Jakarta Forum – Jakarta, A senior legislator here Monday concurred with former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Muhammad`s view that Indonesia had the potentials to become “the seventh big power” in the world. But Tjahjo Koemolo, chairman of the Indonesian Demcoracy Party-Struggle (PDIP) faction in the House of Representatives (DPR), also said to really achieve world power status, “we need a leader who is firm, consistent, and courageous in making decisions, and able to make changes. We also need to take stock again of the nation`s real potentials.” Speaking to reporters here Monday, Tjahjo said , with its large population and geopolitically strategic location in the Pacific, Indonesia indeed had the potentials of becoming “the `new giant”…

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Online On The Line No Line….The dot-com bubble might seem like a distant memory after the recent financial crisis, but around the world, the Internet continues to fuel hopes for innovation, wealth and economic expansion. That’s why the Internet has sparked something of an arms race between the U.S. and Europe over the past decade, with governments vying to expand its availability and use, hoping that the next technology billionaires spring from somewhere outside of Silicon Valley. In Europe, politicians have tried to engineer catch-up programs to rival U.S. dominance of the Internet. France and Germany jointly started Quaero in 2005, a state-funded search engine designed to rival Google, Yahoo and Microsoft offerings. European Union governments…

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Jakarta Forum – London, Jan. 29. Eating foods like celery and parsley which contain the naturally occurring flavanoid apigenin may help prevent leukemia, Dutch scientists said Thursday. Maikel Peppelenbosch of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands said tests showed that apigenin — a common component of fruit and vegetables — was able to halt the development of two kinds of cells in leukemia and cut their survival chances. The findings suggest apigenin could hold promise for preventing leukemia, Peppelenbosch said. But he warned that his study had also found the compound has chemotherapy resistance properties, suggesting it might interfere with standard treatments for people already diagnosed with leukemia…Read more click URL…Read…

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