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Psychiatrists to Officially Recognize Internet Addiction as Brain Illness |
 ...nore the main drives, such as eating or sleeping. There are high levels of relapse and some people may require psychoactive medications or even hospitalization.
About 86% of people addicted to the Internet may have other forms of mental illness. However, unless such people are not checked by a therapist, Internet addiction may not be taken into consideration.
Dr. Block writes that there is a necessity for such pheno... |
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Women Use the Web to Have Abortions |
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Some women, who live in countries where laws heavily restrict abortions, apply to the Internet in order to purchase medications that allow aborting pregnancy at home. Women from more than 70 countries that restrict abortions, including Northern Ireland, used a website called Women on Web, as the main source to obtain the necessary medications.
The British Journal of Obstetrics and Gyneacology performed a review of 40... |
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Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy |
 ...individual impact and results lead to revision of ABC system.
A team of 29 psychiatrists took part in the the study to classify all drugs into nine groups that were analyzed on the physical harm, addiction and social danger. Another group consisted of 16 experts did the research in several fields including chemistry, pharmacology, psychiatry and legal field to say a final word on drug ranking.
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Nearly one third of Americans think Internet is useless |
 ...About one third of U.S. households do not have any access to the Internet. But what is even more surprising they do not intend to get one. The reason is that households do not consider Internet to be useful for their every day lives.
A technology market research firm located in Dallas, called Park Associates, outlined that 29% of households from the United States (which is about 31 million homes) do not even intend to g... |
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One dollar salary for Google's founders |
 ...arry Page and Sergey Brin, in 2006 earned their salaries of just one dollar. The information was provided after the examination of specific documents.
The two partners who were able to create the Internet giant starting with a small room in Stanford University, in 1990's, received last year only nominal wages from their company. According to the statements that were filed with the United States securities and exchange... |
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Attempt to control the blogosphere wakes up howls of protests |
 ... blogosphere, faced howls of protests. The debates began after the attempt to create a code of conduct, which has the goal of getting rid of offensive comments.
The protests were inevitable as two Internet giants thought of joining forces and propose a certain set of guidelines, which are to become filters for abusive and offensive comments from blogs. Ironically the offensive comment filter proposal faced abusive comm... |
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Lawsuit to Target E-mail Harvesters and Spammers |
 ...A federal lawsuit, on behalf of Project Honey Pot, was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria by a company that represents internet users from more than 100 countries. The company has the goal of identifying those users that gather millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers.
Project Honey Pot is a service of Unspam Technologies, which, in its turn, is a Utah based company that consults with differ... |
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School Cleaner Took Pics of Kids in the Toilet |
 ...in it to make photos of the intimate parts of the children . More than 90 images were later superimposed on the photos depicting sexual activity to make adult pictures.
He was also known to browse internet for children porn pictures.
Justice Peter Evans of the Supreme Court of Tasmania pleaded the man guilty of indecency, production and possession of child exploitation material and sentenced Mayne for four months... |
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Gran Paradiso Alpha 5: out in June |
| ...Yet another, fifth, alpha-version of Firefox 3.0, one of the three most popular internet browsers, designated Gran Paradiso, is due out on the first day of summer.
The first alpha-version of Firefox 3.0 was out in December 2006. It was recommended to professional and advanced users, who were able to essentially change the source code of the software.
Mozilla representatives state that the fifth alpha version will featur... |
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Road Hogs: Is it Speed, Size or Life that Matters? |
 ...road deaths in New South Wales, annually causing deaths of over 220 people.
The new campaign is shown on television, in movie-theaters, on bus-stop posters. The campaigners have also introduced an internet ad offering speed-merchants an "xtra xtra small" condom.
RTA spokesperson John Whelan admitted the ads may trigger controversial reactions, still all the campaigners try to do is to get the message through.
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Cigarette Price Increase Results in Bootlegging Boost |
| ...t rate. Programs and policies introduced for altering health risk behaviors turn out to be insufficient without considering the structural inequalities and other social factors that promote nicotine addiction and shape personal attitudes and behaviors.
In New York City, the cigarette tax increase was followed by special programs aimed to diminish socioeconomic disparities in smoking prevalence. Cessation services pro... |
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British Invents Anti-Paedophilies Software |
| ...A computer program that is aimed at haunting internet sex offenders, who are chatting under kids mask was released by a British inventor.
The innovative software is able to analyze the user's language patterns in relation to his age. This program is based on the knowledge that adults use more complicated phrases and punctuations when writing in the chartrooms. Even those who try to pretend they are kids cannot dodge t... |
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There Are Successful Bloggers in Africa Too |
| ...An African student from Malawi has become a successful blogger just two weeks after he had seen the internet for the first time. William Kamkwamba got an opportunity to surf the net when he attended a TEDGlobal conference in Arusha, Tanzania, aimed to promote new ideas in the technology, design and entertainment fields. The 19-year-old high-school student was invited to the conference to share his personal experience of d... |
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