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One in four new UK teachers struggle to spell even simple words

London, Oct 22 : A new survey has revealed that one in four trainee teachers struggle to spell even simple words.

The finding was made after more than 11,000 teachers, who started at schools this year, failed a basic test.

The inability to spell was just another finding added to the shocking statistic that was revealed last year after a whopping 20,000 were found to be duffers in arithmetic.

The student teachers were given an online test, which they can do as many times as they like, or until they pass, and it was discovered from the first test itself that the number of failures was 16 per cent higher than seven years ago.

NEC revises down earnings for fiscal 2008

Tokyo - Japanese electronics company NEC Corp lowered its earnings estimates for the full year through March as slowing markets caused sluggish sales of its computers and mobile phones.

Thai shares down 2.83 per cent on foreign factors

Blackmailers offer memory stick to Dutch military for sale

Amsterdam  - Dutch police have arrested two blackmailers who are suspected of trying to sell a USB memory stick with sensitive information that had gone missing back to the military, the Defence Ministry confirmed Wednesday.

Officers from the national police force (KM) seized the two men as they turned up for the scheduled handover of money, the ministry said.

The two men, aged 28 and 29, had threatened to hand the electronic data over to the press if the military did not pay them, De Telegraaf newspaper reported.

The memory stick is believed to have contained information about cargo flights to Dutch troops in Afghanistan.

The men, who now face charges of blackmail and fraud, found the memory stick at a car wash.

Beta-Blockers Increase Stroke, Death Risk

Beta-Blockers Increase Stroke, Death Risk  Patients who are taking beta-blockers before and at the time of undergoing non-cardiac surgery appears to have the highest risk of heart attack and death within a month of their surgery, a new research reveals.

“Prevention of these perioperative [around the time of surgery] cardiac complications continues to be the goal of intense research and investigations,” quote the author

US People Become ‘Carborexics’- Obsessive About Environment

A new survey reveals that the people of US become obsessed with their carbon footprints. Their extreme environmental awareness may create a generation of “carborexics”, warns Psychiatrists in US.

According to a new survey 7% of Americans qualify as ‘dark green’ and become hard core recyclers. The New York Times report describe their lifestyles that might considered as ‘carborexic’.

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