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- Kidnapped Britons held hostage for three days in Gaza are freed after 18 hours of secret negotiations. |
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- Sebastian Coe and Ashes team also feature on new year's honours list. |
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- Kevin McCarra on how old certainties lost out in the old year. |
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- World: Militia infiltration of units prompts Pentagon action · Advisers meant to help end prisoner abuse |
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- UK: Detectives inundated with information · Legal advice sought after papers use pictures of girl |
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- Politics: PM says correct decisions will have to be taken across public services, pensions and energy. |
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- Business: Office of Fair Trading waves through £211m acquisition of broadband provider despite concerns by rival. |
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- Weather: Snowy aftermath to Christmas largely melts away in slushy mess and driving rain. |
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- Society: Health minister says government is on course to meet target of no patient waiting over six months. |
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- Media: Scottish singer Moira Anderson says she would now rather read a book than watch the BBC's new year show. |
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- Money: Pension funds creaked and closed yet 2005 also saw bounce back for unit trusts and investment trusts. |
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- Sport: Tiger Woods believes he will be a better player in his 30s than he has been in his 20s and it is difficult to argue. |
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- Education: Farris Hassan flew to Baghdad for a first-hand look at one of the world's most dangerous cities. |
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- Technology: Bureau de change clerk jailed for stealing more than £26,000 to meet debts from internet gambling. |
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- Books: Peter Guralnick's Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke is an overdue and fitting monument to a great gospel and R&B singer, says Mike Marqusee. |
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- MC inducts six athletesMarietta Times - Six former Marietta College standouts will be inducted as the 23rd class of the Marietta College Athletics Hall of Fame on Feb. 4. The ceremony will once again highlight the Winter Weekend festivities. This year s inductees include Way-Weigelt BetWWTS: Perry Perspective 12/29Covers. |
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- cadclasses - Get Help With CAD and AutoCad |
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- About the San Jose International Auto Show (San Jose Mercury News)What: Exhibit of more than 300 new cars, trucks, vans and sport-utility vehicles from 35 automakers, including the Pontiac Solstice, Mercedes-Benz R-Class, Dodge Charger, Ford Fusion, Toyota Highlander Hybrid and more. Show is presented by the Silicon Valley Auto Dealers Association, sponsored by the Mercury [...] |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: Irish Examiner |
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- timbl: Firefox only (not debugged on other things); timbl: Can only browse RDF on the www.w3. |
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ARQ 1.1 (Dec 31 2005 05:29 GMT) - dajobe: primarily a maintenance release but includes alignment to the current SPARQL editors' working draft. This includes support for xsd:decimal and for arbitrary precision integers. ; |
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- Every year, before the new year begins, I take some time to plan what direction I’ll take in business. I compile a list of business startup ideas, then select 3-4 that I plan on doing. This year, one of those ideas was a discount luxury clothing company. I would buy the clothes [... |
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- www. groklaw. net/article. php?story=20051205151729537 Similar |
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- Generalno, matrice (?abloni, obrasci, stereotipi...) predstavljaju re?enja za probleme koji se ponavljaju, koriste pozitivna iskustva do kojih se do?lo analizom i sintezom. |
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- Ju?e sam, u okviru specijalizovane novinarsko-uredni?ke ?kole koju je pokrenula Color Press grupacija, posetio redakciju jutarnjeg i beogradskog programa u TV Beograd, i redakciju dnevnog lista "Kurir". U najdinami? |
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- Garden calendar Santa Cruz Sentinel - VOLUNTEER GARDENER : The Assisted Living Project in Scotts Valley is seeking a volunteer to help with gardening once a week. The ideal volunteer would be able to visit once a week and have experience working in a garden. Call 438-5357. WATSONVILLE Drought threaten water supply in [... |
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- The Northern Territory Health Department says there is a serious threat of ross river virus at the moment because of high mosquito numbers. Read More... Source: ABC News: Health Advertisement |
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- LA FDA aprueba nuevo uso de medicamento para el cáncer de mama |
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- It may be less costly to get prescription drugs through the new Medicare drug plan than from online Canadian pharmacies, according to a new AARP report. |
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- When a woman gives birth, her labor isn't shortened much by being coached about when to push, a new study shows. |
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- The FDA received reports of 607 adverse events involving the abortion drug RU-486 over a four-year period, it was reported this week. |
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- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center investigators report that imatinib mesylate (GleevecTM), the drug used to treat patients with gastrointestinal stromal cancers (GISTs), is not likely to be effective for patients with high grade renal cell carcinoma - the most aggressive kidney cancer. Results of the study are published in the January issue of The Journal of Urology... click link for more info. |
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- Resolving to clean out your medicine cabinet this year is a good idea. Hanging onto unused medications can increase the chances of taking the wrong one, and old drugs can lose their potency, reports the Harvard Heart Letter. But have you ever thought about where the medicine will end up? Scientists are finding everything from aspirin to Zoloft in our streams, rivers, and lakes... click link for more info. |
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- Sixty years ago, psychologist Carl Rogers introduced a new approach to psychotherapy that ran contrary to the theories dominant at the time. His method, client-centered therapy, still offers a contrast to most approaches to therapy today, says the January issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter. Client-centered therapists rarely ask questions, make diagnoses, provide interpretations or advice, offer reassurance or blame, agree or disagree with clients, or point out contradictions... click link for more info. |
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- One-year data from the largest, multi-center, prospective voluntary registry on any procedure for benign uterine fibroids showed that over 85 percent of women had significant improvement in symptoms, with 82 percent satisfied with their level of improvement. The Registry, designed to follow the "real world" outcomes for uterine fibroid embolization as it became a mainstream treatment widely available across the USA, collected data on symptom relief, quality of life, subsequent care, satisfaction with outcome, and menstrual status on 1,701 women who had non-surgical uterine fibroid embolization (UFE)... click link for more info. |
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- Six month maximum wait target will be met: Lord Warner. UK Health Minister Lord Warner today said that latest figures show thatthe NHS remains on course to meet its commitment to deliver a maximumwait of six months for an operation by the end of this year. Today's figures show that in the last year alone, the number ofpeople waiting over 6 months has reduced by almost 80 per cent andthe total waiting figures have fallen by nearly 70,000... click link for more info. |
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- Mary T. Zdanowicz, Esq., executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center: "Air marshals have a job to do, as do police officers and sheriff's deputies. Across the country, law enforcement officers are increasingly being forced by a weak system to become front-line mental health workers. |
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- When a woman is giving birth, having a "coach" tell her to push during contractions makes almost no difference in shortening labor, and may actually increase her risk of subsequent problems with her bladder, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. For the most part, it doesn't matter whether the mother is coached or not, the researchers report in the January issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology... click link for more info. |
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- Employers in the United States are increasingly offering preventive health care services as part of their employee benefits, and they say they are doing it because they want to save money on their workers. But employers are less likely to include services like nutrition and smoking counseling that would provide the most bang for the buck, a new report in the American Journal of Health Promotion concludes... click link for more info. |
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- The Society for Women's Health Research announced today the top five women's health stories of 2005, as selected by its scientific programs staff. From groundbreaking research on the X chromosome to regulatory decisions affecting health, the list highlights major trends and developments in research and health... click link for more info. |
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- A Pennington Biomedical Research Center researcher and diabetes expert believes that physicians with diabetic patients should aim for much lower levels of blood glucose than current guidelines suggest. He believes the current recommendations for blood-sugar levels are not low enough to avoid a major complication of diabetes: heart disease... click link for more info. |
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- With seed money from Johns Hopkins Institute of Cell Engineering, a Johns Hopkins geneticist and her team have discovered a critical link between the health of stem cells and the length of the chromosome ends within them. Chromosome ends, or telomeres, are repetitive stretches of DNA that protect chromosomes in much the same way as plastic tips on shoelaces prevent the fabric from fraying... click link for more info. |
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