Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | Julius Businge | Shell customers stand a chance to be rewarded with prizes instantly for every purchase made at Shell service stations, countrywide, for the next eight weeks. This is part of the company’s new campaign dubbed “Good to See You Again” that was unveiled on …
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YEAR IN REVIEW: May 2017 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The year 2017 has been bitter for sugar consumers in Uganda. In a trend set in December 2016 when it hit Shs5000, the price of sugar for home consumption continued to climb and his Shs7000 per kilogram – a new …
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Paris, France | AFP | Messing with your body’s clock is dangerous business, in fact it could make you sick — or worse. The inner timekeeper dubbed the “circadian clock”, governs the day-night cycle that guides sleep and eating patterns, hormones and even body temperature. It is important enough that the …
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Stockholm, Sweden | AFP | US geneticists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young were awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for shedding light on the biological clock that governs the sleep-wake cycles of most living things. The team’s work revealed the role of genes in setting …
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Berlin, Germany | AFP | Here are the winners of the main prizes awarded Saturday at the 67th Berlin film festival: – Golden Bear for best film: “Testrol es lelekrol” (On Body and Soul), Ildiko Enyedi, Hungary – Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear: “Felicite”, Alain Gomis, France/Senegal/Belgium/Germany/Lebanon – Silver Bear …
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