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• Seven UN peacekeepers, 28 UN civilians killed in 2009

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  New York, Jan 6 (DPA) Seven troopers serving in UN peacekeeping operations and at least 28 civilians were killed in 2009 as a result of violent acts, the UN Staff Union said.Six of the seven peacekeepers were killed in three separate incidents in Sudan’s Darfur region, while the seventh death was that of the deputy ...
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• Britain must grow more sustainable food, says Benn

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 140
  Britain must grow more food in a different way to respond to mounting ecological challenges such as climate change, and help provide food for burgeoning world populations, the environment secretary Hilary Benn has told farmers.“Food security is as important to this country’s future wellbeing – and the world’s ...
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• Reducing natural water flow rates may bring ecological benefits

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, January 5 (ANI): A new study by scientists has suggested that in some highly disturbed landscapes, restoration of natural water flows may cause more harm than good, which suggests that reducing the flows can create ecological benefits.The study was done by C. Rhett Jackson and Catherine M. Pringle of the ...
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• Leprosy was thought to be eradicated in India’s big cities like Mumbai

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 118
     Leprosy experts say it is now on the rise. Doctors are warning that urgent action is required for awareness and prevention, particularly among the populations of the sprawling slums.   In 2009, a 4,000-year-old skeleton was uncovered in India that was shown to contain traces of leprosy. The discovery was ...
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• Tiger tops list of species most at threat of extinction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, January 4 (ANI): The World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature has come out with a list of species most at threat of extinction, in which the tiger takes the top spot.According to a report in the Telegraph, new studies indicate that there may be as few as 3,200 tigers left in the wild.Tigers occupy [...]
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• Telephone depression program beneficial at a moderate cost

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, Jan 4 (ANI): People undergoing telephone depression program only get a moderate increase in health care costs, according to researchers at Group Health Research Institute, Seattle.The researchers found that patients who participated in a structured telephone program to manage their depression appeared to ...
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• Malaria: a beneficial genetic mutation in South-East Asia

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 121
  A large-scale evolutionary and epidemiological genetic study carried out over an eight-year period in Thailand has enabled Institut Pasteur and CNRS researchers to demonstrate that a mutation that is particularly widespread in some South-East Asian populations offers a higher level of resistance to malaria. This ...
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• LA Progressive: 27 December 2009, to 2 January 2010

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 495
  This weeks articles. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Congo: New Year, New Ops, Same Questions, Same Fears

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 495
  Georgianne Nienaber: The notoriously failed Kimia II operation in eastern Congo has ended today, December 31. Soundly and forcefully criticized by Human Rights groups for the devastation it wrought... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Movie Review – Avatar

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 133
  What can I say about Avatar that has not been written already, especially in this often-cited post: When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like “Avatar”? – Avatar – io9 via kwout As mentioned all over the place, this is Dances with Wolves meets The Last Samurai where noble savages who, unlike ...
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• Survey finds little faith in statistics

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Most people in the US and leading European economies have no confidence in official figures and believe they are distorted by politicians, a survey for the Financial Times has found. Only one in eight adults believe official data are accurate and an equally small proportion feel that figures are produced without ...
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• The Perfect Storm - Overpopulation and Lack of Resources

  
  Perfect Argument — Authority: 150
  Malthus wrote in his classic work, "An Essay on the Principle of Population and survival", as population continues to increase and the amount of resources needed to support the population decreases the quality of life goes down. I know a lot of people think we have room for a few billion more and in a sense we do - If ...
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• Scripps research team develops technique to determine ethnic origin of stem cell lines

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 121
  Cells more representative of the US and world populations could lead to more accurate research and safer, more effective therapiesAn international team of scientists led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has developed a straightforward technique to determine the ethnic origin of stem cells.The Scripps ...
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• Scripps research team develops technique to determine ethnic ori...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  (Scripps Research Institute) An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Scripps Research Institute has developed a straightforward technique to determine the ethnic origin of stem cells. The teams analysis of a variety of human embryonic stem cell lines currently in use in research laboratories ...
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• Elements of Effective Alcohol Treatment for Adolescents

  
  Twelve Step Facilitation.com — Authority: 130
  Nine Elements of Effective Alcohol Treatment for Adolescents In evaluating a broad spectrum of treatment programs and approaches, researchers have identified common themes among the treatments that are most effective in helping teens. Drug Strategies, a Washington-based nonprofit research institute that promotes ...
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• Antidepressant Induced Mania

  
  Recovery Is Sexy.com — Authority: 124
  Antidepressant Induced Mania (ADM) Among People with Co-Occurring substance use Disorders
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• The Photo of the Year

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 133
  A Palestinian boy from Gaza flinches as other boys scare him with toy guns. Compare the level of media attention given to the assault on Gaza by the Israeli army to that of the repression of the movement in Iran. See the whole collection here . As with the Boston Globe year in photos, a lot of natural disasters ...
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• New tool in the fight against mosquito-borne disease: A microbial ‘mosquito net’

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 121
  Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a bacterium they took from fruit flies. Now, a new report in the December 24th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication, suggests that their strategy might do one better: The Wolbachia ...
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• DEMANDS OF EXPANDING POPULATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING: CLEAN AIR, SAFE WATER, FERTILE SOILS

  
  Free Download — Authority: 180
  Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning: Clean Air, Safe Water, Fertile Soils 228 pages | Springer; 1 edition (September 25, 2008) | 3540788069 | PDF | 5 Mb The worlds ever increasing population is suffering from bad air, unsafe water and insufficient nutrition. This is often the result of chemical ...
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• Brief Intervention in Emergency Room Effective

  
  Twelve Step Facilitation.com — Authority: 130
    About a quarter of individuals screened for alcohol misuse in hospital emergency rooms reported unsafe drinking levels, according to a study concluding that hospital-based brief interventions for alcohol problems are effective. This target population has previously been thought to be unresponsive to intervention. ...
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