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The draft -- being discussed line by line at the four-day meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- grimly states that the evidence for man-made influence on the climate system is now stronger than ever.

And carbon dioxide pollution spewed out this century will stoke global warming and sea-level rise "for more than a millennium," given the time it takes for fossil-fuel pollution to degrade, it says.

Among other things, the document declares it "very likely" that heatwaves and pounding rain will become more frequent, snow cover is projected to contract -- and typhoons and hurricanes will become less frequent but more powerful.

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Apparently, the IQ gives a good indication of the occupational group that a person will end up in, though not of course the specific occupation. In the book, Know Your Child’s IQ, Glen Wilson and Diana Grylls outline occupations typical of various IQ levels:

The enactment of the P1.126 trillion national budget for this year would pave the way for release of P940 million for the training of public school teachers in math, science and English subjects, Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. said yesterday.

The amount for teachers’ "training, scholarships and fellowships" this year is P359 million higher than last year’s allocation, Andaya said.

He said this year’s allocation would allow the Department of Education (DepEd) to upgrade the skills of 171,617 English, math and science teachers and 4,882 school supervisors.

"They (teachers) in turn would conduct echo seminars for their colleagues," he said.

A component of improving public school teachers’ competencies in core subjects is the "TeleSerye Para Kay Ma’am," a television program for mentors for distance-learning method.

While teacher training will be a year-round activity, with teachers trooping to state colleges and in-service workshops, most of the participants will, however, take advantage of the summer school break to brush up on skills and earn units for a masters’ degree.

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The Sun, UK - November 23, 2006

"First-born of young mums likely to live longer"
Daily Mail, UK - - November 22, 2006

"First-born of young mums likely to live longer"
This is London, UK - - November 22, 2006

"Thanks, mom! Want to live to 100? Having a young mother helps"
Chicago Sun-Times, United States - Wednesday, November 22, 2006

"Living to Be 100 May Depend on Mom"
Washington Post -- Monday, November 20, 2006

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Forbes -- Monday, November 20, 2006

"Living to Be 100 May Depend on Mom"
CBC News, Canada -- Monday, November 20, 2006

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Newsday, NY, USA -- Monday, November 20, 2006

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Daily Telegraph, UK -- Saturday, November 18, 2006

"Babies of younger mothers have twice the chance of living to 100"
Daily Mail -- June 26, 2006

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WHDH-TV, MA, USA - Monday, June 26, 2006

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ABC News -- June 23, 2006

"Key to long life may be mom's age at birth"
MSNBC -- June 23, 2006

"Key to long life may be mom's age at birth"
Reuters -- June 23, 2006

"New Research Suggests Children Born to Young Women Are More Likely to Live to 100"
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Washington Post - May 16, 2006

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Chicago Tribune -- April 25, 2006

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Forbes, -- Monday, Apr 17, 2006

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Medline Plus -- Monday, April 17, 2006.
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Health Finder -- Monday, April 17, 2006.
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WomensHealth.gov -- Monday, April 17 2006.
National Women's Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Human Health and Human Services

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The University of Chicago Magazine, -- February 2006, volume 98, issue 3, page 20

"SOA: Society of Actuaries: First-Born Daughters More Likely to Live to 100,
Suggests Society of Actuaries Research"
Webbolt Business News, Canada - Jan 5, 2006

In a press conference, Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) president Vicente Fabella said the improvement of private schools has suffered due to the constraints that have prevented them from increasing their tuition and other fees.

Fabella said the consequences of the tuition ceiling cannot be felt until after four years, when this year’s incoming college freshmen have graduated.

"The effect will be very clear down the road. Students right now, when they graduate, are expected to have global skills — which means their skills must be good when compared with other countries even if they are working locally," he said.

Fabella pointed out that "if we limit the amount of money schools can invest in education, the skills won’t happen in four years (and) they will not be globally competitive."

He said their group is ready to have a dialogue with CHED officials on possible new guidelines to improve the quality of education, especially at the tertiary level.

Egypt is fuming over a competition to choose the world's "new seven wonders," deriding it as a marketing stunt that demeans the pyramids of Giza, the only surviving ancient wonder.

"They are the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that still exists, it's ridiculous, they don't need to be put to a vote," Egypt's antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass was quoted as saying in local newspapers.

Culture Minister Faruq Hosni echoed the complaint, describing the project as "absurd" and its creator, Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Bernard Weber, as a man "concerned primarily with self-promotion".

Weber has embarked on a tour of the 21 short-listed sites but got a frosty reception in Egypt.

By then its population in Mindoro had shrunk to 150, from about 10,000 in the previous decade, the environment department said on its website.

The government banned hunting of the animal, the largest mammal native to the Philippines, and in 1979 introduced a captive breeding program that has produced just one offspring with 19 of the 20 captured buffaloes now dead.

A strategic shift to habitat conservation through creation of a 25,000-hectare (61,776-acre) jungle reserve, as well as increased environmental awareness by residents, boosted numbers to 187 by 2001.

By the following year the total reached 253, and the latest official count is 263, "although the figure could even exceed 300 if reported loose sightings in the northern side of the Iglit Baco National Park are taken in."

"The tamaraws have definitely survived. In fact, with the continuous efforts of the government, concerned sectors and the Mindorenos (Mindoro residents), they may even begin to thrive," it added.

First documented in 1888, the mature tamaraw stands about three feet (0.91 meters) high at the shoulder and weighs 300 kilograms (661.39 pounds).

"It will give children a chance to move around a safe, secure world where they can not only interact with familiar characters but have an opportunity to make that world a more fascinating place with their own imaginations,” said Richard Deverell, controller BBC Children.

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Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) secretary-general and former senator Ernesto Herrera said that over 15,000 new Filipino nurses sought employment in the US — a figure that is 65 percent higher than the number of nurses who sought jobs in the US in the previous year.

"A total of 15,171 Filipinos took the US National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) for nurses and this represents an increase of 5,990 or 65 percent compared to the 9,181 Filipinos that took the NCLEX for the first time in the whole of 2005," Herrera said.

The Philippines topped the list of five countries with the highest number of first-time NCLEX examinees in 2006. India came second, with 4,395 examinees; followed by South Korea, with 2,145; Canada, with 943; and Cuba, with 537.

"Passing the NCLEX is usually the final step in the nurse licensure process in the US," Herrera said. "The number of people taking the examination is a good indicator of how many new US-educated as well as foreign-trained nurses are trying to enter the profession in the US, according to the US National Council of State Boards of Nursing." More here.

The Tammy sex video scandal was a scandal in Singapore involving a sex video first circulated in mid-February 2006 that turned into an Internet phenomenon. The incident began when a cheerleader and student from Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP), known only as Tammy, apparently had her mobile phone stolen by an enemy, and a 10-minute video stored in her phone involving oral sex and intercourse with her boyfriend was uploaded on the Internet.

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The "Boto Mo, I-Patrol Mo," an interactive monitoring of election issues, is part of the network’s nationwide "Halalan ’07" coverage of the midterm elections in May.

Concerned citizens can use their MMS-capable or 3G phones to send information to "Boto Mo, I-Patrol Mo" hotline 2366, the ABS-CBN short messaging system (SMS) center.

The program begins airing on Monday during the "TV Patrol" newscast, but ABS-CBN will devote an hour for the program as election day approaches.

ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs head Maria Ressa, news chief Charie Villa and current affairs chief Luchi Cruz-Valdez led the program’s launch yesterday afternoon at the ABS-CBN offices in Quezon City. Link is here.