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Published on Saturday, 31 May 2008 19:00 | | 
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In the battle between trees and solar panels, is there a nice green solution? Donnachadh McCarthy investigates
A new angle on the traditional neighbours-tree-dispute has been in the news, with reports of a home owner in California taking his neighbour to court to get them to trim the 60ft redwoods they had planted in their garden ten years before he installed his 128 solar-electric panels. The trees were overshadowing the panels and slashing the energy they were producing.
Published on Friday, 23 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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My mother died two months ago after a long battle with cancer. Three months before her death my father started seeing a woman, ten years his junior, he’d apparently had a fling with (while married) forty-six years before.
Published on Sunday, 25 May 2008 19:00 | |
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Sally was driving alone through Arizona. It was a long and monotonous journey...
Published on Friday, 23 May 2008 11:13 | | |
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The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
By Kathy Marks and Daniel Howden
A 'plastic soup' of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
Published on Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:00 | |
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Dr Geehee is a 'laughter professional', a Special Clown bringing fun and jollity to sick children in hospital. She's a therapeutic jester hell bent on spreading the infection of smiles.
By Vida Adamoli
Laughter, it is said, is the best medicine. It's the 'wonder drug' that combats stress, relaxes muscles, reduces pain, boosts the immune system, gives hope and helps create a positive emotional environment.
Published on Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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The campaign to
establish a Minister for Peace within the Northern Ireland Executive,
as a step towards a full Ministry for Peace, has been launched at Stormont, the seat of the Northern
Ireland Assembly.
Welcoming the initiative, Alliance Party leader David Ford MLA
introduced the driving force behind the campaign, Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead Corrigan Maguire. Mairead was supported in person by fellow
Laureate Jodi Williams, and from afar by the Nobel Peace Women.
Published on Monday, 19 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare...up at the night sky from time to time?
Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be the most luminous single transient events in the universe, writes Robert Naeye, and the one on 19 March seems to have broken all records for the brightest gamma-ray burst so far. It occurred about 8 billion light years away, but was bright enough (briefly) to be visible without a telescope, should someone have been looking up in that direction at that moment.