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A hospital just for feathered friends
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Under the watchful eyes of a white-coated doctor, two orderlies in scrubs sedate the patient on a paper-covered stainless steel table, then begin the procedure - trimming her vital hunting tools. One of the orderlies carefully snips the brown and white falcon’s wicked, 2cm talons then files them back to points. Twenty-one other falcons, the » read more |
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| Top Stories |
Dubai Municipality sets up crisis response team
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A crisis team has been set up by Dubai Municipality to prepare and manage potential disaster and emergency situations. » read more |
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- Gang arrested for kidnapping Chinese women » read more
- Appeal court upholds acquittal sentence in Zirconium case » read more
- Two nabbed for stealing Dh300,000 in Ajman » read more
- The new metro line: A world below » read more
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Egypt's Orascom Devt to invest in Iraq
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CAIRO - Egypt's Orascom Housing Communities, a subsidiary of Swiss-based Orascom Development Holding, is negotiating with Iraq to buy land for a budget housing project, al-Mal newspaper said on Monday. » read more |
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- Disney, Google eye stake in China bus media firm » read more
- Kuwait central bank cuts repurchase rates » read more
- Kuwait's Zain says no new bids for its African assets » read more
- ADAC, Al Jaber Aviation sign largest tenancy deal » read more
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Business travel takes off again
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Almost half of business travellers from the UAE are expecting business travel to increase this year, according to a survey from YouGovSiraj. “It has been a lean year for execut-ives used to travelling for business around the world on company expenses, but business travel looks set to take off again,” says Jane Wilson, director of travel and tourism » read more |
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| Sport |
Afraid American finally relaxes
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Steve Stricker admitted he was scared on his way to winning the Northern Trust Open late on Sunday. The new world No.2 held off Luke Donald by two strokes at the Riviera Country Club. But having started the final round with a mammoth six-shot lead the American ace admitted the victory came after a fair few on-course nerves. &l » read more |
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| Technology |
IBM begins Power server upgrade to battle HP, Sun
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NEW YORK: IBM is beginning a long-awaited upgrade to a range of servers and other hardware to make them more energy-efficient and competitive than rival products by Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems Inc.
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- NetEase suspends new user registration for hit game » read more
- Riding green wave, Philips says "let there be LED" » read more
- Next threat to Amazon's $9.99 books? Rupert Murdoch » read more
- YouTube's Eun latest Google exec to join AOL » read more
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About Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai (دبي) is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. It is rather like an independent city-state and is the most modern and progressive emirate in the UAE.
A relatively new tourist destination, Dubai has gained in popularity in recent years. It is essentially a desert city with superb infrastructure, liberal policies (by regional standards), and excellent tourist amenities. Just 5 hrs from Europe and 3 hrs from most parts of the Middle East, the Near East, and the sub-continent of India, Dubai makes a great short break for shopping, partying, sunbathing, fine dining, sporting events, and even a few sinful pleasures. It is a city of superlatives: for the fastest, biggest, tallest, largest and highest, Dubai is the destination.
The weekly day off is on Friday. Note that, since September 2006, a harmonised weekend of Friday and Saturday has been adopted for the public sector and schools. Government departments, multi-national companies, and most schools and universities are now off on Friday and Saturday (after years of a mixed bag of Friday/Saturday and Thursday/Friday weekends). Some local companies still work a half day on Thursday with a full-day on Saturday. |
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| Do You Really Need Vitamin Supplements? |
| Vitamins are an indispensable portion of the body's metabolic procedures, performing a vital role within its enzyme systems. Deficiencies within any of these indispensable nutrients can possess severe implications onto our health, so towards maintain optimum health we need towards ensure that our bodies always possess an alright resource of these meaningful substances. Because the body is unable towards build most vitamins via itself, we need towards ingest them from outside sources. Ideally, we should elicit these vitamins from burning a healthy diet consisting of a thick flavor of foods. But modern life has plotted towards interfere with the quality of the foodstuffs that are available towards ourselves today. A modern Canadian learn displays that the nutritional importance of our fruits and veggies has decreased dramatically within last 50 years. As Tim Lang, a professor at the Centre for Food Policy within London explains: "We possess towards devour eight oranges today towards get the equivalent size of vitamin A our grandparents got from a single orange." There is a organise correlation between the deteriorating nutritional importance of our food and the evolving prevalence of certain diseases, and the medical settlement is initiating towards evoke that we rob action. In an article published within 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) states that "...it appears prudent for everybody adults towards rob vitamin supplements." |
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