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Greenpeace
Activists Board Ex-French Warship Saying It’s Carrying Toxic Waste to India
January
13, 2006
Two
Greenpeace activists boarded a decommissioned French warship Thursday to protest
its departure for India for dismantling, saying it carries hundreds of tons of
toxic waste. The activists chased down the carrier Clemenceau in the southern
Mediterranean, near the entrance to the Suez Canal, and climbed the ship’s
mast; the activists were urging Egyptian authorities to refuse it access to the
canal. Greenpeace wants France to take back the ship, saying the Clemenceau
holds hundreds of tons of toxic waste, including 500 tons of asbestos.
Source:
Environmental News Network
Clinton
Announces AIDS Drugs Deal
January
13, 2006
A
foundation run by former US President Bill Clinton has negotiated a deal that
will cut the cost of HIV tests and Aids treatment in developing countries. Mr.
Clinton said hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved as a result of the
agreement with several drugs firms, which he said was only a "first
step’’.
Source:
BBC News
Avian
Influenza Virus in Mammals Spreads Beyond the Site of Infection to Other Organ
Systems
January
14, 2006
Researchers
at Erasmus Medical
Center have demonstrated systemic spread of avian influenza
virus in cats infected by respiratory,
digestive, and cat-to-cat contact. Rimmelzwaan et al. examined cats infected, As
expected, all cats were infected with H5N1 virus and exhibited clinical signs of
disease, Most interesting, virus spread throughout the organ systems with virus
being found in respiratory and digestive tracts, liver, kidney, heart, brain,
and lymph nodes.
Source:
ScienceDaily.com
Stardust
Landed at 10 am Sunday. What Secrets will it Reveal?
January
15, 2006
A
small capsule with a precious cargo will parachute gently to Earth over the
barren Utah desert a little after 10am (GMT) today. Scientists, including
several from Britain, will be waiting to receive the container at Nasa’s
Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. For inside the capsule lie dust
particles frozen since the comet formed some 4.5bn years ago during the birth of
our solar system.
Source:
Independent.co.uk
Exercise
Linked to Big Drop in Dementia Risk
January
16, 2006
Regular
exercise may reduce the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in the
elderly by as much as 40%, according to a new study. And the effect is even more
pronounced for those who are more frail, say the researchers.
Source:
New Scientist.com
Leptin
Fights Depression
January
17, 2006
The
appetite-control hormone leptin staves off symptoms of stress in rats, and might
lead to new ways to fight human depression, say researchers in the United
States. Leptin is famed for controlling our weight and appetite. But the
hormone, which is released by fat cells and gives the brain a reading of our fat
stores, is also thought to act in brain areas involved in emotion.
Source:
Nature.com
No
to Java before Gym
January
18, 2006
Having
a coffee fix just before a workout may not be the best idea, a new study
suggests. Researchers in Switzerland found that the amount of caffeine in just
two cups of coffee limits the body’s ability to increase blood flow to the
heart during exercise.
Source:
News24.com
Men
‘Get Pleasure from Seeing Revenge’
January
19, 2006
Men
get greater satisfaction than women from seeing someone they dislike suffer pain
shows a study of how people react when witnessing revenge. Scientists found
highly significant differences between the genders in how male and the female
brains respond.
Source:
Independent.co.uk
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