BAAR, Switzerland, January 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Manas Petroleum Corporation (MNAP.OB) is pleased to announce the results of a Resource Evaluation prepared by Gustavson Associates LLC regarding Manas Petroleum's blocks A, B,D and E in Albania.

The Report considers the licenses 8 primary and recognized prospects identified from approximately 4,000 kilometers of seismic shot by AlbPetrol, Shell, and Coparex on the concession position.

BRUSSELS, January 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansell Healthcare, the global leader in barrier protection, will be showcasing its large portfolio of hand protection solutions at Intersec Middle East in Dubai from 13 to 15 January next. For Ansell, its first-ever participation in the Middle East's largest safety exhibition is a perfect opportunity to raise awareness about hand protection needs and underline its protection expertise in the booming Middle East market.

Continued from Part 3: I interviewed Gary Taubes by phone a few weeks ago, shortly after he gave a talk about the main ideas of his new book — Good Calories, Bad Calories — at UC Berkeley. The interview lasted about 2 hours. This is part 4.

SETH: I was impressed with the discussion in your book and lecture about obesity coexisting with poverty in all these different cultures and the implications of that. I’d never seen that before.

GARY TAUBES: I have this feeling, and I guess that all writers (or all neurotic writers) have to some extent, that my work is being ignored. It’s my Rodney Dangerfield complex. Now that I’ve written the book, I occasionally get emails from friends saying that they had some discussion with some obesity researcher, and they said, “Are you going to read Taubes’s book?” and their response was “Well, we know what Taubes thinks, so why should I bother reading the book?”

READING, England, January 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Assessment Based on Completeness of Vision, Ability to Execute

Leading industry analyst firm Gartner Inc. has positioned Verizon Business in the Leaders quadrant among European network services providers in its new report, "Magic Quadrant for Pan-European Network Service Providers, 2007."(1)

The latest Gartner Magic Quadrant examines network service providers that "generate at least 100 million euro in enterprise network services revenue contracted in Europe (not merely revenue for delivery in Europe under contract from non-European sources)." To qualify, providers had to "offer voice, data, managed network and value-added services to enterprise customers across multiple geographies in Europe."

'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, The Netherlands, January 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The worldwide express delivery services provider TNT Express has signed an agreement with Quintiq to take further steps in its effort to reduce its carbon footprint. Through the use of the advanced planning software of Quintiq in the collection and delivery of parcels TNT Express hopes to further give shape to its program called "Planet Me" with the aim to reduce the emission of CO2. The Quintiq system will replace a large number of discrete planning systems that are now used throughout TNT Express's 900 depots in the world.

NAPLES, Italy, January 10 /PRNewswire/ --

Patients who received OrbusNeich's pro-healing stent, the Genous Bio-engineered R stent, had significantly fewer major cardiac adverse events (MACE) than patients who received Boston Scientific's TAXUS or Johnson & Johnson's CYPHER drug-eluting stents in a study conducted at Federico II University of Naples in Naples, Italy. The results of the study were presented recently at the XXVIII National Congress of the Italian Society of Invasive Cardiology by Federico Piscione, M.D., the study's principal investigator and a professor with the university's Division of Cardiology, Department of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Sciences.

BOLOGNA, Italy, January 10 /PRNewswire/ --

In 2008 Mr. Cesare Ragazzi, a pioneer in natural hair replacement and restoration, is bringing his 40 years of experience to the United States. Ragazzi Salons are a cultural phenomenon in Italy, operating throughout Europe for forty years, specifically known for their patented CNC(R) Natural Hair Replacement System along with the Tricopulse(R) Natural Hair Restoration Program. Mr. Ragazzi proudly announces the formation of Cesare Ragazzi Company USA, LLC.

CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, January 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Essilor of America, Essilor International's US subsidiary, has strengthened its prescription laboratory network in the United States with the acquisition of Interstate Optical Co., one of the country's five largest independent laboratories. Interstate's two laboratories in Mansfield, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana serve eye care professionals in 32 states. The company has full-year sales of US$26 million and 210 employees.

Deferoxamine (DF), originally used to treat iron poisoning, can significantly boost the body’s own ability to heal and re-grow injured bones, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

The researchers injected deferoxamine into injured mouse bones. They found DF triggered the growth of new blood vessels, which in turn kicked off bone re-growth and healing.

In the study, bone density surrounding the injury more than doubled to 2.6 cubic millimeters in treated bones compared to 1.2 cubic millimeters in untreated bones, the researchers said.

The motion, formation, and recycling of Earth’s crust—commonly known as plate tectonics—have long been thought to be continuous processes but new research by geophysicists suggests that plate tectonic motions have occasionally stopped in Earth’s geologic history, and may do so again.

The findings could reshape our understanding of the history and evolution of the Earth’s crust and continents.

Synthesizing a wide range of observations and constructing a new theoretical model, researchers Paul Silver of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Mark Behn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have found evidence that the process of subduction has effectively stopped at least once in Earth’s past.