Popular summary below followed by the journal abstract and comment Fats hidden in thousands of foods can harm a woman’s chance of having a baby, scientists say. A study by scientists from Harvard University’s School of Public Health says the fats can increase the risk of fertility problems by 70 per cent or more. And [...]

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Quasi-News & Commentary by Wordworks2001  Kidnappers grabbed seven foreign workers off a merchant ship Saturday in the latest hostage-taking in Nigeria’s restive southern oil-producing region, officials said. The  expatriates are said to all be  Philippino, but that information was not verified. The ship, BACO Liner 2, was stopped and boarded around 9:30 a.m. yesterday morning [...]

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Breaking News:Jammeh’s New HIV/AIds Drugs Send Patients into coma! As he runs outpatient clinics…. Saturday, January 20, 2007 (5 reads) These pictures we are publishing today featured Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh  treating HIV infected patients in our country. The President last week announces that he had cure for aids and asthma. Already, a group of HIV [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —   Well the absurdity is official now and has been sanctified by no less a person than Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala. [...]

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Data breaches are happening at an alarming rate. Until some meaningful action is taken to address them, such as following already established principles (data and PCI security compliance), we’re probably going to see them continue. Reuters is reporting (courtesy of the Washington Post): TJX said the breach involves the computer network that handles credit card, [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders With a tip of the Loden Hut to Jimmy Cannon, New York newspaperman who popularized the phrase: Nobody asked me, but… IT HAS BEEN A WARM WINTER in Northern Europe, so much so that our taxi driver called it a “second summer for Bavaria,” an observation offered as we zoom-zoom-zoomed (at 180 [...]

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For those of us who chose to watch 24 this week, we were horrified to see a nuclear explosion on American Soil. What we don’t want to face, is that a scenario where nuclear weapons are being used on American Soil is not as far fetched as we wished it was. As Americans, we have [...]

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The US ambassador to Kenya is now urging the transitional government in Somalia to talk to “moderates” in the country’s Islamist movement. What occurred in the last few weeks was that the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) government was expelled, with tactical aid from the US as well as the involvement of the Ethiopian army; [...]

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When it comes to multiculturalism in Germany, the general feeling here is that it is quite the failure. And that is one of the reasons why the Berlin government wants those who wish to live here in Germany have a more thorough knowledge of the German language. The hope is that the good-old German language [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Corruption Chronicles, a judicial Watch blog, reported another incident of Muslims waging their non-violent jihad in America – in this case, litigation jihad. A North Carolina appeals court has reversed a trial judge’s decision to dismiss a Muslim woman’s lawsuit demanding the Quran be used for courtroom oaths. The woman, [...]

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The hot new item for the gad-about business executive is a Tablet PC. This is basically a notebook computer with the screen on the outside that you can use a special pen (stylus) to makes notes, click on things etc. All of the big boys, Dell, Gateway, etc are making this grossly overpriced devices. Microsoft [...]

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There may be quite an upcoming media storm if the animal rights activists continue to follow their usual pattern of manufacturing “dangerous exotic wildlife” incidents during pending legislation.

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A story recently hit the press about Los Angeles County (potentially) losing $2 billion a year to fraud. That’s a lot of taxpayer money! This dollar figure was “estimated” (using Association of Certified Fraud Examiner statistics), which say that 5 percent of all revenues (generic) are lost to “employee fraud, waste and abuse.” Nonetheless, there [...]

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[So far as I can tell, the Christian Peacemaker Teams are both conscientious and accurate in their reports.  This report (below) is emblematic of the abuses of Palestinians by creeping expansion of the settlements into Eretz Israel. I recall once being asked with one of my philosophy department colleagues to serve on a panel featuring [...]

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Here in the Philippines, the news of the day usually is usually about the latest disaster, the latest political murder, or (on a more positive note) that our lovely president Gloria is getting overseas jobs for our workers, or investments here at home. So today’s press conference by the Armed Forces of the Philippines showed [...]

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Last month I wrote an op ed about how this one last move by the Illinois Republican Party drove me from the state’s Party as a self-proclaimed member. (Why I left the Illinois Republican Party) I warned that their announcement that only THEY were allowed to say who is allowed to proclaim themselves to be [...]

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