http://www.globalgoodnews.com/global-news.html Good News From Around The World en-us Copyright Global Good News(sm) Service 2004 rss-feeds@globalgoodnews.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:04:11 EST Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:04:11 EST GlobalGoodNews.com In house http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.globalgoodnews.com/business-news-a.html?art=126816432343358342 Canadian housing starts rose a better than expected 6.1 per cent in February, reinforcing views that the residential housing sector is a major force pulling the economy out of recession. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/business-news-a.html?art=126810346541718734 Egypt's El Sewedy Cables has invested 40 million euros ($54 million) to open two factories making equipment for electricity-generating wind farms, the stock exchange said on Sunday. A wind poles plant in Ain Sukhna on Egypt's Red Sea coast will start operations on 16 March. The firm did not say when it would open a turbines factory in Tenth of Ramadan City, on the outskirts of Cairo. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/cultural-news-a.html?art=126816465243369973 Russian icons perplex many western art viewers. The Louvre Museum is seeking to lift that mystery by throwing its influential spotlight on the icons, and nearly 1,000 years of Russian history and art. In an exhibit unlike any ever mounted and tinged with diplomatic ambitions, the Louvre has pulled together artworks that have never left Russia and from around Europe. 'Such an exhibit has never happened before, in Russia or anywhere,' Irina Lebedeva, director of Moscow's Tretyakov Museum and a key contributor to the Louvre exhibit told AP. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/business-news-a.html?art=126816247643287002 Kenya expects a stable inflation rate for the rest of this year thanks to good food harvests, the head of the statistics office said on 3 March. Anthony Kilele, director general the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) spoke about the outlook to Reuters based on a new consumer goods basket. Terry Ryan, a member of Kenya's Monetary Policy Committee, agreed with the assessment that outlook for inflation was benign. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/government-news-a.html?art=126815184042910765 Governments will seek a new climate partnership in 2010 to protect tropical forests with funds going through the United Nations, the World Bank, or bilateral channels, Norway said on Tuesday. 'The idea is to establish a partnership of everyone who wants to be included' in safeguarding forests, Environment Minister Erik Solheim told Reuters. French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a one-day ministerial meeting on forests in Paris on 11 March with a follow-up hosted by Norway in May to spur talks on combating climate change after the UN's Copenhagen summit in December. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/business-news-a.html?art=126816120543244197 Privately held Kuwait Energy Co has found oil in a field in Egypt, the company said on Sunday. The discovery was in Burg El-Arab field in Egypt's western desert, it said. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=126810479941788722 French troops will leave Senegal under an agreement to be signed shortly before the West African country celebrates 50 years of independence from France in April, the Senegalese Presidency said. On 4 April, Senegal will mark the 50th anniversary of independence from France. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/business-news-a.html?art=126816167543260881 South Africa's economic confidence rose in February on optimism that the economy will grow this year and next. An economic recovery from the country's first recession in almost two decades gathered speed in the fourth quarter of 2009, led by a rebound in manufacturing output. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=126810311441705932 The United Nations could begin withdrawing troops from the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest UN peacekeeping mission in the world, as early as June, the peacekeeping chief said on Friday. 'It was a clear request from the government of Kinshasa and from the President that the first draw-down should start around June 2010 at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Congo,' UN peacekeeping head Alain Le Roy said. Le Roy said the withdrawals would only involve peacekeepers in the relatively peaceful western part of the country. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=126815086442878307 US and Russian arms control officials began on Tuesday what both sides hope will be a final push to clinch a treaty cutting their strategic nuclear arsenals, officials said. Dozens of negotiators from each country were taking part in the START talks which resumed in Geneva, Switzerland after a 10-day break for consultations in their capitals. The world's two largest nuclear powers are seeking a replacement to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) which expired last December. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/health-news-a.html?art=126816124043245233 A new EEG study, published in the journal Cognitive Processing, discovers that the practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) Technique helps the brain 'reset' to a natural state of restful alertness. The three-month randomized, controlled study was conducted on college students at American University, in Washington, DC, USA. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/health-news-a.html?art=126814718142816139 Rebecca Beuchert, MD, received her doctorate in medicine from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in the United States. She has had fifteen years experience as a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist in private practice in Washington, DC. On the website tmwomenprofessionals.org, Dr Beuchert states that 'both personally as a woman, and professionally as a physician, I have found that the reduction of stress and deep relaxation during Transcendental Meditation practice benefit all women.' Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html?art=126819044144029901 The editor of Conscious Times, Maharishi University of Management's online student voice, discovered MUM by seeing Dr John Hagelin talk about consciousness in a movie. Leon Lewis, a student in the BA in Communications and Media programme, is also a filmmaker and web designer. As an artist, he appreciates the effect of Consciousness-Based Education on his creativity. 'Being able to know your true self, you can incorporate it into what you are creating.' Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/health-news-a.html?art=126724151425212898 Two new publications offer profound knowledge of the qualities and diverse uses of purest, highest quality VedAroma essential oils. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=126797593038716726 In a global assembly on 3 March, Dr Bevan Morris reflected on the profound principles of administration through silence set forth by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Founder of the Global Country of World Peace, in December 2007 and January 2008, for the leadership of his worldwide organizations. Dr Morris is Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/health-news-a.html?art=126781753234900836 A statement by eminent American cardiologist Dr Abraham Bornstein about the value of Transcendental Meditation for the treatment of cardiovascular disease is featured on the new website tmwomenprofessionals.org. Dr Bornstein, a board-certified cardiologist and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, holds a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Dr Bornstein has done cardiovascular research in the areas of electrophysiology, pacemaker insertion and congenital heart disease, and also spent time on the pediatric cardiology service. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/health-news-a.html?art=126801147139721732 Dr Robert Schneider recently presented a synopsis of the progress and achievements in the United States in the field of Maharishi Ayur-Veda natural health care. The same presentation was also given to the Board of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) of the Government of India, as part of the Board's initiative to spread knowledge of Ayurvedic medicine outside of India. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/health-news-a.html?art=126781185734792843 The new website tmwomenprofessionals.org features statements by eminent physicians in different fields, including dermatologist Dr Margaret Sparks, recommending the Transcendental Meditation Programme as applied to a wide range of health situations. Dr Sparks has practised Transcendental Meditation for 38 years and has been recommending it to her patients for 25 years for reducing stress, which is a major component of skin diseases, she says. In the coming days, Global Good News will also feature statements of the other physicians. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html?art=126798447938966557 Consciousness-Based Education initiatives in New Zealand are bringing the nation closer to permanent invincibility, including a successful school project in South Auckland. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.globalgoodnews.com/health-news-a.html?art=126797576138711653 The ancient Vedic Literature of India describes the benefits of essential oils, how to utilize them, and how to combine them to achieve diverse effects for health and beauty. Now through VedAroma essential oils, this ancient wisdom has been revived in its completeness as an aspect of Maharishi Vedic Medicine. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST