings Plan voted yesterday for a crackdown on participants who try to beat the market by jumping in and out of the plan every few days.

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• Water Conservation website

  Published: December 1, 2007, 8:39 am

  Tags: Florida, Media, Agriculture, Awareness, Businesses, Conservation, District, Educators, Encourage, Environment, Features, Feedback, Governments, Habits, Information, Issues, Landscaping, Launched, Management, News, Offers, Opinion, Related, Residents, Restrictions, Saving, Sections

  " South Florida Water Management District has launched a new website to provide residents, businesses, utilities, local governments, and educators with a one-stop shop for information about water conservation. It features current water restrictions, landscaping information,...read more

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• Federal Reserve To Propose Tighter Standards On Subprime Mortgages

  Published: December 18, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Ben Bernanke, Board Of Governors, Central Banking, Federal Reserve, Home Ownership And Equity Protection Act Hoepa, Home Sales, Housing Market, Curbs, Restrictions, Proposed, Unduly, Crackdown, Midst, Wyss, Prepay

  that policy makers issue new restrictions on subprime mortgages, from a ban on low documentation loans to limiting penalties for borrowers who prepay their debts. The new proposal, which the Board of Governors will vote on later today, follows months of public comment by Congress and consumer advocates, who urged the Federal Reserve to toughen

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• Personal loans and mortgages " Poles apart

  Published: December 25, 2007, 1:58 am

  Tags: Financial Restrictions, Materialistic World, Purchasing A Car, Mortgage Products, Educational Expenses, Time Mortgages, Long Term Loans, Sub Prime Lenders, Loan Duration, Salaried Employee, Personal Loans

  Stock Photo Borrowing money from the marketplace have go a routine thing in this mercenary world. You may be a businessman, a salaried employee or a self-employed professional, fiscal limitations are very much a portion of our lives. The exact type of loan that you necessitate in a peculiar state of affairs depends on many issues. Your

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• What's wrong with the iPhone SDK and how to get it fixed

  Published: March 11, 2008, 7:37 pm

  Tags: Mac Os, Developer, Iphone, Apple, Apple Iphone, Iphone, Iphone Sdk, Iphone Sdk Restrictions, Sdk, Sdk Limits

  The iPhone SDK is great. I've talked it up enough in the past few days that it should be quite apparent that I think the iPhone SDK will bring a new wave of development for the iPhone's Mac OS. Still, the glaring problem with the iPhone SDK is that the development platform is limiting iPhone coders from taking full advantage of the

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• Naomi Campbell Aims Right Nipple At United Nations Delegates To Protest Unfair Travel Restrictions

  Published: April 23, 2008, 11:11 pm

  Tags: Arrested, Naomi Campbell, Right Nipple, Supermodel, Tranquilizer Dart, Unfair Travel Restrictions, United Nations Delegates

  Look at it. See how gentle it is? It is harmless.Security at UN Headquarters is well-informed of Naomi's violent tendencies. They're hoping to draw her out into the open for a clear shot - from a tranquilizer dart. Unfortunately for those around her, Campbell moves extraordinarily quickly for someone with a big giant lolly head and 6 inch stiletto

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• Great editorial in NYTimes

  Published: April 29, 2008, 10:59 pm

  Tags: Medicine Medication, Opinion Editorial, Ban, Doctors, Drug Companies, Drug Reps, Editorial, Ghostwriting, Industry, Medical Schools, New York Times, Nyt, Nytimes, Patients, Proposal, Restrictions, Treatment

  adopted by medical schools, restrictions would include: Ban on personal gifts, industry-supplied foods and meals, free travel (not reimbursed for services), and payment for attending industry-sponsored meetings Ban on ghostwriting, the practice of drug companies drafting an article and then getting a doc to slap his or her name on it

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