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“They found that the spiders had a number of adverse effects on the plants, including a reduction in flower stalks and seeds being produced.”
“Our experiment demonstrated that [the spiders] can negatively affect sundew fitness by depriving them of nutrients normally obtained from prey.”
“The researchers suggested that the study was the first to show that members of plant and animal kingdom in a terrestrial environment competing for the same food resources.”
“"It does seem that the spiders can adapt quicker to the changes in food resources, ensuring that they maximise their chances of capturing prey," said co-author David Jennings, a researcher at the University of South Florida.”
“"We would like to find out if the sundews are affecting the fitness of the spiders. That's the key part of future research that we need to do."”
“A Facebook group - which lobbied for the 88-year-old to appear on the show - now has more than 9,000 people urging her to front the Academy Awards.”
“The veteran actress reportedly secured the US comedy show its biggest audience since November 2008 and was warmly praised for her performance.”
“White won an Emmy award in 1986 for playing Rose in The Golden Girls.”
“Next year's Academy Awards ceremony is due to take place on 27 February, one week earlier than this year's event, which was co-hosted by comic Steve Martin and actor Alec Baldwin.”
“Robin Hood opened the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.”
“Other highlights at the 12‑day event include Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel called Money Never Sleeps.”
“Nineteen films will compete for the Palme d'Or, including entries from UK directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach.”
“The winner will be announced on 23 May by the Cannes jury, headed up this year by director Tim Burton.”
“Around 10,000 members of the film industry, 4,000 press and thousands of film lovers and celebrity watchers are due to attend the festival, regarded as the top European film event of the year.”
“which led to 100 flights being cancelled at nearby Nice airport on Sunday.”
“Asia has a strong showing, with two entries for the main prize from South Korea - Poetry by Lee Chang-dong and Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid.”
“France has three films in the race.”
“Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe brought some red carpet glamour to the south of France as Robin Hood opened the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. The latest retelling of the legendary outlaw, from director Sir Ridley Scott, is not competing for…”
“The Wind That Shakes the Barley won the director the coveted Palme d'Or in 2006.”
“But Loach missed out last year when his film Looking for Eric was in competition - the award eventually went to Austrian film The White Ribbon.”
“Leigh, who won the Palme d'Or in 1996 for Secrets And Lies and was nominated in 2002 for All Or Nothing, will be screening Another Year...”
“The winner will be announced on 23 May by the Cannes jury, headed up this year by director Tim Burton. Kate Beckinsale, Benicio del Toro and Indian actor and director Shekhar Kapur join Burton on the panel.”
“But this year's festival has had to contend with the threat of the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud drifting across Europe, which led to 100 flights being cancelled at nearby Nice airport on Sunday.”
“Ecologists tell me that one race of the Fun Race does less harm than ten people walking in the Roraima national park,”
“celebrating its tenth anniversary this year”
“Little known outside Venezuela, the Fun Race is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. In that time, it has grown to around 500 teams competing in a range of categories attracting motor enthusiasts from across the oil-rich nation.”
“"Tyre sizes are restricted to 33 inches and no vehicle which has a leak of any description can compete."”
“"Ecologists tell me that one race of the Fun Race does less harm than ten people walking in the Roraima national park," says Eduardo Garcia, the head of the Fun Race Foundation.”
“But what of the country's president, Hugo Chavez? Few events the size of the Fun Race go unnoticed by the socialist leader -especially one which is sponsored by the main anti-Chavez television channel in Venezuela, Globovision. Associate…”
“The tapes of the 17 August press conference in Toronto were stored in a drawer for more than 40 years, Bonhams and Butterfields said.”
“It would be a bit, you know, embarrassing at 35," McCartney adds.”
“The owner of the tapes had tried to sell them in 1966 but 'no-one thought they were important', she added.”
“Many Spaniards fear the effect the cuts will have on the economy, which has already contracted sharply, and where the unemployment rate exceeds 20% - twice the eurozone average.”
“On Tuesday US President Barack Obama called Mr Zapatero, urging him to take 'resolute action'.”
“This Friday, 14 May, in Zurich in Switzerland, representatives of footballing countries around the world will submit their bids to host either the 2018 or 2022 tournaments.”
“They will have to comply with eight government guarantees”
“unilateral 30% EU cut in CO2”
“At the end of May she will unveil research examining the consequences to Europe's economy of outdoing the current 20% target”
“the fall in CO2 during the recession meant a 20% cut would not drive the clean energy innovation Europe needed”
“China was investing almost 10 times as much as the EU in plans for a low-carbon economy”
“it is now a third cheaper to achieve the 20% target than when it was agreed in 2007”
“For an extra 11bn Euros on the sum originally proposed, the EU can now make a 30% CO2 cut [by 2020, based on 1990 levels]”
“adopt a 30% CO2 cut without reciprocal agreements from the US”
“the target of a 2C maximum increase in temperature”
“The day we have 100pc certainty it's too late to act”
“"if they tear down 125th Street and everything on it, please leave the Apollo standing"”
“as part of the Apollo's 75th anniversary celebrations”
“Visitors to Europe's biggest theme park, especially from the UK and the Netherlands, have dropped by 8% on last year.”
“It singled out computer users in the Asia Pacific region as the source of the biggest dollar losses in the world.”
“But, it says, there are also positive signs, as the rate of piracy declined in more than 50 countries, and rose in only 19.”
“In the UK, 27% of software in use was found to be pirated, a figure that has remained steady for the last few years.”
“Businesses and individuals in the ex-Soviet state of Georgia are the world's top pirated software users, the body said, with 95% of software installed there believed to be bootlegged.”
“At the other end of the scale, the report found that just 20% of software in use in the US is illegal.”
“He argued that it would help create 435,000 jobs.”
“Singapore was the only Southeast Asian country to feature in the list of 30 countries with the lowest rates of software piracy use.”
“cabin crew will go on strike from Monday 24 May to 28 May and plan to go out again between 30 May and 3 June - taking in the UK bank holiday.”
“A spokesman for Google said the letter represented Google's "full response" to the concerns raised by ten privacy commissioners from around the world, including the UK, Canada and France.”
“It was co-signed by Ms Stoddart's counterparts in France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the UK.”
“Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar has complained to Google.”
“Since 20 April, oil has been escaping at a rate of 210,000 gallons a day after an explosion on a BP-leased rig.”
“Thousands of families across South Louisiana will potentially be impacted for years to come and will need all the help they can get to survive”
“Its central message is that climate change can be ameliorated best by pursuing "politically attractive and relentlessly pragmatic" options that also curb emissions. These options include bringing a reliable electricity supply to the estima…”
“Black carbon may be the second most important man-made warming agent after carbon dioxide.”
“As it remains in the atmosphere for a matter of weeks, some researchers have suggested that cleaning up its production could be the quickest way of curbing warming, as well as bringing health benefits to poor countries by reducing air poll…”
“The damaging effects of climate change in developing countries, meanwhile, would be tackled by having Western countries meet the internationally agreed target of contributing 0.7% of their GDP to overseas aid, rather than through specific …”
“Just this one action alone would swamp the miserly amounts of money being offered under the Copenhagen Accord, said Prof Hulme.”
“The Hartwell Paper initiative was supported by funding from the Japan Iron and Steel Federation, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, the US-based Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Fondation Hoffmann, Geneva.”
“The paper says that the outcome of December's UN climate summit, plus the "ClimateGate" affair and inaccuracies within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 report, means "the legitimacy of the institutions of climate p…”
“And in fact, the Kyoto Protocol is one of the few things that have worked, in that it's given momentum to low-carbon energy development - we wouldn't have had the explosion in wind power without it.”
“Members plan to walk out for four separate five-day strikes as part of a bitter dispute over cost-cutting plans.”
“The first strike will begin on 18 May, ending on 22 May, with further strikes planned on 24 May, 30 May and 5 June.”
“The union said there was a turnout of 71% of the cabin crew it represents, and 81% voted against BA's offer last week, which sought to resolve the dispute over pay and working conditions.”
“In a statement, Unite's joint general secretaries Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley blamed BA for forcing cabin crew to again resort to industrial action.”
“We have made a very fair offer, which meets the concerns the union raised during 14 months of negotiations and also ensures that our crew remain the best rewarded in the UK.”
“As with the strikes in March, the airline is also planning to lease extra aircraft from other carriers and re-book passengers on cancelled flights on to other airlines.”
“All flights from Gatwick and London City airports are expected to operate as normal, BA said, while a 'substantial' number of long-haul flights from Heathrow will run as planned. There will be daily flights from Heathrow to all short-haul …”
“About 80% of Russian gas flows to the EU via Ukraine”
“In April, the two countries agreed to extend Russia's fleet stay at the Sevastopol base in the Crimea by 25 years, in return for cheaper supplies of Russian gas”
“In 2008, before the global crisis, Russia pumped 120bn cubic metres of gas to the EU through Ukraine”
“Last year, the figure dropped to 93bn cubic metres”
“About 20% of the gas the EU needs flows from Russia through Ukraine”
“In a period of one week Mr Putin visited Austria and Italy, where he managed to gain more support for the South Stream project, and also made the gas merger offer to Ukraine”
“He said that he is a fan of a heavy metal band called Accept.”
“Loach's late entry, to be screened on 20 May, brings the number of films in competition for the Palme d'Or to 19.”
“According to the Scottish government.”
“A spokesman said that the target was for people to get £400 put in their bank account within 25 working days of these details being received.”
“Householders have a deadline of 12 weeks for the work to be completed from when the vouchers are sent out.”
“The earthquake of April 2009 caused great damage to L'Aquila”
“Draquila, made by comic Sabina Guzzanti, will be shown at the event which starts on 12 May.”
“L'Aquila was hit by an earthquake in April 2009, leaving 300 people dead and 60,000 homeless.”
“Four projects are on the shortlist for the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, worth £50,000.”
“The overall winner of the prize will be announced on 7 June.”
“First presented in 1969, the MacRobert Award honours engineering innovation.”
“But there is absolutely no hard evidence to say it is.”
“My guess is he was probably real. He was probably some kind of vigilante fundamentalist, who was working against the constant oppression of the crown, the monarchy and probably the upper classes.”
“Robin Hood will open the Cannes Film Festival on 12 May 2010.”
“This is the fifth film Sir Ridley has directed with Crowe in the lead role.”
“That went on and on for ages, and [it was] probably, only about four weeks before the movie came out that the word of mouth and the vibe changed, that there was something really special.”
“UK airspace was closed for six days in April because of the ash cloud from Iceland's volcano.”
“Last month, scientists confirmed that governments would not meet their target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010.”
