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Yesteryear Bond Babe Britt Ekland is Todays Grumpy Old Woman

Swedish actress Britt Ekland is all set to turn into a grumpy old woman . The former Bond girl has been roped in to star in a touring stage production of the hit BBC show Grumpy Old Women. The 64-year-old actress will join the likes of Denise Black and Dillie Keane to portray the chara...

Himachal Pradesh Under the Grip of Suspected Typhus Fever Outbreak

...n visiting the affected villages and medical camps set up for check-ups of patients coming from Deol and Fatar areas. "It's been three days since the child got fever. We showed him to the doctor on Wednesday. Though he has got some relief due to the medicines, yet the fever has not come down," said Lal...

US Companies Cut Junk Food Ads on Kids' Shows

...f-imposed guidelines of the group. "Each company set its own standards. What I expect will happen is that companies will reformulate products to meet these standards," predicted Susan Linn, cofounder of the Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood. She said, for example, that they might ...

Afghanistan Hopes to Eradicate Polio in Two Years

Afghanistan has set itself a target to eradicate the deadly poliomyelitis virus within two years with the support of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) member states, Afghan Health Minister Muhammed Amin Fatimi said here Friday. About 7.4 million children in...

Indian Weather Station Near Glacier to Study Global Warming

...the first time, an Indian weather station is being set up near a Himalayan glacier to study the impact of climate change and provide weather details and warnings to mountaineers . "We are setting up an Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS), a warning and recording system that includes a microprocessor controll...

Website Offers to Help Women Raise Money for Breast Enhancement

...heir photographs . Visit www.myFreeimplants.com, set up a profile, upload your photos and then go on to interact with other members. Once you have uploaded their personal details, hair, eye colour and the like, you can have a one-on-one chat online with benefactors and sell them "personal items or g...

Paris Launches Drive for Clean Cars

...ours and which can be dropped off at various sites set up in Paris, Delanoe said in an interview with RMC radio and BFM-TV. "The idea is that you won't have to use a car for anything other than what is truely indispensable," the Socialist mayor said. The clean car service would mirror a new scheme bein...

Two More Unwanted Children Left at Japan's 'baby Hatch'

...asily abandon their children. The hospital said it set up the anonymous drop-off to help children and troubled women who would otherwise resort to abortion or even infanticide to cope with unwanted babies. Abortion is widely accepted in Japan, where adoption outside of extended families is rare. The ha...

Children Born After PGD as Healthy as Kids Born After ART

...additional manipulation of a delicate organism, we set out to study whether this had any effect on the health of children who were born as a result of this procedure", said Professor Ingeborg Liebaers. The scientists first collected data on the pregnancies by giving questionnaires to patients on the da...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

...e tea-growing town of Jorhat in eastern Assam, was set up in 1901 and is currently the world's biggest facility for tea research. Apart from tea extracts, Tea Cola contains certain permissible additives and some sweeteners. "The idea to develop Tea Cola is nothing but value addition to tea. The idea is...

The Danger in Candy Cigarettes

...s that playing with candy cigarettes may favorably set the minds of some children towards becoming future cigarette smokers . The study, reported in the July issue of Preventive Medicine, shows that in a nationally representative sample of 25,887 US adults, the percentages who had never consumed candy...

Hot Tips for Keeping Your PC Cool in Summer

... BIOS (basic input-output services) is composed of set up screens that typically can be entered at the time you reboot your computer. A keystroke entered at the bootup screen generally gets you into the BIOS. There, you will often see a screen devoted to temperature readings from inside your PC. If the...

Sunita Returns June 21 After 194-day Record Space Odyssey

Indian American astronaut, Sunita Williams is all set to return home June 21 after a record breaking 19...T) Thursday, US space agency NASA said. Sunita had set off from here Dec 9 on space shuttle Discovery on what was to become the longest space journey by a ...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...ave damaged the girl's immune system in a way that set her up for autism. But none of Cedillo's other witnesses had much specialized knowledge in mercury or other metals, and the focus quickly shifted to the theory that the attenuated measles virus had created a persistent infection in her gut, causing a...

US Dentists Help Victims of Domestic Violence Smile Again

...e Susan Kauffman. Not only does she have a perfect set of teeth, but after enduring physical abuse repeatedly in her life, she also has renewed self-esteem. "I had a broken spirit," Kauffman said. "I became very isolated ... and became a recluse." Kauffman, 62, grew up poor. She said she didn't own a t...

Weizmann Researchers Developed Control Switch for Protein Activity

... first stage of the method consists of preparing a set of genetically engineered proteins (called a libra...ctiveness of the method it turns out that a small set of engineered proteins is needed to find the ones that respond to the drug. With their greater resou...

Generic Competitor for Plavix Blocked in US

...rsion were allowed. The judge said damages will be set in an amount to be determined at future proceedings....

The New Recruitment Process Leaves Thousands of Doctors Jobless

...d, did not ask revelent questions or allow them to set out relevant qualifications and experience, and had no facility for attaching a CV. This has resulted in many doctors not being selected for their first-choice NHS trusts, and a significant number not getting any interviews calls at all. Now the...

Desalination of Sea is Not a Solution to Tackle Global Water Scarcity: WWF

...the Royal Academy of Engineering. "Desalination is set to become more important because the demand for water is going to increase, and a large percentage of the world's population is situated in coastal areas, the BBC quoted him as saying. The study was published as Australia announced plans to build o...

Kerala to Set Up Holistic Tourism Centre to Promote Medical Tourism

Kerala is soon to set up a holistic tourism centre that will promote medical tourism besides other attractions for visitors, state Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said here Wednesday . "This centre would combine various segments of tourism like ayurveda, farm to...

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