Saturday, May 31, 2008
Spider menace
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saving earth
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olympic free press
Hong Kong media strut independence with Olympic coverage
This does not seem to have abated in this special administrative region of China even as anger grows across the country over what is seen as unfair criticism in the Western media, and as the mainland press pumps out glowing, patriotic reports of the Olympic efforts.
Although local television spent hours with live broadcasts of the torch relay on Friday, not all media played along. That morning, local newsstands were covered with photos of a local bus crash, not the Olympics. The government-linked China Daily was alone in running with a shot of marching Chinese troops, and a several-page-long photo essay with headlines like "Keep Olympic Joy Flowing."
HONG KONG: The place where the Chinese concept "one country, two systems" is most obviously played out in Hong Kong is in its boisterous media. Daily papers and local TV reports here regularly carry photos and reports that would be banned on the mainland.
olympic surgery
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Hamm's recovery designed with medals in mind
Olympic gold medalist Paul Hamm's recovery from hand surgery is being accelerated so he'll be able to contend for a medal at the Beijing Games.
"I'm not getting him ready just to go," Dr. Lawrence Lubbers said Wednesday. "I want to see a medal. And I want it around his neck."
Lubbers repaired the broken fourth metacarpal in Hamm's right hand Tuesday, inserting a thin plate and nine screws to return the bone to its original alignment. The surgery at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, went "very well," Lubbers said, and the gymnast could be doing resistance exercises within a week.
mali dreams
Keita looks to kick-start Mali's Olympic dream
In the early 1960s, Taekwondo Master Kim Young Tae travelled to Ivory Coast to bring the Korean martial art to Western Africa; at the end of the 1960s, one of his students took it upon himself to spread the word in neighbouring Mali. Forty years later, taekwondo is the most popular sport in that country, and Daba Modibo Keita has a realistic chance of winning Mali's first-ever Olympic medal in Beijing this summer.
Hopes of a nation
With over 150 clubs and 500 black belts among 15,000 exponents, taekwondo's popularity has taken on phenomenal proportions in a country that is Africa's seventh largest but one of the world's poorest. Keita knows he carries the hopes of a nation into the Olympic arena, but breaking new ground for his country should hold few fears for him as last year, despite a torn back muscle, he became Mali's first ever world champion.
lenovo torch
clipped from 40.gmodules.comLenovo-designed Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch
Since its inception in 1936, the olympic torch has come to represent the history and culture of its host country and city.
The Lenovo-designed Olympic torch follows this tradition with a torch that represents the universal spirit of the Olympic games, while drawing on traditional Chinese symbols and concepts.
Olympic swim
clipped from blogs.mercurynews.comCalifornia swimmer earns Olympic spot
Two-time U.S. champion Chloe Sutton of Roseville won the 10K Olympic open water test event in Beijing on Saturday to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
"On the final lap, I knew I was ahead of the pack," Sutton told USA Swimming. "I just tried to keep going fast. I sprinted the whole way at the end."
Sutton, 16, will join Mark Warkentin of Santa Barbara as America's open water swimmers. She currently trains with Bill Rose at the Mission Viejo Nadadores.
Posted by Elliott Almond on May 31st, 2008 Categorized as Uncategorized
Friday, May 30, 2008
Bottom real?
The economy grew at a faster pace than originally estimated in the first quarter, the government said Thursday, but the nation remained mired in its most stagnant period of growth in five years.
Gross domestic product, a measure of overall economic growth, expanded at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the first three months, according to a Commerce Department report. That was higher than the initial estimate, released a month ago, which had put the growth rate at 0.6 percent.
dress code in recession
EARLIER this month, people promenading along the super-fashionable Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village were surprised to come upon a decidedly low-rent window display announcing an army-navy surplus store within. Wasn't that a Marc Jacobs store just last week? Could Bleecker be going downscale as fast as it had gone up?
As it turned out, the window was the dryly funny brainchild of Robert Duffy, the president of Marc Jacobs. Mr. Duffy had found a trove of vintage military coats in Copenhagen and decided to sell them in the store — for a mere $59 each. And if that sounds like a unlikely fashion statement from the man who in the 1990s had men coughing up $600 for thermal long johns in cashmere, well, talk to Mr. Duffy.
recession enron
A Nation of Enrons
An understatement: We are living through a time of considerable market and economic turmoil. Since we stand to see trillions of dollars' worth of assets vaporize in the ensuing mess, we ought to take a look at history to see how we got into it, and how investors can get out.
Half a decade ago, the entire nation was shocked when award-winning "innovator" Enron turned out to be little more than a cash-shredding pyramid scheme. The crucial failing for investors was Enron's use of opaque, "mark-to-market" accounting. The problem comes when the market is batty (or doesn't exist), so you instead mark your assets to a model, especially one that's wrong, either because you made an error or because you based it on exceedingly generous assumptions.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Obesity or cancer - women prefer which?
clipped from http://www.medindia.net/news/American-Women-More-Worried-About-Obesity-Than-Cancer-37300-1.htmexercise and maintain figure
Women's Health: The Treadmill or the Road
Published: Saturday, 22 December 2007
Unburden stress
Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. - John De Paola News anchor suicide, Australian reporter jumps to Death. Every action involves certain amount of stress. Expectations generate stress.
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Back pain in old age
Low vitamin D tied to back pain in older women
Monday, May 26, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women who aren't getting enough vitamin D appear to be at risk for suffering from back pain, new research shows.
Among older people, vitamin D deficiency has been tied to a number of health problems, including an increased risk of bone fracture, Hicks and colleagues note in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Lack of the vitamin could also, theoretically, contribute to musculoskeletal pain, they add, although research on vitamin D deficiency and pain syndromes has yielded mixed results.
hereditary crisis
All cancers are genetic in origin. When genes are working properly, cell growth is tightly regulated, as if a stoplight told cells to divide only so many times and no more. A cancer occurs when something causes a mutation in the genes that limit cell growth or that repair DNA damage.
This is true even if the carcinogen is environmental, like tobacco smoke or radon, or if the cause is viral, like Helicobacter pylori or human papillomavirus.
Nerve center health
clipped from http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/article834556.eceSeven ways to a healthy brain
People are living longer so Alzheimer's disease is becoming more common. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk of dementia, says Amy Fenton
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
It is estimated that, by 2025, more than a million people in Britain will suffer from Alzheimer's. Its symptoms include memory loss, confusion and language breakdown, and it is incurable.
"A large number of studies have shown that a number of factors may affect your chances of developing dementia, so it is never too early, or too late, to make a few changes," Ballard says.
allergy cure
Cucumbers are found to be very good for health.
clipped from http://www.parents.com/preschoolers/health/allergies-asthma/allergy-proof-your-kids-3-must-eat-foods/Health Update: Allergy-Proof Your Kids: 3 Must-Eat Foods
By Lauren Gelman
Children who regularly load up their plates with these veggies, along with green beans and zucchini, are nearly 40 percent less likely to develop symptoms of allergies and asthma compared to kids who rarely ate them
Recent studies show that the way you feed your kid now may reduce his risk of developing symptoms down the road. Stock your grocery cart with plenty of these.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
What has Wipro to say on the weak American dollar?
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