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Melbourne, Australia - Amid the congratulations of another record-breaking Australian Open, tournament director Craig Tiley has denied that he will take a position with the US Tennis Association as they hunt for a new chief executive.
But as celebrations die down in Melbourne, Australian tennis is awakening to the fact that it has not...
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Four world records tumbled in a remarkable second day of Olympic swimming Monday as American superstar Michael Phelps' attempt to win an unprecedented eight gold medals stayed on track. In shooting, Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever Olympic gold medal in an individual event, while Japan's women toppled China's top-seeded 2004...
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The German cabinet decided
Wednesday to extend a block on workers from new members of the European
Union in eastern Europe into 2011. The cabinet simultaneously
decided to ease restrictions on highly qualified workers, effectively
opening its borders to those with university or higher technical
qualifications from the 10 countries...
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 As the US economy is struggling to recover from the crisis it never yet managed to exit, this summer season, long- awaited by teens, who want to get a summer job, does not look too good for them.Analysts said that teenagers would find it difficult to find a job in the first place this summer, since the 2008 job market for young people...
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 One of the French avant-garde icons, author Alain
Robbe-Grillet passed away on Monday. He was 85 years old.
Robbe-Grillet died at the Caen
University Hospital
in western France.
He was hospitalized during the week-end due to cardiac problems.
Robbe-Grillet became made a name for his innovative writing
style, which had a...
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Hassan is a 36-year-old Egyptian waiter who earns 500 Egyptian pounds (93 US dollars) a month. His fiancée Heba is a university student, who works as a salesgirl on the side. She uses half the 400 pounds she earns to save for their wedding.
Hassan and Heba's tale - of saving long and hard with meagre wages to scrape together enough to...
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During Ramadan, many Egyptian families tend to settle in front of the television after the iftar or fast-breaking meal at sunset, switching from channel to channel, to take in their favourite local dramas.
This year, several local comic sitcoms that run in 20-minute episodes, have drawn viewers away from the traditional 45-minute...
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At least 13 civilians died and more than 35 were wounded during the latest round of heavy fighting between Islamic insurgents and African Union (AU) peacekeepers in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials said Wednesday.
Islamist forces attacked the Ugandan KM4 base in Mogadishu late on Tuesday night, prompting AU troops...
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The amount of ink spilt on Nelson Mandela,
one of the world's favourite statesman, is bewildering. Enter his name
in the book section of amazon.com website and you get 12,417 entries.
From a plethora of biographies of the anti-apartheid icon, authorized
and otherwise, to collections of his favourite folktales, and...
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 The tense wait for the unveiling of the next leader of South Africa's
ruling African National Congress (ANC) began after voting ended Tuesday
in a tight contest between incumbent President Thabo Mbeki and ANC
deputy leader Jacob Zuma.
Zuma was expected to quash Mbeki's controversial bid for a third
five-year term at the party helm...
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 Embattled South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday used a speech
to members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) meeting to
elect a new leader to lash out at corruption in party ranks.
Mbeki is attempting to remain on as president of the party but is
expected to be routed by party deputy Jacob Zuma. Zuma's victory...
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 The mood was ebullient Saturday among supporters of the man tipped to
oust Thabo Mbeki as leader of South Africa's ruling African National
Congress (ANC), as party members poured into the northern city of
Polokwane to pick their president for the next five years.
Cattle herders leaning on their sticks watched as dozens of...
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Is a bare-all calendar a sure-fire way for your community group to raise funds this Christmas?
An Australian researcher said Monday total exposure was a turn-off and that calendars leaving something to the imagination were the better sellers.
"Experience has shown that in the successful calendars the bodies must be...
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Malcolm Turnbull, elected Tuesday as the leader of Australia's opposition Liberal Party, is the conservative politician from central casting: well-groomed, well-educated, well-connected and, well, rich.
He's the wealthiest member of the Canberra Parliament, thanks to a career in business that saw him start information-technology...
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 Governments around the world are trying to reduce emissions
of carbon gases because these are responsible for global warming. Australia has
made the first step in this process. A large underground carbon storage
facility was opened in the southern state of Victoria,
near the town of Warrnambool, west of Melbourne. It will
capture...
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 A New
Zealand teenager was convicted on Tuesday
due to his major role in a global cyber crime ring that managed to infect
nearly 1.3 million computers worldwide and caused $20 million in losses. The
investigation was launched after an assault involving 50,000 computers crashed
the server at the University of Pennsylvania in the...
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 Heads are expected to roll in Australia after nine Aborigines who
pleaded guilty to the gang rape of a 10-year-old girl were set free by
a court in far-north Queensland.
There were calls Tuesday for the judge and the crown prosecutor to
be sacked after a transcript of the proceedings revealed the former
said the girl...
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Serial confidence trickster and international playboy Peter Foster was jailed by a Brisbane court Friday on money laundering charges linked to a property deal in the South Pacific.
Foster, 45, will spend at least four years in jail after pleading guilty to fraudulently obtaining a bank loan of 234,000 US dollars from the tiny Pacific...
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A study of more than 2,000 Chinese women concluded that a diet rich in mushrooms and green tea may lower the risk of developing breast cancer.The study was conducted by Dr. Min Zhang, and colleagues at the University of Western Australia in Perth. They reported their findings in the International Journal of Cancer.It involved 1,009...
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 According to recent reports, former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She found out about the disease on February 20, the day before she appeared at a GOP convention in Sacramento.Carly Fiorina underwent surgery at Stanford University Hospital Monday for breast cancer, her chief of...
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 According to a new study carried out by
researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, stroke risk
may be directly interrelated with the concentration of fast food restaurants in
a particular area.
The analysis showed that areas with the
highest number of restaurants were associated with a 13% elevated risk...
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Former mayor Marion Barry continues to be
in stable condition after his kidney transplant at Howard University
Hospital.
Clive Callender, the surgeon who led the
team of surgeons that performed the transplant, said the patient was doing
well. The former mayor felt well enough on Saturday morning to read the
newspaper. Callender...
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 Until now, scientists have failed to find a
vaccine that offers total protection against the influenza virus. Influenza
affects more and more people because the flu vaccine only protects against about
40 percent of the flu viruses and the virus mutates every year in an attempt to
full the immune system. Centers for Disease Control...
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Stuttgart, Germany - When a woman is unable to have a baby, a thyroid gland disorder may be to blame, noted Roland Gaertner, a medical doctor and professor at Munich University.
Writing in the Stuttgart-based Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, he advised women with a fertility problem to have their thyroid gland examined.
The...
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 Women's hands have far more germs than men's hands have, University of Colorado researchers say. For the study, researchers looked at 102 human palms and found no less than 4,700 species of bacteria. Using powerful gene sequencing techniques, they found many discrepancies between individuals’ palms, as far as those species concern. Only...
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Who would’ve thought that regular rainfall may be a cause of autism? This is what researchers claim, based on a study published Tuesday in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine: believe it or not, regular rainfall may help trigger autism in children. After looking at data from Oregon, California and Washington...
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 Children living with adult smokers stand more chances to have a problem called food insecurity than those who live with non-smokers, a new study suggests. Food insecurity, a term developed in the 1990’s, describes the incapability to access enough food in a socially acceptable way for every day of the year. It is associated with health...
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 A grape-enriched diet may help you fight high blood pressure and improve heart function, a University of Michigan study says. Due to the fact that grapes – black, green and red – have antioxidant effects, the fruits may be able to lower blood pressure, thus avoiding heart failure, researchers said. To reach this conclusion, they examined...
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 People infected with HIV should begin drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, a new study suggests. The 8,374 HIV-infected patients study found that treating HIV earlier than federal health officials recommended can lengthen sufferers’ lives. Postponing the treatment of HIV infection until patients’ immune systems are...
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 Since an increasing number of Americans is diagnosed with diabetes and sufferers receive newer and more costly treatment, diabetes drug costs in the U.S. have almost doubled in a six-year period, researchers said. According to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 18 million U.S. citizens found...
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 Lawrence Williams, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and John A. Bargh, PhD, professor of psychology at Yale University, carried out two studies on students to determine if and how physical warmth affects human warmth. The study, published today in the journal Science, disclosed that holding something...
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 Over 2 million children in the United States don't have health insurance, although at least one of their parents does, a new study shows. Researchers looked at records of almost 40,000 children and teenagers and were surprised to learn that more than 3 percent of them had no health insurance. Dr. Jennifer DeVoe, MD, from Oregon Health...
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 U.S. scientists claim to have found the reason of the increase seen in infantile hemangioma, a common childhood benign tumor caused by a conglomeration of blood vessels. The growths and malformations of the vessels often appear several days after birth and enlarge quickly in the coming months. Usually, they look as a single, blood-red...
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While drinking either a chocolate milk shake or a tasteless solution, MRI brain scans have been performed on 43 women in order to find how much activity was in their brains' pleasure centers whilst serving the food.Overweight or obese people tend to suppose they get more satisfaction from food than other people do, that they “experience...
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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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 People with insufficient blood levels of vitamin D are more likely to have Parkinson's disease, researchers from the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta maintain. The findings of a study, which was published in the journal Archives of Neurology, suggest the fact that there is definitely a bond between Parkinson’s disease (or...
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 Dr. Victor McKusick, internist and medical
geneticist, University Professor of Medicine at the John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
died Tuesday at his home in Baltimore. He was 86.
Officials at Johns Hopkins
University said he died after
complications from cancer.
McKusick, a winner of the National Medal of
Science, was a...
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 Michael DeBakey, a heart surgeon whose world-shattering
heart transplants and coronary bypass surgical procedures made him one of the
noteworthy physicians of 20th century medicine, died Friday night at the age of
99.
The well-known doctor died of natural causes at the Methodist Hospital
in Houston, according to a statement...
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 The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is the nation’s top cancer treatment hospital, according to the latest “best hospitals” list by U.S. News & World Report. According to U.S. News and World Report, the top three are Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical...
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 Mothers’ low vitamin D intake during their pregnancy endangers their babies as far as their teeth are concerned. A low level of the vitamin in women heavy with child leads to an increased risk of tooth decay early in the infant’s childhood, as well as a higher probability of developing cavities at an early age. Vitamin D levels in the...
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 Tropical diseases affect an increasing number of poor people
in the United States,
according to a study published in this week’s Neglected Tropical Diseases, a
journal of the Public Library of Science.
These diseases include Chagas, spread by blood-sucking
insects, cysticercosis, and worm diseases often multiplied in soil near...
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 NBC newsman Tim Russert, 58, died Friday
while recording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” His death
shows that medicine can’t always prevent the risk of sudden death. It raised
questions on the amount of stress his work put on him and the increased heart
attack risk he was exposed to.
Dr. Randall Zusman of...
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 US Senator Edward M. Kennedy underwent brain surgery on
Monday, in his treatment against malignant tumor. The operation, which lasted
three hours, was a success. It was performed by Dr. Allan H. Friedman, chief of
neurosurgery at Duke University
Medical Center.
Friedman said in a statement that he was "pleased to
report...
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The Veterans Affairs have undertaken many investigations
recently and have concluded that troops who served the country in Iraq
or Afghanistan
came back with a lot of emotional affections. Approximately 300,000 of them
suffered from post-traumatic anguish, according to the Associated Press. Another
120,000 veterans have developed...
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 People with high blood pressure were advised by the American
Heart Association to have their own home monitor and to do regular pressure
checks. It was estimated that 72 million Americans suffer from this affection
and only a third of them have it under control.
An individual is considered hypertensive when his pressure
reaches...
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There are aspects of womanhood that may lead to breast
cancer. Genetics, family’s medical history and aging are things that can’t be hindered
or changed. Fortunately, it has been proven that lifestyle can play a major
role in preventing breast cancer from occuring. Alcohol, hormones, overweight
and physical passivity are harmful as...
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 The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded funds amounting to $271 million Wednesday, thus supporting stem-cell research. The money was offered to 12 academic and non-profit institutions, which coupled with the funds the organizations themselves already have, reach more than $1.1 billion.
"This will go a long way...
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 After 14 hours of surgery, a 15-year-old girl is finally
free from the Schwannoma tumor that had consumed the lower half of her face.
Lai Thi Dao was affected by an extremely rare type of tumor and she was in
danger of suffocating.
Surgeons at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical
Center removed the tumor and restored...
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 Deborah Shank, 52, who suffered severe brain damage in a
traffic accident, doesn’t have to pay back the company the cost of her medical
expenses.
Eight years ago, in 2000, she was stocking shelves at night for
Wal-Mart. She signed up for Wal-Mart's health and benefits plan. That same year, she lost much of her memory and...
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 Schizophrenia may be determined by genetic variations. A new
study focusing on genetic causes of this mental disease has found that, acting
in some combinations, genetic variations may have a major influence on
someone’s mental state. This disease affects 1 percent of the population and
causes scrambled thinking and...
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 A South Florida girl, Stephanie
Kuleba, 18, died Saturday after a breast surgery. She was the leader of a
cheerleading team at West Boca Raton High School
and she had recently been accepted to the University of Florida.
The teenager needed that intervention to correct
asymmetrical breasts and an inverted areola, said the...
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 Although there have been many
studies warning that smoking is an unhealthy habit, a recently released study
highlights the risk of dying due to smoking. The new study, published Thursday
in the New England Journal of Medicine, says that in India one million people are expected to die
every year in the next decade from tobacco-related...
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 A new research study published in
the Thursday online edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology examined
what happens in the brain when we scratch. The researchers tried to find the
cause of scratching and why it feels so good and hard to stop, even to the
point of bleeding.
The study, based on Magnetic
Resonance...
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 A new study that
sustains the idea that autism does not develop in children vaccinated with thimerosal
vaccines, due to be published in the February issue of Pediatrics, was released
earlier on Wednesday, to put an end to the controversies surrounding the new
ABC drama “Eli Stone”.
The opening episode of
the series...
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 A peer reviewer for The New England Journal of
Medicine breached confidentiality rules by leaking information from a pending
article to GlaxoSmithKline, about the heart risks in the diabetes drug, Avandia,
manufactured by the above mentioned company.
Last year, Dr. Steven Haffner of the University of Texas Health Science Centre...
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 After 17 years of following the lives of 192 couples, the
researchers at the University
Of Michigan School Of Public Health
and its psychology department made public their findings. Surprisingly, their
study found that couples who express their discontent and release their anger
live longer than those couples who suppress their...
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 A survey released on Thursday showed that more than 300 dogs
and cats may have died earlier this year as a result of eating contaminated pet
food.
There were no accurate counts earlier on how many pets had died
from eating contaminated food, although estimates had run from a few dozen to
several thousand.
The Michigan State...
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 Today, Microsoft announced its
decision to get involved in bringing up the next generation of engineers,
software developers and other high tech specialists. The software maker
announced today the so-called DreamSpark program, which is nothing else than a philanthropic
initiative meant to help school and college students from all...
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 The New Zeeland police that was collaborating with FBI has inspected his house and interrogated an 18- year- old teenager who is believed to be the mastermind of the web scam that infected around 1.3 million computers all over the world.Police seized equipment from his house, but declared that he is not arrested. However, he will be...
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 The 2000-year dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles into the Andean sky on Tuesday. As a result, the government ordered the evacuation of everyone living within a 30-mile radius of it. The military, navy and police helped to the evacuation process of thousands of people living in the neighbourhood of the volcano’s base....
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 The historic trial of one-time Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori for
two massacres and two kidnappings during his rule (1990-2000) started
Monday in Lima.
The court noted that the trial is "criminal, not political."
Fujimori, 69, who holds Peruvian and Japanese citizenship, seemed
calm as he sat before a three-judge...
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 Students and opposition groups marched in their thousands on the
Venezuelan capital Thursday in protest of a series of constitutional
amendments that would eliminate term limits for Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez.
Organizers estimated that 100,000 people joined the protests urging
the country to vote against the proposed...
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 Several strong aftershocks shook northern Chile Thursday, one day after
a powerful earthquake hit the same area leaving at least 2 dead and
damaging property of 15,000 people.
The US Geological Survey in Washington reported quakes measuring
6.8, 6.2 and 5.6 on the Richter scale within minutes of each other on
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Prague - Three years ago Katerina Neumannova surged to the front on the finish line for the Czech Republic's first-ever Olympic gold in Nordic skiing.
Now, her triumphs in sports management depend on how she glides through the Nordic World Championships that open in northern Czech town of Liberec on Wednesday.
Neumannova, who...
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The first baby in Britain tested before conception for a genetic form of breast cancer has been born in a hospital in London, doctors said Friday.
The baby girl grew from an embryo screened to ensure that it did not contain the faulty BRCA 1 gene, which passes the risk of breast cancer down generations.
Any daughter born with the...
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Hundreds of Spanish students Thursday disrupted traffic, causing traffic jams in the Barcelona region in protests at the temporary expulsion of six students.
The six had been accused of staging violent incidents against the so-called Bologna university reform.
A protest movement against the reform based on a 1999 declaration and...
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An Iraqi doctor described in court as a "religious extremist and a bigot" was Wednesday sentenced to 32 years in jail for plotting major car bombings in Britain in the summer of 2007.
Bilal Abdulla, 29, who has dual British and Iraqi nationality, was given two life sentences for plotting to murder hundreds of innocent...
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By finishing his bachelor's degree in computer science at the age of 16, Marian Kogler has become Austria's youngest graduate, the Vienna University of Technology announced Tuesday.
When Kogler entered university at the age of 13, he received "consistently surprised and positive reactions" from fellow students, he told...
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Greek riot police fired tear gas into crowds of protesting students and teachers, who pelted them with rocks and chunks of marble in front of parliament in the seventh day of civil unrest Friday.
Waving black and red anarchist flags, hundreds of students, made their way up the steps to parliament to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
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Hundreds of high school students attacked several police stations across the Greek capital Friday, hurling fire bombs, bottles and stones in the sixth day of violence, which threatens to topple the conservative government.
Authorities said at least one man, a passerby in the Athens district of Halandri, was injured and taken to...
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When Stefan Petzner said after the death of Joerg Haider in October that the far-right leader was his "Lebensmensch", the most important person in his life, he probably did not guess that Austrians would vote the term as buzzword of the year.
Although the word usually describes a close, important friendship, the public saw...
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Hundreds of mask-wearing municipal workers used bulldozers and water hoses to clear the streets of Athens from marble chunks, broken glass and burned barricades on Thursday following five days of rioting and social unrest.
While no major demonstrations were planned Thursday, authorities braced themselves for more civil unrest as...
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Thousands of people marched through a city landscape of burned and looted shops in the Greek capital Wednesday in a nationwide strike to protest against the government's economic policies.
In demonstrations coming after four nights of civil unrest, anti- government protesters shouting slogans and carrying black flags marched through...
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Thousands of people marched through a city landscape of burned and looted shops in the Greek capital Wednesday in a nationwide strike to protest against the government's economic policies.
In demonstrations coming after four nights of civil unrest, anti- government protesters shouting slogans and carrying black flags marched through...
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Police clashed with demonstrators, who threw fire bombs and chunks of marble, on Wednesday during a nationwide strike that paralyzed Greece already crippled by a crisis after five days of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
More than 10,000 demonstrators yelling, "Down with the pigs," and carrying black flags...
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Police clashed with projectile-throwing demonstrators on Wednesday during a nationwide strike that paralysed Greece already crippled by a crisis after five days of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
More than 10,000 demonstrators yelling, "Down with the pigs," and carrying black flags marched through a city...
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Police clashed with projectile-throwing demonstrators on Wednesday during a nationwide strike that paralysed Greece already crippled by a crisis after five days of the worst violence the country has seen in decades.
More than 10,000 demonstrators yelling, "Down with the pigs," and carrying black flags marched through a city...
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The situation in the Greek capital Athens calmed down early Tuesday after three days of heavy rioting, triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager, media reports said, but unrest was likely to continue.
Violence was concentrated on the area around the Polytechnic University, where several dozen hooded youths were still...
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The Greek capital Athens and dozens of other cities were left crippled Tuesday after several days of arson and looting, triggered by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police.
Described as the worst riots in decades, thick black smoke, flames and tear gas had engulfed central Athens for hours as students set fire to cars, banks,...
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Greece braced for more widespread protests and possible violence Tuesday with the funeral of the teenager who was fatally shot by police over the weekend, triggering the worst rioting the country has seen in decades.
Widespread riots first erupted late Saturday shortly after the shooting of the teenage boy by a police officer in the...
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Bombs planted by two Lebanese on trains in Germany two years ago would have caused mass carnage if they had exploded, German prosecutors say: on Tuesday, judges are to give their verdict.
Youssef al-Hajj Dib, 24, insists he knew both bombs were duds and that he and his friend Jihad Hamad planted them just to frighten Germans. The...
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Civil unrest, which rocked Greece over the weekend after the shooting of a teenager by police, subsided early Monday, media reports said.
According to Greek television reports almost all of the 150 hooded youths who had sought shelter inside the Polytechnic University, which is off-limits to police under Greek law, had left the...
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Greece braced Monday for a third day of demonstrations and civil unrest after the shooting of a teenager by police over the weekend.
The widespread rioting and looting by thousands of self-styled anarchists left Athens and the northern port of Thessaloniki resembling war zones as youths destroyed businesses, cars, banks, police...
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German prosecutors are studying war crimes allegations against an 89-year-old man alleged to have massacred an estimated 60 Jewish prisoners in Austria near the end of the Second World War, they said Thursday.
An Austrian university student interested in the March 29, 1945 atrocity knew the names of a trio of Waffen SS members said to...
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Doctors in Spain have carried out a pioneering tissue-engineered whole organ transplant by using a windpipe created with the patient's own stem cells, it was reported Wednesday.
Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old Colombian woman, underwent the ground-breaking operation at a hospital in Barcelona in June and is now in perfect health,...
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There's a saying in Germany that when Daimler coughs, the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg catches pneumonia.
Things are not yet quite as bad as that in the home of Mercedes- Benz, or in Germany in general. But strong medicine is needed to get Germany's ailing car industry back on its feet amid a slump in profits and sales.
The first...
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Thousands of police were deployed in central Athens Monday for a march commemorating the 35th anniversary of a student uprising against the military dictatorship that once ruled Greece.
More than 8,000 riot police and undercover officers will guard the streets in downtown Athens and another 2,000 in the northern Greek city of...
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Monday hailed the arrest of the suspected military leader of the militant Basque separatist group ETA as a "determining" blow to the group, "which is weaker today."
Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, known by his alias Txeroki, was "directly responsible for...
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The suspected military leader of the militant Basque separatist group ETA was detained in south-western France overnight, French and Spanish police said Monday.
Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, known by his alias Txeroki, was held at 3:30 am with a woman near the Cauterets ski resort 30 kilometres from Lourdes in the Pyrenees in a...
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Spanish scientists have created "super-mice" that are cancer-resistant and live up to 40 per cent longer, media reported Friday.
The mice were subjected to genetic engineering by researchers from the cancer research centre CNIO and Valencia University.
The key to the experiment was an enzyme called telomerase, which...
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Italian university students and lecturers staged demonstrations Friday in several cities around the country against government plans to streamline Italy's tertiary education sector.
The protests which have the support of two of the four main labour union confederations, and most of Italy's centre-left opposition, included a march...
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Representatives of major wheat producing countries have called for urgent coordinated action to prevent and control the wheat stem rust disease strain Ug99, a United Nations agency said Wednesday.
The fungus is capable of causing heavy damage to wheat crops and is a major threat to food security, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture...
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Children can polish their reading skills by practising to read aloud to their dogs, according to a new Swedish study.
Two Swedish students at a teacher's training college presented the suggestion in a joint essay at the University of Skovde.
"A dog doesn't judge and I can practice listening to my own voice and become more...
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Seventeen people were injured on Thursday in a car-bomb attack in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, local authorities reported.
A vehicle exploded in a car park in the grounds of the University of Navarra in Pamplona, capital of the Navarra province which borders on the separatist Basque region.
Witnesses said several...
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The 2009 Universiade in Belgrade will have to run on half the original budget and with 15 instead of the planned 21 sports competitions, officials said Wednesday in Belgrade.
"It will be the largest sports event ever held in Serbia," Serbian Deputy Premier Bozidar Djelic told a press conference, announcing a "realistic...
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Austrian skier Matthias Lanzinger will sue the ruling body FIS for compensation over a crash at a World Cup race in Norway in which he lost his lower leg.
The Austrian Press Agency APA reported on Monday that Lanzinger's lawyer, Manfred Ainedter, has sent an according letter to FIS president Gian-Franco Kasper.
The compensation...
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Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's government faced a parliamentary confidence motion Wednesday, just as the Czech Republic prepares to take over the EU presidency in January.
The left-leaning opposition sought the vote on ousting the government after Topolanek's Civic Democrats, in power since January 2007, were weakened by a defeat in...
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The trial of 86 people accused of plotting to create havoc in order to prepare the ground for a military coup got under way in Istanbul on Monday.
The long-awaited trial of the so-called Ergenekon gang began some 17 months after police discovered hand grenades in an Istanbul house belonging to a former non-commissioned officer.
An...
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Joerg Haider was one of Austria's most divisive political figures, but his memorial service on Saturday is set up like the funeral for a national hero.
Up to 30,000 people are set to attend the public mourning in Klagenfurt, the capital of Austria's southern province of Carinthia, where Haider was governor.
Before his death last...
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Iceland should consider replacing its currency with that of neighbouring Norway, an Icelandic economics professor suggested in an interview published Wednesday.
The move was necessary since confidence in the Icelandic central bank has withered in the wake of the recent financial turmoil, Professor Thorolfur Matthiasson of the...
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The 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday to Paul Krugman of the United States, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced, citing his work on international trade and economic geography.
The academy cited Krugman for his "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" in awarding him this...
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Acclaimed Czech-born writer Milan Kundera turned in a Western agent as a student during the Stalinist era, leading to the man's imprisonment at a labour camp, a magazine reported Monday.
Police records show that Kundera, who later gained fame as an anti-communist and the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, denounced a young...
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The 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded Monday to Paul Krugman of the United States, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced, citing his work on international trade and economic geography.
The academy cited Krugman for his "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" in awarding him this...
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 The UK education is said to be the highest one in the world. But a group made by the most important universities has recently announced that if no investment is made, the UK universities might lose their standing as top study places. Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings has shown that Cambridge and Oxford, the most...
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Italy's scientific community is up in arms over what it charges as the unfair exclusion of an Italian researcher from this year's Nobel Prize for physics.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded the prize to US researcher Yoichiro Nambu and his Japanese colleagues Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, for...
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US researcher Yoichiro Nambu and his Japanese colleagues Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Masukawa have won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Their discoveries were linked to describing the smallest building blocks in nature and nature's order, the academy...
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Economists appealed Thursday for European Union governments to mount a joint bail-out of troubled banks rather than each nation acting for itself when banks stumble.
"Last week's US experience showed that saving one bank at a time won't work. A systemic response is needed and in Europe that means an EU-led initiative to...
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European Union defence ministers were due to meet in the French coastal town of Deauville on Wednesday as the bloc's observers began a delicate ceasefire monitoring mission in Georgia.
Some 350 observers from 22 EU countries are tasked with ensuring that Russian troops withdraw to the positions they held prior to the August conflict,...
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With only three days to go before general elections, Austria's parliament passed several social spending bills which had been initiated by the Social Democratic Party (SPOe).
At the end of a 19-hour special session that lasted until early Thursday morning, lawmakers decided to abolish public university fees and raise government...
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Finland held a national day of mourning and flags were at half-mast Wednesday, a day after a 22-year-old man killed 10 people at a trade school in western Finland.
Finnish gun laws, still under review after a similar rampage at a high school almost a year ago, were to be tightened, Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said during a visit to...
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The shooting spree at a school in western Finland on Tuesday added to the growing list of bloodshed committed by students at schools and universities over the past decade. Following is a list of the bloodiest incidents:
-- September 23, 2008: Police report nine killed in a shooting spree by a gunman at a trade school in Kauhajoki,...
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US cultural theorist Fredric R Jameson was Tuesday named winner of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize.
Worth 4.5 million kroner (785,000 dollars), the prize is awarded "for outstanding scholarly work in the academic fields of the arts and humanities, social science, law and theology."
Jameson, 74, a professor...
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Six years ago, university graduate and company employee Jean O. (not real name) left his native Cameroon to study in Italy on a scholarship.
He later got a job with a non-governmental organization (NGO), but fell out with it and decided to look for better opportunities in Spain.
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 It was long time known that coral reefs are in an increased danger of extinction because of the effects that the increase in water temperatures pose for them, but scientist have found one new and perhaps even harder to avoid reason for concern: the acidifying water of the oceans. This is also the effect of pollution and increased CO2...
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 A gold necklace, which now constitutes the oldest known gold
object discovered in the Americas,
was found near Lake Titicaca in southern Peru. The radiocarbon dating method
that was used to determine its age places its origin at about 4,000 years ago.
”The gold reflects a universal tendency for human beings to
strive for prestige...
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 Yahoo Inc. announced that it will launch a new social network on Monday aimed to help college students to get career help, created by a young Yahoo unit charged with advancing product innovation.The California company, named Sunnyvale, is releasing Kickstart, which was created for students, alumni and recruiters, in order to gather...
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According to a new Australian study, women who eat plenty of mushrooms and drink green tea may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer. The study involved more than 2,000 Chinese women. The researchers first noted that the risk of breast cancer among Chinese women was five times lower than those in Western nations and they wanted...
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A new study adds to the amount of evidence that even low quantities of ozone pollution may increase the risk of dying from lung disease.The study, tracking data on 450,000 people over 18 years, suggests that raising the ozone level by 10 parts per billion raises the likelihood of death from lung problems such as pneumonia or chronic...
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 An 18-year old study shows that people who live in areas with high concentrations of ozone are 25 percent to 30 percent more likely to die from respiratory illnesses than those who live in areas with cleaner air. Scientists of the University of California and Berkley reported on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine that...
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 Researchers in the United States said on Friday that babies who are born four months before the flu season are at a higher percentage of developing asthma. Scientists stated that 30% of these babies might develop respiratory problems because the common infections they could get during the cold season are easily linked to asthma.Dr. Tina...
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 A new study released by the sociologists at the University of Maryland discovered that unhappy people are the ones who spend most of their time watching television, as long as the happy people prefer to spend their time reading or speaking with other people. The U.S. study tracked the data collected on activity patterns of adults who...
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 A new study made for the health system in California discovered that because of the state’s high pollution rate, more than $28 billion are spent each year for the 20 million people who live by breathing the worst air in the country. Deaths, chronic illness, hospitalizations and missing days from school and work led the health system and...
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 U.S. researchers stated on Sunday that the number of people aged 65 or older who are hospitalized because of heart attacks has doubled in the last 27 years. They added that the number may become bigger if prevention methods aren’t used as quickly as possible. The direct and indirect treatment for heart disease would reach to $34.8...
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 According to William K. Reisen, PhD, of the Center for Vectorborne Diseases at the University of California, Davis, the number of people infected with the West Nile virus is getting three times bigger this season. Reisen and his colleagues stated that "a dramatic increase in home foreclosures and abandoned homes [has] produced urban...
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 Georgetown University’s main dining hall sickened almost 100 students yesterday. They were treated for stomach illness and a health investigation has started to track the cause of the outbreak. The students were taken to Georgetown University Hospital where more of them came complaining of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Leo J. O'Donovan...
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 Being married to a smoker can considerably increase your risk of stroke, even if you’re a non-smoker, suggests a recent study carried out by a team at Harvard University and published in the newest issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.It is almost unanimously known the fact that smokers are far more likely to suffer stroke...
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 The American business magnate Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday they will spend $500 million for a worldwide, anti-smoking campaign.According to the World Health Organization’s estimates, tobacco will kill almost a billion people in the 21st century, which means 10 times as many as it killed in the...
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 Johnny Jackson, a 10-year-old South Carolina boy, died
at home Sunday from “dry drowning” more than an hour after he swallowed water
in a swimming pool. The boy went to a swimming pool and then walked home with
his mother.
“I've never known a child could walk
around, talk, speak and their lungs be filled with water,” the boy’s...
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 A 9-year-old girl was taken to the hospital in central Greece
suffering from stomach pains. Doctors at Larissa hospital examined the girl and
surgically removed a growth they later discovered was her embryonic twin.
“They could see on the right side that her belly was
swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor would hide...
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hospitals are not prepared to deal with a big event, such as a disaster or a
terrorist attack, according to findings released Monday from a House oversight
committee. The survey included seven major cities and the hospitals were
inspected on Tuesday, March 25 at 4:30 p.m., local time.
The 34 hospitals surveyed in New York...
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 A new study reveals that it is very likely that most of the snowflakes are formed around bacteria which act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). This means that the bacteria, as most particles of biological origin, attract water and are surfaces on which moisture condensates to form droplets."Bacteria are by far the most active ice...
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 New archeological discoveries have led scientists to say
they have discovered in Turkey the most ancient evidence of tuberculosis in a
500,000-year-old human fossil.
Experts had thought TB emerged several thousand years ago - based
on the remains of mummies from Egypt and Peru.
The skeleton is of a young man believed to belong...
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 Latest satellite images have shown out-of-control wildfires
that have been polluting Southern
California skies with acrid smoke and falling ash for a third
straight day,as public health officials urge the elderly and people with
breathing problems to stay indoors.
The images showed thick smoke from more than a...
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 Among the new changes suffered by Facebook, users will finally get to see constant updates from their contacts similarly to Twitter, it was announced on Wednesday. In a move aimed to secure users from switching to the increasingly popular Twitter, the social networking site introduced a new homepage to allow streaming of "posts from...
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 Amazon.com has decided to reduce the plastic clamshells, coated wire ties and fasteners that drive consumers crazy by a Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. In 2006, tech billionaire Mark Cuban sliced his hand trying to open a hard plastic packaging. Retailers got the message a bit later and companies like Apple, Johnson & Johnson,...
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 The Harvard University Library was one of the first to sign Google’s academic book scanning project, but it was also the first to say it won’t take part in the copyright portion in response to Google’s $125 million settlement with authors and publishers. Even so, the library might still take part in the settlement if the terms are more...
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 The recent study developed by the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that the Internet and the cell phones have earned themselves a spot at the family heart. Married couples with children are more likely to own and use these technologies than other household types. The research revealed that parents use cell phones to check in...
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 Although Harvard University is said to be one of the
hardest schools in the world to get into, hackers did not seem to have this
problem. According to the University’s staff, it appears that in February, at
least one hacker attacked one of the institution’s computer servers. The
virtual attackers might have viewed the personal...
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 According to a team of American
researchers’ recent study, it seems that Internet sexual predators are not as
we often imagine them to be. The study says that the typical online sexual
predator is not as tricky and wicked as we picture him (or her!).
Online sexual predators are not
likely to pose as teenagers to lure their young...
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 Researchers from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business released on Monday a study which shows that the eBay bidders have saved over 7 billion dollars only in 2003 through the auction site, proving that the site is actually helping consumers spend less for more.Wolfgang Jank and Galit Shmueli are the two...
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 Following a long- run legal action between Apple and the ThinkSecret Web site, a settlement was reached, under which the site will be closed, due to the fat that the site was revealing details of the devices that were expected to be launched in the future.The suit was filed in January 2005, against the site that published details that...
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 Although for some of us the
obvious methods of the phishing attacks are quite …obvious, a recent research
has showed that there are quite many people that really need antiphishing
education in fact. The research, which is being conducted by a team of
scientists from the Carnegie
Mellon University,
has tried to find out why the...
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 Facebook. The social networking
web site does not need anymore any presentation. It has quickly become one of
the most popular such web sites, despite the fact that the judges are still
deciding who its creator is in fact. Was it Mark Zuckerberg or his university
colleagues? Anyway, this is not so important for the theme of this item...
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 The former Beatle Paul McCartney was awarded an honorary
doctor of music degree from Yale
University on Monday. The
university said no one compared with the legendary singer and songwriter.
According to Yale, McCartney, 65, awakened a generation, giving a fresh sound
to “rock, roll, rhythm and blues.”
“Here, there and...
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 The doctors claim that the Grammy-winning King of Tejano music
Emilio Navaira will deal with a very long recovery and an uncertain future even
if he does survive to the head injury he suffered in a bus accident.
On Sunday, 45-year-old Navaira was driving his tour bus,
which crashed into an interchange barrier, throwing him...
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 Sara Evans, the successful traditional-styled singer from Nashville, engaged to the
radio host Jay Barker, People.com reports. Evans, who is now one of country
music’s most popular artists, received Gold and Platinum certified albums for
“Restless” (2004) and “Real Fine
Place” (2005).
The country singer and Jay Baker, 37, are in...
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 “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks will accompany Alicia
Keys on her two-month North American tour.
The concert series will make its debut April 19 in Hampton, Va.,
promoting the Grammy-winning J album “As I Am,” signed by Alicia Keys. The two
will indulge audiences from 25 major US
cities, before wrapping up on June 18 New...
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 Isaac Hanson is safe and sound after undergoing a
“life-saving surgery”, leaving the hospital just a day after it - on Friday, and
on Monday is due to take part in the band’s next gig.
Dr. Bradley Grimsley from Baylor University
Medical Center
performed the surgery and declared he was “extremely satisfied” with the result
and...
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 November, 26, 2007 promises to be a day of legend, now that
those from Led Zeppelin announced to re-unite for the O2 Arena in London gig.
Their one-off performance will represent probably the gist
of the charity concert to pay tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the one that founded
Atlantic Records and had been a music mentor for the band....
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 Condoleezza Rice has agreed to a book deal with Crown
Publishers starting with a memoir of her eight years under former U.S.
President George W. Bush, first as national security adviser and then as
secretary of state. Although often criticized as unduly loyal to the president
and some of his policies, including the Iraq War, she is...
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 People who suffer from arrhythmia can control
more easily their irregular heartbeats if they learn how to control their
emotions.
A new research project headed by Dr. Rachel
Lampert, associate professor of cardiology and electrophysiology at Yale
University, which focuses on T-wave alternans, a new phenomenon which is
getting...
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Havana - Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom "officially" apologized to Cuba for his country's involvement in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion sponsored by the US government.
On the final day of a state visit to the island, Colom also decorated Fidel Castro with Guatemala's highest award, and condemned the continuing US...
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Pristina- Kosovo declared independence from Serbia a year ago, but foreign diplomats and local observers agree that it is more dependent than ever before.
The illusion fomented by politicians, that independence would quickly end economic and social misery, has evaporated. Instead, the majority of Albanians have come to a rude...
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It's been hard times for Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the man who dominated the country's politics between 2001 to 2006 and continues to be the central character in the kingdom's on-going political drama.
Even with his brother-in-law, Somchai Wongsawat, in place as prime minister and the current cabinet packed...
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Three US-based researchers shared the Nobel prize for chemistry Wednesday for work on developing a key tool used for tagging bioscience processes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in Stockholm.
The three - Osamu Shimomura of Japan and US citizens Martin Chalfie and Roger Y Tsien - were cited for "the discovery and...
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Finland held a national day of mourning and flags were at half-mast Wednesday, a day after a 22-year-old man killed 10 people at a trade school in western Finland.
Police believe that the gunman, whom they identified as Matti Juhani Saari, acted alone. He had apparently planned the massacre since 2002, police said Wednesday.
Saari,...
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Simmering anger with the Indian government and its security forces over a land row in the Kashmir Valley has sparked a larger movement that has seen thousands of Kashmiri Muslims take to the streets to demand "azadi," or freedom, in non-violent protests over the past two weeks.
Protestor Shakeel Ahmed, a university student,...
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Though Austria's Social Democrats were set to choose Werner Faymann as their candidate for Chancellor in the upcoming general elections, he still has to prove he can emerge from the second row to become a leading man.
The popular, but not yet widely known transport minister took over the party leadership from Chancellor Alfred...
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“The dying man who taught America how to live,” as The Independent of London called the university professor Randy Pausch, died earlier Friday at the age of 47. Pausch was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but it’s his “Last Lecture”...
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 It's the old myth heard time and again about how girls are falling behind boys when it comes to math scores. But a new study, published in this week's number of the journal Science, shows that girls are as good at this particular subject as boys. Even though boys in high school performed better than girls on standardized math tests 2...
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 Anglican bishops from all over the world were gathering in Canterbury for the
opening of the Lambeth Conference on Wednesday, with the once-in-a-decade
meeting appointed to be eclipsed by discussions regarding the position of women
and homosexuals.
The 650 bishops will have three days dedicated to prayer and
contemplation led by...
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The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey fired three paramedics after cell phone camera images emerged showing two paramedic trainees from the University Hospital in Newark wearing outfits resembling Ku Klux Klan garments.The trainees wore draped white robes and clutched a makeshift cross made of wood and assembled with...
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Sixty-six percent of adults and seventy percent of children
in the U.S. are
overweight. Eating too much and not exercising are the main causes,
but discoveries in the lab show that there is an explanation for the fact that some people
never succeed to get or to keep fit.
Specialists have long debated whether obesity can...
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, the 140th day of 2008 with 226 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include American-born Nancy Astor, the first woman member of the British Parliament, in 1879; Vietnamese leader...
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A deadly bacterium made victims in The
Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc., where seven dogs died
during a period of ten days and two others fell ill, according to Chicago
Tribune.
The shelter has been closed and it cannot
receive new dogs or give dogs to adoption, until the problem is solved.
The symptoms of...
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the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...
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 New data released by Statistics Canada shows that “visible
minorities” have grown and surpassed the five million mark.
While in 1981 the 1.1 million visible minorities represented
4.7 per cent of the population, in 1996 the rate increased at 9.4 percent of
the population and in 2006 there were 5,068,100 visible minorities...
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 British papers The Daily Express and Daily Star apologized
to the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann after making allegations
against them suggesting they might have killed their daughter and settled in
court to pay damages consisting in 555,000 pounds.
“We accept that a number of articles in the newspaper have suggested...
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 Maria Shriver, wife of the
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and member of the Kennedy family,
endorsed on Sunday Illinois Senator Barack Obama for US president, in a rally
that took place in the Pauley Pavilion at the University of California, Los
Angeles. Her decision comes a few days after her husband,...
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 According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, although often prescribed, the antibiotic amoxicillin and the
topical steroid budesonide, either alone or in combination, are not effective
treatments for sinusitis.
The findings are based on a study of 240 adults who
developed an episode of sinusitis. The...
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 According to a recent study, swearing regularly at work can
boost team spirit and help get rid of stress along with social relationships
and better expression of feelings.
Yehuda Baruch, a professor of management at the University
of East Anglia, and
graduate Stuart Jenkins studied the use of profanity in the workplace...
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 According to the authors of a new study, more than one-third
of patients in Africa receiving HIV medication
discontinue their treatment within two years. As VOA's Jessica Berman reports,
the findings could help improve patient retention.
Researchers at Boston
University in Massachusetts
studied detailed information on...
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 According to a large international consortium made up of
Stephan C. Schuster and Webb Miller of Penn State,
hair shafts provide an ideal source of ancient DNA, better source than bones
and muscle for studying the genome sequences of extinct animals.
Their research achievements are to be released publicly in a
paper in the Science...
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You heard it, Bush wants a library. I doubt he’s ever going
to go inside but hey. For the people by the people as someone once said. Although
it wouldn’t hurt him to pickup a book every now and then.
The exact location was not yet announced, but ideas have
been thrown around.
Anyway, Bush is getting creative and hired an...
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Ayumi Tanimoto of Japan successfully defended her Olympic title Tuesday when she beat France's Lucie Decosse in the final of the women's 63-kilo judo event at the Beijing University of Science and Technology Gymnasium.
Tanimoto secured Olympic gold by ippon with 3 minutes 34 seconds remaining.
In the first bronze medal match,...
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Guilia Quintavalle secured Italy's first judo medal of the Olympic Games Monday when she took gold in the final of the women's 57-kilogram category event Monday at the Beijing University of Science and Technology Gymnasium.
Quintavalle defeated Deborah Gravenstijn of the Netherlands, who won bronze four years ago in Athens, by yuko in...
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 Extreme skiing star Billy Poole died on Tuesday at the age of 28 during the making of the Warren Miller ski film in Utah, the media reported on Wednesday.Poole suffered an accident while performing a ski jump from the cliff called the Wolverine Cirque, but he failed to land. The injuries that occurred when he hit the rocks in the back...
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 South African double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will not be
allowed to compete at the Beijing Olympics because the prosthetics he
uses give him an advantage over able-bodied athletes, the ruling body
IAAF said on Monday.
The IAAF said in a statement from its Monte Carlo headquarters that
Pistorius is not eligible to compete...
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 Purdue University and the parents of the student who died after a shock in a high-voltage campus utility room have reacehd an agreement for a legal settlement that will earn the family $500,000 - the maximum amount Purdue could have been liable for under Indiana law - and a $100,000 scholarship endowment, according to the school’s...
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 A Princeton University computer security researcher and his team have found that encrypting information stored on hard disk drives is not as safe as previously thought. Retrieving the encryption key is relatively easy for a person with the right skills.Although from the encrypted data itself is practically impossible to find out the key,...
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 According to the Arizona State University’s
findings in just few years the flash memory could get already forgotten, as a
new technology could knock it out from the spotlight. Arizona State
University’s Center for
Applied Nanoionics (CANi) has announced that it has already developed a new
technique for storing memory.
The brand...
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 What could be more important for
the quite important companies than having a great team of experts developing
emergent projects? Well, maybe the most important second thing is the chance
for these companies to be joined by more and more new young and smart workers. This
is why the big companies are always thinking to the (near)...
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 Startup Tilera Corp. has revealed its 64-core CPU, named TILE64, which is made up of 64 fully fledged cores which can run individual operating systems such as Linux. The man behind Tilera is MIT professor Anant Agarwal, a longtime multicore researcher.Tilera's eventual product is not meant for desktop use, and as such is not a competitor...
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 The Edmonton Oilers signed restricted free agent forward Dustin Penner to a five-year contract on Thursday after the Anaheim Ducks opted not to match the offer, making the Manitoba native the first the first restricted free agent to find a new team via offer sheet in the last ten years. The five-year contract will earn the 24-year-old...
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 The Edmonton Oilers have inked Anaheim Ducks forward Dustin
Penner to a five-year offer sheet that will earn the Winkler, Manitoba native
approximately $21.25 million.
The $4.25 million per season Penner is a great deal over the
league minimum $450,000 that he earned last season in the last year of his
entry-level contract.
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 That would be the ultimate
solution for the evil students to corrupt their university from the inside: to
buy many iPhones and to wait to see what’s happening. In the case of the Duke University
it will certainly work, although for other university the experiment hasn’t yet
taken place.
So, the Duke University’s
officials have...
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Hanoi - Vietnamese police have arrested a college student who confessed to slitting her wealthy ex-boyfriend's throat with a fruit knife on Valentine's Day, a police official said Friday.
Police said Vu Thi Kim Anh, 22, a fourth-year student at Hanoi Pedagogical University, confessed to murdering Nguyen Tien Chinh, 42, as the...
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Seoul - In the gloom of South Korea's economic problems, a flash of hope and joy has come from the skating queen Kim Yu-Na, 19, who unseated the reigning champion, Mao Asada of Japan, and won the Four Continents figure stating championship in Vancouver last Friday.
Yu-Na owes her stardom to her graceful presence and calm...
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Beijing - China's state-run media remained silent over a shoe thrown in protest against Prime Minister Wen Jiabao during a visit to Britain, but the country's foreign ministry Tuesday launched a protest against the "despicable act."
A protestor, repeating a similar protest against then US president George W Bush in...
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An Iraqi army soldier was killed and three people were injured Wednesday in a car bomb explosion in Mosul, a police source said.
A car loaded with explosives went off in the Zinjili area of western Mosul targeting, an Iraqi army vehicle patrol, the source told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
Mosul, the capital of Nineveh, lies...
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Seven civilians were injured Wednesday in two explosions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a police source said.
A bomb went off in Zaafaraniya district in south-eastern Baghdad, injuring three civilians," the source told Voices of Iraq news agency.
Another bomb was detonated near al-Mustansiriya University in eastern Baghdad,...
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China has taken Germany's spot as the world's third-largest economy after the United States and Japan, statistics released on Wednesday showed.
Beijing's national statistics bureau released corrected figures for the year 2007, revising the gross domestic product (GDP) growth upwards from 11.9 per cent to 13 per cent, the largest...
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Israeli archeologists said Tuesday they found a rare, 1,300-year-old treasure under a car park just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem - 264 golden coins from the Byzantine Empire.
The coins bear the image of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, who ruled over the medieval successor to the Roman Empire from 610 to 641 AD.
A...
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Jordanians appeared split over the possibility that the election of Barack Obama as new US president will lead to a "change" in the US Middle East policy, according to an opinion poll published Tuesday.
The survey conducted by the Centre of Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan showed that only 43 per cent of...
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New Zealand and Fiji refused to budge in the standoff that threatened to see the two countries expel each other's diplomats Tuesday.
New Zealand insisted it would not reverse a ban on visas for officials of the military, which seized power in a bloodless coup two years ago, and their families, until fresh democratic elections were...
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Thailand's Parliament on Monday selected opposition Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as the next prime minister, giving the 44-year-old Oxford-educated politician a slim majority to form the next government. An extraordinary session of the lower house gave Abhisit a thin victory by a 235-198 vote over his rival, police General...
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New Zealand and Fiji are poised for a clash over sanctions imposed on the South Pacific island state's military government that could see both countries expel diplomats, according to news reports on Monday.
Fiji strongman Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama, who seized power in a bloodless coup two years ago, demanded that New Zealand ease...
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If they are too unhealthy for US consumers to stomach, should fast food chains be allowed to continue serving up products laden with harmful fats in Asia?
That is the question raised by the closure of the Krispy Kreme Doughnuts franchise in Hong Kong and the discovery that it was keeping the controversial ingredient, trans-fats,...
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Liu Xiaobo, a prominent Chinese human rights activist, has been detained by police for "undermining the state's authority," Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa was told Wednesday by a lawyer supporting Liu.
Liu's arrest - on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the declaration of universal human rights - prompted strong international...
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Chinese civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo is one of the best-known critics of China's communist power apparatus, a battle he has been waging for the past two decades.
Despite all the efforts by the state security organs to intimidate him, for the past two decades the author has over and again spoken out for political reforms,...
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The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has sent a 20-man medical team to Afghanistan as the city state's contribution to the multinational reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, a government statement said Monday.
The team, comprising medical and nursing officers, would be deployed in the field hospital in Tarin Kowt, the provincial...
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The Singapore government Monday recalled a statement made earlier in the day saying the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) had sent a 20-man medical team to Afghanistan as the city state's contribution to the multinational reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.
A corrective statement from the Singapore government said the previous...
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Providing a rare glimpse of Thailand's royal pageantry and rituals, the funeral of Princess Galyani Vadhana, the elder sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, was held Saturday.
The ceremony took place at Sanam Luang, or Royal grounds, where Thai kings and royal family members have been cremated for the past two centuries.
The...
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Gunmen on Thursday ambushed a car carrying an Iranian diplomat in north-western Pakistan and kidnapped the envoy after killing his guard, officials and media reports said.
Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, a commercial attache, was seized when he was travelling to the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, the capital of the troubled North West...
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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk on Thursday was crowned Bhutan's fifth dragon king in a lavish ceremony in the capital of the tiny Himalayan nation, becoming the world's youngest head of state.
Oxford-educated Jigme Kehsar, 28, took over the kingship from his father, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, 53, who placed the traditional raven crown...
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China on Thursday released a well-known dissident after he served more than nine years of a 13-year prison sentence, a Hong Kong-based rights group said.
Veteran activist Liu Xianbin was released from the Chandong prison in the south-western province of Sichuan, the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said.
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As celebrations erupted in many parts of the world over the victory of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, people in Pakistan, a key US ally in the fight against terrorism, remained generally indifferent and even apprehensive.
"What difference does it make for us? His victory can be good for America, perhaps for many...
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China expects continuity but fears trade protectionism once Barack Obama takes office as US president, a leading scholar said on Wednesday.
"China's expectation of the new president is the same as the whole world's expectation, that is, to develop US finance and the economy away from the global financial crisis and economic...
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China's ruling Communist Party sees the signing of four economic agreements with Taiwan on Tuesday as a small step on the path that it hopes will lead to eventual unification with the island state, a leading scholar said.
"In this situation the main aims are to promote economic, trade and cultural exchanges across the Strait, and...
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The Iranian parliament on Tuesday dismissed the interior minister for presenting a false document and refusing to resign following his admission that his university certificate was a fake.
Ali Kordan had been under pressure since August, when he took office, to make the case clear but refused to resign when Oxford University in...
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Floods and heavy rains in Vietnam have killed three more people and left two missing, disaster centres reported Tuesday, bringing the toll of dead and missing since the current round of storms began October 24 to at least 86.
The National Committee for Storm and Flood Control said the worst flooding in almost three decades has left at...
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In what was said to be "the most significant archaeological discovery in Israel since the Dead Sea Scrolls," archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known written Hebrew text, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced Thursday.
The 3,000-year-old 15 x 15 cm osctracon (pottery shard inscribed with writing in ink)...
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Vietnam's statement of opposition to a weekend commando raid by the United States inside Syrian territory prompted mixed reactions Thursday from Hanoi experts.
Government spokesman Le Dung said Wednesday that Vietnam "opposes (the US's) unilateral military action and considers that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of...
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A senior Chinese official was assaulted Tuesday by a group of pro-independence activists during a visit in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan, threatening to undermine high-level China-Taiwan talks planned for this month in Taipei.
Zhang Mingqing, vice chairman of the Association of Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), was...
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A senior China official was heckled by pro-independence activists Monday during an academic seminar in the southern Taiwan county of Tainan, forcing him to cancel all public activities organized by his local host.
"Get out, get out of Taiwan," shouted dozens of activists, who rallied outside Tainan University of Art to...
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A Malaysian police bomb squad safely detonated a live 430-kilogram bomb that was found on a university campus in the northern state of Perlis, news reports said Friday.
A heavy machinery operator discovered the bomb, believed to have been dropped during World War II, on Thursday, prompting police to block roads leading to the area,...
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Taiwan's property market, hit hard in the last few months by the global downturn and a drastic domestic stock plunge, is likely to enter a recession from next year, property dealers and analysts said.
"Beginning next year, the property market here is likely to see obvious slowdown, which could last two to four years,"...
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Thailand's Office of the Attorney General on Friday requested the Constitution Court accept a case seeking to dissolve the People Power Party (PPP), the lead party in the coalition government.
The case, if accepted, was expected to lead to the disbandment of the PPP because the same court already convicted former PPP deputy leader...
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More than 1,000 experts, business leaders and scholars from 20 nations gathered Thursday in an eastern South Korean city to draw up strategies on how to accelerate the development of ecologically friendly energy sources.
The three-day World Global Energy Forum opened amid growing concerns about climate change and the threat it...
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It's 7 in the morning and the Shwedagon Pagoda's gold-covered pinnacle in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, slowly emerges from the mist and glitters in the sunshine.
Markets in the city formerly known as Rangoon have been busy for hours as women balance their purchases in woven baskets on their heads.
The damage done by...
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Guatemala and Taiwan on Wednesday agreed to strengthen bilateral ties by expanding trade and increasing exchange visits.
President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala on his four-day visit to Taiwan was expected to discuss bilateral relations with President Ma Ying-jeou and attend Taiwan's National Day celebrations.
"Cooperation from...
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An Indian student was knifed and hospitalized in serious condition in a provincial Belarusian town, sparking a rare university demonstration and class boycott, the Belapan news agency reported on Tuesday.
The racially-motivated attack by a reported gang of Slavic nationalists took place in the central city Gomel near the town's...
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A Skype joint venture in China monitors and archives certain internet text conversations that include politically charged words, according to a report published by a group of Canadian computer security researchers Thursday.
TOM-Skype, a joint venture between TOM Online, a unit of Hong Kong-based TOM Group Ltd, and Skype, a unit of...
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Vietnam's largest technology company, FPT, has suspended two students in its corporate training programme who performed wearing only loincloths at a show celebrating the company's 20th anniversary, a company official said Thursday.
"The decision has been made," said Le Truong Tung, director of the corporate training program,...
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A full copy of nearly 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors has been transferred to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre in Jerusalem, making it the world's largest repository of survivor evidence of the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
The testimonies, from 56 different countries and in 32 languages, were transferred from the...
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Taro Aso had a long-awaited birthday gift Monday, when he finally nailed down the top post of Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Aso, a Roman Catholic who turned 68 Saturday, defined his new role as LDP leader and presumptive prime minister as his "calling" from up above.
His gusto to climb the political...
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South Korean medical professor Shin Young-Soo was nominated Monday to become the next regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Asia and the Pacific.
The 64-year-old Shin bested two other nominees from Tonga and Malaysia during elections at the 59th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in...
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As Catholic protests continued Monday over the government's clearance of a plot of land claimed by Hanoi's Archdiocese, non-Catholics' sympathy for the protestors was damaged by a statement by Hanoi Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet that was quoted out of context in the state-controlled press.
Several organs of Vietnam's...
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Thailand's Parliament on Friday postponed a vote on a new prime minister after a court sacked premier Samak Sundaravej this week for moonlighting as a television cooking show host.
Samak had been renominated for the job he lost Tuesday, but the failure by many of his own People Power Party (PPP) members to show up for Friday's vote...
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Police in Vietnam have arrested a South Korean man accused of murdering a Vietnamese student after her body was found in a suitcase, an official said Tuesday.
Kim Ki Jong, 26, was arrested Monday in Hanoi after police found the body Thursday in the outlying district of Cau Giay, said Nguyen Duc Trung, head of the city's Social Crime...
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Scientists have discovered a genetic clue that could prevent the growth and development of colorectal cancer, the team said Tuesday.
When the gene called RUNX3 is disrupted, colorectal cancer can occur, said the experts from the National University of Singapore and the Agency of Science, Technology and Research. RUNX3 suppresses...
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Police in Vietnam have arrested a South Korean man accused of murdering a Vietnamese student after her body was found in a suitcase, an official said Tuesday.
Kim Ki Jong, 26, was arrested Monday in Hanoi after police found the body Thursday in the outlying district of Cau Giay, said Nguyen Duc Trung, head of the city's Social Crime...
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A 50-kilogram tuna lies on the white floor tiles of Intimas, a fish-processing factory on the Indonesian island of Bali.
The tuna's eyes stare into nothingness. It's dead, but its lifeless body is surrounded by hectic activity. This is the factory's quality-control room.
"The freshest produce with the best, reddest meat is...
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A New Zealand judge, who is an expert on internet law, made an unprecedented ruling Monday banning publication of the names of two men on a murder charge on news websites, saying he was "concerned about the viral effect of digital publication."
Judge David Harvey said the names could be published in newspapers and on radio...
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Unknown gunmen killed a university professor in Iraq in west Baghdad early Monday, while a bomb targeting an army patrol injured an Iraqi soldier in the area, police and witnesses said.
Police found the body of Professor Khaldoun Sabry in in the capital's Yarmouk district. He was handcuffed and had gunshot wounds and bruises all over...
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Pakistani troops killed up to 35 pro-Taliban militants Saturday after the rebels carried out two bombings in the Swat valley that killed 10 people including four policemen and two children dead, security officials said.
"Between 30 and 35 miscreants were killed and several more were injured when our forces launched offensives in...
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 Frank Thomas hit his 500th home run Thursday becoming the 21st to enter the exclusivist club with a three-run homer in the first inning against the Minnesota Twins.The crowd at the Metrodome, the ballpark where Thomas also hit the first home run of his career, cheered for the two-time American League Most Valuable Player as his team...
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 Mickey Mouse made his debut at the Colony Theater in New York 80 years ago! You wouldn’t say, wouldn’t you? Steamboat Willie was the movie which projected Mickey into the hearts of every human being. It didn’t matter how old you were, you still enjoyed the funny little mouse. November 18, 1928, is the birthday of Mickey Mouse and people...
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 Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine died in Cairo at the age of 82.
Chahine, a recipient of a lifetime achievement award at the Cannes film festival in 1997, had suffered a
brain hemorrhage which put him in coma in late June. The director was being
treated at Al Maadi Military Hospital in Cairo
at the time of his death.
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 The “Dirty Dancing” star, who was diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer in March, will star in the cop drama “The Beast,” which
is produced by A&E and Sony Pictures Television. Patrick Swayze will play
an FBI agent, who is assigned to teach his new partner (Travis Fimmel) his
original, eccentric and clever style of agenting and...
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 Despite the huge success that the new Indiana Jones had among the wide public, dazzling them with the elaborate archaeological antics, real life archaeologists say that the movie is doing everything wrong, from the historically accuracy point of view."In pursuit of 'fortune and glory' Jones ignores international treaties, treats...
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 It appears that actor Richard Dreyfuss is currently in
negotiations in order to complete the all-star cast of Oliver Stone’s George W.
Bush biopic and star as Vice-President Dick Cheney.
Elizabeth Banks and Josh Brolin would play the First Lady
Laura Bush and the President, while Scott Glenn and Thandie Newton already
signed...
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 Today, April 29 is Uma Thurman’s
birthday .Today is also the day she and her family have to testify in the trial
against her stalker who managed to make the last years an “emotional blackmail”
campaign, according to the prosecution.
Jack Jordan, a literature graduate from the Chicago University and also a former...
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 The CW’s “Beverly
Hills, 90210” remake is almost ready to begin its
production. Let’s just hope Hillary Duff will help it gain the same success as
the first one. If you wonder why I said Hillary Duff? Apparently the
20-year-old singer has been reached out to for a starring role in the series. The
original “Beverly Hills”
managed...
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 This week-end opened an exquisite comedy-drama, “Smart
People.”
The movie focuses on the drama of the intellectuals and
their failing social relationships and own unhappiness. The protagonist,
Lawrence Wetherhold (played by Dennis Quaid, who also starred in 2008’s
“Vantage Point”) is a literature professor at the Carnegie Mellon
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 The cable network ABC Family’s slogan is: “a new kind of
family.” Maybe that is why they’ve been trying to concentrate also on the
audience that surpasses childhood, through original dramas, such as “Wildfire,”
“Lincoln Heights,” “Kyle XY” and last but not least “Greek” which is due to
return tonight at 8 p.m. for the second half of...
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 The 75-year-old actor Roy
Scheider, best known to the large audience for his role in the 1975 blockbuster
movie “Jaws” as a police chief, died Sunday, after having battled multiple
myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells, for several years.
He died at the University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences hospital in Little
Rock,...
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 Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have a Hugh Hefner biopic in the works, titled "Playboy." Variety reports that Brett Ratner is set to direct, while Brian Grazer is producing and John Hoffman is writing the screenplay.Brian Grazer, who won the best picture Academy Award for "A Beautiful Mind," acquired the...
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 The tight end for the Buffalo Bills, Kevin Everett, voluntarily moved his arms and legs on Tuesday when partially awakened, reversing a dire prognosis given a day before. "Based on our experience, the fact that he's moving so well, so early after such a catastrophic injury means he will walk again," said Dr. Barth Green, head...
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 After eleven days of waiting and 16 missed practices, first-round draft pick Brady Quinn agreed to terms with the Cleveland Browns. The club officials and Quinn’s agent, Tom Condon, finally came up with a solution that will satisfy both parts. The five-year contract will earn the newest member of the Browns approximately $20.2 million,...
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 Indiana University head football coach Terry Hoeppner died Tuesday morning of a brain tumor.The 59-year-old has undergone brain surgery twice in the last 18 months. He received chemotherapy and radiation treatments in the last few months, but was all in vane. Hoeppner died at 6:50 a.m. at Bloomington Hospital with his family at his...
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 Dana Holding Corporation announced on Thursday that it had appointed Gary L. Convis as its new Chief Executive Officer, replacing John Devine, who has served as acting CEO since January.The auto parts maker, which exited bankruptcy rather recent, has appointed Convis in its Board of Directors in January 2008, soon after he retired from...
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 Since Microsoft made an unsolicited 44.6 billion dollars takeover bid on February 1, Yahoo is struggling to find an exit door, since the software giant began using all methods for reaching their aim.Despite the fact that the initial bid, an offer that now stands at 41.2 billion dollars, was immediately rejected by Yahoo’s board, leaded...
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 US banking giant Citigroup Inc on Tuesday named Vikram Pandit as chief
executive of the institution, which has been hit hard by the credit
crunch brought about by defaults in the subprime mortgage sector.
The Indian-born Pandit, 50, had served as head of the bank's
investment division. The announcement came after a two-day...
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 Chief Information Officer, Stuart Scott, was dismissed by Microsoft Corporation, on Friday, for the reason of violating unspecified company policies, according to a written statement, read by company spokesman, Lou Gellos, on Tuesday. Scott was the head of the information technology department, for Microsoft, the largest software maker...
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 What’s up next in the spaceflight
industry? We will all probably find out thanks to this year’s International
Symposium for Personal Spaceflight that is to take place in Las Cruces, between
the 24th and the 25th of October 2007. The leading
companies and figures from the space industry will be there!
The event has been announced...
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 Deere & Company, best known by its brand name John Deere, announced its third-quarter earnings rose 23 percent on booming orders for tractors overseas. Deere & Co is the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery in the world and it currently stands at approximately the 98th rank in the Fortune 500 ranking.Deere also raised...
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 Ford has started to take bids for two companies in its Premier Automotive Group: Jaguar and Land Rover. However, sources in the industry have told the press that the U.S. car giant will not accept bids from private equity firms which would try to subsequently dismantle or otherwise heavily restructure the two companies."Ford wants...
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 A federal expert panel voted unanimously, 14-0, against a controversial weight-loss drug manufactured by Sanofi-Aventis SA, on fears it increases the risk of suicidal thoughts, even in patients without a history of depression.The panel's decision effectively means the FDA will not, by most chances, approve the drug for the U.S. The drug...
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 An experimental gel that uses a popular anti-HIV drug to protect women from the deadly virus has been shown to offer some protection against HIV. The compound applied vaginally may be able to block the transmission of HIV. Researchers from the University of Minnesota say the gel is already approved as an ingredient in cosmetics and...
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 A new study showed that the fampridine drug may help the patients who suffer from multiple sclerosis by improving their walking ability. Phase III of the study tracked 301 patients aged 18 to 70. All the patients received either 10 milligrams of fampridine or a placebo twice a day for 14 weeks.The walking speed of the patients started to...
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 Amazing as it sounds, the experimental drug fampridine (4-aminopyiridine) can actually improve walking ability in some individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). This is the conclusion of a multi-center Phase 3 clinical trial and these results have been published in the February 26 journal The Lancet. Andrew Goodman, chief of the Multiple...
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 U.S. researchers stated on Tuesday that the widely used Ginkgo Biloba doesn’t help at all in treating or preventing Alzheimer's disease in healthy elderly people or those with mild cognitive impairment. The researchers tracked 3,069 people age 75 or older from five U.S. locations. The study lasted for six years and half of the people...
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 Researchers and doctors have released a new experimental vaccine for breast cancer tumors, but they have also discovered another vaccine that they hope it will be much more effective since it can deliver a cancer-fighting gene into cells.The gene produces immune system proteins but also tumor-destroying cells. Wei-Zen Wei, the doctor...
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 The National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University made a study on 1,002 children aged between 12 and 17 years old. Many of them said they find it easier to obtain prescription drugs illegally than to buy beer, cigarettes of marijuana. Among the prescription drugs that children are interested in there are...
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 According to British researchers, an Alzheimer's drug that attacks anomalous tangles in the brain seemed to decelerate the progression of the disease. However, physicians said that the medicine needed more study.TauRX is the biotechnology company that created the drug and named it Rember. It appears that the medicine generated a...
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 According to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, more people than ever are passing away as a consequence of accidental drug overdoses. These are being caused by combining prescription medications with street drugs and alcohol.As shown by the most recent study carried out by University of California, San Diego,...
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 Bayer HealthCare and co-developer Onyx
Pharmaceuticals Inc has announced that they have received approval from Chinese
regulators for Nexavar to help treat metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma or liver
cancer.
China has
350,000 new liver cancer patients every year, according to Leng Xisheng,
president of the Chinese Collegeof...
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Viagra was first produced to enable male erections. Yet, studies have shown that women taking Viagra could help them have orgasms more often. As the JAMA study shows, it also increases the blood circulation from the clitoris. Other researchers have shown that this engorge of the clitoris doesn’t produce higher sexual satisfaction.Robert...
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 Given the fact that web sites do not ask Internet users for a prescription to purchase narcotics and stimulants, everybody can procure some. None of those sites has controls to keep children away from buying them, a report revealed.The study, entitled “You've Got Drugs! V: Prescription Drug Pushers on the Internet” and released today by...
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 Since the American
Academy of Pediatrics
issued a recommendation on Monday regarding treating children over the age of 8
with cholesterol drugs, a new debate has been triggered on whether there exists
sufficient scientific proof to rationalize such a move.
Known for their efficacy in decreasing the risk of heart
disease in...
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 On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics came forward with some rather surprising guidance. For the first time ever, the Academy advised people to give eight-year-olds cholesterol-fighting drugs in order to prevent future heart conditions.According to Dr. Stephen Daniels, member of the academy's nutrition committee, the new advice...
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 Pilots or air traffic controllers will no longer be allowed
to use the anti-smoking drug Chantix. This appeal of the Federal Aviation
Administration is argued by the side-effects of the drug, which have been
discovered and announced in the last months. These negative influences on the
human body may be a threat to the safe operation...
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 Viagra may protect the hearts of people with a common form
of muscular dystrophy, a study suggests. A team of researchers showed that the
administration of sildenafil, the active ingredient in drug maker Pfizer Inc's
Viagra, to mice with an animal version of Duchenne muscular dystrophy protects
their heart.
This study was led by...
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 Swiss drug producer Novartis AG developed the positive results of the meningitis vaccine they experimented. The company expects to file for regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe this year, according to what Joerg Reinhardt declared to Reuters.
The vaccine is called Menveo, it allegedly prevents the development of four types of...
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 A fifteen-year-old Vietnamese girl has a 16-pound facial tumor
which threatens to suffocate her. Now she is in Miami, waiting for surgery to remove the tumor
and to restore her ability to eat and speak. Doctors at the University of
Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center will remove it in a 10-hour laborious surgery.
The little...
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 A new study in the journal Nature has highlighted that scientists use frequently brain-enhancing drugs. A total of 1,400 people from 60 countries responded to an online survey revealing that at least one in five use prescription drugs to improve their focus, concentration, or memory.The most used drug is methylphenidate, better known for...
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 A major study conducted in the United States, Europe and Australia has found that a popular AIDS drug roughly doubles the risk for heart attacks. The substance, abacavir, is one of three types of drugs used in combination to prevent the deadly HIV virus from replicating."This is a head-scratcher, in the sense that we don't really...
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 California has said that it has delayed measures to track all prescription drugs. The previously set date was the next Jan. 1st, but it was delayed by two years as a response to complaints from drug manufacturers, distributors and retail pharmacists. The industry said it needs more time to set up the system, otherwise they could be...
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 Federal drug regulators announced that the blood-thinning drug Heparin that had been linked to several deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions was contaminated with a fake ingredient got there by mistake or by fraud. The New York Times now reports that the substance used to cut heparin appears to be made from animal cartilage and is...
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 The Human Growth Hormone, which many athletes in the United States and elsewhere use, most of the time illegally, brings no real benefit. Even though it is known that the HGH increases muscle mass, it does not improve performance and in some cases it can lower it, a new study found. Furthermore, intake of Human Growth Hormone may...
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 San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc announced that an independent safety monitoring board has concluded that its obesity drug Lorcaserin shows no heart safety issues after one year. The results were awaited eagerly because obesity drugs have created scandals in the past, such as that made by Wyeth which had to be recalled ten years...
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 U.S. researchers have found that letrozole, an oral non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor that blocks the production of estrogen, is effective in preventing the relapse of breast cancer even if it's taken years later than previously thought.The initial FDA approval for letrozole, known by its brand name Femara, targeted the use of the...
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 A new research study reports that women who took estrogen
and progestin hormones to ease the menopause symptoms still had an increased
cancer risk after ending the therapy.
The study was developed by the Women’s Health Initiative and
involved more than 16,000 women who used the estrogen and progestin combination
drug,...
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 A new study shows that widely used antidepressants such as
Prozac are only efficient for very severely depressed patients, Science Daily
reports.
Irving Kirsch, from the University of Hull,
and his colleagues, analyzed the patients’ response to antidepressants to see
if antidepressant therapy depends on how badly depressed...
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 A new article related to
cognitive side effects of statins appeared this week in the February 12, 2008
issue of the Wall Street Journal. The cholesterol-lowering medications,
particularly atorvastatin (Lipitor, Pfizer), could be beneficial for patients’
hearts, but at the same time they can affect patients’ memory, the...
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 Researchers at the University of Oxford claim that
oral contraceptives may protect women from ovarian cancer.
The researchers analyzed 45 studies on ovarian cancer
in 21 countries and found that women using birth control pills reduce the risk
of developing the disease.
Valerie Beral of Oxford University and a large number of...
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 According to a U.S. study in which nearly half of the doctors
surveyed said they had doled out a dummy pill at some point placebos are a
surprisingly common prescription.
Researchers at the University of Chicago said on Thursday
the study raises ethical questions and suggests a need for greater recognition
and understanding of...
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 Health officials say that the first over-the-counter
slimming pill to go on sale in Britain could be available in pharmacies as
early as next year. The drug, which has been marketed in the US under the name
Alli since June, is a half-strength version of a pill called Xenical that is
currently only available in Britain under...
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 A study presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
has shown researchers that a test has
been created with which doctors could determine weather a woman is likely to
benefit from the commonly prescribed breast cancer drug Tamoxifen depending on
her genetic makeup.
Researchers presented data that revealed women who...
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 A new US study suggests that adding antibiotics to current
medication for treating multiple sclerosis could slow down the disease.
The study is published in the early online issue of the Archives of Neurology
and is the work of Dr Alireza Minagar, of the Louisiana State University Health
Sciences Center, Shreveport, and...
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 According to a U.S. researchers report, the common pain
reliever and anti-inflammatory ibuprofen significantly slows the decline in
lung function seen in children with cystic fibrosis.
A team at Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine, in Cleveland, found that children with cystic fibrosis who took high
doses of...
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 According to a recent study, smoking a moderate amount of cannabis
(marijuana) may relieve pain but smoking high doses may increase pain.
"Previous studies have suggested that smoked cannabis
increases pain," lead investigator Dr. Mark Wallace of the University of
California, San Diego told Reuters Health. "This is...
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 According to a statement, Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines
division of sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has granted licensure to expand the indication for its
meningococcal conjugate vaccine, Menactra (Meningococcal [Groups A, C, Y and
W-135] Polysaccharide Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate...
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 A recent study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that vitamin D-based nutrients help prevent cancerous cells from forming.The study was conducted on 1179 community-dwelling women randomly selected from the population of healthy postmenopausal women aged >55 y in a 9-county rural area of...
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The new show, “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…” will be on air on CTV in Canada, Channel 4 in the U.K. and on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. The first episode of the series will debut on December 3, this year, and will gather round important musicians, to talk about…music and its importance.The spectacle has taped four episodes of a...
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 Sony Pictures TV and America’s most popular
talk-show’s host, Oprah Winfrey, announced that heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet C. Oz,
who was given the moniker Dr. Oz during appearances in “The Oprah Winfrey Show,”
will host an upcoming talk show, which will be distributed by Sony Pictures.
Winfrey said the new series, scheduled for
a 2009...
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 The music industry has a new favorite, young Miley Cyrus.
She’s popular among preteens, teens and parents, and she’s also becoming one of
the paps’ favorites. Miley has earned huge success with the “Hannah Montana”
show, her 3-D movie and performed impeccably at her sold-out concert-tour.
Besides all these accomplishments, Miley...
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 The host of the Food Network’s show “Dinner: Impossible,” Chef
Robert Irvine, will be let go by the network after his current contract expires. During a broadcast, Irvine
spiced-up the truth about his experience in cooking by saying that he graduated
the University of
Leeds and that he cooked
for Princess Diana and several U.S....
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 Bob Barker wrapped up his last last round of "The Price Is Right" on Wednesday, which started with a shower of confetti and a standing ovation. Barker's final hour on "The Price Is Right" will air on June 15 on CBS. "I thank you for inviting me into your homes for more than 50 years," Barker said in the...
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 Both the upper house and the lower house of the Japanese parliament agreed on Friday to support Masaaki Shirakawa as the governor of the Bank of Japan, after he held the position of deputy governor, one of the leaders of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan reported.''We, the DPJ, approved deputy governor Shirakawa so I think it...
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 According to British officials, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday, in a meeting that promised major expansion of bilateral trade after they held talks that also focused on international security and the environment.Brown revealed that they had agreed to the expansion of bilateral trade to a...
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 Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it is about to change its stock symbol from "SUNW" to "JAVA". The change will occur on August 27 and is supposed to reflect the heightened role of the company's Java Web technology. However, the decision was met with skepticism by some, who said the move is nothing but a pathetic PR...
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 The U.S. trade deficit dropped more than expected in April although the politically sensitive imbalance with China increased to a very high level in the last period.The weakening dollar helped trim imports and hike exports to an all-time record.The Commerce Department reported that the gap in goods and services trade narrowed 6.2...
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Today, China has seen the largest drop in stock market indices ever as the Shanghai Composite Index plunged 330.34 points or 8.26 percent to 3,670.40. Meanwhile, the Shenzhen Component Index, tracking the smaller Shenzhen Stock Exchange, closed at 11,468.46, down 964.23 points or 7.76 percent.On Monday, the Shanghai Index fell for the...
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 Willem Hendrik "Butch" van Breda Kolff, who coached Wilt Chamberlain to the NBA finals and Bill Bradley to college basketball's Final Four, oassed away at 84. he died after a long struggle with illness at a nursing home in Spokane, Washington, according to a news release from Princeton University, where he coached in the...
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 Wake
Forest basketball head
coach Skip Prosser passed away Thursday due to an apparent heart attack the
university declared.
According to Athletics Director Ron Wellman, 56-year-old Prosser
was found dead on his office couch at about 12:45 p.m. by director of
basketball operations Mike Muse soon after returning from his jog in...
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 Detroit Pistons top priority for this summer is the resigning of its point guard Chauncey Billups. The 31-year-old has opted out of the final year of his six-year contact with the Pistons, thus becoming a unrestricted free agent.Pistons officials said that this is no surprise for them. Joe Dumars, Pistons’ president of basketball...
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 Billy Donovan is officially out of the Orlando Magic deal, but his wavering could be costly for both sides involved. The Magic finally let Donovan out of the $5.5 million annual deal late Wednesday nightafter days ago rumors broke he was having second thoughts."I realized in less than 24 hours after signing a contract with the Magic...
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 Coach Billy Donovan is trying to void the five-year, $27.5 million contract signed last week with the Orlando Magic as he is attempting to return to his previous team, the Florida Gators, a person familiar with the negotiations said Monday. He won with the University of Florida the last two national championships.''While Central Florida,...
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 After agreeing to a five-year, $27.5 million contract with the Orlando Magic on Thursday, coach Billy Donovan might not be done with the Florida Gators.FoxSports.com, citing two anonymous sources, reported Sunday night that Donovan was having second thoughts about coaching the NBA's Orlando Magic and he approached both sides in order to...
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 Billy Donovan was hired to coach the Orlando Magic on Thursday. The club confirmed his hiring on Thursday night and scheduled a news conference for Friday morning.The five-year agreement will earn Donovan $5.5 million per year an official in the NBA told The Associated Press. "Billy Donovan is a winner," Orlando’s GM Otis Smith...
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 From the point of view of
functionality the computers were built in their creators’ own image. The human
body’s inner mechanism and functions are similar to computers’ systems. The
same is with the software programs or applications; in fact all the tech
devices, their applications and the data network are nothing else but...
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 The Entertainment Software Association recently named Mike Gallagher- a former US Government employee- as president, and his mandate should begin later this month.Mr. Gallagher was a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications & Information, serving as the chief telecommunications and policy advisor to the Bush...
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 Controversial radio host Don Imus, 68, told his listeners on Monday morning that he was diagnosed with stage II prostate cancer, but he has great confidence in his doctors that he would be cured.“I’ll be fine. If I’m not fine, I won’t be fine. It’s not a big deal. The prognosis couldn’t be better,” he said.According to the National...
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 Shakir Stewart, the executive vice president of Def Jam Records died on Saturday. Stewart was the one who helped Jay-Z to be the head of the famous hip hop music label and who signed artists like Rick Ross and Young Jeezy to the label before being named in June to the post once filled by Jay-Z. He used to discover new talents and develop...
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 This year’s CMT Awards hosts were father and daughter Miley
and Billy Ray Cyrus. But this was essential information before the ceremony,
after it we focus on something else. That’s right, we want to know the big
winners of the Country Music Television Awards!
Kellie Pickler was Monday night’s queen, winning three
trophies at the...
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 The search to find the successor of Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith ended. Crystle Stewart, 26, of Missouri City, Texas has been crowned Miss USA beating all the other 50 beauty queens, the Associated Press reports.
Crystle Stewart will represent the country in the Miss Universe contest later this year and she will work with official...
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 After 10 years of having its spectacular show at the
landmark Shrine Auditorium, which is located across the street from the
University of Southern California campus, The Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences has sealed a 10-year deal with Anschutz Entertainment Group to move the
Annual Emmy Awards to the 7,100-seat Nokia Theatre,...
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 While everyone is eager to see the outcome at the Academy
Awards ceremony, journalists were yearning to learn about their own awards.
We are now making reference to the Polk Awards, a means of
recognizing the excellence in journalism. The awards are administered by Long Island University and made their debut in 1949
in the...
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 Convenience store chain 7-Eleven Inc. turned over the weekend a dozen of its stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores featured in "The Simpsons." In addition, the 6,000 North American stores will sell fictional brands like Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and Squishees. Sprinklicious doughnuts and Radioactive Man...
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 The now-infamous Don Imus incident seems to have changed the way radio sounds, even if it is satellite – Opie & Anthony have been suspended.
Greg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia, of “The Opie & Anthony Show,” have received a 30-day suspension from XM Satellite Radio, thus becoming the first shock jocks to...
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 As further proof that radio is not actually no man’s land, CBS continues its disciplinary measures and fires Dog House, a morning team, for an offensive prank call at a Chinese restaurant.
The Doghouse, with Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay (aka J.V. and Elvis), had been working at CBS Radio's New York affiliate, WFNY-FM (92.3). That...
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Former BSU player Kerry Thomas faces new charges for knowingly spreading the HIV virus. According to media reports, an Ada County, Idaho, grand jury on Tuesday returned an indictment charging Kerry Thomas with seven counts of knowingly transferring the HIV virus.These charges carry a maximum sentence of 15 years and a $50,000 fine....
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 President Barrack Obama intends to name New York City’s former health commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, and Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein as chiefs of the US Food and Drug Administration, according to sources familiar with the matter.The agency has struggled with a series of drug safety problems over the past...
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 Pollution has always been thought to reduce survival due to
its noxious effects on people’s health. Previous studies have linked pollution
to increased risk of heart attack, stroke, lung cancer, asthma and other
serious diseases.
A study published in Thursday’s New England of Medicine
shows that people who live in areas with the...
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 Federal authorities announced that a professor from the University of Florida and his wife are under the suspicion of having stolen money from NASA. The police discovered the fraud after they had raided the professor’s office at the university on Wednesday.The university spokesman Steve Orlando said that the FBI searched the Innovative...
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Washington - As if the financial news wasn't bad enough.
Scientists meeting in Chicago reported about how fast greenhouse gases are rising and how eating less beef and more chicken would help reduce global warming.
But there were also bright spots at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science gathering...
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The volunteer at the shelter for homeless teens pushed up his sleeves and took up a roller of blue paint.
"This is good practice cause I'm moving to a new house tomorrow," he joked in playful banter with his fellow volunteers.
But this was no ordinary do-gooder. This was Barack Obama, who will move into the White House...
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 The effects that Hurricane Ike had on Galveston can still be felt now. The University of Texas Medical Branch from Galveston was badly damaged by the strong winds and rain that Ike brought during this fall. Because the teaching hospital is running out of money, nearly 3,800 workers will be laid off. The next three months will be crucial...
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US president-elect Barack Obama's childhood years in Indonesia may provide him with a unique personal link to South-East Asia, but it remains to be seen how deep the old school ties go, analysts warn.
Obama, the first African-American to be elected president, can also claim to be the first US president to have spent almost four...
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Michelle Obama, was born on January 17, 1964 and grew up in a one-bedroom apartment on Chicago's South Side where her mother, a former secretary, still lives. Her late father was an employee at the city's water plant.
Sometimes compared to Jacqueline Kennedy, Michelle, 44, will bring her own style of charm and sophistication to the...
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Google has reached a 125-million-dollar settlement of a class action lawsuit by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, which will drastically expand the availability of digitized books over the internet, the groups announced Tuesday.
The deal sets aside 45 million dollars for payment to authors and publishers...
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 The authorities released a report announcing that a man shot and killed his wife inside a hospital, in her bed. The 88-year-old man then shot himself. Michael Mastronardy, police chief, stated that the man was in a critical condition and immediately after he had shot his 87-year-old wife he was taken to the trauma center at Jersey Shore...
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 An employee from a mall in Tennessee was shot and killed while other customers were running both ways after a gunman started firing inside the crowded shopping mall on Wednesday afternoon. The police arrested William Johnson, 42, after they wounded him with a gun. The man was charged with murder, aggravated kidnapping and two counts of...
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