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Stockholm - A Swedish court on Friday convicted a man on three counts of sexual molestataton, ordering him to pay damages to three women after he was found guilty of masturbating on bicycle saddles. via Independent Online

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“We now have less room to increase grain planting acreage, and it's becoming more and more difficult to raise yields”

Updated: 2008-05-07 06:24 The country has enough grain reserves to keep food prices stable, the top economic planner said on Tuesday. via China Daily

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“It has stopped, I don't have any energy any more. "This is why I keep telling anyone younger than me, don't imagine you'll have it forever. "Use it while you've got it because it'll go, it's sliding away like water down a plughole.”

Lessing was once told the judges did not like her and she would never win Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has said winning the prestigious award in 2007 had been a "bloody disaster". The increased ... via BBC

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“While a great deal has been learned from studying Alzheimer's disease in humans, much of the evidence is necessarily correlative in nature”

APPLETON - A Lawrence University molecular biologist has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Fulbright Scholar Program to conduct research at the Karolinska Institutet outside Stockholm, Sweden. via WisInfo

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A 31-year-old man reportedly was fined and given a suspended sentence for violating Sweden's copyright protection laws in a computer file-sharing case. via The Post Chronicle

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“Having Synopsys on board enables us to capitalize on opportunities that were previously out of our reach, and to undertake larger and more complex engineering projects”

Synopsys Inc. announced it has made an investment in Prover Technology AB , supplier of signaling design automation solutions for engineering the safety critical systems that control trains, switches and ... via EETimes

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“A better understanding of these issues could help us create resources that can protect against racial discrimination in this country, especially for those who are not born in the United States”

The first national study of Asians living in the United States shows that for some individuals, strong ties to their ethnicity can guard against the negative effects of racism. via Science Blog

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden : The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency Thursday said five telecommunication operators have won the bidding for so-called fourth-generation mobile network licenses in Sweden worth a total of 2.1 ... via International Herald Tribune

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London, May 5: Your expanding belly, the subsequent weight gain and a tendency to develop type 2 diabetes can now be attributed to a gene sequence, more common in those having Indian Asian ancestry, according ... via Daily India

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THE ABBA tribute band Waterloo will perform at the Majestic Theater in Shanghai on May 20 and 21. via Shanghai Daily

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