Canada and Afghan detainees
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:27:07 -0800 (PST)
NYT
January 24, 2008
Canadian Military Has Quit Turning Detainees Over to Afghans
By IAN AUSTEN
OTTAWA ? The Canadian military secretly stopped transferring prisoners
to Afghanistan?s government in November after Canadian monitors found
evidence that they were being abused and tortured.
The suspension, whic ...
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F.D.A. Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug Trials
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:20:32 -0800 (PST)
NYT
January 24, 2008
F.D.A. Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug Trials
By GARDINER HARRIS
After decades of inattention to the possible psychiatric side effects
of experimental medicines, the Food and Drug Administration is now
requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become
suicidal during cl ...
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Sunbeams on Our Faith
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:52:25 -0800 (PST)
It is not just the knowledge to give us the Faith. Anyway, it helps
and will surely help after irrefutable events to arrange so as to make
that our Faith would be stronger and stronger.
In this site you can find a lot of events, which will make you think
it over.
These events and knowledges will give you peace an ...
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What is Gravity?
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:13:07 -0800 (PST)
rolfguthm...@uol.com.br (Rolf Guthmann) wrote:
> New law of gravitation?
> Power LawGravity?
> What is gravity?
> What is its cause or source?
> Many minds have attempted to solve this ancient puzzle,
> but no one has yet been fully successful.
Yes, you will NOT find a definite explanation
of what gravity a ...
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A new low for Islam?
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:45:43 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7204341.stm
"An Afghan journalist has been sentenced to death by a provincial court
for distributing "blasphemous" material."
It does rather grate that UK troops are in that country attempting to keep
stability, and this is the result...
Mark
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Snoozing worms and explaining sleep
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:01:40 -0800 (PST)
Snoozing Worms Help Explain Evolution Of Sleep
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
report that the
round worm C. elegans has a sleep-like state. (Credit: Margaret
Higgins,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)ScienceDaily (Jan. 15,
2008) -
The roundworm C. elegans, a st ...
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memory suppression
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:47:27 -0800 (PST)
You Must Not Remember This
By Greg Miller
ScienceNOW Daily News
9 January 2008
The ability to suppress distracting or distressing memories helps
people cope
with everyday life, yet neuroscientists know little about how it
works. Now
researchers have gained some clues from a study that combined hypnosis
and
...
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Don't use your mobile before going to sleep?
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:39:30 -0800 (PST)
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012208HA.shtml
Original: http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3353768.ece
Mobile Phone Radiation Wrecks Your Sleep
By Geoffrey Lean
The Independent UK
Sunday 20 January 2008
Phone makers' own scientists discover that bedtime use can lead to
headaches, confusion a ...
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Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:32:16 -0800 (PST)
This is interesting research, but the article itself seems rather
confused about cause and effect.
It isn't clear to me quite how it helps a clinician, faced with an
obese patient, to be aware that he's not neurotic and is extroverted
is going to help him much. Is the supposed to suggest that the person
stays a ...
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Sleep is for weakening brain connections
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:26:58 -0800 (PST)
Study: Brain connections strengthen during waking hours, weaken during
sleep
Most people know it from experience: After so many hours of being
awake, your brain feels unable to absorb any more-and several hours of
sleep will refresh it.
Now new research from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
and ...
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