Bitch about Headline News on Health, Environment, Internet, Politics and other Issues
The Washington Post reports here: Huge mines here turning tarry sand into cash for Canada and oil for the United States are taking an unexpectedly high environmental toll, sucking water from rivers and natural gas from wells and producing large amounts of gases linked to global warming.
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Spiegel Online writes here: At first glance, the blond six-foot hunks populating Germany make the place seem like a heaven for women. Until you start dating. German men are much more difficult than you might think.
Press Release Source: The World Health Organization: Tobacco Is Deadly In Any Form Or Disguise – Who World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2006. The World Health Organization (WHO) today accused the tobacco industry of continuing to use misleading labels such as light, clean, fresh, cool or mild in order to lure millions of people, many of them children, to take up the deadly habit of smoking each year. For tips and resources on how to stop smoking see this page here.
The Associated Press reports here at the Washington Post website: You can add Canadians to the list of foreigners who are healthier than Americans. Americans are 42 percent more likely than Canadians to have diabetes, 32 percent more likely to have high blood pressure, and 12 percent more likely to have arthritis, Harvard Medical School researchers found. That is according to a survey in which American and Canadian adults were asked over the telephone about their health.
Twenty-five years after AIDS was first recognized, the world is in better shape than ever to put an end to the disease but is falling short on many fronts, the United Nations said on Tuesday. See this article here for more details.
Senator’s Platform Remains Unclear, so the Washington Post writes here: Hillary Rodham Clinton has fashioned a political persona that generates intense passions but defies easy characterization. She is viewed as a hawk on Iraq and national security, stamped as a big-government Democrat for her work on health care in the 1990s, and depicted as seeking the middle ground on abortion.
In an essay (see here at Spiegel Online), former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer writes about mistakes and shortcomings in Washington’s Middle East policies. Gloomy predictions about the Iraq war, he writes, have been surpassed by reality.
The Associated Press reports here at the Washington Post website: More than 2 million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV, almost all in sub-Saharan Africa where there is no access to treatment and death almost certain, seven leading child advocacy organizations said.