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Scot's National Drink, Now Available at 1,000 Pounds a Nip

...ale for 1,000 pounds a measure. Available at the main bar at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, the rare Jo...alnut lacquer box in a display case in the hotel's main bar. Johnnie Walker says it has given bottles of this limited edition to "individuals deemed to h...

Jharkhand Village Shocked to Know About Its Huge HIV Positive Population

...do not care about the victims. Unemployment is the main reason behind the spread of this disease. The cases are not made public because of fear of social boycott," said Nand Kishore, a social worker. Authorities have stepped in with medical assistance and are planning a slew of measures to educate peop...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

... infected do not develop any disease at all. The main route of human infection with West Nile virus is through the bite of an infected mosquito. Investigations have identified WNV transmission through transplanted organs and through blood transfusions also. There has been one reported case of disease be...

Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate

...masses even a year after its formal launch. The main aim of the programme is to give hands on training to local vets. The SPCA has been provided with a fund of rupees 445/- for each dog, which includes medicine, surgery equipment, vaccinations and other expenses. For the first phase, a financial a...

Men, Not Women, Spend a Longer Time on the Phone!

...Twenty nine percent of men said that sports is the main topic of their conversation and 22 pct discuss mysteries of women. Twenty percent chat about mysteries of money; the survey carried out by loyalty card company Nectar and the telecommunications firm Talk Talk revealed. Thirty two percent of women...

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

...EA) believes a pumping station in the pond is the main culprit. Its officers found over 600 mosquito larv...l this whole outbreak is over." Mr Khaw said the main problem is that mosquitoes now carry a different strain of dengue that causes more people to come do...

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

...casualty-receiving unit for the Nimitz CSG. The main objective is to maintain a high level of readiness to respond to any emergency situations, said Captain Michael C Manazir. The hospital corpsmen and healthcare professionals staff six ``battle dressing stations'' throughout the ship during all drills...

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

...r slow to spot a marketing opportunity, the city's main venues are making the most of the calendar quirk. ...ng locations. At Paris Las Vegas, meanwhile, the main chapel is fully booked with 35 weddings, so the resort will perform a mass wedding for 14 couples in...

Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

...ist, Jo Butten, said that a sandwich was often the main constituent of one of three meals in the day, and so that fact that it contained a third of the recommended daily intake of salt was not necessarily a problem. However, she cautioned that if it was combined with other things, such as a packet of cr...

Curative Qualities of Tamil Nadus Kuttralam Waterfalls

...thi, a tourist at Kuttralam, said: "We went to the main waterfall first, since there was a great gush of water; then we went to enjoy boating."...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...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 possible to drive a hydrogen-powered car along the entire ro...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

...ystem is plagued with long delays and this was the main reason that HSE decided to out source tests. Well Woman Centre Chief Executive Ms Alison Begas said the move by the HSE was purely system driven and did not take into account the fact that the method of reporting results in the US differs from tha...

New Insights into Prion Propogation

... -- infectious, oddly-folded proteins that are the main suspects in fatal neurodegenerative diseases such as Cruetzfeldt-Jakob and bovine spongiform encephalopathy , or "mad cow" -- remain mostly a mystery to scientists. Very few prions have been fully described. How they infect and propagate is not fully...

Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

...a large phone bill at the end of the month." The main cost of using such devices is the cost of sending electronic signals between them and the transportation center that is doing the monitoring. Normally, controller boxes transmit their data very frequently. Some do so as often as once every twenty sec...

Exercise Reduces Inflammation

... and metabolic syndrome, he said. Woods said the main question motivating the current research was, What factors are related to CRP in the elderly? Weve known that as people age, their CRP levels go up, Vieira said. Thats one of the reasons why older individuals are more prone to develop inflammation-...

Rapid Response Teams Formed in Madhya Pradesh to Fight Diseases

... interactive terminal (SIT) has been formed in the main state surveillance unit and places have been selected to set up other SITs at the district level....

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

... gather blood and prime the ventricles, the hearts main pumps. The original form of atrial ablation, using surgical tools, is still employed, but almost always restricted to cases where the chest is already being cut open for heart valve replacement or other surgery. But most atrial ablations are now...

Stem Cells In Belly Fat To Enhance Or Reconstruct Breasts

...tion that leads to irregular contours." Yet, the main hitch is the fat absorption issue. According to Kinney, if this could be worked out, "It would not be surprising in the future -- with refinement in technique -- that this could be of benefit to women who need augmentation or reconstruction. "But it ...

Fasting Makes Women Talk Less

...earchers concluded, "fasting affects voice". The main reason for this the researchers say, is dehydration. Since Ramadan fasting includes refraining from liquids as well as food, the larynxes tend to dry up leading to inability to speak much. "(The study) supports what we as voice therapists constantl...

Indonesia Confirms 81st Bird Flu Death

...at Jakarta's Sulianti Saroso hospital, Indonesia's main centre for treating victims of the virus. He showed symptoms on July 1 but was only admitted to hospital four days later and immediately transferred to Jakarta. Ningrum said it was unclear whether the victim had come into contact with dead or inf...

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