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Emergency News: 2005 Hurricane Season
Information from the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals about Hurricane Katrina. Includes a FAQ covering health precautions for cleanup workers, contacts for medical professionals who want to volunteer services, and questions about vaccines and immunization records. Also provides news about numbers and locations of deceased victims, water boil orders, facilities and services, and actions of the health department. Indonesia At Risk: Climate Change Threatens People And Nature
The devastating impact of global warming is already evident in Indonesia and will likely worsen due to further human-induced climate change, warns WWF. Annual rainfall in the world's fourth most populous nation is already down by 2 to 3 per cent, and the seasons are changing. Closing In On Lethal Heart Rhythm In Young Athletes
Johns Hopkins experts on the genetics of a potentially lethal heart rhythm defect that runs in families and targets young athletes report they have greatly narrowed the hunt for the specific genetic mutations that contribute to the problem. Anammox Bacteria Produce Nitrogen Gas In Oceans' Snackbar
Advanced measurements off the coast of Namibia give a new explanation for the extremely efficient nitrogen removal from the oxygen poor areas of the ocean. New Windows Media Player Shines
The 11th time's a charm for Microsoft. The company finally gets its digital jukebox mostly right. By Daniel Dumas. Rhythm Gene Discovered: The Scoop On When Worms Poop, Ovulate And Swal
University of Utah biologists found a gene that controls rhythmic events in a worm's life: swallowing food, laying eggs and pooping. The same of related genes may control rhythmic behaviors in humans and other animals. Global Warming Likely To Increase Stormy Weather, Especially In Certai
Researchers who study severe weather and climate change joined forces to study the effects of global warming on the number of severe storms in the future and discovered a dramatic increase in potential storm conditions for some parts of the US. William Paley (1743-1805)
Brief essay on this religious writer known as a creationist. He is best known for his "exposition of natural theology, the belief that the nature of God could be understood by reference to His creation, the natural world. He introduced one of the most famous metaphors in the philosophy of science, the image of the watchmaker, "to show that life on earth requires an "intelligent designer."From the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley. Microtubules Critical To Development Of Mental Disorders
Neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo have shown in two recently published papers that destabilization of structures called microtubules, intracellular highways that transport receptors to their working sites in the brain, likely underlie many mental disorders and could be promising targets for intervention. Blindness From Smoking Terrifies Teens, But Few Realize The Two Are Li
Teenagers fear blindness more than lung cancer or stroke, but nine out of 10 don't know that smoking can rob them of their sight in later life, reveals research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. The findings are based on the responses of 260 clubbers aged between 16 and 18, collected at four UK venues in Bournemouth, Winchester, Manchester and Southampton.
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