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In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash
...estimated online gaming population of more than 30 million last year and growing, there is no shortage of Chinese who are willing to play for profit. Estimates of the number of Chinese gold farmers vary from 500,000 to over one million, as teenage drop-outs and jobless 20-somethings from poor villages or u...Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile
...d Johnson Foundation announced plans to spend $500 million over the next five years to reverse the trend of childhood obesity. It will fund programs that bring supermarkets into poor neighborhoods, studies that measure the weight of children who exercise more at school and meetings of advocates who seek to r...Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine
...a year, and over 55 years in operation about three million patients have passed through the various mine areas," he said. The beneficial properties were discovered around 1946, when miners searching unsuccessfully for the last traces of gold noticed their rheumatism, skin problems and respiratory difficult...Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks
... convulsions, muscle spasms and seizures. About 50 million people worldwide suffer from the condition, with roughly 75 new cases diagnosed every day, according to Britain's National Society for Epilepsy. ``Uncontrolled seizures and drug side effects can have a devastating effect on the quality of life for ...India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent
... India is likely to increase from the present 49.8 million to 69.9 million by 2025. But, no clear picture of the prevalence of diabetes in various parts of India is available....South Africa Notes Signs of First-ever Decline in HIV Infection Rates
...caseload of HIV/AIDS, behind India, with about 5.5 million in a population of 48 million infected, as well as one of the world's highest rates of teenage pregnancy....Malaysian Astronaut to Conduct Cancer Research in Space
Malaysia's first astronaut, involved in a 25 million dollar space programme, will carry out scientific research including a study on the growth of cancer cells in outer space, reports said Wednesday. The astronaut would conduct research on cells, bacteria and the crystallisation of protein, said Abd...EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform
...ercent," Fischer-Boel told journalists. With 500 million euros currently spent each year getting rid of uns...vines. The Commission also wants a budget of 120 million euros per year, funded partially by the EU and partially by national sources, for a marketing campai...Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission
...y 2020 $3bn programme to install solar panels on a million roofs Power generators must source 20% from renewa...e fuels and help clean the air. He has accepted $1 million in campaign cash from the oil industry, and he had threatened to veto the global warming bill unless...American Bests Japanese Hot Dog Eating Champion, Sets Record
...4 holiday, a day Americans on average put away 150 million wieners across the country. For an average summer season, Americans consume about seven billion hot dogs, or 818 wieners per second....Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted
...d another released earlier this year. About five million kilograms of industrial pollutants are being released directly into the lakes, according to the report. Although fish are a food source high in protein and many health experts recommend regular consumption of them, the report said it did not want t...Skin Cancer can Be Triggered by P53 Mutation
...e most common type of human malignancy with over 1 million new cases in the USA each year. Mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor gene have been implicated in tumor formation: some give rise to a loss-of-function whereas the majority of mutations result in a gain-of-function. In the first of these two stu...NHSs Golden Handshake Shocks People
...or Peterborough PCT is £250 million, including £32 million contributed by Peterborough City Council for adult social care....Four Pakistan Children Abused Daily: SPARC Report
...ortality rates in South Asia, with an estimated 10 million children working to earn a livelihood. Khan analysing the overall report said statistics proved that Pakistan lagged behind in achieving its Millennium Development Goals, education for all targets and other international commitments....Women's Empowerment Key to Curbing AIDS: UN
...ed to be overcome if the virus, which affects 39.5 million people worldwide, was to be brought under control....ols work," she said. As of June 2006, around one million Africans were receiving antiretroviral drugs which roll back the AIDS virus, a tenfold increase sinc...US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle
...es," the CDC said in the report An estimated 1.4 million nontyphoidal human Salmonella infections occur each year, causing about 15,000 hospitalizations and 400 deaths, it said....New Spinal Cord Stimulation System Launched
...he effects of chronic pain, and approximately five million people may be candidates for SCS therapy. Boston Scientific is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a broad range of interventional medical specialties....New Drugs Show Promise in Fighting Drug-Resistant HIV
...e than 17,000 HIV infected patients. More than one million Americans are currently living with HIV, and the H...and, Calif. Kaiser Permanente serves more than 8.7 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Today it encompasses the not-for-profit Kaiser ...Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars
...China's showpiece economic cities has urged his 11 million residents to stop buying cars in a bid to ease wor...m the border from Hong Kong, now has more than one million cars, with 90,000 new cars registered already this year, the English-language China Daily reported. ...DNA Sample Suggests Greenland was Much Warmer During Last Ice Age
...dence of a boreal forest in Greenland was from 2.4 million years ago. 'These findings allow us to make a more accurate environmental reconstruction of the time period from which these samples were taken, and what we've learned is that this part of the world was significantly warmer than most people thought...Other Tagsbiologist 2biologist 3biologist 4text 2biomedical 2biomedical 3biomedical 4biomedical 5biomedical 6biomedical 7biomedical 8biomedical 9biomedical 10functions 2functions 3functions 4functions 5functions 6functions 7functions 8functions 9functions 10automatic 2those 2those 3those 4those 5those 6those 7those 8those 9those 10Other Contentsphylaphylaphylumphylumphylumphylonphysicalphysicalphysicalphysicalphysicalphysicalphysicalphysicalphysicalphysicalpinealpinealpinealpinnapinnapinocytosis
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(Date:12/1/2008)..., NY -- By discovering the meaning of a rare miner...ghamton University geologist Tim Lowenstein is hel...hat we,re probably in for over the next century or... and, ultimately, to change life as we know it. ...ace in the next hundred years or so, and that many...
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(Date:12/1/2008)...CE, R.I. [Brown University] Gray mold is a garden...ntific name Botrytis cinerea , is a scourge to mo...ies, including staples such as tomatoes, strawberr...ive, peas, peppers, and potatoes. Gray mold envelo... that poisons the host plants, cells, eventually c...
(Date:12/1/2008)... system plays an essential role in protecting us f...ch biologist Suzanne van Helden discovered that be...lose their sticky feet. This helps them to move mu...sues in search of antigens. After exposure to such...ss. During this maturation the dendritic cells mig...
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