OTTAWA, October 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have developed a Canadian buyer's guide for purchasers of wood and paper-based products. It provides important guidance on what to consider when writing procuremen policies and programs that need to be based on sustainable and socially responsible forest practices.

LONDON, October 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Who packs the most megabytes into their work for patients? Who would win gold if health informatics was an Olympic sport? It's time to vote for the strongest link!

Voting started on 10th October for this year's Healthcare ICT Champion, a special part of the BT e-Health Insider Awards. Sponsored by Microsoft, the category is judged by a popular vote not by the judging panel. Readers and admirers of the nominees can cast their vote online at http://www.ehealthawards.com/champions

INGELHEIM and BIBERACH, Germany, October 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Boehringer Ingelheim Oncology Pipeline Advances: Two Leading Compounds are Entering Phase III Trials

- Boehringer Ingelheim's Investigational Compound in Development for the Treatment of Pre-Menopausal Women Suffering From Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) Will Report on Phase III Results in 2009

LONDON, October 17 /PRNewswire/ -- News that the supermarket fuel price war has resulted in the price of litre of petrol now costing under one pound at some sites comes as a smack in the teeth to the UK haulage industry; the industry on which UK plc is totally reliant.

"This time it's not just road hauliers who are getting a raw deal," said RHA Head of Communications, Kate Gibbs. "Diesel cars, originally sold as the 'economic option', accounted for more than 40 per cent of new car sales in 2007. But today, the pump price differential between petrol and diesel has made the engine choice almost immaterial."

BRUSSELS, October 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to increasing energy prices and alarming environmental threats, Europe launches Planibel Tri. This unique coating specially designed for triple glazing assembly in residential applications, combines comfort and cost efficiency with an eco-friendly footprint.

Up to 10% energy savings

Heating and air conditioning are responsible for 70% of a building's energy consumption. Therefore, the construction sector has an important role to play in the energy efficiency process. Building on its expertise in high-performance glass, AGC has developed a coated glass which saves up to 10% of the annual energy consumption in residential applications. A cost-efficient solution that is certainly worth the investment.

TOKYO, October 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- DEMONSTRATION EVENT - UNIQLO TRY-

- HEATTECH - the warm-up and stay-warm range of wear Global Try It Campaign

- 1,000 consumers, 100 media representatives will be given a free HEATTECH trial kit -

In the second of its UNIQLO TRY programs, UNIQLO is conducting a Global Try It Campaign for HEATTECH - try out both the "heat creation function" that absorbs moisture evaporating from the body and turns it into heat energy, and the "insulation function" that prevents the heat from escaping. We are launching an entry website which will invite consumers and media representatives from around the world to apply for the trial.

(Deadline for kit applications - midnight on October 26, 2008, Japan time).

The awe of staring into the never-ending black sky is what brings thousands to the hilltops every year; myself included. I have always been interested in astronomy and the vastness of space. Even as a thirteen year old I was wishing upon stars, plotting constellations, and dreaming of venturing to a world beyond...

Knowing how much I loved the sky, my mother set up a trip to the Sierra Nevada's to catch a glimpse of the miraculous night sky. The view was beautiful, just dazzling with stars brighter than I had ever seen. Looking up into a world of pearls nestled in a black canvas, shimmering wildly, and in contrasting colors ... but I wasn't going to settle for just looking at the dots in the sky; I wanted to see the planets up close. To define their unique characteristics and so on, so the few dozen astronomers who had hosted this event set up their telescopes, directly pointing them at various stars and galaxies.

I will never forget the feeling it gave me... an irresistible sense of insignificance when I peered into space, almost a euphoria. Realizing that I was smaller than a speck of dust in the whole scheme of things baffled me, and it changed my perspective toward many things as a result...

It was an exhilarating experience and it included the outstanding pleasure of seeing other worlds as well as S'mores by the campfire when the event was through. Needless to say, when I returned home the following night, I immediately ran outdoors to capture the remarkable sights yet again. Only something had drastically changed; the millions of stars I had seen the night before were reduced to a handful - if that. 

People who use 'high fructose corn syrup' and 'fructose' interchangeably are either uninformed or intentionally misleading consumers, says the Corn Refiners Association (CRA), and they'd like to set the record straight.

Well, we are certainly against deception by fundamentalists with agendas manipulating data so we are happy to help. Because there are so many recent studies on the effects of sweeteners in the diet, it is important that people understand the differences among various ingredients used in scientific studies.

Research into tobacco dependence published online today (Friday 17 October 2008) in the November issue of Addiction, has shown that recent ex-smokers who find exposure to other people's cigarette smoke pleasant are not any more likely to relapse than those who find it unpleasant.

Led by Dr Hayden McRobbie and Professor Peter Hajek of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, researchers examined the hypothesis that those who find the smell of smoke pleasant are more likely to relapse than those who have a neutral or negative reaction to it. Surprisingly, they concluded that finding the smell of other people's cigarettes pleasant does not make abstaining smokers any more likely to relapse.

The DNA's double helix--the sub-microscopic core of our life--has been the subject of intense study and scrutiny for decades.

Observations and measurements at the scale of DNA are tricky. The distance between the rungs in DNA's ladder (or base pairs), for example, was thought to be barely over 3 millionths of a millimeter, or 3.4 Å (angstroms). And this ladder has been typically assumed to be very rigid.

But now a team of Stanford scientists, supported in part by the National Science Foundation, have used a novel molecular ruler to cast doubts on this picture. Using this molecular ruler, they marked each end of a snippet of DNA with electron-dense gold nanocrystals. These markers scattered X-rays directed at the sample differently than the rest of the molecules, and allowed for a more precise calculation.