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New students forced to take pregnancy tests |
 ...cal college for boarders defended its right to force its students to make pregnancy tests. Such measure is taken so students and their parents would be more responsible. The college itself is located in Urumqi, which is the capital of the far western region of Xinjiang.
The Beijing News cited students saying that for several years the college hold the right to test new students for pregnancy. Those that showed positive... |
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Rare Cancer After Collapsing Twin Towers 9/11 Tragedy |
 ...The head of Medical Monitoring Program taking the responsibility of post-traumatic treatment of World Trade Center workers who were on September 11, noticed they had a rare and strange cancer form.
Dr. Robin Herbert the head of this program claimed that workers had a rare blood and lymphatic cancer. More than 20,000 people were examined after experts found there were many cases of multiple myeloma in young people that... |
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Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming |
 ...The LiveScience Magazine has published a Top 10 global warming side-effects that not everyone knows about. Global warming is, actually, not only about ice melting in the Arctic and temperature rising. It could turn into very strange things. Here they are:
10. More aggravated and aggressive allergies (the "MAAAA")
People are experiencing more aggravated and aggressive allergy fits and, partly, experts blame the global wa... |
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Sweat-suction surgery to cool your armpits |
 ...Suffering from excessive sweating? Now there is an option of undergoing surgery to find a relief.
Scientists from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany said that people who face the problem of excessive armpit sweating also known as focal axillary hyperhidrosis often have difficulties in social life that cause them emotional stress.
Now Dr. Falk G. Bechara says there is a possibility for all people who want to get ri... |
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Second Smallest Country on Earth is Disappearing |
 ...Deputy Prime Minister of a tiny South Pacific island of Tuvalu calls to the rest of the world to take urgent action as his nation is at danger of disappearing due to global warming. Experts claim that island can sink in less than 50 years.
The country,measuring a mere 26 km2 and its 10,500 people could be the first to sink due to the current rising sea level. Tuvalu island is a part of atolls and reefs that are no mo... |
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Most people would live without sex but not without Internet |
 ...According to a survey most Americans cannot live without going to the net for more than a week, preferring web surfing to friends and sex.
In a survey conducted by JWT advertising agency 1,011 Americans had to answer how long they can do without Internet. As much as 15 percent said that they would feel good no more than a day or less without Internet, 21 percent could do no more than a couple of days, 19 percent of pa... |
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AIDS to Spread Faster with Catholic Condom Ban |
 ...Latin America is at danger of having the epidemic of AIDS due to the current policy of Roman Catholic Church that discourages the use of condoms, UN officials reported.
As much as 1.7 million people in Latin America countries already are infected with HIV virus causing AIDS and this tendency is growing with 410.000 new cases last year, UNAids programme officials say.
Due to the principles of Catholic Church exerting i... |
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Scientists Discover Clays to Fight Deadly Bacteria |
 ...French volcanoes' dirt could kill up to 99 per cent of bugs, including MRSA and E coli within 24 hours.
Agricur, discovered in the Massif Central mountain range, is believed to lead scientists to the development of a new antibiotics' class to which superbugs will be unable to develop resistance. If human trials turn out to be successful, agricur could save lives of thousands of people a year.
Scientists who conduc... |
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Woman's Death Linked to Second-Hand Smoking |
 ...ated with work-related ETS(environmental tobacco smoke).
The woman's death raised the issue of safety in the workplace. Previous studies showed that bar and restaurant workers showed significant improvements in respiratory symptoms and lung function after smoking ban was introduced. Earlier, it was suggested that environmental tobacco smoke may cause coronary heart disease, lung cancer and premature death. The report... |
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Psychiatrists to Officially Recognize Internet Addiction as Brain Illness |
 ... An exaggerating number of e-mails as well as text messages may very soon be officially recognized as brain illness.
According to an editorial published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging" is considered to be a widespread compulsive-impulsive disorder. Such disorder should be included in the official psychiatric guidebook of me... |
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Tongue Drive System to Operate Computers |
 ...Scientists developed a new revolutionary system to help individuals with disabilities to control wheelchairs, computers and other devices simply by using their tongue.
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say that a new technology called Tongue Drive system will be helpful to individuals with serious disabilities, such as those with severe spinal cord injuries and will allow them to lead more active and in... |
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Global Food Crisis to Make 100 Million People Starve |
 ... Rising food prices that have already caused rebellions in several developing countries will likely to push more than 100 million people worldwide into deep poverty, World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced at the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington.
For many people, the surge in food prices over the last three years has made basic food unaffordable and this situation is going to ... |
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Research Secretly Identified Users of Mobile Phones Outside US |
 ...y the positions of 100,000 people outside U.S. through their mobile phone use. They claim that the majority of people rarely go more than a few miles from their homes. This study is the first of its kind. It was performed by scientists from the Northeastern University. Though the study brought some specific results, it still raised a number of privacy and ethical questions due to the "spying" methods applied by researcher... |
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NY Plans to Introduce Transplant Ambulance |
 ...New York City is planning to create an ambulance that will rapidly arrive to newly deceased to preserve their bodies for further organ transplant. Though this initiative can raise a number of ethical issues and can be considered hideous, medical officials are convinced that this can considerably increase the number of donors.
Usually, only people who die at hospitals were allowed to become organ donors, because doctor... |
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