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Ten polar bears, an unusually large number, were seen swimming in open water off the northern coast of Alaska recently, some heading for shore and some heading toward the retreating ice in the Chukchi Sea, two federal officials confirmed Friday.

Susanne Miller, the biologist in charge of the polar bear project for the federal Fish and Wildlife Service, said 8 of the 10 bears spotted in the aerial survey had been within 15 miles of shore. One was 35 miles from shore and another one 50, but neither was more than 20 miles from the nearest arctic ice.

Bear sightings in open water were infrequent until about 2004, Ms. Miller said, but rising temperatures have melted much of the ice platform on which they live and hunt for seals.

In May, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne put the United States polar bear population under the protections of the Endangered Species Act, primarily because of the loss of its habitat.
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Verizon Wireless and Google, two industry Goliaths that have seen each other as potential rivals, are discussing a partnership that would give Google’s search service a prominent spot on the screens of Verizon phones, according to people briefed on the talks.

The discussions are being spurred by the growing popularity of sophisticated devices like the iPhone that have simplified Web searching on mobile phones. New phones like those based on Google’s Android software, and models coming from Research in Motion and others, are likely to accelerate the trend.

Any partnership deal between the two is more than a month away, perhaps two, as the talks are in an early phase, said people apprised of those discussions. The companies are negotiating over how much information Google can retain about Verizon’s customers and their searches, according to these people. The two companies would share revenue from advertising that is tied to searches. Read more…

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By Greg IP

A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck.

Just ask Bea Dewing. After she earned a bachelor’s degree — her second — in computer science from Maryland’s Frostburg State University in 1986, she enjoyed almost unbroken advances in wages, eventually earning $89,000 a year as a data modeler for Sprint Corp. in Lawrence, Kan. Then, in 2002, Sprint laid her off.

“I thought I might be looking a few weeks or months at the most,” says Ms. Dewing, now 56 years old. Instead she spent the next six years in a career wilderness, starting an Internet café that didn’t succeed, working temporary jobs and low-end positions in data processing, and fruitlessly responding to hundreds of job postings. Read more…

The vital medical equipment can now be bought by health bosses at Clitheroe Health Centre – thanks to funding from a local group.

Members of the Waddington-based The Royal Forest Lodge No. 401 have donated £1,500 towards new medical equipment, including the funding of digital blood pressure machines.

The money has come from the Provincial Grand Master’s Fund Committee from the West Riding Masonic Charities Limited.

Mr Keith Lavender secretary of the Lodge said: “We are delighted to have been able to help particularly as the medical items are not available on the NHS.”
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Waco city officials have allocated $2 million more than last year to cover fuel costs in a proposed budget for next year.

High prices at the pump are forcing the city to consider changes to their city vehicles. Some of those changes include possibly adding hybrid cars and special meters that let city workers know at what speeds they can save the most gas.

The changes were presented at a city council workshop Tuesday afternoon. The entire budget is around $218.3 million, City Manager Larry Groth has allocated $5.1 million for gas and diesel fuel. That amount has gone up nearly $2 million from last year.

But Groth says he considers Waco a “blessed community” because the city isn’t as financially strapped as some other cities. “I’m not going to council and saying we’re cutting out “x” to pay for it.
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Patients will be able to escape NHS queues by demanding treatment anywhere in the European Union without the prior approval of a doctor, under proposals to guarantee health rights unveiled today in Brussels.

The NHS would then be duty bound to refund the British cost of the procedure under the new rules for cross-border healthcare.

Today’s proposed EU directive will give patients in all 27 member states the same rights to treatment on the NHS as British patients. It also guarantees that the full cost of treatment abroad will be refunded when an NHS professional has agreed that it is necessary for the patient to go overseas.

Patients will still have to pay their own travel and accommodation costs. They will not be able to demand funding abroad for treatments not available on the NHS, such as cosmetic surgery.
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