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Tougher Tobacco Rules Urged at Global Anti-smoking Talks

...," Hatai told a press conference held as the talks got underway. "The Formula One is sponsored by several tobacco companies, and the racing is broadcast to Thailand from other countries," he said. "We need cooperation from other countries to put tough controls on this, on top of our attempts on the n...

Nurse Has Miraculous Escape as Window is Blown Off an Air Ambulance

... Monday. He said he pushed as hard as he could and got enough air between his chest and the window to break the suction and pull himself back inside the aircraft. "I have a vivid picture of looking at the tail of the plane and seeing my headset dangling out of the plane," Fogg said. He fell back into...

Robbie Donates 1.5 Million Pounds to Help His Native People Beat Addiction

...d hand-written lyrics, including hit Angels, which got 27,000 pounds. The singer has been involved in other charity works as well, for he organised a charity football match in May 2006, to raise funds in Africa, with the help of pal actor/musician Jonathan Wilkes....

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

... parochial basis, so it's vital to be there. We've got to talk and make the whole world listen. Live Ea... 'Dealing with climate change doesn't mean we have got to stop live performances or call for a moratorium on football matches. There are positive choices f...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onnasis Phobia Over Daughters Weight Gain Revealed

...d drugs, but she did not mind it when her daughter got sloshed as long as she did not gain pounds. Jac...did drugs, but she didn't seem to care if Caroline got smashed on beer or stoned on grass. It was only when Caroline gained a pound or two that Jackie reac...

Alcohol Abuse, Addiction Hits 3 of 10 Americans

... 21.9. But the average age at which people first got treatment for dependence was 29.8 years. "Alcohol dependence was significantly more prevalent among men, whites, Native Americans, younger and unmarried adults and those with lower incomes," the study's authors wrote in a summary of the study, whic...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

... the workers who were exposed to the Q fever agent got sick and that Texas A&M was going beyond health monitoring standards at other select-agent labs by monitoring workers' blood for the organism. He said the university believed that the threshold for reporting worker exposure was a confirmed illness. ...

Five Killed by Methane Gas on Virginia Farm

...of the Showalter's four children. By the time he got to the pit a few feet away, "They were all gone, except Phyillis." Layman said he tried to pull the woman out of the pit but could not. She died, along with daughters Shayla, 11, and Christina, 9, and farmhand Amous Stoltzfus, 24. The Showalters'...

Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls

...creening of Bollywood blockbusters. Nair said she got the idea of this collaboration of filmmakers to raise awareness about the disease from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is funding the project, according to USINFO, a US government website. A foundation representative contacted Nair and ...

Pete Doherty Gets a Rehab or Jail Ultimatum

...hed his already thought-out rehab plans. "I have got no choice, have I. It's rehab or jail. I was going to rehab anyway to be honest with you - this is just a little push," Doherty said. Judge Lachhar said that she decided to give Doherty another chance, after learning that he had been offered the ch...

Sporty Spice Fears That She Might Never Get Pregnant

...amage I caused, the Sun quoted her, as saying. I got so thin when I wasnt eating my periods stopped and...I could, knowing perfection is impossible and that got me very sick, she added. The singer, who is a healthy size ten now, said that nowadays the pressur...

Smashing Times for Stressed Spaniards

...sed out city residents to let off steam. "That's got to be worth 15 years' therapy," says jobless Jorge...ll as a so far fruitless job search. But once he got hold of the hammer there was no stopping him and soon he had virtually destroyed the room, its bathr...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...the poison. "That moment was the closest the CIA got to assassinating Fidel," retired state security ge...ss to Castro and was in a financial bind. But Orta got cold feet. Escalante said more poisoned pills, one batch disguised in a bottle of Bayer aspirins, ...

More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens

... police that would lead us to believe that we have got issues with our overseas trained doctors, Indian-trained or otherwise," he said. Federal police also are combing through 31,000 documents - some of them in foreign languages - seized in the raids, including on laptop computers. The raids follow t...

Flu Outbreak Among Children Feared in Western Australia

... about large numbers ... we had three children who got sick very quickly," he said. Two of the children fell ill in Perth's Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and tests revealed they had developed a form of pneumonia. "Samples taken from the two children who died in hospital suggested they had s...

Mukherjee Inaugurates Tele-education and Tele-medicine Centres in Addis Ababa

The much awaited Pan-Africa e-network got underway today when External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a tele-education centre at the Addis Ababa University here. The project is the direct outcome of an offer made by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in 2004 during the inaugural ...

Bangladeshi Wins America's Junior Miss Contest

...977. They both earned their Ph.Ds in chemistry and got jobs with 3M. "We are very lucky. God blessed us with amazingly intelligent, talented children," Mahfuza said....

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

...e's death from alleged wrong treatment. He has now got a nod from Ana Palacio, senior vice-president of the World Bank, to go public with potentially damaging information about distribution of dud HIV testing kits in India. "In a letter, the World Bank has informed me that they have no intention to re...

Selenium Supplements Could Increase Diabetes Risk

...time, they reported any new diabetes diagnoses and got their blood levels of selenium checked twice yearly. During the study, 58 participants in the selenium group reported being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, compared with 39 people taking the placebo. The possible link between type 2 diabetes and ...

Skin Cancer Rates Soar In Warmer Regions Of UK

...ple spending time outdoors. On top of that we have got increasing numbers of people using tanning facilities."Under the European Commission guidance, sunscreen manufacturers have been asked to simplify the way sun creams are labeled, designating them as low, medium, high or very high protection....

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