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Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

...," he said, looking expressionlessly at the opaque grey water. "But after the eighties the population started growing and the river became dirty." More people means more waste, and all of Delhi's three and a half billion litres (950 million gallons) of daily urine, excrement and other waste flow into ...

Doctors Puzzled Over Man's Normal Life With Unusually Tiny Brain

...ssively expanded. "The brain itself, meaning the grey matter and white matter, was completely crushed against the sides of the skull," Feuillet told AFP. "The images were most unusual... the brain was virtually absent," he said. The patient's medical history showed that at the age of six months, he ...

Manic Depression Linked With Shrinking Brain

.... As part of the study, researchers examined the grey matter in the brain of people with bipolar disorder. The study found that the loss of grey matter tissue was concentrated in areas of the brain which control memory, face recognition and co-o...

Gay Pride Attracts Tens of Thousands in Rome

...adimir Luxuria, a transvestite lawmaker who wore a grey and red satin gown, told AFP: "I hope that 2007 will be the year when the rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals are recognised to give us all more peaceful lives." Several government ministers turned up to demonstrate their support. "I am here to ...

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

...cans showed that the size of the entire cortex, or grey matter, was on average 5% smaller in those with the worst symptoms, while a part of the brain called the cingulate gyrus was 6% smaller. Those with the worst symptoms also scored between 12 and 15% lower on learning and memory tests. They plan to sca...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

...stoms Service, told the court that there were some grey areas with Stallones story: Customs says the four bottles of testosterone were not in that bag and not observed on that night in the search of that bag. He threw the four vials from his hotel window into the garden beds below when he knew customs o...

Young Indians Say Cheers to White Spirits

...odka retail price is prohibitive. As a result, the grey market continues to thrive and deprive the exchequer of billions of rupees," Kapur said. If tariffs are lowered, Bacardi plans to bring Grey Goose super premium vodka into the country, besides Martini and Rossi vermouths. To comply with a WTO rulin...

Combination of Brain Scans, Reading Skill Tests can Predict Kids Reading Problems

...etry that uses the density of the brains white and grey matter to zero in on activation patterns in specific parts of key brain regions. The childrens ability to decode text was tested by using the Word Attack subtest of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test, a standardized measure of decoding. And it was d...

Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment

...cans showed that the size of the entire cortex, or grey matter, was on average 5% smaller in those with the worst symptoms, while a part of the brain called the cingulate gyrus was 6% smaller. Those with the worst symptoms also scored between 12 and 15% lower on learning and memory tests. They plan to sca...

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

...nd vice versa. Next, he used the various shades of grey in the image to confer heights on the carbon nanofibers: the blackest black was assigned a maximum height, white got a value of zero, and the computing program MATLAB calculated all the values in between. Farhoud then sent these newly acquired 3-D...

Research Finds Why Omega-3 is Able to Improve Our Mood

... fish like salmon//, are associated with increased grey matter volume in areas of the brain commonly linke...ed today, the researchers sought to investigate if grey matter volume was proportionally related to long-chain omega-3 intake in humans, especially in areas...

Missing Molecule Has Important Role in a Developmental Brain Abnormality

...s of Filamin-A, and inhibit neuronal migration.The grey matter of human cerebral cortex contains over two billion neurons, but none of them are produced in the cortex itself. Cortical neurons are born near the lining of the fluid-filled ventricles deep within the fetal brain and after their last division ...

Indian Students Thrilled to Talk to Sunita Williams

...o was attired in a sky-blue half-sleeves shirt and grey shorts, smiled before answering the first question asked by a student from Patiala. Abhishek Aggarwal, the Patiala student, had a query on future settlements in space and the growing terror threat on earth. Sunita, who is a graduate of the US Naval...

Addicts in India Taking to Pharmaceutical Drugs: UNAIDS

... as compared to heroin and easily available in the grey market. "Addicts make a cocktail of these drugs for a better high. What is painful is that in northeastern states the interface between IDUs and sex workers is increasing, leading to a higher chance of getting infected with HIV," Kumar told IANS. ...

Brain Scan Helps in Spiting Schizophrenia

...ach of the eight revealed that they had changes in grey matter that happened before they became unwell. ...udy researchers looked specifically for changes in grey matter, the brain tissue made principally of neurons that transmit messages and help to store memori...

Brain Scan may Help Doctors Predict Schizophrenia

...ths apart. They looked specifically for changes in grey matter - brain tissue made principally of neurons ...ach of the eight revealed that they had changes in grey matter that happened before they became unwell. There is no preventative treatment for schizophre...

Magnets in Commercial Products may Cause a Fatal Attraction

...hey are more magnetic than the more familiar, dull grey iron magnets. Since the cost of production of neodymium magnets are relatively lesser, these magnets are seen to be increasingly used in many hi-fi gadgets like mobile phones and even computer hard drives. It is commercially used in many toys, clothe...

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ‘authority’, Sir Roy was Not Off the Mak

...cluding from their analysis the possibility of any grey area classification, the authors created the illogical corollary that all the deaths in the series that were not unnatural must be natural." <BR...

Tobacco Smugglers are Helping Terrorists: WHO

...smuggled goods, which are sold away cheaply in the grey market - on many an occasion without necessary health warnings. "It brings a huge loss to the industry apart from damaging the public health. "There are currently 1.3 billion addicted smokers across the globe of which five million die every year,...

Let Us All Join Government To Ban Child Labour

...ent. Technical Advisory Committee elaborated the grey areas of this practice where children are subjected to physical violence, psychological traumas and sexual abuse India is one among the nations where children are brutally vanquished under child labour due to various reasons like poverty, family expe...

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