Topic: - on February 10, 2003 at 12:26:16 PM CET
Mobile phones may trigger Alzheimer
Mobile phones damage key brain cells and could trigger the early onset of Alzheimer's disease, a study suggests.
Researchers in Sweden have found that radiation from mobile phone handsets damages areas of the brain associated with learning, memory and movement.
The study, which was carried out on rats, is the latest twist in the long-running debate over whether mobile phones are a health risk.
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Topic: - on February 10, 2003 at 12:24:05 PM CET
Aussie girls let it all hang out
700 women posed nude
More than 700 women posed nude on Saturday to protest against Australia's likely involvement in a potential war against Iraq.
Lying naked end to end on a grassy knoll in the Australian beach town of Byron Bay, they formed a heart around the words "No War" for an aerial photograph.
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Topic: - on February 8, 2003 at 1:07:41 PM CET
Columbus Bell to Go on Auction Block
-For sale: one ship's bell, old and corroded, big piece missing. First user: Columbus.
Bidding starts at $1 million when that bronze artifact from the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus' historic 1492 voyage, goes to auction Feb. 20 in Madrid.
The bell belongs to an Italian diver, Roberto Mazzara, who found it in a shipwreck off Portugal's coast in 1994 and did years of detective work to prove it is the bell that tolled when Columbus and his tiny flotilla arrived in America.
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Topic: - on February 7, 2003 at 7:09:40 PM CET
Need a conference venue? Rent Liechtenstein
Country for hire, one careful owner.
The tiny principality of Liechtenstein is putting itself up for rent in a bid to attract corporate conferences and bolster its tourism industry, a local official said on Friday.
The new "Rent a State" scheme lets corporate clients symbolically take over the tiny country of just 33,000 residents tucked away among the Alps between Switzerland and Austria.
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Topic: - on February 7, 2003 at 1:46:42 PM CET
OOOOOHHHHHHH NO
Brazilian former model Vera Barreto Leite
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Topic: - on February 6, 2003 at 2:02:32 AM CET
Heidi Klum and here Birkenstock Hompage
Introducing a new collection from Birkenstock. Coming in March 2003 - Birkenstock will offer limited edition sandals and clogs, styled by supermodel sensation, Heidi Klum!
More information will be available soon. To get email updates about this collection and other Birkenstock news,
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Topic: - on February 5, 2003 at 11:54:54 AM CET
The International Banana Club® Museum
is the first and the largest banana museum in the world! It is located in a commercial storefront in Altadena, California. More than 17,000 items are on display, the result of contributions sent by members to earn B.M.'s (Banana Merits).This unique and unusual museum is open by pre-arranged appointment to Banana Club® members and invited guests only.
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Topic: - on February 5, 2003 at 11:25:49 AM CET
Yugoslavia wiped off the map. Bush has NOTHING to do with it
Lawmakers in Belgrade's federal Parliament consigned the troubled name Yugoslavia to the history books today, endorsing the Constitution of a new, less binding union between the republics of Serbia and Montenegro.
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Topic: - on February 4, 2003 at 12:10:50 PM CET
George Bush Hotmail account
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Topic: - on February 3, 2003 at 8:08:01 PM CET
Pet eel to stay in German bathtub
"Aalfred" the pet eel, who was threatened with eviction from a German family's bathtub where he has lived since 1969, can stay at home provided he gets a piece of pipe to sleep in, authorities have ruled.
Aalfred (Aal means eel in German) has become a celebrity in Germany, even appearing on television recently after newspapers reported his long stay with the Richter family.
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Topic: - on February 3, 2003 at 4:25:23 PM CET
Real-Time Satellite Images
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Topic: - on February 2, 2003 at 9:38:38 PM CET
Unhappy anniversary
Mothers little helper turns 40
Valium is forty years old
Much has changed in Pat Edwards's life in the past 40 years. She has divorced, she has moved from London to the South Coast, she has become a grandmother. But one thing has stayed the same: she is still taking the Valium.
Pat Edwards was 25 when she was first prescribed the drug at the end of 1962, a few months before its official launch the following year. She had become unaccountably weepy after the birth of her second child, a condition we may now recognise as post-natal depression. Her local GP in Hackney gave her four days' supply of Valium, a suitably cautious amount for a new treatment, and four days later, after some improvement, Edwards was given another small supply. The drugs seemed to have an immediate effect, and she made plans to return to her job as a hairdresser. But then something else happened.
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