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[Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Researchers Develop Digital Technique For Art Authentication
A team of Dartmouth researchers has developed a new computational tool to help authenticate works of art, specifically paintings, prints and drawings. When Doctors, Patients Disagree, It Affects Survival
A new study shows that when a patient and physician disagree about physical well-being, the patient has a higher risk of dying. The researchers found patients and their doctors disagree about the performance and the nutritional status more than half the time. Furthermore, the degree of disagreement is significant with physicians, who frequently rate their patients better than the patients rate themselves. Ames Laboratory Research May Lead To Hotter-running Engines
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University have developed a new bond coat for thermal barrier coatings, or TBCs, that may allow gas turbine engines in aircraft and other power-generating technologies to better withstand severe, high-temperature environments. A New Century Of Alzheimer's Disease Research
Imagine the day when a routine visit to the family doctor includes a simple blood test to predict the risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. If the test returns a worrisome result -- too many sticky brain proteins that might begin to gum up memory and thought in 10 to 15 years -- a person could be offered an aspirin-like pill to keep those proteins in check. New Tool Determines Landslide Risk In Tropics
Engineers have devised a simple yet effective system for determining an area's landslide risk, a tool that could help planners improve building codes, determine zoning and strengthen mitigation measures in mountainous tropical regions frequently hit by typhoons. Performance enhancing steroids
Most sports stars know that injecting steroids to boost performance is plain stupid. But, some do it anyway, because the potential gains, they reason, outweigh the risks to health and the chances of being stripped of glory are much smaller than their chances of winning the medal without them.Not all steroids are purely about enhancement. [...] Heavy, Lifetime Alcohol Users May Be Toasting Metabolic Syndrome
The risk of developing metabolic syndrome increases the more a person drinks -- and beginning a heavy drinking pattern early in life seems to add extra risk, according to a first-of-its-kind study presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2004. Obesity Epidemic Continues To Grow
Obesity rates in the US continue to climb dramatically, with Mississippi at the top of the list for adults, and DC for young people. Adult obesity rates rose in 31 states last year, according to a new report. Twenty-two states experienced an increase for the second year in a row; no states decreased. MGH Study Identifies Potential Alzheimer's Risk Gene
Researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders (MIND) have identified a gene variant that may increase the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease. In the March 3 New England Journal of Medicine they report that specific changes in the gene for a protein called ubiquilin-1 are associated with an increased incidence of Alzheimer's in two large study samples.
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