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Science of swooning

Blackouts after a couple of drinks is a common problem for heavy drinkers and the scientist have found a solution which was a mystery until now.It may support the potentialities of a night out. Researchers at the University of Ohio College of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota say the effect of alcohol on blood vessels is to be accused.// They found, in a study of healthy young...

SNUPPY – Woo Suk Hwang reveals World’s first dog cloe

Hwang’s team put together 1095 eggs containing the DNA of a three-year-old adult male Afghan, and transferred them into 123 surrogate mothers. Just three pregnancies resulted: one miscarried// , and two others went to term. One of the clones died from pneumonia at 22 days old. “Professor Hwang and his colleagues are to be congratulated on another great success,” says Ian Wilmut, creator...

Hollywood Actress Hunter criticises Hatcher for weight loss.

Los Angeles, Aug 28. Older women who try to lose weight apparently have to choose between their face or bottom In an interesting comment on weight loss , the supermodel Rachel Hunter has criticized "Desperate Housewives" // actress Terri Hatcher on her recent weight loss. Hunter said that Hatcher's face looked older as a result of her dangerously slim body. Hunter, who was once mar...

Woodruff Foundation Grant To Support Doctorate Of Nursing Practice Program

In a step which is expected to alleviate the national nursing shortage by producing more qualified nursing professors, allowing nursing schools to enroll more students, the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation has awarded // $995,000 to the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing to support its new doctorate of nursing practice program, the 10th of its kind in the nation. Thanking the A...

Hwang Woo-Suk Apologizes For Fabricating Research

Hwang Woo-Suk, the disgraced scientist from South Korea has formally apologized for fabricating research in his stem-cell studies. "I ask for your forgiveness," he said// in a televised press conference in his first public appearance in three weeks. "I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry." Two days earlier, a Seoul National University panel investigating Hwang conc...

Hwang Woo Suk Suspended By Seoul National University

Hwang Woo Suk, the disgraced stem-cell scientist has been suspended by the Seoul National University on 10 February 2006, along with six other researchers. This measure was taken as the persons had falsified data with regard to their research work.// The seven professors are banned with immediate effect from teaching at the university or conducting research. They may face permanent dismis...

Voice Choice: Woo Men, Strike a Deep Chord

A woman’s imagination , fertile as ever, finds herself extremely attracted to Men with deep tones, pronounced during her fertile phase, according to research at St. Andrews University. // A deep voice is said to be a symbol of vitality, good health and healthy genes, the combination being the best bet for successful procreation. Earlier research had also indicated that women were dr...

South Asians in Canada being wooed by chips now!

As a strategic step taken by the Canadian snacks company Frito Lay Canada has launched a new range of potato chips which are targeting the South Asians. 40 chip flavours created and tested include seaweed, cucumber //and green tea before choosing spicy curry and wasabi for test marketing. Stores were stocking these chops from February on. In the Greater Toronto Area alone, So...

Legionnaires Investigation in Chatswood's Shopping Area

Legionnaires' disease is caused by a bacteria belonging to the Legionella family, Legionella pneumophilia. // It has already infected two women one aged in her 50s and the other in her 70s. They were admitted in the Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. New South Wales (NSW) health officials are investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. Both said that they...

Wood Appointed As the First Chair of SAADAT

Tom Wood who headed the city's drug and alcohol team is now appointed to chair the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (SAADAT). Of late Scotland suffers from an increase in the number of people taking to alcohol and drugs. // He was appointed as the head of SAADAT at the first meeting of the new association in Glasgow. SAADAT is actually a group which consists of bot...

Medicos' Plan Anti-Quota Stir In Mumbai; Bollywood To Join Up

Mumbai doctors will be joined by other professionals including Bollywood stars in a peace march on May 21 to protest against the quota// increase for OBCs in higher educational institutions. "We will assemble at Birla Matorshri Hall in south Mumbai and march towards Azad Maidan," Ashish Tiwari, convener of the Indian Medical Association Mumbai Chapter told reporters. The march will als...

Munnabhai MBBS to be remade in Hollywood

London. Bollywood has a fine tradition of remaking Hollywood hits, but the tables are turned now and an Indian comedy, Munnabhai MBBS, is set to be remade in the United States//. Munnabhai, MBBS, starring Sanjay Dutt, a flick about a gangster who pretends to be a doctor whenever his parents turn up, will be shot as Gangster MD. It will be directed by Mira Nair, best known for Monsoon...

Australian beauty with roots in India open to acting in Bollywood

Australian beauty with roots in India open to acting in B'wood Sydney, Sabrina Houssami, the beauty queen with roots in India// who will represent Australia in the Miss World contest, says she is open to acting in Bollywood films. The first person of non-Australian parentage to win the Miss Australia title last month, 19-year-old Sabrina was born to an Indian mother and a Lebanese fat...

Actress Says She Is Too Short To Make It Big In Hollywood

Christina Ricci, Hollywood actress, is certain that she would never make it big in Hollywood as she feels she is too short.// According to imdb.com, Ricci is afraid that she being short impedes her. She says: I don't think that's ever going to happen for me. I'm five-one first thing in the morning and I tend to look really small on camera. 'I can probably go as far as Holl...

Healthcare Inadequate at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Cente

Yarl’s Wood one of the country's biggest immigration detention centers has been accused of providing inadequate healthcare for long-term detainees, according to the report of the prison watchdog.// Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers launched an inquiry into healthcare at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire following concerns raised over the treatment of two female...

Gere Jives To Bollywood Songs To Spread AIDS Awareness

Hollywood icon Richard Gere Wednesday evening swayed to the tunes of catchy Bollywood numbers at a glittering event aimed at spreading AIDS awareness// that saw participation of over 10,000 sex workers in India's entertainment capital. Gere, dressed in a pair of black trousers, matching shirt and a brown jacket, danced to Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu's "Beedi Jalaile" to the delight...

Karnataka CM Gets Praise from Hollywood Superstar

Little did Karnataka Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy - promising to stay at the house of a HIV positive person for one night - but it has lead to the sudden & surprising visit of Hollywood superstar Richard Gere. // Mr. Gere said he was on his way to the Tibetan settlement of Byalakuppe when he chanced upon an article stating the Chief Minister's desire to spend a night in the home of...

Bob Woolmer Might Have Died of Accidental Drug and Alcohol Overdose

Bob Woolmer, the legendary cricket coach who died a bitter man in Jamaica on Sunday, might not have committed// suicide. A British newspaper reports that 'accidental drug and alcohol overdose' coupled with stress might have caused his sudden death. The 58-year-old coach was declared brought dead to hospital, little over an hour after he was found unconscious in his hotel...

Woolmer’s Death Suspicious, Say Jamaican Polic

The death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer on Sunday is being treated as suspicious, Jamaican// police say. Hours after Pakistan's shock loss to Ireland in the World Cup tournament now on in West Indies, Woolmer was found unconscious in his hotel room in Kingston. He was declared dead at the hospital. He was 58. Earlier it had been speculated possibly accidental overd...

Bone in Woolmer’s Neck Found Broken, Say Police Source

Suspicions that Pakistan’s cricket coach Bob Woolmer might have been murdered are strengthening.// A bone in his had been found broken and it indicates that he might have been strangled in his hotel room, it is claimed. Less than 24 hours after Pakistan’s stunning defeat at the hands of Ireland in the World Cup preliminaries on Saturday, the legendary Woolmer was found unco...

Bob Woolmer Was Strangled With A Towel

The killer or killers of cricket coach Bob Woolmer used a twisted towel to throttle him. //That perhaps explains the absence of any marks on his neck, newspaper reports from Jamaica, West Indies say. Woolmer, reputed for introducing many modern techniques in coaching, was found unconscious in his hotel room in Jamaica, West Indies on March 17, less than 24 hours after Pakistan was knoc...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pledges $500M To Fund Anti-Obesity Programs

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on Wednesday announced that it will spend $500 million during the next five years on programs that address childhood obesity//, particularly targeting minority children, who are at the highest risk for being obese. Nearly 25 million children under age 18 are considered obese or overweight, accounting for $14 billion annually in medical expenses, acco...

Highly Educated Women Woo Career and Boo Motherhood

Going to university and getting the much desired professional degree is indeed a big achievement for the goal oriented women of today.// Most of them nurture the desire of making it big in their careers and realizing their dreams and ambitions. Steeped in career progression, they do not have the inclination to consider motherhood, says a novel study. A recent research conducted by sc...

No Foul Play, Woolmer Died of Naural Causes, Say Jamaican Police

Woolmer, 58, died after being found unconscious in his Kingston hotel room on 18 March, after Pakistan lost to Ireland in the cricket World Cup . An initial pathologist's report had concluded that he had been strangled. Every member of the Pakistan team was fingerprinted before returning home, sparking anger among many in Pakistan. Jamaican Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas on Monda...

The Plot Gets Thicker In The Woolmer Case

A Pakistani channel ARY TV, has revealed that the champagne bottles which contained the weed killer that poisoned Pakistans former cricket coach Bob Woolmer, was in fact handed over to him by a person well known to him-bowling coach Mustaq Ahmed. It is being speculated that both Mustaq Ahmed...

Fleetwood Macs Buckinghams Ex Reveals All About His Cocaine Past

A kiss-and-tell book by American guitarist Lindsey Buckinghams ex-girlfriend is all set to open the lid on the musicians cocaine spree during his halcyon days. In the book Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood, Carol Ann Harris has revealed how Buckingham, a member of Fleetwood Mac, a popular Anglo-American band, had taken shots of Jack Daniel's and "California gold...

Underwood, Eubanks Voted 'World's Sexiest Vegetarians' by PETA

Singer Carrie Underwood and guitarist Kevin Eubanks have won the 'World's Sexiest Vegetarians' title at PETA's annual contest. The 24-year-old Underwood is not new to the title, for she won the tag in 2005 as well. However, the award is new to the for NBC's 'Tonight Show' band leader Eubanks, who bagged votes due to his show's host Jay Leno, who urged people to vote f...

Advancement in DNA Research may Bring Back Woolly Mammoth

Freddie Flintstone and his friends in Bedrock won't be the only persons to see a woolly mammoth alive, if researchers have their way. Palaeontologists are piecing together the complete genome species of long-dead species such as the woolly mammoth and the Neanderthals in an effort to bring them back to life, much like billionaire John Hammond resurrected the extinct dinosaurs in St...

Wine Woos World as Trade Fair Opens

The world's biggest wine fair, Vinexpo, opens in Bordeaux next week safe in the knowledge that the number of wine-drinkers worldwide is on the rise, notably in the United States and in emerging markets such as China, Russia, Brazil and India. Vinexpo, which gathers 144 nations and opens June 18, is also comforted by news that the world wine surplus may soon be eliminated, thus dri...

Male Casting Couch in Bollywood?

Sonu Nigam, a top-notch Hindi singer, says that men are not safe in Bollywood, opening a Pandora's box. It ha s managed to catch the attentions of many people. Sonu Nigam has accused a senior film journalist Subhash K Jha of harassing him for sexual favors in return for publicity. The casting couch is a well-known feature of Bollywood but till now was employed against the girls...