Mexico City - Mexican multi-billionaire Carlos Slim thinks Latin America "is going to become important for the economy of the United States," in light of the current economic and financial crisis in the affluent neighbour to the north.
Slim - ranked by Forbes magazine in March as the world's second- richest man, worth an estimated 60 billion dollars behind investor Warren Buffett - addressed representatives of foreign media late Tuesday in Mexico City.
He noted that Latin America as a region has 550 million consumers, so it can be "part of the solution" for the United States.
Washington, Oct 1 : Republican presidential nominee John McCain reduced a complex problem of the situation in Georgia and the Caucasus to simple sloganeering when he stated, “We are all Georgians.”
The immediate implication was that Georgia is the current equivalent of Cold War Berlin. But this is not only a misreading of history and a misunderstanding of where Russia is today in its historic cultural conflict between westernization and despotism, the Washington Times said.
It is also an example of irresponsible sloganeering from someone who wants to lead the United States.
Washington, Oct 1 : Researchers suggest that active, hands-on experience can be an immensely effective way of improving infants'' ability of learning.
The team has found that infants who had an opportunity to use a plastic cane to get an out-of-reach toy were better able to understand the goal of another person''s use of a similar tool than were infants who had previously only watched an adult use a cane to retrieve a toy.
"Acting on the world is one way infants learn about the world, and only recently have there been studies showing that active, hands-on experience is a more effective way of learning than watching," said Jessica Sommerville, a University of Washington assistant professor of psychology and lead author of a study.
Washington, October 1 : News media often fails to project potential sources of bias while reporting medical studies, according to a new study.
Dr. Michael Hochman, a researchers at the Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, has found that news articles often fail to report pharmaceutical company funding, and frequently refer to medications by their brand names, both potential sources of bias.
"An increasingly recognized source of commercial bias in medical research is the funding of studies by companies with a financial interest in the results," write the study authors.
Washington, October 1 : Female candidates use “masculine” communication strategies during political debates, while their males counterparts adopt a "feminine style", according to a new study.
Mitchell McKinney, associate professor of communication at the University of Missouri, came to this conclusion after examining candidates engaged in televised, mixed-gender campaign debates, which included U. S. Senate and gubernatorial debates.
Washington, October 1: Based on a new method for creating an accurate picture of Greenland’s shrinking ice cap, it is now estimated that the country is accountable for a half millimeter-rise in the global sea level per year.
The method was developed by researchers from TU Delft, in joint collaboration with the Center for Space Research (CSR) in Austin, Texas, USA.
The research was based on data from the German-American GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellites, two satellites that have been orbiting the earth behind each other since mid-2002.
Washington, October 1: Based on a new method for creating an accurate picture of Greenland’s shrinking ice cap, it is now estimated that the country is accountable for a half millimeter-rise in the global sea level per year. 
