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Insufficient Sleep Increases Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Study

...sleep, and again after five nights when they got a mere four hours of shut-eye each night. The electrocardiograms revealed that all of the volunteers had a much faster heart beat and significantly less heart rate variability following the nights of sleep deprivation. Heart rate variability describes th...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

...es was only 23 percent of the global average and a mere 4 percent of that of the US, 12 percent of the EU and 15 percent of Japan. There has also been an effective de-linking of energy and economic growths where the former has been expanding by 2.76 percent, while the gross domestic product has been gro...

Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats

...ve reduced the government and security agencies to mere spectators with their threats and extortion demands triggering panic. Last year, the headquarters of the taxation department in Imphal was locked for weeks after rebel groups slapped huge extortion demands to the officials....

Ayurveda Resorts in Kerala Gear Up for the Monsoon Season

...ack, the ayurveda tourism industry in Kerala saw a mere five percent occupancy during the monsoons but in most resorts, it is expected to cross 70 percent occupancy this season. Almost all resorts, whether big or small, now boast of an ayurveda spa. And they all have separate vegetarian kitchens, as veg...

High Level ICU Facilities Afford Greater Survival Chances for Small Infants

...ve formal relationships with high-level NICUs, the mere fact that they have such a relationship is no guarantee that the lower-level NICUs are going to get the same level of results as can be obtained at the large high volume NICUs," Dr. Phibbs said. Dr. Phibbs and his colleagues determined that as much...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...tates is the world's largest polluter. Housing a mere 5 percent of the world's population, it accounts for 22 percent of its fossil fuel consumption, 50 percent of its solid waste, and, on average, each citizen consumes 53 times more goods than a person in China, according to the environmental nonprofit...

Green Campaigners Concerned About Yamuna's Shrinking Floodplains

...ercial establishments like hotels in the name of a mere 10-day-long sporting event called the Commonwealth Games (to be held in India in 2010)." By some accounts, the Yamuna is one of the most polluted rivers in the world, especially around the Indian capital. The river has been badly affected by the ...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

...c Hospital in capital Srinagar reveals that from a mere 775 people visiting the hospital in 1985, the number has soared up to 60,000 in the year 2006 alone. In the first 10 years of the conflict, the number of patients at the Out Patient Department (OPD) of the valleys only government hospital for psych...

Modest Increase in Urban Parks Could Equalize Global Warming Until 2080s

...anchester has revealed. According to the team, a mere 10 percent increase in the amount of green space in built-up centres would reduce urban surface temperatures by as much as four degrees Centigrade. This 4C drop in temperature is equivalent to the average predicted rise through global warming by th...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...t the Horticultural Technologies warehouse were no mere coincidence, firefighters say. As the number of funerals rose (six firefighters and one police sergeant who fought the blaze have since died of cancer) attempts to get compensation for their widows from Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board ...

Fleetwood Macs Buckinghams Ex Reveals All About His Cocaine Past

...ce, to see her beau seated on a couch staring at a mere of his own disgusting biohazard vomit, upon the foot-deep carpet. (Clark) was staring at Lindsey as though he were something nasty that he just scraped off the bottom of his shoe, she wrote. The hosts guard got the rocker out of his room and as ...

China to Replace France as World's Top Tourism Destination by 2014

...s from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, compared to a mere 300,000 in 1978. They said that while tourism growth in France has been slow, China has been enjoying double-digit expansion for years. As a result, China, originally expected to overtake France as the number one tourism destination in 2020, is ...

RNA Play a Vital Role in Gene Activity

...all of evidence suggesting that RNA is more than a mere genomic servant. RNA is best known for ferrying protein-coding instructions from DNA, once thought to be the master molecule of the genome, to the cell's assembly factories. But cracks in this theory began to appear when it became evident that many...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...s the main priority of the provider and money is a mere tool to achieve it. 8. On National Doctors Day, give us your thoughts on how India could improve the lot of doctors in the country? Uniformity of basic standards and infrastructure is a fundamental aspect of job satisfaction for doctors. In a ...

Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...n acre or two of land. Growth has clocked in at a mere two percent -- far behind the wider figure of nine percent -- leading the government to wager six billion dollars in a push for large-scale, industrial farms. 'Small and marginal farms have become an unviable proposition,' said Indian Prime Minister...

Scorching Heat in Rajasthan Has Pushed the Sale of Beer to a Record High

...ty percent of the bar occupants prefer beer with a mere ten percent opting for hard liquor. Customers feel that beer is apt for chilling as well as stimulating effects in sultry climate. "It is too hot outside and I had to have a drink since I was thirsty. The extract of barley which is considered as ...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...tween seizures and the genius trait is more than a mere coincidence. Some have felt that epilepsy may be connected to having an unusual giftedness. Some scientists have however discredited this "epilepsy and genius" connection. Dr. Jerome Engel, Professor of Neurology at the University of California Scho...

Pain Doctor in Virginia Sentenced to Five Years Imprisonment

... turned around on that issue," Brinkema said. "The mere prescription of huge quantities of opioids doesn't mean anything." The most serious charges of drug trafficking resulting in death was thrown out by Judge Leonie Brinkema. The case against Hurwitz was part of a long-running federal, state and loc...

American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record

...ion Wednesday, gobbling a whopping 66 weiners in a mere 12 minutes in the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating contest. American Joey Chestnut ended Japan's Takeru 'Tsunami' Kobayshi's remarkable streak to the cheers of a crowd of 50,000, according to police estimates. Only Tuesday, Kobayashi was co...

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