Lahore, Sept 30 : It was not possible for the US to extend any cooperation to Pakistan in nuclear energy sector as the issue “involved a lot of legislation”, said US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson here last evening.
She said that the US did not want to destabilise Pakistan, rather it was making efforts to make the country a stable and economically viable state.
Addressing members of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry here, she said that the US wanted long-term, broad-based relations with Pakistan, and that Washington would soon announce a 100 million dollars package for Pakistan’s agriculture sector.
Washington, Sept. 30 : United States Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has criticized the shock-and-awe strategy of the 2003 Iraq invasion and said the Pentagon''s narrow focus on conventional combat operations proved costly when U. S. ground troops had to switch gears to try to stabilize that country.
According to Gates, the Pentagon bureaucracy failed to respond quickly enough to the military''s need for innovative counter-insurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He called for reforms to make the institution more agile and flexible.
Washington, September 30 : A new research has suggested that as seawater becomes more acidic because of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolving in the oceans, an unexpected side effect is taking place in the form of sounds traveling farther underwater.
The research has been conducted by marine chemists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, US.
Conservative projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the chemistry of seawater could change by 0.3 pH units by 2050.
Keith Hester and his coauthors calculate that this change in ocean acidity would allow sounds to travel up to 70 percent farther underwater.
Washington, Sept 30 : The more green spaces are there in a college campus, the better satisfied are students with their lives, says a new study.
According to the research, campus green spaces can help students feel better about life and improve learning.
In the study led by L. McFarland, a graduate student in the Department of Agriculture at Texas State University, the researchers surveyed 373 undergraduates at the San Marcos campus.
The respondents were then ranked as "low users", "medium users", or "high users" of campus green spaces.
Washington, Sept 30 : International laws through the UN Charter allow the US to launch unilateral actions inside Pakistan as Washington considered insurgency in Pakistan’s tribal areas - FATA – as the greatest danger confronting the West, said US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
According to him, the US was willing to send its troops to root out extremism if it felt the need to do so.
Gates said this at two separate statements and during a hearing at a Senate panel.
Washington, September 30 : In a discovery that is nothing less than astonishing, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.
A laser instrument designed to gather knowledge of how the atmosphere and surface interact on Mars, detected snow from clouds about 2.5 miles above the spacecraft’s landing site.
Data show the snow vaporizing before reaching the ground.
Washington, Sept 30 : International laws through the UN Charter allow the US to launch unilateral actions inside Pakistan as Washington considered insurgency in Pakistan’s tribal areas - FATA – as the greatest danger confronting the West, said US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
Washington, September 30 : In a discovery that is nothing less than astonishing, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.
