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Swedish water

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:38:58 GMT

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Top ten Swedish beaches

Published: 12 May 08 17:51 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/11718/

With summer in the air and the holiday season approaching, Ulrika Österlund pulls on her sunglasses and takes a look at ten of Sweden's best beaches.

Gotland: Sweden's Baltic beauty (8 May 08)

Plenty to see at nudist B&B (13 May 08)

Birka - A daytrip into the Viking past (13 May 08)

Tags: beaches, sweden

Night gazing?

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:25:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.space.com

Doorstep Astronomy: See the Big Dipper

By Joe Rao
SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
posted: 09 May 2008
12:27 am ET

As soon as darkness falls these evenings, step outside and look skyward. What is the most prominent and easiest star pattern to recognize? If you live in the Northern Hemisphere you only need to look overhead and toward the north where you will find the seven bright stars that comprise the famous Big Dipper.

Tags: astronomy, star, gazing

relative religion

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:18:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Einstein Called Religion Expression of Weakness

By Jill Lawless, Associated Press

posted: 13 May 2008 05:21 pm ET

LONDON (AP) — Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core?

A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish.''

Tags: einstein, religion

bomb at rose city

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:00:13 GMT

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Clip Source: in.news.yahoo.com

Serial blasts rock Jaipur, 60 killed; toll may rise

Wed, May 14 12:07 AM

Jaipur/New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Seven synchronised blasts ripped through the Indian tourist city of Jaipur Tuesday evening, killing at least 60 people and injuring nearly 100 others - and officials feared the death toll could rise.

Tags: bomb, jaipur, rose city

Get cured of Sciatica

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:10:48 GMT

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Clip Source: avialblah.blogspot.com

Leg pain –Sciatica

Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.

This sciatic nerve runs from the lumbar or lower back regions to the foot, along the back of one’s thigh. So the pain is normally felt in lower regions of back, backside and along the back of thigh, running to foot.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

Tags: sciatica, nerve pain, cure, remedy, homeopathy

everest

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:59:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Everest climb

SYDNEY mother and daughter Cheryl and Nikki Bart are taking on the ultimate high life - by climbing Mount Everest. Follow their journey here.

Family's Everest climb

Tags: everest, australia

US recession

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:56:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thestandard.com.hk

US recession `likely,' says HSBC after crunch losses

Benjamin Scent

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

HSBC (0005) recorded US$3.2 billion (HK$25 billion) of loan impairment charges in the first quarter for its US consumer finance business, down from US$4.6 billion in the fourth quarter last year, but chairman Stephen Green said the deterioration in the US housing market will likely extend into 2009.

Tags: us, recession, hsbc

Arthritis

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:51:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: read more for normal living

Clip Source: www.nbc5.com

Breast-Feeding Cuts Mom's Arthritis Risk

Longer Time Giving Milk Seems To Mean Even Lower Risk

POSTED: 8:52 am CDT May 13, 2008

Women who breast-feed for longer have a smaller chance of getting rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study.

The study also found that taking oral contraceptives, which are suspected to protect against the disease because they contain hormones that are raised in pregnancy, did not have the same effect.

Tags: breast feeding, arthritis

Hardy's Retreat

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:46:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

County Dorset: Far from stress of modern life

David Armstrong, Special to The Chronicle

Sunday, May 11, 2008

(05-11) 04:00 PDT Dorchester, England -- The unwavering gaze of Thomas Hardy looks out from a hilltop, affording the Victorian writer - or, rather, a statue of him - a sweeping view of the town he immortalized as Casterbridge and the rustic county he called Wessex.

It is a beautiful place to behold.

Tags: travel, vacation, england, hardy

toilet problem flies

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:43:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mercurynews.com

Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet

By SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press Writer

Article Launched: 05/13/2008 05:25:28 AM PDT

NEW YORK—A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.

Tags: flight, compensation