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Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled |
 ...% less errors, the job they made was 27% faster. All in all these surgeons scored 47 percent better on the test. The results of 15 surgeons who never played video games were much lower.
One of the authors who developed the study is Douglas Gentile. He works as a psychology professor at the Iowa State University. Mr. Gentile says that it was a surprise for him to find out that there was such a strong influence of video ... |
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Storm virus attacks blogs |
 ...rus presents a real danger as it interferes in social networks. A lot of people who visit blog journals are not aware of the threat that may come from the common discussion on related topics with the author they trust. A link that will appear in blog's author site will lure them to check out an interesting video.
One of Symantec engineers, Eric Chien, said that some bulletin boards were already spammed. The threat of th... |
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Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking |
 ... due to a vast ad campaign, but there is no doubt there exists a possibility of other pills causing the upper mentioned side effects.
This labeling campaign was caused by a warning by the Australian authorities. In Australia Ambien is being sold under the trademark of Stilnox.
There have been 16 reports of unusual side effects of consuming sleeping pills in Australia and they were not limited to driving or eating while ... |
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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ... tried to find a way to 'help' the body's own defense systems defeating these bacteria.
Pradeep Singh, associate professor of medicine and microbiology at the University of Washington and the senior author of current study, explained that there is a critical fight for iron between the alien bacteria and the human body. Thus the function of the cells defending the human organism is to keep the iron away from the bacteria,... |
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Japan's uncertain guilt for sex slavery during World War II |
| ...rk apology that was made in 1993. They defend a standpoint in which Asian women were paid for prostitution and that was their free will to do so, thus denying the involvement of the Japanese military authorities.
US House of Representatives reacted with indignation at Japan's apology to make it official and fully admit the fact of sex slavery.
The debates in US media touched upon the matter of Japanese people, k... |
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Football fans have bitten off the ears of a tavern keeper |
 ...lice caught three of those who started the fight and they are still looking for the fourth one. Meanwhile, the Greek team, which by the way lost 1:4, might receive an amendment from the international authorities. This is because Greek fans showed unsporting behavior during the match in Athens.
The fans threw various objects into the Turkish goalkeeper and the referee. They also threw land pots on the football field. H... |
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Possible Aggressive Approach from the U.S. towards China |
 ...A bill is being considered by the U.S. legislators to force the Chinese authorities to raise the value of the yuan, the Chinese national currency.
Eswar Prasad, a senior professor of trade policy at Cornell University, warned the legislators that the present bill could become more harmful to the relationship between the two countries than the legislators could expect. Taking in consideration, that prof. Prasad has had mu... |
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High school student shot himself in the leg |
| ...ck closet. They stayed there for about forty minutes.
The mother of Corey Guerrera, the student that heard the gun shot, wondered how the guy with a weapon was able to get inside the school. Local authorities mentioned that they are currently investigating the case. However, they warned that it is quite hard to provide 100 percent security to a whole school.
Damien Singleton has been the high school's star athlete. ... |
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USA Workers Allowed to Use Marijuana? |
 ...g permission to use marijuana only at home or in a special smoking room at work.
In some states allowing medical marijuana, patients may take the drug at special dispensaries. Other states provide authorized caregivers who take care of growing a limited number of marijuana. According to the Marijuana Policy Project, there have been cases of patients getting their marijuana on the black market.
Federal law still pro... |
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Rich People Are Not Always Smart People |
 ...nalysis took into consideration the same circumstances of both categories.
In addition some people, who are considered to be extremely intelligent, stated that they had financial difficulties. The author of the study, Jay Zagorsky, who also works as a research scientist at Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research, mentioned that the reason why people get rich is not because they are more intelligent (... |
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Women Find $70,000 on Junk-Yard |
 ...o start investigating their origin.
The police reports that it is their main task now, to establish where the money came from, as it is highly possible the money to come from drug dealers.
The authorities claim that if the owner of the money will not be found, the entire sum will find its new owner, i.e. the women, who collected them while gathering the recyclables. The discoverers, however, are not very optimistic... |
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Lawsuit to Target E-mail Harvesters and Spammers |
| ... of such things and they want to stop it.
Filed under federal and state anti-spam laws, the lawsuit defined defendants as "John Doe." This means that the plaintiffs are going to ask the court for authority to subpoena records from ISPs. Thus, the identities of owners and the e-mail collectors could be verified.
Automated programs that search the Internet for e-mail addresses will generate the lists of spam-recipien... |
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Cartier Fights Fake Watch Business |
 ...ds industry, with watches and jewelry being its major components. All luxury watchmaking companies have to deal with the problem of counterfeiting. Brand owners unite their efforts with retailers and authorities to fight wide spread fake watch business and minimize its negative effect.
Cartier is one of the brands facing the problem of the replica watch market. However, it is really hard to fake up Cartier watch and j... |
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Timeline of the events in Tallinn, Estonia |
| ... the Estonian Government is deciding the destiny of Soviet war monument.
April 18, 2007 - Defenders of the bronze monument are seeking support with Estonian President.
April 19, 2007 - Tallinn authorities say that excavating the Soviet soldiers' grave is to start within a week.
April 22, 2007 - Hundreds of people bring flowers to the Soviet war monument.
April 23, 2007 - Estonian police officers are being cal... |
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