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When Using Gestures, Rules Of Grammar Remain The Same

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:52:50 GMT

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ScienceDaily (July 7, 2008) — The mind apparently has a consistent way of ordering an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of Chicago.

"Not surprisingly, speakers of different languages describe events using the word orders prescribed by their language. The surprise is that when the same speakers are asked to 'speak' with their hands and not their mouths, they ignore these orders -- they all use exactly the same order when they gesture," said Susan Goldin-Meadow, lead author of a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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The men's sperm were examined for quantity, their ability to move and swim and their size and shape.

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:40:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It blows me out the way over 40's risk major problems for a newborns so that "we can have a family, now we have paid off the house". Of course there are the people going into their first real relationship at that age who deserve help too.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Scientists say they have found more evidence that men as well as women have biological clocks and that they start to tick in their mid-30s.

A French study of over 12,200 couples having fertility treatment suggests the chance of a successful pregnancy falls when the man is aged over 35.

It adds that the chance is significantly lower if he is over 40.

Previous studies have shown that both natural and assisted conception is more difficult if the man is over 40.

The researchers told a European reproductive health conference that it was likely the problems were caused by DNA damage in sperm.

Miscarriage risk

The researchers studied couples who had sought treatment for infertility at the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in Paris between January 2002 and December 2006.

All were given intrauterine inseminations (IUI), also known as artificial insemination, where sperm is inserted into the womb when the woman is ovulating.

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Japan waits on US for CO2 targets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:42:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And George is stalling them beautifully for his masters, the corporations.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Japan says that it will not negotiate new targets on CO2 emissions until it sees what the new US President has to offer on climate change.

A senior Japanese official also told the BBC his country would continue to try to re-negotiate the baseline date against which CO2 targets are measured.

Japan’s emissions are more than 6% above the 1990 Kyoto Protocol baseline.

World leaders are starting the three-day G8 summit in Toyako, on Japan's northern Hokkaido island.

Mr Jun Arima, chief negotiator for the powerful industry ministry METI, promised that Japan would meet its promised 6% CO2 cut by purchasing pollution credits from developing countries.

He also said Japan was hopeful of gathering support at the G8 for its plan for sectoral efficiency targets for industry.

He said the UK had been supportive of the idea, which would oblige the major industrial sectors which account for 40% of global emissions to adopt the best possible technologies.

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Aborigine skulls to be taken home

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:47:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Strange, this lack of respect for human remains. Guess it shows the attitudes of the time. Also shows us that we have improved in some ways. (Though tell that to kid who has just found a half rotten sheeps skull!)

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A delegation of Aboriginal people from Australia has arrived in Edinburgh to take home human remains.

The six skulls and a human ear bone are in collections belonging to the National Museums of Scotland and Edinburgh University.

Four members of the Ngarrindjeri people made the trip to take home their ancestor's remains.

Aboriginal people and the Australian Government have fought to repatriate remains from museum collections.

On Monday morning, the Ngarrindjeri people burned eucalyptus leaves in front of the university's McEwan Hall in a "smoking ceremony".

The ritual marked the completion of a decade-long process during which remains held in the university's collection have been returned.

'Times change'

The delegation is in Edinburgh for the handover of the last piece of human remains still held at the university - a fragment of bone from a woman's ear.

The remains were acquired by the university more than 100 years ago, when Australia was a British colony.

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U.S. issues "insulting" Berlusconi biography

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:13:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hypocrisy is alive and well in the White House and on the planes, in fact, anywhere that Bush goes, he takes his justifier, Hypocrisy.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - The United States formally apologized to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday for distributing to reporters an "insulting" biography of him that said he was "hated by many".

The description was included in a thick press kit distributed to reporters traveling with U.S. President George W. Bush from Washington to the Group of Eight summit in Japan that Berlusconi was also attending.

The four-page biography, pulled from the Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, refers to Berlusconi as "hated by many but respected by all at least for his bella figura (personal style) and the sheer force of his will".

Berlusconi was said to be "regarded by many as a political dilettante who gained his high office only through use of his considerable influence on the national media..."

It also said Berlusconi was "one of the most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for governmental corruption and vice".

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Wal-Mart Opposes Workers Comp Disability For Shot And Beaten Police Officer

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:56:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Surprise, surrprise

Clip Source: www.laborradio.org

Wal-Mart is opposing a former Arkansas police officer Jimmy Singleton’s efforts to win permanent disability workers comp payments after he was beaten and shot on duty. Ken Harper is Singleton’s attorney.

[Harper]: “I think it’s a terrible case for them to try to get involved in. Here we have an officer who was just doing his duty, actually putting his life on the line. He’s beaten, shot and left for dead on the side of the road. And the treatment that officer Singleton has received from the Arkansas Worker’s Compensation Commission I don’t think has been a whole lot better than the treatment he got that night, to be honest with you.”

The case is being heard by the Arkansas Supreme Court.

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Suicide rate much higher for medical students: AMSA

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:31:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bullying and nowhere to hide.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

The Australian Medical Students Association's (AMSA) convention has heard that suicide rates for medical students are dramatically higher than the average rate for students.

The Association says there needs to be a big change in the way cases of bullying are handled within the medical profession to ensure students are protected.

The organisation's president, Michael Bonning, says bullying by teachers has been accepted for too long.

"It's absolutely amazing that for a well-informed and well-educated part of the community that people feel they're so trapped and they have no one they can turn to," he said.

"We think part of this stems from the culture that's set up inside medical education."

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Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:00:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: RESVERATROL I think that I would be incorporating this into my diet straight away, if I was from a family with a history of breast cancer. If it is not what they hope, you won't be much worse off financially.

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

PHILADELPHIA – Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer, suggesting a potential role for the agent in breast cancer prevention. Resveratrol is a natural substance found in red wine and red grapes. It is sold in extract form as a dietary supplement at most major drug stores.

"Resveratrol has the ability to prevent the first step that occurs when estrogen starts the process that leads to cancer by blocking the formation of the estrogen DNA adducts. We believe that this could stop the whole progression that leads to breast cancer down the road," said Eleanor G. Rogan, Ph.D., a professor in the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Rogan was the lead author of the report that was published in the July 2008 issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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qld, nrl Print Email Add to My Stories 'Disturbing' drought report released

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:12:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Are we the only ones with drought? I don't think so, but I see little about drought in other continents, except Africa.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

The Federal Government has released a report into the link between drought and climate change, which it says will trigger major review of drought policy.

The report is by the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO and is the first of three commissioned by the Government.

The report warns that extreme conditions previously thought to occur once in every 20 to 25 years, could become as frequent as every one or two years.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told ABC1's Insiders the report paints a very disturbing picture about the future of droughts in Australia.

"When it comes to exceptional or extreme drought, exceptionally high temperatures, the historical assumption that this occurred once every 20 years has now been revised down to between every one and two years," he said.

"Exceptional circumstances drought conditions ... will occur twice as often and with twice the area of droughted parts of Australia included.

"Now this is a serious revision of the impact of climate change on drought."

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Christians challenge teaching of evolution

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:52:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It must be a boring life for the evangelist, uneducated, but full of ideas given by some ex-druid trying to make squillions and molest children at the same time.

Clip Source: www.stuff.co.nz

A Christian group promoting intelligent design theory over evolution has sent teaching material to schools that critics say is religious propaganda and sloppy pseudoscience.

The Education Ministry says the unsanctioned material does not breach the Education Act and there are no plans to ban its distribution.

But officials stress the theory of evolution underpins the science curriculum and schools have a responsibility to teach theories that are subject to accepted scientific scrutiny.

Focus on the Family has sent The Privileged Planet CD and booklet to 400 high schools, asking that they be made available to science teachers and school libraries.

Waikato University biological sciences senior lecturer Alison Campbell says the material champions creationism - the belief that God created the world as described in the Book of Genesis - claiming the universe is too perfect to have been produced by chance so must be the work of an intelligent designer.

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Poor at higher risk of death after intensive care: study

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:41:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The study reached it's conclusions and they should be used as a basis of improving survival rates. Whilst I acknowledge that the poor use drugs to escape the boredom, or whatever, all other "classes" use drugs. The rich will not need pain killers, they have purer stuff at home.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

New research shows that lower socioeconomic status is a major factor in the long-term survival of people who have spent time in hospital with a critical illness.

The study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, analysed 15,000 patients who had been admitted to intensive care units in Western Australia.

Doctor Kwok Ho from Royal Perth Hospital says the report found being poor was the single biggest factor in determining whether patients would survive after their release from hospital.

He says lower socioeconomic status was more of a detrimental influence on the outcome than many other factors, including age.

He said one explanation could be because that group could not afford to get specialist medical care.

But he says other lifestyle factors such as smoking or possible drug use might also be to blame, and more should be done to improve the long-term outcomes of patients.

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FedEx delivers hefty pot package to wrong place

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:40:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: About $75k on Australian prices. A lot to be floating around the local delivery service.

Clip Source: rawstory.com

200-pound mix-up tips off police, who pose as deliverymen, bust recipient

BALTIMORE - FedEx prides itself on reliability. But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines, Florida to Baltimore via the shipping company.

Police tell The (Baltimore) Sun they learned about the shipment when it was delivered Tuesday to the wrong resident.

Authorities posed as FedEx employees and arrested the shipment's intended recipient, 30-year-old Richard Gwatidzo.

Officials say he was charged Thursday with possession of a large quantity of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute along with other drug related charges.

Police say they also seized eight other FedEx boxes with nearly 400 pounds of the drug.

Authorities are trying to determine the sender's identity.

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Lost Ladybug Project Turns Kids Into Scientists

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:24:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Something for the kids, grand kids, to be involved in. My first real science lesson, maybe.

Clip Source: www.npr.org

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All Things Considered, July 5, 2008 · Calling all kids! Cornell University wants you to find and photograph ladybugs. John Losey, a professor of entomology at Cornell University, hopes children will help document ladybug populations around the country. Some native species are dwindling, while exotics are on the rise.

To participate in the project, go to the Lost Ladybug Project Web site or send an e-mail to ladybug@cornell.edu.

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Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:38:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Lots of theories to be heard this week. The full article may be of interest to those who follow christian religions.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

JERUSALEM — A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.

If such a messianic description really is there, it will contribute to a developing re-evaluation of both popular and scholarly views of Jesus, since it suggests that the story of his death and resurrection was not unique but part of a recognized Jewish tradition at the time.

The tablet, probably found near the Dead Sea in Jordan according to some scholars who have studied it, is a rare example of a stone with ink writings from that era — in essence, a Dead Sea Scroll on stone.

It is written, not engraved, across two neat columns, similar to columns in a Torah. But the stone is broken, and some of the text is faded, meaning that much of what it says is open to debate.

In Brazil, Monsanto and Syngenta Lead Farm Model that Destroys Indians and Environment (U.S. corp.)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:31:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Curiously, it was the year 2003 that Cargill constructed the port in the city, intended as a means to export the beans, began to operate. The port was illegally installed. Cargill did not submit an Environmental Impact Assessment which is required for such a venture, according to the 1988 Constitution.

Clip Source: www.democraticunderground.com

In this game, the monoculture of soybeans often works in partnership with livestock; the bean has already expanded into areas of degraded pasture. The cultivation already devastates the savannah and advances on the Amazonian forest.

Leading this process are financial capital and the large transnational agribusinesses, such as Cargill, Bunge, Monsanto, Syngenta, Stora Enzo and Aracruz, which direct a model of agricultural production based on the expulsion of rural workers, indigenous peoples, and on the destruction of the environment.

Most startling and incriminating is the data about the increase of production in Santarém, in the state of Pará. It is a clear example of the relationship between the investments of transnationals and the devastation of our forest. The area harvested in Santarém jumped from 200 hectares in 2002, to 4.6 thousand in 2003 and today it corresponds to 16,000.

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