Commerce Sec. Seeks Immigration Balance

Americans can maintain a balance between enhancing border security and remaining a nation made up of immigrants, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Thursday.

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Newspapers Hope for Growth Online

Newspapers are seeing tremendous growth in online advertising, but as executives presented midyear updates to investors Tuesday, analysts still wonder whether it's enough.

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Leaders Want Biodiversity Pay Off

High in the rain forest canopy, a lemur with orange, black and white fur leaps among the branches to cries of delight from onlookers below.

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Mayors Live It Up at Las Vegas Meeting

It's convention time, do you know where your mayor is? If you live in a major American city, the answer is probably Las Vegas, this year's host of the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting.

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Scientists in Rome to Discuss Bird Flu

Three years after the first outbreaks of bird flu in Asia, experts are still puzzling at how the disease spread across three continents so quickly and how wild birds have helped disseminate the deadly virus.

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HIV/AIDS Conference Eyes Indigenous People

American Indians and Alaska natives need more research on how HIV and AIDS affect their communities, and culturally sensitive treatment needs to be created to combat the diseases, officials said at a health conference Wednesday.

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China: N. Koreans Warming to Negotiations

A Chinese diplomat said Monday that North Korean negotiators were warming toward a resumption of talks on ending the North's nuclear weapons program, but the top U.S. envoy said he has no plans to meet directly with his counterpart from Pyongyang.

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Koreas Seek Common Ground in Tokyo

North and South Korean officials hoped to find common ground in talks Saturday on the sidelines of a security conference in Tokyo.

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Countries in North Korean Talks to Meet

Officials from the six countries participating in talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament will meet at a private security conference in Japan next week, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday.

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Mormon Leader Reflective at Conference

Mormon church president Gordon B. Hinckley said on Sunday he is in the "sunset of my life" and suffering from some residual health problems after undergoing major surgery earlier this year.

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Brazil Plans to Expand Amazon Protection

Brazil announced plans to expand protection of the Amazon rain forest, and its president on Monday called on wealthy nations to do more to protect the environment.

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Folk Musicians Celebrate Genre in Austin

Folk music promoter Tom Neff can't go anywhere without meeting someone who used to love Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, or Peter, Paul and Mary.

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European Leaders Focus on Muslim Conference

From the page: -- Istanbul is hosting a significant two-day conference that will address the problems facing Muslims in Europe that began today titled, “Muslims of Europe.” --

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Autism Network International Conference

Upcoming conference explores Autism.

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Conspiracy theorists meet over 9/11

Some 1,200 people gathered at a Los Angeles hotel over the weekend for what organisers billed as the largest conference on the plethora of conspiracy theories that see the 2001 attacks on Washington and New York as, at best, official negligence, and at worst an orchestrated US at …

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Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference (Photos)

AN INQUIRER READER attending a conference in Japan was sat just feet away from a laptop computer that suddenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident.

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Design Conference Hoo-Haa

" I have never been to a design/technology/media Conference of any kind. As I have never experienced one I can neither condemn or commend them.

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Copyriot: Piratbyran's speech at Reboot

"This is Piratbyrån's talk at the Reboot 8.0 conference, under the title The Grey Commons. This version somewhat extended, but with some parts about current events left out. Held by Rasmus Fleischer.

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Intertech-Pira announces co-chairs and dates for Advanced Identification Systems conf

Pira Corporation, a leading conference producer and market research publisher who provides strategic information analyses pertaining to advanced materials and technologies, announces that its international technology conference, Advanced Identification Systems with Facial Biometr …

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One week before Cerf 2006

CERF, the largest Romanian IT&C; event of the year, is at its 15th anniversary. Like every year, many companies, about 150, from which about 136 will have their own stand, are expected within Romexpo to promote and show their latest products.

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Randomly-generated 'scientific paper' accepted

Somewhere in South Korea Hwang Woo Suk is busily re-typing the paper and putting his name on top.

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877-Why-Islam Symposium Conference With Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir

The video for Shaykh Hamza's speech should be made available soon, God willing.

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Full Lowdown from PS3 Conference

The conference is over and here is a final summary:

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Can IPTV Save the Telephone Companies?

The IPTV World Forum in London has just wrapped up. Proclaimed a success by the organizers, the conference attracted 300 attendees.

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Community bank group endorses Microsoft bank tech

"The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT) today announced they are teaming up to help community banks manage the security of their technology infrastructures and battle emerging security risks.

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SVG Open 2006: Call for Papers, Speakers, Posters and WOW!

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BarCampAustin Is Coming March 11th, 2006

For the last month several people have been working hard to bring you BarCampAustin. Well, all of that hard work is about to pay off as the event is less than two weeks away.

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Fictions Abound - Photography Conference

Information on a photography conference that regards the relationship between photography, the world and reality. Featuring some great exhibitions a close look at documentary photography

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Willie's Willy:-Autoblog

A "spark plug" diesel is used in this high perfomance retro pickup called Willie's Willy. (what a name) Anyway it was unveilled at the Biodiesel conference in San Diego and will be available to a few six digit collectors.

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RIFE at JavaOne 2006

My RIFE session proposal has been accepted as a BOF for JavaOne 2006.

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And now, journalism is the news

Our journalists today are too busy to mind the basics of their profession. To explain, I will give you an example from my reading today, 9 February, via Newsvine:

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How to Kick Butt On a Panel

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WebEvolve Students Raise Money To Help End Homelessness!

The Web Design & Development students from Georgian College in Barrie, ON get down to business raising money for the Simcoe County Alliance to End Homelessness.

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WebEvolve '06 - Contest & Conference

Contest for any high school or secondary school students. February 2nd, 2006.

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Digital Lifestyle Day in Munich 22 & 23 january

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OSCMS Summit | Open Source CMS Summit | Feb. 7 - 9, 2006 | Vancouver, BC, Canada

This is a free conference in Vancouver, February 7 - 9th. If you're an open source developer or interested in the problem space around online content, please join us.

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PodcasterCon 2006 expects 200 attendees

More than 200 are expected to gather on the campus of University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill to attend PodcasterCon, an "unconference" style podcasting conference, which is free and open to everyone.

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