Sex talks to raise Australian miner productivity
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Australian coal miners are being taught to explore their wives and understand menopause in order to have a healthy sex life, which in turn will make them happy, productive workers.
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By ROHAN SULLIVAN  SYDNEY, Australia - A saloon-style striptease, complete with corsets and balloons, at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists hot and bothered and the organizers in boiling water.
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"Sex sells", but humans' fixation with status symbols is threatening efforts to tackle climate change.
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By Jon Swartz  SAN FRANCISCO -- Major players in the adult-entertainment industry, long in the vanguard of technology use, now find themselves playing catch-up.
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Aussie solar thermal specialist negotiating with utilities for big solar plants
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Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
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Melbourne - WMC Resources, the world&#39;s fifth-biggest nickel producer, has invited potential partners to study its Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine as it tries to fend off aA$7.4 billion (R33.37 billion) hostile bid from Xstrata.
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SYDNEY Xstrata, the world&#39;s biggest exporter of power-station coal, offered 7.4 billion Australian dollars, or $5.5 billion, for WMC Resources on Thursday to add nickel and copper mines to its portfolio.
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Business & money: BHP raises shares offer to Â£70bn mega deal, but China and Australia may fight potential monopoly
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Australians try to tame the giant.
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By Jim Myers, Tulsa World, Okla.  Jun. 8--WASHINGTON -- A new federal rule will encourage commercial uses of chat and further the removal of more of the mining waste from the Tar Creek Superfund site, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says.
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Rattled by a spate of high-profile  mining disruptions on several continents this month, gold stock  investors are looking to company bosses to reassure them that  their investments are safe.
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BHP Billiton will plough a further $US575million ($770million) into expanding its Western Australian iron ore operations in a message to would-be rivals that the company is intent on keeping and growing its market share.
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The Latin American gold miner looks to consolidate the sector in a big way.
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BHP Billiton, the AngloAustralian mining group, announced plans yesterday to increase production amid surging demand for commodities.
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GLOBAL miner BHP Billiton Ltd and the world&#39;s largest aluminium producer, Alcoa Inc, plan to raise up to $US100 million ($138 million) in calendar 2004 by selling shares in their metal-processing
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South African workers striking over pay and benefits have a new complaint -- they no longer have the energy for sex.