How to Collect Arcade Games ???
Sun, 18 May 2008 08:47:47 -0700 (PDT)
http://www.syubrawi.com/free-arcade-games-online,
Gamers needed to head to their local arcade to play their favorite
games before Playstation and Xbox hit the scene.
Classics like Pac-Man, Asteroids and Space Invaders kept gaming
enthusiasts entertained for hours on end. You can collect arcade games
to relive t ...
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The benefits of multilingualism
Sun, 18 May 2008 02:50:22 -0700 (PDT)
Scientists find connection between mental fitness and multi-lingualism
Children who speak a second or third language may have an unexpected
advantage
later in life, a new Tel Aviv University study has found. Knowing and
speaking
many languages may protect the brain against the effects of aging.
Dr. Gitit Kav ...
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Recovery of sight and the reorganisation of the brain
Sun, 18 May 2008 02:47:23 -0700 (PDT)
Sight Recovery After Blindness Offers New Insights on Brain
Reorganization
Studies of the brains of blind persons whose sight was partially
restored later
in life have produced a compelling example of the brain's ability to
adapt to
new circumstances and rewire and reconfigure itself.
The research, conducte ...
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Agricultural research cut
Sun, 18 May 2008 01:47:34 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
May 18, 2008
The Food Chain
World?s Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut
By KEITH BRADSHER and ANDREW MARTIN
LOS BA?OS, Philippines ? The brown plant hopper, an insect no bigger
than a gnat, is multiplying by the billions and chewing through rice
paddies in East Asia, threatening the diets of many p ...
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Darling and Brown - still muggers of the poor
Wed, 14 May 2008 04:17:50 -0700 (PDT)
Darling's emergency budget does little to offset damage to the lowly
paid.
Assume my yearly income is ¡ê13 335, the upper 10% tax threshold last
year.
After Darling's emergency budget tax now begins at ¡ê6035. Last year it
began at ¡ê5225.
So last year I would have paid tax (at 10%) of ¡ê811.
This year I wi ...
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It can be dangerous to visit the USA
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:31:10 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
May 14, 2008
Italian?s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face
By NINA BERNSTEIN
He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman
university. She was ?a totally Virginia girl,? as she puts it, raised
across the road from George Washington?s home. Their romance, sparked
by a ...
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Ten Plus One Facts About Hospice
Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:06 -0700 (PDT)
1. Palliative Care means that a dying person is given care that is not
curative; that will not sustain life. It will however, ensure that
what life remains can be lived in comfort and without pain.
2. Hospice may be a place but is definitely a ?way?. It?s a method of
offering palliative care to the terminally il ...
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Science and religion?
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:49:52 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
May 13, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
The Neural Buddhists
By DAVID BROOKS
In 1996, Tom Wolfe wrote a brilliant essay called ?Sorry, but Your
Soul Just Died,? in which he captured the militant materialism of some
modern scientists.
To these self-confident researchers, the idea that the spirit might
exist apa ...
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Breast feeding helps raise verbal IQ
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:29:15 -0700 (PDT)
Breast-feeding raises children's IQs, study says
Children whose mothers took part in a program that encouraged the
practice had
higher verbal scores than children in a control group, a large study
finds.
By Denise Gellene
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 6, 2008
Increased breast-feeding during the fi ...
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Detecting subtle brain injuries that result from motor accidents
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:25:50 -0700 (PDT)
New MRI Technique Detects Subtle But Serious Brain Injury
ScienceDaily (May 13, 2008) - A new technique for analyzing magnetic
resonance
imaging data, developed by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical
Center, can
reveal serious brain injury missed by current tests and help predict a
patient's
degree of recove ...
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