2010
03.31
03.31
BBC News reports here: Breast cancer screening does more good than harm even if some women have unnecessary surgery, a large study concludes.
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BBC News reports here: Breast cancer screening does more good than harm even if some women have unnecessary surgery, a large study concludes.
Their electricity often comes from utility companies which generate power from burning coal, BBC News reports here: Greenpeace calls on technology companies to use more renewable energy sources to power their data centers.
BBC News reports here: A chemical cocktail may be able to destroy growths in the gut which have the potential to become colon cancers, say scientists.
A change in lifestyle following rapid economic growth is partly to blame, BBC News reports here: China faces a diabetes epidemic, with almost one in 10 adults having the disease while most cases remain undiagnosed.
Spiegel Online reports here: The US Justice Department has accused German car maker Daimler of paying bribes to foreign officials in 22 countries. The company is said to be willing to pay 185 million dollars to settle the case.
BBC News reports here: Google says it has stopped censoring its search results in China, setting itself up for a confrontation with the country’s authorities.
BBC News reports here: President Obama’s landmark healthcare bill narrowly passes the US House of Representatives, ushering in the most sweeping health reform in decades.
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family’s dispersal after Jefferson’s death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings’s siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson’s wife, Martha. The Hemingses of Monticello sets the family’s compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1790s Philadelphia, and plantation life at Monticello. Much anticipated, this book promises to be the most important history of an American slave family ever written.
Acupuncture infection, BBC News reports here: Doctors at Hong Kong University call for greater regulation of the acupuncture industry and stricter hygiene measures.