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Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

The supposedly wooden Al Gore, former US vice president and presently a high profile environmentalist, will be coming alive, almost literally, across the world Saturday next. He is behind the Live Earth program - a series of concerts of pop and rock music featuring various artists plan...

Son Donates Part of Liver to Ailing Father, Transplant Successful

...t his liver should grow back to 90 per cent of its former size and regain all its previous functions. Stephen said his son's gesture was "tremendous". He said he became ill about three years ago. After a series of tests, he was told he had advanced liver disease. "I just thought about the waiting list wh...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

...goon and Beach Ridge Pond were fractions of their former size, or totally gone. "The final ecological threshold for an aquatic ecosystem is loss of water," said biology Prof. John Smol These sites have now crossed that threshold "A key 'tipping point' has now been passed: Arctic ponds that were permanent...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

... BBC-2 broadcast an interview with Shiraz Maher, a former member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamic group, who described himself as a onetime friend of Bilal Abdullah, an Iraqi doctor who was in the Jeep with Dr. Ahmed and is also under arrest. Mr. Maher said he had known Dr. Abdullah when both men ...

Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

...f the cancer patients in the study were current or former smokers. Among the 59 variations in 37 inflammation-related genes studied, the researchers discovered that some variants in the genes for interleukin (IL) 1A and 1B, are found more frequently in patients with lung cancer -- and especially among he...

Variation in Genes Related to Inflammation Increase Lung Cancer Risk

...f the cancer patients in the study were current or former smokers. Researchers found that among the 59 variations in 37 inflammation-related genes studied some variants in the genes for interleukin (IL) 1A and 1B were found frequently in patients with lung cancer and especially among heavy smokers. The ...

Macrobiotic Diet Made Courtney Love Gain 50 Pounds, Not Lose!

...replacement shakes and a lock on the fridge. The former Hole singer, who shed 44 pounds in four months, said that the macrobiotic diet plans, given to her by Gwyneth Paltrow's chef, made her gain 40 to 50 pounds. "I gained 40 to 50 pounds on macrobiotic food," People quoted Love, as saying. Love, who ...

Organic Tomatoes may Be Healthier for Your Heart Than Traditionally Grown Ones

...graph quoted Hayman, as saying. Sir John Krebs, former chair of the Food Standards Agency suggested that just because organic tomatoes have higher level of one antioxidants, they cannot be claimed to be better than conventionally grown counter parts. "Tomato ketchup has higher levels of lycopene, a str...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...he backlash against environmentalism in the era of former US president Ronald Reagan. Things changed in 19...in changing opinion in the United States. One is former US vice president Al Gore who "has changed elite opinion" with his docu-movie "An Inconvenient Truth...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...at was to be slipped into a chocolate milkshake, a former Cuban intelligence chief said. But the capsule stuck to the freezer where it was hidden in the cafeteria of the Havana Libre (ex Hilton) Hotel and ripped open when the would-be assassin waiter went to get the poison. "That moment was the closest ...

New Insights into Prion Propogation

...ntially lethal molecules. The work was done with former UIC post-doctoral fellow Vibha Taneja and University of Bordeaux researchers Sven Saupe, Marie-Lise Maddelein and Nicholas Talarek. Previously, Liebman focused her studies on prion-forming proteins found in baker's yeast, while Saupe's research loo...

Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

...se detector stations and keep costs down. He and former graduate student Ramachandran Mallika wrote software that enabled the controller boxes to detect traffic incidents and get important messages back to the traffic control center using a fraction of the bandwidth that was previously required. In the ...

Trade Unionists Join Polish Nurses' Protest

...erpaid, like their counterparts across most of the former communist bloc. Polish nurses earn the local equivalent of 290-340 euros (390-450 dollars) a month, and their union has been pushing the government to grant a 50-percent wage hike. "We hope that the next round of negotiations with the authorities...

China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

... rheumatoid arthritis. In the past week alone, a former department head at the State Food and Drug Administration was sentenced to death on bribery charges, and it was announced that production licenses of five drug makers had been pulled over the last year and that 128 others had been penalized. The mo...

Katie Holmes in 'most Influential' Celebs List

...'s list of 'most influential' celebrities. The former 'Dawson's Creek' actress topped the 'beauty queen' category for her 'refreshing girl-next-door look' and for her new sporty cropped haircut, leaving singers Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez behind. According to the BBC, the magazine created a list of 19 ...

Taj Mahal, Symbol of Love - New Seven Wonders of the World

... all finalists. New7Wonders Panel of Experts and former Director-General of UNESCO Prof. Federico Mayor was also present at the ceremony. Earlier UNESCO had distanced itself from the ceremony and dismissed the current method of choosing the seven wonders....

Britneys Confession - 'I'm Not a Virgin'

... Spears has openly confessed that she had sex with former boyfriend Justin Timberlake despite her vow to remain a virgin until she was married. "I've only slept with one person my whole life," she said. "It was two years into my relationship with Justin, and I thought he was the one. But I was wrong!" ...

China Bans Sales of Leukemia Drug in Latest Medicine Scare

...ug, it said. The latest move comes after China's former head of drug registrations was given a suspended d...ntence meted out in May to his boss, Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the agency, in a case that exposed rampant corruption at the country's food-safety watchdog....

Botox Offers Via Mail Order Enrages Plastic Surgeons

...nt." Adam Searle, consultant plastic surgeon and former BAAPS president, added: "Aesthetic procedures seem to have been reduced to the status of socks and pants selection." In response, Pat Dunion, operations director for Transform, was quoted: "Transform Cosmetic Surgery is proud to be the UK's number o...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...is living proof that the spraying is worth it. A former longtime Quincy resident, Phillips moved with her husband last June to Wareham, where she spent her free time gardening and enjoying the beach down the street from her house. Toward the end of the summer, she started to feel tired and dizzy, but said...

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