tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39434867783825723002012-02-26T20:48:37.470-08:00One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourselfbakhtiar khatibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06247065166515327438noreply@blogger.comBlogger74941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943486778382572300.post-33955749302451171312012-02-23T00:25:00.000-08:002012-02-23T00:31:07.747-08:00

Whitney’s Protective ‘Baby Girl’ - As close friends and family begin to absorb the news of the death of Whitney Houston, many are taking time to reflect on the last few years of a career and life they had a chance to share with the superstar—and its abrupt end.While Houston had recently stepped away from the spotlight she dominated for so many years, her longtime hairstylist and good friend Ellin

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Warm and Furry, but They Pack a Toxic Punch - What’s black and white, with a skunkish look to its cover, And from bark wrests such bite it makes lions fall over?Meet the African crested rat, or Lophiomys imhausi, a creature so large, flamboyantly furred and thickly helmeted it hardly seems a member of the international rat consortium. Yet it is indeed a rat, a deadly dirty rat, its

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Kate Middleton's Mustique Vacation Is Royal Pain for Other Guests - While Kate Middleton and her family enjoy a luxurious vacation holed up in a $23,000 per week mansion on the Caribbean island of Mustique, the rest of the island is on near lockdown, upsetting tourists and locals.The Mustique Company, which owns the Caribbean getaway, is restricting the movements of other guests to protect the

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6 Good Reasons To Tell Your Children Bald-Faced Lies - Lies We Tell Our Children - I am a liar. I lie daily to my children, if not two or three times a day. Some of these lies are mere bluffs. Imagine my lovely four-year-old refusing to brush her teeth before bed. Frustrated, I tell her that if she isn't polishing her pearly whites by the time I count to three, she's in time out. Actually, there

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Drinking when pregnant - Is it safe? - You're three months pregnant and barely showing a bump, when someone pours you half a glass of wine at the restaurant. Why deny yourself?But look at it this way: If you drink when pregnant, then the unborn baby drinks too. Alcohol quickly enters your bloodstream and crosses into that of the baby via the placenta. But babies are slower at processing alcohol

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Air pollution increases risk of premature birth -Traffic fumes worst - Air pollution can increase a woman's risk of giving birth prematurely by up to a third, new research suggests.A study in California found that air pollutants derived from a number of sources can be harmful to pregnant women, but traffic-related pollution was linked to a 30 per cent increase in risk.The researchers looked at

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Stress lowers chances of having baby - But yoga and meditation can help - Taking it easy may be the offhand advice doctors give to women who cannot conceive, but new scientific evidence confirms that stress does indeed play a role in conception.Researchers at Oxford University and the US National Institutes of Health measured stress in women trying to get pregnant and found that those who were

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Babies born to smokers have abnormal blood pressure - Condition persists in first year - Babies born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy have been found to have abnormal blood pressure control which persists throughout the first year of life, according to a new study.Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden measured the blood pressure and heart rates in 36 babies during their first

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Mozart does not boost IQ - Another myth debunked - Listening to Mozart will not boost your intelligence, new research has found. So if you have been playing Eine Kleine Nachtmusic around the clock hoping to improve your child's performance at school, take a break and listen to something else.The so called "Mozart effect" first came to the public's attention in 1993, when a study published in the

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Giving birth makes mother's brain grow - Increases in areas linked to motivation and behaviour - Popular wisdom has it that when a woman gives birth her brain shrinks - but new research has found that the opposite appears to be true.In the study the brains of 19 women were measured using magnetic-resonance imaging just after they had given birth, and again 4 months later.A comparison of the two

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Climate change downsizing fauna, flora: study - Climate change is reducing the body size of many animal and plant species, including some which supply vital nutrition for more than a billion people already living near hunger's threshold, according to a study released Sunday.From micro-organisms to top predators, nearly 45 percent of species for which data was reviewed grew smaller over multiple

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12 Percent of Shy Teens May Have Social Phobia - A small portion of shy teenagers may actually have social phobia, according to a new national study of adolescents.Social phobia, a persistent, debilitating fear of situations that could involve scrutiny and judgment, is a somewhat controversial diagnosis in children and teens, with critics arguing that the diagnosis turns normal shyness into a

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The Ten Best Places to Retire in 2012 - Better weather, affordable housing, and plenty of interesting things to do are just a few reasons people move to a new place when they retire. Whether you want to spend your golden years watching the sun set over the water or taking on a second career, we've identified an ideal place. Using data from Onboard Informatics, U.S. News selected 10 key attributes

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From China, with love? - The stern, bulky visage of Martin Luther King Jr. now gracing the National Mall has brought forth tears of joy and redemption from onlookers. But for some Americans, the massive monument will forever be marred by where it was made: China.The MLK Memorial was created by Chinese master sculptor Lei Yixin and the Dingli Stone Carving Co. out of 159 pieces of pink Chinese

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Indy 500 winner Wheldon dies after massive wreck — Every race car driver heads onto the track understanding this race could be the last and hoping it won't be.On Sunday, IndyCar drivers got a harsh reminder when the worst happened to one of their own.Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died when his car got caught up in a 15-car pileup, sailed over another vehicle and smashed into a

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Don't Dim Your Light for Your Man - Don't play conservative, if you're not! Don't play anything -- be yourself!If you're Christian, you grew up singing that song in church, "This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine. Let it shine. Let it shine." My heart melts when I see the toddlers sing that today at my church. Such a simple song with a huge meaning -- God/the Universe has given you

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Sell your life to a stranger? - You may be able to get cash by selling your life insurance policy to an investor. Here's how to find out whether it's a smart move.If you've heard anything about the life settlement industry, it's probably because of deals that went wrong.Life settlement is the practice of selling your life insurance policy for cash to investors who continue paying your premiums

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Why I quit lying -- I spent my childhood listening to my mother tell one whopper of a story after another.One set of our ancestors allegedly found a baby wrapped in vines after a storm, she said. Another discovered a valuable diamond brooch covered in tar in a bathroom stall. What's more, three of her uncles, all baseball aficionados, were buried at the site of a North Carolina field where they

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Should Your Boyfriend Be Your Best Friend? - On my very first date with my boyfriend, I didn’t know if he was going to kiss me. I didn’t know yet that he loves Concord grapes, plays the saxophone and has never seen a Woody Allen movie. But I did know for certain that I wanted this person with whom I’d just eaten dinner to be in my life, somehow. I remember sitting across from him at a table in a

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Where all the good guys are -- Women always seem to ask me where all the good men are, as if these near-mythical dudes are hiding behind bushes, chained up in some vampire's basement, or are just rare and elusive, like the snow leopard.Normally, I have to resist responding, "Maybe the good guys are just avoiding you."But the answer to this frequent, lovelorn lament is simple: The good men are

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Ten ideas for making money - Some of these you've heard before, and some you haven't. The last one is our favorite. I've shared with you some of my favorite posts about ways to make more money. Now I'm going to divulge some of the ideas we've been kicking around.In no particular order:Wedding invitation addressing.Back in the day when the pen was more popular than the computer keyboard, a few

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What's the best exercise for heart health? - A combination of weight training and aerobic exercise might be the best prescription for overweight people at risk for diabetes and heart disease, a new study suggests.People doing only aerobic exercise dropped weight and inches off their waistlines -- so an aerobic-only program is also a good (and less time-consuming) option, researchers said. Those

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Physicists closing in on 'God particle' - Experiments at the world's biggest atom smasher have yielded tantalising hints that a long-sought sub-atomic particle truly exists, with final proof likely by late 2012, physicists said Monday."We know everything about the Higgs boson except whether it exists," said Rolf Heuer, director general of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)."We

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Younger Kids Respond Better to 'Lazy Eye' Treatment -- Younger children respond better to treatment for lazy eye (amblyopia) than older children, according to an analysis of previous studies.The meta-analysis of data from 996 children who took part in four clinical trials conducted by the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group found that children ages 3 to 7 years old responded better to

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UK scientists want human-animal tests monitored — British scientists say a new expert body should be formed to regulate experiments mixing animal and human DNA to make sure no medical or ethical boundaries are crossed.In a report issued on Friday, scientists at the nation's Academy of Medical Sciences said a government organization is needed to advise whether certain tests on animals that use

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Mystery "creation" particle evades scientists - The mysterious "creation" particle believed to have turned flying debris into stars and planets at the dawn of the universe has evaded capture in a year of hot pursuit, physicists said Monday.Rolf Heuer, director-general of the CERN research center near Geneva, said he was now looking to 2012 to turn up traces of the particle, the Higgs Boson, and

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Mystery "creation" particle evades scientists - The mysterious "creation" particle believed to have turned flying debris into stars and planets at the dawn of the universe has evaded capture in a year of hot pursuit, physicists said Monday.Rolf Heuer, director-general of the CERN research center near Geneva, said he was now looking to 2012 to turn up traces of the particle, the Higgs Boson, and

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Norway mass killer jeered on way to court hearing - Norway's police believe Anders Behring Breivik probably acted alone in killing 76 people last Friday, and Norwegians united in revulsion against the worst attack in the Nordic nation since World War Two.A source close to the investigation told Reuters of Breivik's talk of other cells: "We feel that the accused has fairly low credibility when it

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Norway mass killer jeered on way to court hearing - Norway's police believe Anders Behring Breivik probably acted alone in killing 76 people last Friday, and Norwegians united in revulsion against the worst attack in the Nordic nation since World War Two.A source close to the investigation told Reuters of Breivik's talk of other cells: "We feel that the accused has fairly low credibility when it

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Dinosaurs Became Extinct in Single Blow, Fossil Suggests - A dinosaur horn is now pointing to a catastrophic end for the Age of Dinosaurs, not a gradual one as some researchers have claimed.The leading culprit for the end of the Age of Dinosaurs is a catastrophic meteor strike about 65 million years ago. Although it is now widely accepted that a cosmic impact took place about then — a time known

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Big-eyed Borneo slow loris tagged for first time - Malaysian wildlife researchers have tagged a Bornean slow loris for the first time as part of efforts to find out more about the nocturnal primate known for its big eyes and rare toxic bite.The researchers in Sabah state on Borneo island fitted a radio-collar on a recently caught slow loris -- a protected species that is threatened by the illegal

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How Tough Turtles Survived Dino-Killing Meteor - What does it take to survive a catastrophic meteor impact? The tough turtles of the Cretaceous know a bit about that; they seem to have survived the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs because of their slow metabolisms and aquatic lifestyles, researchers now say."Turtles are very tough animals, if times get tough they can go into a state

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Largest population of rare gibbon found in Vietnam — Conservationists listening to a critically endangered primate's morning calls in central Vietnam's mountains heard a surprising response. About 455 animals were counted there based on their calls, making it the largest known population of northern white-cheeked crested gibbons.Wildlife group Conservation International conducted the census in

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Diamonds found in street search after Mumbai blast - Scores of diamonds have been found on the devastated streets of Mumbai's precious stone trading hub which was targeted in last week's triple bombing, an industry group said Monday.Teams of workers found the stones after picking through the debris and panning muddy monsoon puddles in the diamond trading hub in the south of the city, one of three

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Girls Starting Puberty At Younger Ages - Add one more reason to the long list of reasons to support Michelle Obama's initiative to prevent childhood obesity: it will help reverse the trend of girls starting puberty at younger and younger ages. A new study shows a rapid trending downwards of the average age of girls beginning puberty, and the escalating rates of childhood obesity are being

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Facebook, Google Battle To Be Video-Calling Home Base - Video calling has yet to catch on with the average consumer, despite the wealth of free or low-cost ways to do it.The slow uptake hasn’t deterred tech companies from launching video calling services, however. On Tuesday, Facebook was the latest to unveil its solution: a video chat service that operates within the web browser, powered by

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What Is the Oldest Age You Can Join the Army? - The military protects all American citizens' rights, but serving in the military is not a right. Service is a privilege, which provides higher education opportunities, excellent benefits and travel opportunities. A recruit must meet specific qualifications for the privilege, which include good physical condition, mental strength and commendable

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Australian Scientists Unearth Massive Wombat-Like Fossil — “It was the biggest of them all — the biggest marsupial that ever lived on any continent.”Australian scientists have uncovered the remains of 3-ton marsupial the size of a rhinoceros that lived 2 million years ago.The Daily Telegraph reports that paleontologists in Queensland have unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of the wombat-like

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Only 25 percent of American teens have summer jobs, the lowest percentage on record. Why? Are they lazy? - My teenage summer jobs were typical: lousy and formative. One summer, I scooped ice cream by a dock for $5 an hour plus tips. The next, I bagged groceries, with an August promotion to check-out and the privilege of moistening the leafy vegetables with a spray bottle. These jobs were

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Finger Length Linked to Penis Size - Hold up your right hand. Are your index and ring fingers close to the same size? Congratulations, you're more likely than men with mismatched digits to have a long penis.A smaller ratio between the second and fourth fingers is linked to a longer stretched penis size, researchers report today (July 4) in the Asian Journal of Andrology. The findings go beyond

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It's common but new treatments are bringing help - Most Americans still think of infertility as a women's health issue, but the numbers show that male factor infertility is almost as common."It is an unfortunate yet common myth that infertility is a female problem," says Bar-Chama. "In reality, 40% of infertility cases are due to a female factor, 30%-40% due to a male factor and the rest is a

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Why Your Dentist Costs So Much - Back in April I wrote about a person near and dear to me — yes, my husband — who needed two new crowns for $3,442. I published his experience in a post, Is Your Dentist Ripping You Off? Dentists howled in protest at the provocative headline, though most agreed with the content of the story.Patients howled too, about the high cost of dental work, and the feeling

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The Story of John Hancock's Signature - There are a lot of stories surrounding the Declaration of Independence. One of the most famous concerns John Hancock and his comically large signature. According to legend, the founding father signed his name bigger than everyone else's because he wanted to make sure "fat old King George" could read it without his spectacles.It's a neat story about American

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Arrest in 54-year-old murder mystery — Charles "Chuck" Ridulph always assumed the person who stole his little sister from the neighborhood corner where she played and dumped her body in a wooded stretch some 100 miles away was a trucker or passing stranger — surely not anyone from the hometown he remembers as one big, friendly playground.And, after more than a half century passed since her death,

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Expulsion Threat for Under-Age Facebook Users -- A NSW school whose students participated in a Facebook site used for cyber-bullying has threatened to expel students under 13 who are using the social networking site.In an email to parents the principal of Northern Beaches Christian School, Stephen Harris, warned that students registered on Facebook and under the social network's age limit of 13

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A Must to Sleep on A Cotton Mat When Menstruating -- Rima Singh, an executive with an Indian outsourcing company, smokes, drinks and dates boyfriends in New Delhi —- but doesn’t tell her parents back home in small-town India.Three years ago, the 24-year-old left what she described as a mundane life full of strict social conventions in the town of Mathura in northern India and headed for the

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Saudi Arabia Bans Filipino, Indonesian Domestic Workers - Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday it would stop granting work permits to domestic workers from Indonesia and the Philippines, following hiring conditions imposed by the Asian countries.The ministry of labor said it would “stop issuing work visas to bring domestic workers from Indonesia and the Philippines, effective from Saturday“ due to “

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Man ties the knot for the very first time – at the age of 99 - He always said he'd never marry until he met the right woman - he just didn't think he'd have to wait until was 99.But now, after a lifetime as a confirmed bachelor, Gilbert Herrick has finally tied the knot.The World War II veteran married 86-year-old widow Virginia Hartman in a touching ceremony at their nursing home in Rochester,

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Why doughnuts can make you depressed...and the other surprising, everyday triggers that can cause depression - Depression is a blight that leaves few families untouched.Last year alone, 5.5 million Britons took antidepressants, according to research just published by scientists at the universities of Warwick and Stirling.Bereavement, money and relationship worries are among the well-known

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Teenage binge-drinkers 'at risk of brain damage' as scans reveal it thins area that helps you concentrate - Going on a bar crawl is often considered a rite of passage among teenagers going to university and is the standby entertainment for sports clubs and societies.But these nights out could be causing serious damage to their developing brains, according to a University of Cincinnati

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Three hours in the sun a day 'can halve breast cancer risk' - Spending an average of three hours a day exposed to sunlight can slash the risk of breast cancer by up to 50 per cent, according to research.The research is the latest in a series of studies suggesting regular exposure to the sun’s rays may have a powerful anti-cancer effect by stimulating the production of vitamin D in the

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Smoking in your car 'more damaging to health than breathing in exhaust fumes' - Smoking in your car is more damaging to health than breathing in exhaust fumes, a leading doctor has claimed.Douglas Noble, a British Medical Association public health expert, made the claim as his colleagues called for tougher tobacco and alcohol controls.BMA members voted in favour of a ban on smoking while

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Ovarian cancer screening does not cut death risk - Women who are screened regularly for ovarian cancer, which is often diagnosed too late to be treated, show no lower risk of dying from it, a large US study showed on Saturday.The randomized clinical trial of close to 80,000 women age 55 to 74 also found that some women underwent unnecessary surgery after false positives came up in either their

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Scientists study 'hammock' effect on sleep - A team of Swiss and French scientists published a study on Monday that suggests the rocking motion of a hammock improves sleep quality and helps people get to sleep faster.The study included 12 male volunteers who were not habitual nappers but who agreed to try an afternoon snooze on both a stationary bed and a rocking bed while machines scanned their

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Eye scans give glimpse to future health problems - Doctors will soon be able to predict future health problems by studying scanned images of a patient's eye.Singapore Eye Research Institute director Wong Tien Yin said: "When we take the picture of the retina, we are imaging, essentially, blood vessels as well as the nerves that we can see in the retina."And so, any disease that damages blood

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Alzheimer's disease may cause global cash crunch - Alzheimer's disease could cause a global cash crunch in coming generations - as people begin to regularly live to 100 - and must be considered a serious fiscal danger, experts said on Thursday.Already 24-37 million people worldwide live with the incurable form of dementia, and that number is projected to reach 115 million by 2050, a panel of

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Blood work - HE comes early in the morning, right on time, at 7am, with his little trolley filled with the tools of his trade. Then he proceeds to methodically extract blood from warm, living bodies, carefully making sure that he doesn’t inflict unnecessary pain on his ‘victims’. This is real life, not reel life. Its’s not Bill Compton in True Blood supplementing his food source, but a young

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How to Manage a Career and a Baby - Thirty-five-year-old Ananya Kotian is an accomplished copywriter thriving in the lucrative advertising business, and an even more successful mother to her two young daughters. Interestingly, her life wasn't as rosy a few years ago when, newly shouldered with an additional responsibility of motherhood besides marriage, she had to give up her high-flying

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Women with Dual Professions - It's hard enough as it is to master one art. But when you master two, you find your way to iDiva’s Hall of Fame. Celebrating International Women's Day, we salute multi-tasking women with dual professions. Aparna Shekhar RoyDual role: National Brand Manager, Red Bull and travel writerStarting out: I did an MBA in marketing, and since my first job became addicted to

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Make the Most of Your Weekend - Do you feel like weekends come and go in the blink of an eye? Before you know it is Friday evening, Sunday night and there- it’s Monday morning already! Do you tell yourself the weekend is gone and you haven’t done anything 'productive'? Don’t fret! We give you tips on how to make the most of your weekends so that you have a great week ahead.Chores and

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How to Evaluate a Job Offer - Choosing the right job when you have a number of offers is a very taxing decision. There will a number of reasons why you should be taking each of those jobs, and your choice changes every minute. We make that decision easier for you by bringing you two human resource consultants who give you the criteria for evaluating a job offer.Will you profit?You want to

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Humans May Have 'Magnetic' Sixth Sense - Humans may have a sixth sense after all, suggests a new study finding that a protein in the human retina, when placed into fruit flies, has the ability to detect magnetic fields.The researchers caution that the results suggest this human protein has the capability to work as a magnetosensor; however, whether or not humans use it in that way is not known."

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Yuck! Most Kids Don't Shower Before Using Public Pools - Most people shower after a day at the pool, but do you know anyone who's adamant about showering before going in the water? Many parents don't understand the risk of water infections from public pools and water parks, and few realize a pre-swim shower can largely prevent these illnesses, new research shows.Recreational water illnesses (RWI

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Five Things Men Should Know - If the development and use of Botox has contributed anything to society, it's that the paralyzing and toxic beauty aid served as an effective reminder of just how important eyebrows are when communicating. When you can't move them, your face is jammed in first gear — like you're constantly reacting to a surprise party. Indeed, one of many things you likely didn't

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What men say and what they really mean - Research reveals males and females use language in contradictory ways. Women use conversation as the very glue which binds the relationship. But for men it couldn’t be more different.Lisa Sussman author of 'Over 100 Things Women Should Know about Men' asserts, “Most men have no idea how they feel at any given time. Studies show that men use language

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Earl of Cardigan speaks of marriage to woman he met in therapy - The Earl of Cardigan has spoken for the first time of how he met his new wife at an American therapy clinic, and that her son believed she was about to become an accountant, not a countess.The Earl of Cardigan has spoken for the first time about his marriage to a woman he met at an American therapy clinic.Lord Cardigan, 58, admitted

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Why I'll keep opening the door for women - Sexism is civilised – whatever the Society for the Psychology of Women might think, says Stephen Bayley.I always hold the door open for women. But, then, I always hold the door open for men, too. For this small act of graciousness, the peer-reviewed, humourless, bad-tempered, lunatic fringe of feminism – in the form of the Society for the Psychology of

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If you want to rebuild Britain, the family is a good place to start - The gaps in the Big Society give Labour a chance to find out what people really want - Is God a Tory? David Cameron must hope so. Last week Eric Pickles invoked the wisdom of Wesley and Wilberforce in a sermon to faith communities. "Is it not the great end of religion… to smooth the asperities of man?" demanded Saint Eric. Alas

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The house that dad built - Windows that dimmed the light, bedrooms too small to sleep in – Isobel Atkinson’s childhood home was eccentric but enchantingIn the 1930s, when my father became engaged, he bought an acre of land and the stone from two derelict cottages and drew up plans for building our family home.It wasn't something of which he had any experience, but he was optimistic and undaunted,

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How Likely Is Your Partner to Cheat? - A fear of sexual failure combined with a lack of concern about sexual consequences makes both men and women more likely to cheat on their partners, a new study finds.While it may seem counterintuitive that someone with performance anxiety would seek out something extra on the side, insecure cheaters might look for risky situations to boost their sexual

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Pigs could grow human organs in stem cell breakthrough - Human organs could be grown inside pigs for use in transplant operations following research using stem cells.Scientists have found they can create chimeric animals that have organs belonging to another species by injecting stem cells into the embryo of another species.The researchers injected stem cells from rats into the embryos of mice

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Pigs Could Grow Human Organs - It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie – but researchers in Japan say they are very close to being able to grow human organs inside pigs, the Telegraph reported.By injecting stem cells from humans into pig fetuses, the researchers say they have already managed to produce pigs that were able to generate human blood. In addition, they also injected stem cells

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IUDs Most Effective, Reversible Form of Birth Control - A report released Monday by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods—specifically intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants—are the safest and the most effective contraceptive for all reproductive-age women. IUDs are small T-shaped devices, which are inserted

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Japanese Scientists Create Meat From Poop - Anyone up for some poop burgers?Japanese scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda from the Okayama Laboratory certainly doesn't believe in human waste.He thinks that's perfectly good protein you're sending out to sea, and he's found a way to extract it, mix it with steak sauce and create a fecal feast fit for a king.And despite the downside of having to add soya to

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Miss California, a history buff, named Miss USA - A 21-year-old "history geek" representing California was named Miss USA at the annual beauty pageant in Las Vegas on Sunday.Alyssa Campanella, who was born and raised in New Jersey which she represented at the Miss Teen USA contest in 2007, was considered among the favorites by pageant experts.She will represent the United States at the Miss

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Marilyn Monroe "subway" dress sells for $4.6 million - The pleated ivory dress that blew around Marilyn Monroe in an iconic scene from "The Seven Year Itch" sold for $4.6 million at a weekend auction of Hollywood costumes -- far exceeding its estimate.The so-called "subway" dress is perhaps the most recognizable in movie history. In Billy Wilder's 1955 movie, a passing train sent a draft through

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That's A Nude World Record - A nude world record was set today when 400 people stripped off naked and went running into the sea. People came to South Wales from all over the globe to take part in the world skinny-dipping record on Rhossili Beach, Gower.They tore off their clothes shortly before 8am and bravely ran into the water shrieking and whooping with delight seemingly unperturbed by the wet

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Now Apple Wants to Block iPhone Users from Filming Live Events -- The days of filming a live concert or sporting event on your iPhone may soon be a distant memory. Apple is developing software that will sense when a smartphone user is trying to record a live event, and then switch off the device's camera.Anybody holding up their iPhone will find it triggers infra-red sensors installed at the

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Secrets imperil marriage in intense 'Side Effects' — Watching a married couple arguing can be uncomfortable, and marital strife has been the subject of many good plays, most notably "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee.Michael Weller's intense new drama, "Side Effects", which opened Sunday night off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, is less excruciating than that famed play,

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How MSNBC is surviving after Olbermann - Keith Olbermann essentially invented the present-day MSNBC, but he didn't take it with him when he left.As Olbermann prepares for his debut on Current TV on Monday night, the MSNBC he left behind has survived; its boss says it has thrived. The prime-time focus on left-of-center political talk show hosts that began with Olbermann's transformation to on-air

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Satellite duo picture entire far side of our sun for the FIRST TIME - Back in 1959 the Soviet Luna probe was the first to snap images of the far side of the Moon.Now more than 50 years later scientists have finally captured the entire far side of our Sun.The composite image was captured by Nasa's two Stereo spacecraft on June 1, 2011. Far side: This image taken on June 1 was the first to show

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Australian fossil find that has scientists rewriting the history of dinosaurs - Scientists are rewriting the history of dinosaurs after a fossil from a species previously believed to live only in the northern hemisphere was found in Australia.A neck vertebrae discovered in Victoria is identical to that of a Baryonyx, a fish-eating dinosaur from the Spinosaurid family that was larger than a

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Earth facing a mini-Ice Age 'within ten years' due to rare drop in sunspot activity - The sun is heading into an unusual and extended period of hibernation that could trigger a mini-Ice Age on Earth, scientists claim.A decrease in global warming might result in the years after 2020, the approximate time when sunspots are expected to disappear for years, maybe even decades.While the effects

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Research finds young stars blast water into space at 120,000mph - Research has uncovered that young stars blast huge jets of water into space at a speed 80 times faster than a bullet.The discovery was uncovered by scientists at the Leiden University in The Netherlands who focused on a protostar located in the constellation Perseus, which is around 750 light years from earth.The star is aged

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How a lunar eclipse and volcanic ash create colourful phenomenon for moon-gazers - Sky watchers were treated to a stunning lunar eclipse last night as ash in the atmosphere from a Chilean volcano turned it blood red.Scientists said the specific phenomenon - known as a 'deep lunar eclipse' - often exudes a coppery colour. But the intensity of the colour depends on the amount of ash and dust

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Scientists probe DNA of E. coli for outbreak clues – Scientists are quickly combing the DNA of the killer bacteria behind the world's worst E. coli outbreak to find clues about how to treat patients and prevent future epidemics.So far, one strain from a German patient has been sequenced by Chinese and German scientists. While the genetic information is preliminary, experts say there are a few

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700-Million-Year-Old Fossils: Oldest Armored Creature? - Fossils of tiny creatures living hundreds of millions of years ago may represent the oldest example of an organism with its own mineral coating such as is seen today on snails. The fossils indicate that the simple microorganisms were covered in plates with teethlike spines — an evolutionary feature that puzzles scientists.The fossils,

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Extinct sea cow fossil found in Philippines – The bones of an extinct sea cow species that lived about 20 million years ago have been discovered in a cave in the Philippines by a team of Italian scientists, the expedition head said Monday.Several ribs and spine parts of the aquatic mammal were found in February and March in limestone rock above the waters of an underground river on the island of

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Dinosaur auction features fighting pair of skeletons – Natural history buffs with Tyrannosaurus-sized bank accounts got a chance to ante up on Sunday when an unusually large collection of fully assembled, museum-quality dinosaur skeletons was put up for auction.The featured stars of the Heritage Auctions bidding were a "fighting pair" of dinosaur skeletons that sold to a museum for $2.75 million

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Tiny Fossil May Be World's Smallest Dinosaur - A new fossil discovery could be the world's smallest known dinosaur — a feathered, birdlike creature that lived more than 100 million years ago and grew no more than 15.7 inches (40 centimeters) long.The fossil, a tiny neck bone found in the southern U.K., is a mere quarter-inch (7.1 millimeters) in length. It belongs to an adult dinosaur that lived

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Scientists Identify Genes Linked to Migraines -- Researchers have identified three genes linked to migraine headache and found that people who inherit any one of these genes have a 10 to 15 percent greater risk for the condition.Migraine headache -- an abnormality in the response of nerve cells to stimuli -- is characterized by recurring severe headaches, which often result in nausea as well as

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Nuclear age has led to millions of fewer baby girls being born - Nuclear radiation from power plant leaks and bomb tests resulted in millions fewer baby girls born worldwide, according to a new study.Scientists noted these types of atmospheric blasts rather than on-the-ground incidents like Chernobyl, effected birth gender across the globe.Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany,

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Has equality destroyed your sex life? - A controversial book claims feminism and the rise of ‘new men’ have killed off women's libidos...Corporate lawyer Amy, 38, goes to work in killer heels and a pencil skirt, commands a mega-salary and has a team of assistants at her beck and call.‘At work, I’m always the one in control and I admit that I like it that way. It’s exciting and it’s sexy

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Hundreds Of Rail Passengers Fled In Terror - Hundreds of rail passengers fled in terror when dozens of deadly snakes were found on a train travelling from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in Vietnam.A guard and conductor were checking tickets as passengers got on in the central city of Quang Ngai on Thursday evening - and spotted the live king cobras and cobras under a seat.People fled the carriage as

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Ten Ways to Find Customers with Mobile Marketing - Smart business owners find customers by placing their marketing messages where the most eyeballs are focused. And nowhere are there more eyeballs than on the screens of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.More than two thirds of the world’s population has a mobile subscription, and mobile users are highly active. Facebook recently

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Ten Ways to Find Customers with Mobile Marketing - Smart business owners find customers by placing their marketing messages where the most eyeballs are focused. And nowhere are there more eyeballs than on the screens of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.More than two thirds of the world’s population has a mobile subscription, and mobile users are highly active. Facebook recently

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Are You Prepared for a Natural Disaster? - No matter where you live, we are all susceptible to a natural disaster. It could be a fire, a tornado, a blizzard or even something more treacherous like a tsunami or hurricane. No matter what the disaster is there is nothing that you or I can do to stop it. All we can do is be prepared.When preparing for any natural disaster, its best to keep it to the

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Scientists Discover Magma Ocean on Jupiter's Moon Io - Old spacecraft never die. Well, actually, they do die, and sometimes in spectacular fashion - burning up as they plunge through a planet's atmosphere or into the fires of the sun. The venerable Galileo probe, which was launched in 1989 and arrived at Jupiter in 1995, was sent on just such a suicide dive into the planet when its work was done

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Scientists Discover Magma Ocean on Jupiter's Moon Io - Old spacecraft never die. Well, actually, they do die, and sometimes in spectacular fashion - burning up as they plunge through a planet's atmosphere or into the fires of the sun. The venerable Galileo probe, which was launched in 1989 and arrived at Jupiter in 1995, was sent on just such a suicide dive into the planet when its work was done

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Popular Cannes film reflects "Arab Spring" spirit – A film about a woman taking a stand against men in a North African village won cheers in Cannes Saturday, with some viewers moved by its expression of the spirit of the "Arab Spring" uprisings.A small handful of critics also booed during the packed screening of "The Source," directed by Radu Mihaileanu, later telling journalists they found its

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