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"From Irish oatmeal to Chinese congee to Mexican champurrado, every cuisine offers steaming bowls of cereal to stave off winter's chill."This article provides a list of international porridges made from rice, corn, oats, wheat, and more. Includes recipes for turkey jook, cream of wheat, a Thai congee, champurrado (chocolate atole), and a Filipino rice porridge. From the Web site for the San Francisco Chronicle. Public Not So Sure About 'Personalized Medicine'
Ordinary people worry about the extra, and often burdensome, responsibilities which could come with scientists'promises of 'personalized medicine,'according to new evidence. [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. Plunge Into Warmer Waters This Summer With ESA's Mediterranean Heat Ma
Summer in Europe means time for the beach. Testing the waters is a traditional holiday ritual: a swift hand or foot in the surf to check sea temperature. Or there is the modern approach -- a flotilla of satellites identifying the warmest parts of all 2 965 500 square kilometres of the Mediterranean on a daily basis. Los Alamos Developing New Eclipse-based Tools For High-performance Par
Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Eclipse Foundation announced the Parallel Tools Platform Project, a new Eclipse Technology project aimed at creating better open source software tools for parallel computers. [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... Wetlands Satellite Mapping Scheme Yielding First Results
Earth's wetlands are havens for wildlife and vital to the water cycle, but they are also under threat. An ESA-led initiative aims to develop a global wetland information service based on Earth Observation for conservation efforts. The Globwetland project has now entered a new phase, with prototype products being developed based on sites across four continents. Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2004
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) presents its seventh annual report on humanitarian crisis. The 2004 list includes the rising incidence of tuberculosis in developing countries, hunger in Ethiopia, and the effects (including hunger, disease, and displacement of people) of continuing or past conflicts in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Somalia, Chechnya, Burundi, North Korea, and Liberia. The Web site also archives the past six reports. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. Monkey Trial
Companion to an American Experience documentary about the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial"of "a biology teacher named John Scopes [who] was arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee state law."This was the first live radio broadcast of a trial in the U.S. Website features include material about speeches from attorneys Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, political cartoons, and profiles of people and events (such as H.L. Mencken and the Jazz Age).
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