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[Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. MedlinePlus: Disasters and Emergency Preparedness
Provides links to overviews of family and citizen emergency preparedness, coping information, law and policy, and pages for specific emergency situations such as giving birth in emergency situations and emergency management for children and seniors. Includes news on current disasters and relief work. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Antioxidants: Preventing Diseases, Naturally
When it comes to boosting antioxidant intake, recent research indicates there's little benefit from taking diet supplements. A better way, according to a report in the September issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter, is eating a diet rich in antioxidant-containing foods. Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, carotene, lycopene, lutein and many other substances may play a role in helping to prevent diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and macular degeneration. Shrinking Giants, Exploding Dwarves
New, detailed observations of a supernova show evidence that a white dwarf star "fed"off a red giant to gain the critical mass needed for explosion. When white dwarf stars explode, they leave behind a rapidly expanding cloud of 'stardust'known as a Type Ia supernova. These exploding events, which shine billions of times brighter than our sun, are all presumed to be extremely similar, and thus have been used extensively as cosmological reference beacons to trace distance and the evolution of the Universe. Astronomers have now -- for the first time ever -- provided a unique set of observations obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile and the 10-meter Keck telescope in Hawaii, enabling them to find traces of the material that had surrounded a white dwarf star before it exploded. Passport to Insecurity
Britain's high-tech passport is designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. Now in the hands of 3 million citizens, it may not be so secure. In Beyond the Beyond. Hot Milk and Global Warming
The most ludicrous media storm blew up in the UK this week over alleged plans that the government was supposedly to force us to use ultra heat treated, so-called long-life, milk in our tea and on our breakfast cereal rather than the nice fresh pasteurised product we have been used to for decades. Wayne Smallman [...] New Lab Test Can Detect Costly Fungal Disease In Soybean Seedlings
A simple, cheap lab test can unerringly detect Sudden Death Syndrome, a costly fungal disease, in soybean seedlings. Once commercialized, its use will help breeders produce SDS-resistant soybean varieties much faster than they can now. "You can do a reliable assay in the greenhouse in a plastic cup and four weeks later, you'll see the result,"said the biotechnologist who developed the procedure. "The seedlings develop the leaf symptoms and the root rot or they don't. It works every time, and the labor cost is very low -- about $1 per assay." [Ironic] Professional beggars prowling about the streets of Moroccan c
The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying... Web Startups Reboot 'London 2.0'
The city's development scene starts fresh after the dot-com crash, and the Future of Web Apps conference offers proof. Robert Andrews reports from London. Humanitarians, You're Not As Generous As You Think
A new study reveals that people who regard themselves as humanitarians, are even more likely than others to base donations to the poor, on whether they believe poverty is a result of bad luck or bad choices.
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