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 Authorities announced on Thursday that a medical helicopter crashed and killed four people. The accident occurred in a Chicago suburb and a 13-year-old girl was among the dead. She was suffering seizures. The aircraft was heading toward Children’s Memorial hospital in Chicago and was coming from Valley West Hospital in Sandwich.Around...
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Chinese organizers of a culture show next year in the German city of Frankfurt said on Thursday that Taiwan would be welcome to take part it the effort to promote new books written in Chinese.
Every year, one nation attends the Frankfurt Book Fair as guest of honour, bringing a retinue of authors and musicians to drum up interest from...
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Almost two years after joining the European Union, Bulgaria has passed legislation designed to control conflicts in interest for politicians and officials.
The law was passed Thursday by Bulgaria's parliament. It requires that Bulgaria's president, legislators and administration members, as well as mayors and judges, provide regular...
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 Apple launched on Tuesday lighter aluminum MacBooks with
faster graphics and better display. The aluminum casing was introduced for the
first time in the cheapest MacBook line. The most important part of the new
MacBooks is the non-crippled video system. The laptop will perform better
graphically in leaps and bounds. Also, Apple has...
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 NASA engineers say that they know how to fix the Hubble telescope,
which had an abrupt failure two weeks ago, causing the National Space
Administration firm to lose about $10 million a month. This comes from the delay of the Hubble upgrade mission that
should have taken place in October. A router that formats
data and helps relay it...
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 It was really necessary to see how using the internet
affects the human brain. Researchers from UCLA showed that searching on Google
triggers a key center for decision-making and complex reasoning in the brain,
leading to possible improvements in brain function. Dr. Gary Small, a professor
at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and...
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 Director Oliver Stone has released a new movie about the life of the U.S. president, George W. Bush. Written by Stanley Weiser, the movie shows some other aspects of a president’s life than a lot of movies have done it until now. The belief the movie breaths to its viewers is that the president made the world spin his way.The movie stars...
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Nancy Reagan, former first lady of the U.S. and widow of President Ronald Reagan, was hospitalized after she had fractured her pelvis and lower spine. Her spokeswoman said that she had suffered the fractures in a fall at her home last week. The 87-year-old former first lady was taken to the University of California, Los Angeles Medical...
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 Madonna, 50, and film director Guy Ritchie, 40, have been together for eight years and they will soon announce their divorce. Madonna and Guy Ritchie met back in 1999 through their friends Sting and Trudie Styler, the singer’s wife. After that, Madonna gave birth to their son, Rocco, in Los Angeles, on August 11, 2000 and she married Guy...
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Finnish-based Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Thursday its operating profit dropped by 21 per cent in the third quarter 2008.
Operating profit for the quarter was 1.46 billion euros (1.98 billion dollars), compared to 1.86 billion euros for the corresponding business period in 2007.
Net sales dropped 5 per cent...
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Holder David Nalbandian had to fight past stubborn opponent Tomas Berdych at the Madrid Masters on Wednesday while American qualifier Robby Ginepri stunned fifth seed Nikolay Davydenko.
Argentine seventh seed Nalbandian was playing his first match since lifting the Stockholm title at the weekend in a rampaging start to an indoor...
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Joachim Loew should renew his contract as Germany coach beyond the 2010 World Cup, team manager Oliver Bierhoff said.
"I would wish for that. Consistency like in the days of Sepp Herberger and Helmut Schoen would be good for the team, and for the DFB (German football federation) as well," Bierhoff told Wednesday's edition of...
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Health
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The number of U.S. citizens with high blood
pressure is increasing, mainly due to growing rates of obesity, researchers at
the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute said.
The findings were based on a study conducted by collecting
data from an estimated 30,000 people who participated in the National Nealth
and Nutrition...
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 Who would’ve thought that alcohol intake is linked directly to brain volume?
That the size of the brain decreases by roughly 2 percent per decade, and that
drinkers’ brains may shrink more rapidly?
Well, this is what researchers from Wellesley
College in Wellesley, Massachusetts
claim, based on the results of a study they had...
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 It seems that Vitamin B supplements don't slow cognitive
decline in patients suffering from mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease,
according to a new study published in the Oct. 15 issue of The Journal of the
American Medical Association.
Researchers who studied the vitamin B said patients with
Alzheimer’s, the most common form...
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George “W.” Bush, Subject for the Movie
Director Oliver Stone has released a new movie about the life of the U. S. president, George W. Bush. Written by Stanley Weiser, the movie shows some other aspects of...
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