The Washington Post reports here: A black man living in a high-crime American city can expect to live 21 fewer years than a woman of Asian descent in the United States. The man’s life expectancy, in fact, is closer to that of people living in West Africa than it is to the average white American.
BBC News reports here: Eating mandarins may cut the risk of developing liver cancer and other diseases, research suggests. Japanese scientists found the key were vitamin A compounds called carotenoids which give the fruit its orange colour. One study found eating mandarins cut the risk of liver disease, hardened arteries and insulin resistance. And a […]
Spiegel Online writes here: "Nine-Eleven" has entered the English language as a metaphor, an abbreviation even bigger than a millennial milestone: 9/11 broke through Fortress America, turning it into another country. George W. Bush has tried to turn the planet into another world. And failed.
The Washington Post reports here: The clandestine U.S. commandos whose job is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years. Nothing from the vast U.S. intelligence world — no tips from informants, no snippets from electronic intercepts, no points on any satellite image — has […]
BBC News reports here: Food allergies could be virtually eradicated in 10 years, according to scientists at a major conference. Experts at the BA Festival of Science, in Norwich, heard that vaccines could be created against the molecules which trigger allergies.
The Washington Post reports here: The long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee report released yesterday sheds new light on why U.S. intelligence agencies provided inaccurate prewar information about Saddam Hussein and his weapons programs, including details on how Iraqi exiles who fabricated or exaggerated their stories were accepted as truthful because they passed Pentagon lie detector tests.
BBC News reports here: UK scientists say they have developed a sunscreen that will actively repair sunburnt skin and may even help prevent skin cancer. Like conventional suncreams, the lotion filters the sun’s harmful rays. But an extra ingredient means it also helps mop up the free iron released when skin burns, the Bath University […]
BBC News reports here: Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the launch of the Google News Archive Search. The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online content. People using the search are shown results from both free and subscription-based […]
The Washington Post reports here: The decades-long rise in the rate of new breast cancer cases in American women appears to have leveled off, indicating that the nation may have reached a long-sought turning point in the battle against the feared malignancy.