Los Angeles Diocese Opts for Huge Payout in Sexual Abuse Cases

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the largest in the US, is believed to have agreed to pay sexual abuse victims around $660 million, the largest such settlement in recent history . The amount, which would average a little more than $1.3 million per plaintiff, exceeded earlier r...

Brit Women Opts for Fake Tan Than Exercise to Mask Their Worst Features

A new survey has found that British women, who are dissatisfied with their bodies, would rather opt for a fake tan to mask themselves up, than do some exercise. Three-quarters dont like the way they look, while one in five admit they feel far better about themselves if they look bronzed, a...

Brazil Opts for Indian Drugs Bypassing Merck

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has allowed his country to ignore US pharmaceutical giant Merck's patent on AIDS drug Efavirenz and opted for a cheaper generic alternative from India. With a decree he signed Friday, Brazil will be able to import generic versions of Efavirenz fro...

Jordan Opts to Go for Vaginoplasty Surgery

Jordan a.k.a., Katie Price wants to 'tighten up' her vagina after her third child is born. The British glamour model is due to give birth to her daughter this month and is firm to have vaginoplasty surgery to do up her vagina. 'The thing is I'm a very small girl and my first son Harvey was...

Indian Students in Qatar Opts For Distance Education

More and more Indian students in Qatar, especially Doha, are opting for distance education programmes after passing their higher secondary examinations//. After clearing their Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 exams, the students are making a beeline for the various distance...

Angelina Jolie Opts To Back For Global Education For Poor Children

Angelina Jolie, who was named as the world’s most beautiful woman by People magazine has voiced her interest to use her celebrity status to back a global education// campaign that will concentrate on educating poorest children. Appearing in an exclusive interview with NBC, Jolie, 30, urged the...

Researchers Opts For Better Screening Methods For Detecting Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer claims more deaths than any other cancer in females and approximately 20,000 new cases are expected in US this year, says the National Cancer Institute. // Unlike the breast cancer, where mammograms are used for screening, the option is narrowly limited, as only pelvic examinat...

Transform, the Largest Plastic Surgery Clinic, States That Men Are More Vain Than Women

...he report challenged many preconceptions around the reasons why women and men carry out cosmetic surgery. Most notably, Britain's male population opts for plastic surgery or other non-surgical cosmetic procedures for reasons of vanity, as opposed to women, who have cosmetic procedures to resolve low ...

triniti(TM) Skin Treatment to be Featured in Keeping Up with The Kardashians Episode

... Syneron's Matrix series. In this episode, Kris and her husband, former Olympian Bruce Jenner, debate a surgical or non-surgical makeover. Kris opts not to get plastic surgery and visits Dr. John Shieh of RejuvaYou Medical Spas in Pasadena, California, to experience the latest in skin rejuvenation ...

Enlight Biosciences Expands to direct up to $52 Million to Transformational Enabling Technologies

... other partner companies. Johnson & Johnson, like the other partners, will have preferential access to technologies developed by new companies it opts to fund. "Participation in this collaboration will also enable our research units to make pre-competitive knowledge available across the industry...

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Bottega Veneta Sunglasses Collection

Features:...es include a refined profile texturing, with the brands hallmark interweave motif in metal inserts between the temples and the front. The colour range opts for natural shades of dark Havana brown, dark olive, black and beige. The vintage style preferred for several oversized acetate models has a truly f...
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Forgotten but not gone -- how the brain takes care of things

... are only disabled, but not physically removed. "Since an experience that has been made may occur again at a later point in time, the brain apparently opts to save a few appendages for a rainy day", Hbener continues. And true enough, when the same eye was later inactivated again, the nerve cells reorganiz...

Study of sugars on cell surface identifies key factor in flu infection

...s of cells. While the protein from human-adapted flu viruses favors the sugars dotting the cells of the nose and throat, the one from bird flu viruses opts for glycans on cells deeper in the respiratory tract. Sasisekharan noted that recent studies have shown that the hemagglutinin protein from bird f...