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Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

...isolated speck of land in the Pacific Ocean, which once had a population estimated to be as many as 20,000 people. Its civilisation expired in the 18th century in a bloody sunset of internecine warfare and cannibalism after the trees which provided fuel and timber were all cut down. Prolonged drought ...

Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

...id they have won dozens of cases. Homosexuality, once a de facto condition for barring foreigners from entering the country, is now officially recognized by the U.S. government as a category that might subject individuals to persecution in their homeland, just as if they were political dissidents in a d...

Food Colour in Sausages, Burgers Could Trigger Cancer

...ns," he added. A spokesman for the FSA said that once the meeting is concluded, the agency will decide what action to take. The EFSA is re-assessing the scientific evidence on all food colourings as part of a wider review of a range of food additives presently authorised for use in the EU. A spokesm...

Replacement Drivers Lend a Helping Hand to the Drunk and Stranded in Korea

...ng the customer kicking and raving. My teenage son once asked me not to tell his friends what my job was,. Hur said. The most common problem, he said, is having customers who cant tell north from south, east from west, in their own neighborhood. Then there are those who refuse to wake up. Drivers often ...

Plant Growth Regulated by Both Internal Clock and External Light: Study

...ts of Arabidopsis seedlings show a spurt of growth once a day. They claimed that the timing of that growth spurt is controlled by both the plant's internal clock and its exposure to light, acting on two genes called PIF 4 and PIF 5. Julin Maloof, assistant professor of plant biology at UC Davis, who is ...

Macca Calls for Veggie World to Prevent Global Warming

...Cartney also recalled the spat his late wife Linda once had with the then President of the World Wildlife Fund, Prince Philip, over the shooting of birds. "She said, 'You're the head of a wildlife organisation, how can you go out shooting birds?'" he said. "'Are you vegetarian?' he asked, trying to ...

No Sex Education, Say Uttar Pradesh Teachers

...eachers to curb embarrassing queries from students once the material is put on display in accordance with the wishes of the government," Sharma said. The association proposes to issue a circular to all its members to oppose the entry of the books and teaching material in their own educational institution...

Two In One Drug For Smokers And Drinkers

...ink alcohol and measured the effect of varenicline once the animals became the lab equivalent of heavy drinkers. They found the drug curbed their drinking. Even when stopped, the rats resumed drinking but did not binge. The study is outlined in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

Simple Blood Test May Predict Alzheimers Disease

... a year for a diagnosis and only spots the disease once its symptoms have set in. Says Research director Professor Simon Lovestone: "There are hundreds of drugs in development but the costs, even for large pharmaceutical companies, are immense and almost prohibitive."A year's clinical trial can cost 12mi...

Scientists Identify "master Switch" for Brown Fat in Mice

...continued research in mice shows promising results once again. "You might not have to implant a large amount of engineered precursors in people who are at risk for being obese. In theory, you would only have to reduce the accumulation of white fat by 1 percent or so to have an effect," said Dr. Spiegel...

Normal People can Only Remember Four Things at a Time

...sonable that people who think about more things at once might also have clearer memories than average, we found that this assumption was not the case," Professor Vogel said. Professor Awh, the lead author of the study published in the journal Psychological Science, also says that the same people who can...

Food Fortification With Folic Acid Does The Trick

... showed the biggest decline in neural tube defects once the cereals were treated with the B vitamin. Researchers collected data on almost two million pregnancies from hospitals in seven provinces to observe changing rates of neural-tube defects between 1993 and 2002. A total of 2,446 subjects with such ...

Gays Who Dabble With Death

...ontracting the virus is not the death sentence it once was and homosexuals are consequently less afraid of risking casual unprotected sex. A recent court case in Melbourne in which a 48-year-old was charged with deliberately infecting two men and trying to infect 14 others suggests that something more ...

Paris Exhausted After Excessive Partying

...The Simple Life star returned to the LA club scene once again, just two weeks after she was released from the slammer. The socialite was seen at hotspot Les Deux on a girls night out on June 6, with a group including her sister Nicky and Erin Foster (daughter of music producer David Foster). The Sim...

Pain Doctor in Virginia Sentenced to Five Years Imprisonment

...ocating liberal use of opiates for pain treatment, once appearing on television talk show to tout his views. He said many doctors under treat pain because they ignore patient complaints or they are fearful of harassment by drug-enforcement agents. Between 1998 and 2002, Hurwitz drew more than 400 patien...

Ujjain Ashram Adopts Eco-friendly Burial Process

...r six months, sapling of a tree is planted - which once grown up benefits us with its fruits and oxygen." The unusual methodology of burial is said to be based on the theory that all mortal remains should merge in nature. At least 35 people have been reportedly buried following this method and another...

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

... to fear the environment where the foot shocks had once occurred. "In our study, we employ mice to show that extinction of learned fear depends on counteracting components of a molecular pathway involving the protein kinase Cdk5," said Tsai, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. "We found t...

Patients Taking Inhaled Steroids may Develop Pneumonia

...d steroids and that reduction in risk was observed once the medications were stopped. Among all patients taking inhaled steroids, there was a 53 percent increase in pneumonia deaths within 30 days of being admitted to the hospital. The investigators noted that these findings are particularly relevant, g...

Cops Fine Doherty for Littering

...rocker Pete Doherty got into trouble with the cops once again, this time for littering . The Babyshambles singer boarded a blue minicab and was stopped by the police as soon as they spotted him chucking garbage out of the window in Londons Regents Park. An onlooker said that the troubled rocker looke...

Attempt to Build Artificial Muscles from Carbon Nanofibres in the Offing

... repeatedly compressed it between two steel plates once every 0.75 seconds for over 100 hours. The team found that even after 500,000 compressions, in which the tubes were repeatedly squashed to 75 per cent of their original length, the block kept pinging back almost to its original shape."The nanotubes b...

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