DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Partnership Will Modernize All Regional Hospital Laboratories to Improve Access to Care Across the Country

At a ceremony today, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, United Republic of Tanzania, and Abbott Fund commemorated the latest step in a nationwide initiative to upgrade Tanzania's health care system, laying the cornerstone for the first of 23 hospital laboratories to be built or modernized across the country. The laboratory at Amana Regional Hospital is the first of four laboratories targeted in 2008, with the remaining laboratories scheduled for completion by 2010.

BOSTON, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry, today announced the addition of new tissue grade data to their Cost Benchmarking Service, along with a new information delivery method via the Analytical Cornerstone software platform.

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"Whether a client chooses a single grade or multiple grades of data, the potency of the Analytical Cornerstone platform allows clients to thoroughly analyze each mill's production process down to the machine-level in most cases, manipulate that data as needed, then export it to Excel," noted Surya P. Raina, Vice-President of Mill Intelligence.

MUMBAI, India, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Reuters: SUN.BO, Bloomberg: SUNP IN, NSE:SUNPHARMA, BSE: 524715) reported a quarter of strong growth for the first quarter ending June 30, 2008. There is significant one-time sales and profit component in these financials linked to the sales of products that enjoy limited duration marketing exclusivity in the US.

Highlights of Q1FY09 consolidated financials

BELLEVUE, Washington, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, "Pelephone Selects Xeround to Improve Subscriber Experience" issued on 28 Jul 2008 10:00 GMT, by Xeround, Inc. over PR Newswire, there were several spelling errors throughout the release that were incorrectly transmitted by PR Newswire. Complete, corrected release follows:

Pelephone Selects Xeround to Improve Subscriber Experience

- Xeround Intelligent Data Grid(TM) enhances access to subscriber data and helps bring personalized services to market faster

SAN JOSE, California, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- "The coolest application for the hottest mobile phone out there"

CellSpin Soft, Inc. (http://www.cellspin.net) today announced it is adding Apple's iPhone(TM) to CellSpin's fully featured mobile blogging software platform list.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative, social-networking community for engineers worldwide generated nearly 400 designs; Total prize value of more than US$200,000

TechInsights announced today the top 128 designs at the start of Phase II in the Microchip PIC32 Design Challenge (www.myPIC32.com), a year-long contest and community sponsored by Microchip Technology Inc. and Digi-Key Corporation as the exclusive distributor. Nearly 400 designs were submitted in this international competition.

SEOUL, South Korea, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

The one-stop marketplace for the fine and specialty chemical and pharmaceutical industries, XpoChem and XpoPharm, will take place at SETEC in Seoul, South Korea, on 5 and 6 November 2008, exhibiting a wide range of items in these fields, from ingredients and intermediates to finished products, equipment and machinery.

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In Optimizing The University - Why We Need a New Educational Model for a New Century I discussed some of the issues facing post-secondary science education.

In particular, that piece focused on how changing student demographics, modern faculty responsibilities and the new knowledge gained from advanced assessment techniques showed us that we need to fix fundamental aspects of science education if students are to receive the high quality education that is becoming increasingly important to individual and societal success.

BEND, Oregon and BOSTON, July 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Vulcan Power Company ("Vulcan") and Denham Capital ("Denham") announced today that Denham will invest US$145 million in newly issued preferred equity securities of Vulcan. In addition, Merrill Lynch Commodity Partners ("MLCP"), a principal investment fund of Merrill Lynch, will convert its outstanding notes into Vulcan preferred equity.

Regular readers know that I have long predicted the current price of oil and that we are now moving through Peak Oil These subjects were included in my “Forecast for 2008”

To quote from that January 9, 2008 column:

“In 2008, gas will, for a period of time reach $4 on the national level. A year ago I predicted that oil would rise above $80. Three months ago I predicted that the price would rise to $100 and that the trading range for oil will be $80 – 125 a barrel for the next year…but there could be several situations that could drive the price above $125.”