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Several sessions this year focus on the strategies for scientists and the media how to talk to each other better: Pimp your elevator pitch (workshop) ? Karen James For practising scientists: can you describe your research, clearly and accessibly, in two minutes? We plan to video about five volunteers doing their ?elevator pitch?, then ask [...]

Gaming peripheral maker Razer has raised $50 million in a financing round to expand its business of offering ?no compromise? gaming products. IDG-Accel China Capital Fund led the round, the first venture-financed investment for the company beyond previous angel investments. After years of making only peripherals, Razer recently entered the gaming PC hardware market with [...]

After three decades of war, Afghanistan is littered with land mines. A nonprofit employs disabled land-mine victims to make demining equipment, and funds rehabilitation clinics. By Olivia Katrandjian,?Contributor, Arthur Nazaryan,?Contributor / March 30, 2012 ? A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent. Skip to next paragraph ?Haroon Hamdard edged toward a suspected explosive device [...]

David J. Phillip/AP Texas Gov. Rick Perry prays at The Response, his call to prayer for a nation in crisis, on Aug. 6 in Houston. The event was organized, in part, by members of the New Apostolic Reformation. A new charismatic Christian movement that seeks to take dominion over politics, business and culture in preparation [...]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? A leading presidential candidate of Mexico’s ruling party said on Wednesday he would break with government policy and withdraw the army from the fight against drug gangs if he wins the election in 2012. Santiago Creel, a former interior minister belonging to the conservative National Action Party (PAN), told Reuters that [...]