LONDON, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Valentine's Day Drives Traffic to Flowers, Gifts & Greetings Sites

- New Firefox Browser Helps Mozilla Organisation Grow to More than 3 Million Visitors

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its February rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in the U.K. based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.

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When people think about the destruction and degradation of tropical forests, they tend to focus on rainforests. Tropical dry forests tend to get overlooked. They aren’t as striking - no cathedral-like understorey, no mind-boggling biodiversity. But more importantly, they often just aren’t there. Over much of their potential range they have simply been erased from the landscape. They may have covered as much as 42% of the land area in the tropics¹, but have been reduced to less than 27% of their former range in Mexico², and as little as 2% in Central America³ and New Caledonia⁴.

Despite this fact, tropical dry forests are often seen as being quite well-adapted to human disturbance.

Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time – something specific, like going down into a dark cellar where you know the Book of the Dead is waiting,or, in a more general sense, trepidation about what the future holds. Some people are gripped by powerful fears when confronted by quite normal everyday situations. For example, sufferers of agoraphobia frequently have panic attacks when caught up in a crowd.

Their blood 'curdles' or 'freezes in their veins' in a very real way, saya a Bonn-based research team, and it leads to increased risk of thrombosis or heart attack

The symptoms can be dramatic: palpitations, sweating, shaking, blind panic or fainting – even leading to death. Another anxiety disorder frequently encountered can be described as social phobia. Those affected fear above all situations in which they become the centre of attention in a group. They begin to stutter or turn red. In order not to avoid embarrassment, social phobia sufferers may become recluses, shying away from human contact and staying at home.

Hydrogen is regarded as the green energy of the future. The automobile industry, for example, is working hard to introduce fuel cell technology starting in approximately 2010. However, a fuel cell drive system can only be environmentally friendly if researchers succeed in producing hydrogen from renewable sources.

Artificial photosynthesis, i.e. the splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen with the aid of sunlight, is an elegant way of solving this problem.

LOS ANGELES, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Musician Latest to Join Chorus Expressing Support for Presidential Hopeful Barack Obama with New Web Site www.ObamaRocks08.com and Free Music Download "Obama, Yes We Can"

Andy Fraser, legendary musician, songwriter and activist best known for penning the rock anthem "All Right Now" for the 70s British Rock Band, Free, and Robert Palmer's mega-hit "Every Kinda People" has officially come out to support Senator Barack Obama's run for President in song.

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BASINGSTOKE, England, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) the global specialty biopharmaceutical company announces its preliminary results prepared under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") for the twelve months to December 31, 2007.

On February 21, 2008 Shire announced its results for the same period under US GAAP.

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Roughly a half-millimeter in size and commonly observed under microscopes in high-school biology classes, bdelloid rotifers are highly unusual in several regards: They appear to be exclusively asexual, have relatively few transposable genes, and can survive and reproduce after complete desiccation at any stage of their life cycle.

Scientists at Harvard University hypothesize that this last property explains something new about bdelloids - their apparently unique resistance to radiation.

As the planet's population continues to grow, optimal crops need to be planted and harvested in order to feed people. One concern about widespread use of 'organic' cropping is that it would raise the price of food and have lower yields. Right now only rich people can afford organic food but if lower yields were worldwide only rich people could afford food at all, say critics.

It's not a huge issue, at least for some crops, say scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and agricultural consulting firm AGSTAT. They say organic cropping systems are as productive as conventional systems for alfalfa and wheat and are almost as productive for corn and soybeans, according to research reported in Agronomy Journal.

WAYNE, Pennsylvania and LONDON, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Trade Routing and Connectivity Solutions Support Buy-Side and Sell-Side Automation Initiatives

SunGard (http://www.sungard.com) today announced that the SunGard Transaction Network's (STN's) trading and connectivity solutions are now available to corporate treasurers and asset managers in the United Kingdom, following STN's recent approval by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). As an authorized U.K. broker, STN will exercise passporting rights, allowing the company to trade and conduct brokerage business in 30 European countries, bringing integration, automation and connectivity to the international trade lifecycle.

POMPANO BEACH, Florida, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- High-Profile Names Including Wagering.com, Amsterdam.com and eGaming.com Now Up For Grabs at Amsterdam Event

Moniker.com (http://www.moniker.com), an Oversee.net company and provider of Domain Asset Management(TM) services, today announced additional premium domain names will be available for purchase via a live and online domain name auction at the Casino Affiliate Convention (CAC) in Amsterdam. The exclusive live auction will take place onsite next Friday, April 4 at 5:30 p.m. in Amsterdam (11:30 a.m. US Eastern time; 8:30 a.m. US Pacific) at the NH Grand Krasnapolsky Hotel.