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	<title>Ethiopian News - EthioPlanet.com, Ethiopian Politics, Entertainment, Ethiopia &#187; U.S. News</title>
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		<title>Irreeechaa in Minnesota: A Tradition Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teddy Abera</dc:creator>
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By Oromsis Adula
It was a wet-nippy day in Minnesota, the North Star State – the Land of 10,000 Lakes. At about 10 AM, October 3, 2009, brightly dressed members of the Oromo Community started arriving at Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis.
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		<title>UCLA Instructors rushed to help stabbing victim</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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LOS ANGELES — Blood gushed from a student’s neck and formed a puddle on the floor of a UCLA lab as instructors struggled to stanch the wound.
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		<title>Daniel Bekele and the shrinking freedom in Ethiopia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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(HRW) — In the ever-shrinking space for freedom of expression and association in Ethiopia, Daniel Bekele has faced heavy-handed government repression as a prominent anti-poverty activist and human rights lawyer. Daniel has dedicated his life to building a vibrant civil society and strengthening human rights in a country where freedom of expression and other fundamental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia bio-energy company unable to assemble its processing plant</title>
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ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Global Energy Ethiopia Plc. (GEE), a bio-energy company, has exported the first installment of raw castor and jatropha seeds, claiming that it had not been able to process them into crude oil due to the denial of a 75 million Birr loan from the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE).
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		<title>Japan-Ethiopia relations pre-Italo-Ethiopian War of 1930s</title>
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By J. Calvitt Clarke III &#124; Jacksonville University
Often forgotten today, but often cited in the 1930s, many justified Italy&#8217;s aggression against Ethiopia by the perceived need to blunt Japan&#8217;s economic and racial charge into Ethiopia, Northeast Africa, and even Southeast Europe. (1) How do we explain this odd nexus uniting Ethiopia and Japan?
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		<title>Ethiopian Airlines launches flight to Liberia</title>
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Ethiopian Airlines has begun flights to Liberia, with the first flight arriving at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) over this week. 
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		<title>Radical change needed in dealing with food crises in Ethiopia</title>
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(Oxfam) — Twenty-five years ago, Ethiopia was struck by one of the worst famines in its history. An estimated one million people died, and millions more suffered from extreme hunger and malnutrition.
Today around 23 million people across East Africa are facing severe shortages of food and water after years of successive poor rains. Like other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN warns vital relief air service in Ethiopia may be grounded</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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    NAIROBI (Xinhua) — A vital air service providing humanitarian support to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in Ethiopia may be grounded in a matter of weeks due to shortage of funds, UN agencies warned this week.
    The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) User Group, which includes UN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopian Opposition Accuse Government of Arresting 480 Party Members</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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ADDIS ABABA (ST) — A newly formed coalition of Ethiopian opposition groups is accusing the ruling Tigrean People&#8217;s Liberation Front (Woyanne) regime in Ethiopia of launching a new wave of arrests against opposition members, ahead of the approaching national election.
The alliance, Forum for Democratic Dialogue in Ethiopia (FDDE), said that government cadres have intensified a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USAID grants GTLI $387,000 for clean water project in Ethiopia</title>
		<link>http://www.ethioplanet.com/news/2009/10/07/usaid-grants-gtli-387000-for-clean-water-project-in-ethiopia/</link>
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The US Agency for International Development grants Global Team for Local Initiatives (GTLI), a Bainbridge, WA, nonprofit group, $387,000 to create clean water and sanitation programs in Ethiopia.
The program is said to be aimed at aiding the Hamar tribe in southern Ethiopia and will deliver hygiene training, wells and cisterns to 3,000 people.
“Many women travel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO studies Gondar University&#8217;s tuberculosis prevention program</title>
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World Health Organization (WHO) reviews Gondar University Hospital&#8217;s standardized tuberculosis prevention and control programme. The program started in 2000, incorporating Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course (DOTS). According to the proposal by WHO, treatment outcome is an important indicator of tuberculosis control programs.
The study investigated the outcome of tuberculosis treatment at Gondar University Teaching Hospital in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tragedy struck the family of a prominent Ethiopian athlete</title>
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The brother in-law of prominent Ethiopian distance runner Leila Aman shot and killed Aman’s parents and sister on Monday during an apparent domestic dispute in the town of Assela, located about 175 kilometers of the country’s capital Addis Ababa, according to sources close to the family.
The sources said the incident took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASDAQ cites Applied Energetics for non-compliance price rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teddy Abera</dc:creator>
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Applied Energetics, Inc., (Nasdaq: AERG) announced that on September 17, 2009 it received a notice from The NASDAQ Stock Market stating that the minimum bid price of the Company’s common stock was below $1.00 per share for 30 consecutive business days and that the Company was therefore not in compliance with Marketplace Rule 5450(a)(2). The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harnessing the Biological Activity of Natural Products</title>
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Many herbs, dietary supplements, and even vitamins are suspected of interfering with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and doctors now routinely advise patients who are undergoing cancer treatment to avoid taking these products.
At the same time, cancer researchers have been intrigued by the potent and beneficial biological activity shown by some natural products and are testing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite Demonstrated Safety, Efficacy of H1N1 Vaccine, Uptake Levels Still Uncertain</title>
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Encouraging news about adult clinical trials involving the novel influenza A (H1N1) vaccine could boost uptake levels, but by how much remains to be seen. “It’s still going to be an uphill battle,” said family physician Doug Campos-Outcalt, M.D., M.P.A., the Academy’s liaison to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Campos-Outcalt, associate head of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AAFP Board Chair Warns Congress That H1N1 May Affect Physicians’ Ability to Care for Patients</title>
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The novel influenza A (H1N1) virus could overwhelm the nation’s health care system by exacerbating the existing shortages of physicians and other health care professionals, thus leaving some patients who contract the virus without proper medical attention. That was one of the main messages delivered by witnesses who testified before the House Committee on Small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watson Names G. Frederick Wilkinson Executive Vice President, Global Brands</title>
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Watson Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: WPI), a leader in generic and specialty branded pharmaceuticals, announced today that G. Frederick Wilkinson has joined the Company as Executive Vice President, Global Brands. In this newly expanded position Mr. Wilkinson will be responsible for all aspects of the Company’s global brand pharmaceutical business, including brand product development, global sales and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GSW Worldwide Announces New Members</title>
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GSW Worldwide, an inVentiv Health company [NASDAQ: VTIV] and one of the largest healthcare advertising agencies in the world, recently announced eight new appointments to it’s Newtown, Pennsylvania and New York offices.
Neal Bellucci has been named senior editor for the Newtown office. Previously, he served as editor for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Before that, Bellucci worked for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ScienceFirst Staff Expansion</title>
		<link>http://www.ethioplanet.com/news/2009/09/26/sciencefirst-staff-expansion/</link>
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ScienceFirst is pleased to announce an expansion to its leadership team as a result of ScienceFirst’s sustained annual growth..
Robert Steen was recently named senior account director at ScienceFirst, where he will be responsible for new business development, account management and service delivery. Before joining ScienceFirst, Steen held the position of vice president at Leerink Swann [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mink Named President &amp; CEO of ANGUS Chemical Company</title>
		<link>http://www.ethioplanet.com/news/2009/09/26/mink-named-president-ceo-of-angus-chemical-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Kim Ann Mink, Ph.D., has been elected president and CEO of ANGUS Chemical Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company; president of CanStates Holdings Inc., the immediate parent of ANGUS, and a member of the ANGUS Chemie GmbH Advisory Board, effective August 1, 2009. Mink also serves as global general manager of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burnham Appoints Michael R. Jackson, Ph.D., Vice President for Drug Discovery &amp; Development</title>
		<link>http://www.ethioplanet.com/news/2009/09/26/burnham-appoints-michael-r-jackson-ph-d-vice-president-for-drug-discovery-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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 Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) has appointed Michael R. Jackson, Ph.D., to the newly created position of Vice President for Drug Discovery and Development. In this role, Dr. Jackson will oversee the chemical biology and drug discovery efforts of the Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics (CPCCG) at Burnham’s La Jolla, California and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AB Research adds CRO veteran Daniel Menard to its management team as Canadian and Hungarian sites’s activity climb to historical highs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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LAB Research Inc. (”LAB”, “LAB Research” or the “Company”), (TSX: LRI), a Canadian-based global non-clinical contract research organization, today announced the nomination of Dr. Daniel P. Ménard as the new President for LAB Research Canada. Dr. Ménard will assume full responsibility of LAB Research Canada overall performance.
“We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Ménard to LAB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semafore Retains Management Consulting Firm; Names Principal to Key Management Position</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Assefa</dc:creator>
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Semafore Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics targeting the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K) pathway for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases, announced today that its board of directors has named Michael D. Becker as the company’s acting chief executive officer.
Mr. Becker continues as CEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Names Clet Niyikiza, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Development</title>
		<link>http://www.ethioplanet.com/news/2009/09/26/merrimack-pharmaceuticals-names-clet-niyikiza-ph-d-senior-vice-president-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today that Clet Niyikiza, Ph.D., has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Development. Dr. Niyikiza comes to Merrimack from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) where he was Vice President and Medicine Development Leader for oncology. Dr. Niyikiza has extensive drug development experience with a career that spans over 18 years in the pharmaceutical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Howe, Former CEO MinuteClinic, Joins MEDNETWorld Board of Directors</title>
		<link>http://www.ethioplanet.com/news/2009/09/26/michael-howe-former-ceo-minuteclinic-joins-mednetworld-board-of-directors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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MEDNETWorld.com (MEDNET), a leader in Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) connectivity and Health Information Exchange (HIE) technologies today announced the appointment of Michael Howe, former CEO of MinuteClinic and Arby’s, Inc., to its board of directors. Mr. Howe brings extensive health care and operational expertise to MEDNET from his experience at MinuteClinic.
“I’m pleased to join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paediatric strokes ‘may be twice as common as once thought’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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The rate of strokes in infants and children may be much higher than originally thought, it is believed.
A new study has found that stroke rates in younger individuals may be much more common than previously identified.
According to a recent report by Heather J Fullerton, an associate professor of neurology at the University of California, San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug firms can make H1N1 vaccine for half planet: WHO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Drug makers can only produce enough H1N1 vaccine each year for half the planet and each country will have to decide who should get the limited supplies, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.
The H1N1 vaccine looks to be as safe as the regular flu shot it said in a statement estimating that drug makers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-stroke dementia can be reduced with better aftercare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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The conclusion follows a review by Sarah Pendlebury and Peter Rothwell at Oxford University’s Stroke Prevention Research Unit of studies published between 1950 and May this year.
They found that multiple strokes and the complications and characteristics of the stroke itself are more important predictors of post-stroke dementia than underlying vascular risk factors, and that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One in five asthma patients may reject swine flu vaccine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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The results of the poll suggest that only 58 per cent of people with asthma are planning to have the swine flu vaccine. A further 25 per cent said they were still undecided over whether to have the vaccine or not, when it becomes available – probably next month. However, at least 17 per cent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Causes of increase in preterm births revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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The team from the University of Edinburgh said previous research had thrown up conflicting causes for the global rise in preterm birth.
They looked at Scottish data on 90,000 preterm births over the past 25 years.
They found the absolute increase in the rate of preterm births was similar in each group – 4.24 per 1,000 births [...]]]></description>
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