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Make Up Unhealthy for Skin

...d. "If lipstick gets into your mouth it is broken down by the enzymes in saliva and in the stomach. But chemicals get straight into your bloodstream, there is no protection. Warnings over using out-of-date lipstick and mascara have also been issued by the Royal College of Optometrists, which believes s...

Now, It's Possible to Trace Marijuana to Its Roots

...nvironment that it used to be grown in. It is laid down in time and preserved in the materials that make up a plant," Wooller said. The testing at the UAF facility is novel because, for each sample, scientists are taking the isotopic signatures of four elements, rather than for just a single one, Wooller...

Researchers Link Bacteria Destroying Proteins to Alzheimer's Treatment

...de the cell. Once inside the cell, APP is broken down into pieces, some of which are the amyloid beta proteins. If the antibodies are not present, the proteins start clustering and ultimately kill the cell. The scientists showed that the antibodies prevent this from happening by reducing accumulation of...

Drug Addiction Slowing Down: UN Report

Drug addiction worldwide appears to be slowing down for almost every kind of illicit drug, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said on Friday. "Some obvious problems remain, like opium in the south of Afghanistan, a cancer that threatens security and health and breeds corruption," said UNO...

Talks Break Down in Polish Nurses' Pay Protest

...h sector crisis deepened Friday as pay talks broke down between the conservative government and the countr...ay hikes. The Polish government is already facing down hospital doctors who since May 21 have been refusing to provide all but emergency medical services o...

Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming

...uter models tended to move too much carbon dioxide down toward ground level in the summer, when growing trees and other plants take in the gas, and not enough carbon dioxide up from ground level in the winter. As a result, scientists believed that there was less carbon in the air above mid-latitude and ...

Indian Yoga Expert Teaches Fitness Mantras to Lahoris

...ome in handy. However, keeping the level of stress down could be done by ones own effort, he said. If someone is angry, no yoga expert can help him. The best technique is to drink a glass of water and try to smile, the Daily Times quoted him as saying....

Civic Authorities in US Seek to Stem Urban Decay

... razing mainly single-family houses. The city took down about 400 housing units last year and may exceed t...ives and bemoans her joblessness. ''You get rats down here because of these empty houses,'' she said. ''People are leaving.'' Jay Williams, the city's pe...

More Fat Leads to Less Coronary Artery Calcification

...ification than men with a higher BMI.What it comes down to is a kind of double-edged relationship, said Baqiyyah Conway, M.P.H., lead author of the abstract, adding that these associations of less severe artery calcification with greater fat persisted even when controlling for standard cardiovascular dise...

World Wine Sales Brisk, but French Producers Hungover

...spirits industry remains wary that it may be taken down the same road as the tobacco industry and is in consequence keen to self-regulate and take responsible drinking seriously. But Robert Joseph, a wine critic and 20 year veteran of the wine business, said the industry "will get, and deserves, a lot o...

India to Get a Taste of 'British' Curries

... and ask for recipes. That's how I started writing down my recipes," she said. In 1999, Malhi won a cook...l, however, steer clear of dishes not likely to go down well in India. Black pudding which is cooked in blood, usually from a pig, and tripe and onions ar...

Chinese City Turns Off the Air-con

...s suits in favour of t-shirts in an effort to cool down cheaply, and ordered that air-conditioning units in most public buildings be set no cooler than 26 degrees Celsius. China's demand for energy has soared as its economy has boomed over the past 15 years. Parts of Shanghai suffered power cuts recent...

Frustration and Anger of the Medical Profession Highlighted in Archdeacon's Speech

...ion and anger abound in those who now feel weighed down by bureaucracy, administrative intrusion rather than clinical judgement, over-regulation, league tables and market-based reforms; all of which contribute to feelings of unease, anxiety and even disillusionment, and that amongst some of the most highl...

Talking About Your Feelings Really Does Help

...therapist, or a pal, or even putting your feelings down on paper, produces a therapeutic effect in the brain, thereby helping us feel better. Psychologists at UCLA, led by Dr Matthew D. Lieberman, conducted the new brain imaging study. When people see a photograph of an angry or fearful face, they have ...

Meditation Increases Attention - A Brain Scan Report

...ctivity as they start meditating, and then it came down to baseline, as if they were able to concentrate in an effortless way," says Davidson. Effortless concentration is described in classic meditation texts, adds Davison. "And we think this may be a neural reflection of that. These results illustrate ...

Japan's All-star Speed Eater Suffers Professional Injury

A Japanese man who set a world record by wolfing down dozens of hot dogs within minutes has suffered a s...log entry posted Sunday. Last year, Kobayashi put down a world-record 53 and three-quarters hot dogs in just 12 minutes. In addition to the Nathan's Famo...

Street-protesting Polish Nurses Threaten to Stay Put

...because it claims it is a government ruse to water down protests by different branches of the health service. Kaczynski's conservative government is already facing a go-slow by hospital doctors, who since May 21 have been refusing to provide all but emergency medical services or carry out administrative...

West Told to Stop Blaming China for Pollution

...e foreign investments, Yakcop said. "We can't slow down because we've got plenty of poverty." Chen Feng, chairman of China Hainan Airlines, supported the need for collective global action in tackling the serious environmental problem. He said industrialisation in the West, particularly in the UK more th...

Boutiques Flourish in Ludhiana

... Fashion designers make clothes for models walking down the ramp and not for clients like us. Here, in bou... Now, who says that fabulous models can only walk down the ramp? Boutiques very well understand the need and emotions of the worlds most prime customers. H...

Brits Experiencing Moth Trouble With Their Cashmeres

...s are the recyclers of the natural world, breaking down fur, wool and feathers in the wild. Only two of the 2,500 species in Britain are known to eat clothes. Here are ten ways to keep your clothes from becoming a moth meal. Moth Balls: Soaked with a noxious cocktail of chemical insecticide and deodor...

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