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Home Sales Glorious

July 6, 2010 By

Glorious Property Holdings (0845) said contracted sales last month more than quadrupled from May to 890 million yuan (HK$1.02 billion).

The Shanghai-based developer sold a total of 97,000 square meters – up 86 percent from a year ago – at an average of 9,100 yuan per square meter. Total contracted sales in the first half rose 34 percent year-on-year to 4.2 billion yuan. Glorious Property was not affected by tightening measures as most of its new projects were in either second- tier cities or first- tier cities but sold at lower prices than that covered in the measures, said chief executive Cheng Lixiong.

“But we will be cautious in the second half and pay attention to policies,” he said. It is sticking to its full-year sales target of 15 billion yuan.

Separately, Poly (Hong Kong) (0119) said contracted sales revenue in the first half rose 24 percent from a year ago to 4.7 billion yuan, while the area sold grew 3 percent to 650,000 sq m. [Read more...]

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Lifestyle Changes Raise Water Demand, Says Welsh Water

July 5, 2010 By

Changes in lifestyles in recent years have been blamed for putting increasing pressure on water supplies.

Welsh Water says the main culprits are garden sprinklers and the huge children’s paddling pools that are increasingly common in back gardens.

People are being advised to use water wisely although no restrictions are expected this summer.

Welsh Water operations director Peter Perry said reservoir levels were satisfactory at around 72% capacity.

“Demand is up. We’ve seen in some areas, in the tourist areas, an 80% increase in demand over the last few weeks,” he said.

“I think it’s a range of things. Garden watering is a big draw on us. A sprinkler in an hour uses as much water as a family of four for one day. [Read more...]

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Leading Cause Of Aging

July 4, 2010 By

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Keep Your Skin Looking Youthful

July 4, 2010 By

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Tibetans Underwent ‘Fastest Genetic Change’ In Human History To Thrive At High Altitude

July 3, 2010 By

Tibetans split off from the Han Chinese some 3,000 years ago and since then rapidly developed a unique ability to thrive at high altitudes and low oxygen levels, researchers have ascertained after comparing the genomes of 50 Tibetans and 40 Han Chinese.

The genome-wide comparison, carried out by evolutionary biologists at the University of California

One mutation in particular spread from fewer than 10 percent of the Han Chinese to nearly 90 percent of all Tibetans.

Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology, who led the statistical analysis, said: “This is the fastest genetic change ever observed in humans. For such a very strong change, a lot of people would have had to die simply due to the fact that they had the wrong version of a gene.” [Read more...]

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Diseases Threaten Tomato, Cucumber Crops

July 2, 2010 By

Farmers and backyard gardeners are encouraged to watch for two diseases that can destroy tomato, potato and cucumber crops.

Late blight and downy mildew have both been confirmed in Ohio, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster Township reported Thursday.

Late blight affects tomatoes and potatoes and is the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine. The strain of downy mildew that has been found in Ohio destroys cucumber plants and also affects cantaloupes, but not fatally.

Downy mildew was found June 23 on cucumbers in Wayne and Holmes counties. Late blight was confirmed about the same time on tomatoes in Harrison County.

Both diseases are spread by spores that are carried by wind and thrive in wet conditions. Recent storms have provided ideal conditions for their transmission, said Sally Miller, a vegetable pathologist with OARDC and the Ohio State University Extension. [Read more...]

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Study Finds Prostate Screening Cuts Cancer Deaths

July 1, 2010 By

An extensive study into the merits of screening men between the ages of 50 and 65 for prostate cancer has found it can cut death rates from the disease by as much as half, Swedish scientists said Thursday.

But the findings don’t necessarily mean nationwide prostate screening programs should introduced, experts said, since they run the risk of significant overdiagnosis of tumors in men who would not have suffered any harm from their cancer.

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg conducted a trial involving 20,000 men who were divided equally into a group that was offered prostate screening and a group that was not.

The screening method used was so-called prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, which is widely used in the United States and other developed countries to detect early signs of tumors.

Over 14 years of follow-up, prostate cancer death rates were cut almost by half in the screening group compared with the non-screening group, as men were diagnosed and treated in time to stop the cancer from killing them. [Read more...]

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