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Beijing Says Food Safe for Olympic Athletes, Tourists

...ying on ordinary Beijingers. A government hot line opened in 1999 for consumer complaints has proved to be a useful weapon. "Food-safety complaints were the highest proportion of complaints in 2006, about 25 percent of the total," said Han Miao, deputy director of the complaint centre. However the offic...

Dinner Guest Recover Bodies in Freezer

...Chantal, 46, and son Bryan 11. The female guest opened the freezer while helping to clear up after a dinner with a group of friends Tuesday at the man's home in the city of Verviers, 78 miles east of Brussels, and discovered the bodies. The guest fled the house and called the police. The police immedi...

SKorean Online Dogmeat Retailer Closes Site Amid Uproar

...op the online sale of dogmeat. The business, which opened in April, had featured photos as well as recipes. Dogmeat is a divisive issue in South Korea. Proponents say it is a traditional cuisine and no different morally from consuming beef or pork. Opponents say eating dogmeat is an animal rights issue ...

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...d Heidi Azus Foundations Pediatric Infusion Center opened in early April within the Cedars-Sinai Childrens Health Center. The colorful two-room suite is furnished with X-Boxes, flat screen televisions, DVD players and comfortable reclining chairs all designed to lessen the emotional stress young patients s...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

... what products are made," Andrews says. Since it opened in 1977, CAER has performed research seeking cost-effective, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly ways to use coal and carbon. However, the low cost of oil and gasoline discouraged energy companies from seeking alternative fuels. As the c...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...filling station at Forus, the first in Norway, was opened last August and will be joined by a further four on the main road that hugs the country's southern coast. Eventually these stations will form a 360-mile long "hydrogen highway" stretching from Stavanger to Oslo. "The goal is that by 2009 it will be...

Genetic Factors Behind Mosquitoes Resistance to Malaria Identified

...s also want to get rid of malaria. This finding opened my eyes to the fact that mosquitoes are almost as unhappy about malaria as we are. They try to get rid of it. Dr. Johann Deisenhofer, who was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to describe the structure of a pro...

World's First Face Transplant Patient Feels She is Alive Again

...zed by the results of my transplant and that I had opened the door to many others," Dinoire said. "You don't know how good that made me feel." She said she still lived with the possibility that her body would reject the new tissue, and had already recovered from two episodes when doctors feared rejectio...

Switzerland Approves Brain Cancer Vaccine

...s is an unprecedented product. The whole field has opened up with this vaccine." The product works by combining the patient's immune cells with so-called cancer biomarkers from the tumor. DCVax-Brain allows the immune system to fight the disease without side effects. Studies found the medicine delays recur...

Paris Spotted Smoking Pot!

...moke. "She took a huge puff off of a joint, then opened the door and exhaled the pot smoke basically in my face," the New York Post quoted the source, as saying. The new has come weeks after the 'Simple Life' star told Larry King that she has not used drugs at all. After her interview with King, multi...

Canada Daycare Looks After Elderly Parents While Children Work

...ldren in this booming western Canadian metropolis, opened its first facility for the elderly in January. Although it has not been entirely successful, the company is now considering expanding into Toronto and Montreal in the east. So far, Kids and Company has partnered with a retirement home in a Calgar...

McDonald's to Start Coffee Chain in Japan

...rapid rise in coffeeshops since US giant Starbucks opened the chain's first store outside of North America in Tokyo in 1996. Several coffeeshop chains are now competing in Japan including Starbucks, fellow Seattle company Tully's Coffee and several local franchises....

Los Angeles Diocese Opts for Huge Payout in Sexual Abuse Cases

...o seek punitive damages something that could have opened the church to tens of millions of dollars in payouts if the ruling had been expanded to other cases....

Japanese Soak in Their Noodles

...their bowl of ramen . A Japanese spa on Saturday opened special baths meant to resemble ramen, complete with bath salt shaped like the dangling delicacy, a giant pair of chopsticks overhead and water the aroma of pepper. "The aroma of pepper is said to have the effects of refreshing your mind, warming y...

Cytokine IL6 as a New Chemotherapeutic Target for Ras-driven Cancers

...Targeting secreted proteins that Ras activates has opened the door to inhibit the oncogenic signal of Ras via druggable proteins," states Dr. Counter....

'PizzaExpress' is the 'most Veggie' Food Chain

... 1965 by Peter Boizot and the first restaurant was opened in Wardour Street in London with a pizza oven and chef imported from Italy. Shoe company Converse was given the 'best cruelty-free trainers' award while Smile Bank was given bank of the year award....

Reason Behind Sleepy Feeling During Sickness Found

...ersity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign the study has opened up an area that should be a fertile ground for research. "We've known for years now that TNF-alpha induces changes in sleep patterns. This is the beginning of connecting it with genes involved in circadian rhythms, Johnson said....

Zambia Opens First Cancer Hospital

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Thursday opened a 10 million dollar specialist cancer hospital which will enable patients to receive treatment at home for the first time . Mwanawasa said the National Cancer Diseases Hospital (NCDH) was built following a growth in the number of cancer patients in...

A Centre for Glycemic Index Testing Opened in Chennai

...with the U.K.-based Oxford Brookes University, has opened a new Glycemic Index Testing Centre in Chennai . For the people of the city that subsist on rice and its products, this is a significant development. For now scientific testing methodology is generating enough substantiation about the Glycemic Inde...

Wine Woos World as Trade Fair Opens

...erent countries. Vinexpo 2007 will officially be opened Monday June 18 by the newly-appointed French ministers for the Environment, Alain Juppe, and Agriculture and Fisheries, Christine Lagarde....

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