Catholic Church buries limbo after centuries - Yahoo! News

Catholic Church buries limbo after centuries - Yahoo! News: "VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went."

Cannabis compound slows lung cancer in mice - health - 18 April 2007 - New Scientist

Cannabis compound slows lung cancer in mice - health - 18 April 2007 - New Scientist: "The active compound in marijuana, THC, can slow the growth of lung tumours and reduce the spread of the cancer in mice, a preliminary study reveals."

BBC NEWS | Health | Cutting salt 'reduces heart risk'

BBC NEWS | Health | Cutting salt 'reduces heart risk': "Eating less salt can cut cardiovascular disease risk by a quarter and fatal heart disease by a fifth, work shows."

Former Mossad chief: Kill Ahmadinejad | Jerusalem Post

Former Mossad chief: Kill Ahmadinejad | Jerusalem Post: "Western countries must unite in an effort to assassinate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former head of the Mossad Meir Amit said on Wednesday night.

'Even though in the past I have been opposed to assassinating Arab leaders, this case is different because it alone is the center of the nuclear issue,' Amit told the weekly Kfar Chabad magazine set be published on Thursday."

BBC NEWS | UK | England | 'Talking' CCTV scolds offenders

BBC NEWS | UK | England | 'Talking' CCTV scolds offenders: "'Talking' CCTV cameras that tell off people dropping litter or committing anti-social behaviour are to be extended to 20 areas across England."

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/18/2007 | Administration pursued aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/18/2007 | Administration pursued aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout: "WASHINGTON - For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates."

Chinese make first artificial snowfall | International News | News | Telegraph

Chinese make first artificial snowfall | International News | News | Telegraph: "China claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly ambitious attempts to control the weather."

Hurricanes to Be Sapped, Not Strengthened, by Warming?

Hurricanes to Be Sapped, Not Strengthened, by Warming?: "Climate change could lead to stronger wind shear, a weather pattern that weakens hurricanes, a new study says. Some previous, widely publicized studies have linked global warming to stronger hurricanes."

Ramazzini - Portal on the research and prevention of cancer - portale sulla ricerca e prevenzione del cancro

Ramazzini - Portal on the research and prevention of cancer - portale sulla ricerca e prevenzione del cancro: "A second study conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF) confirms the carcinogenicity of aspartame."

Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal

Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal: "A panel of judges at the Copyright Royalty Board has denied a request from the NPR and a number of other webcasters to reconsider a March ruling that would force Internet radio services to pay crippling royalties. The panel's ruling reaffirmed the original CRB decision in every respect, with the exception of how the royalties will be calculated. Instead of charging a royalty for each time a song is heard by a listener online, Internet broadcasters will be able pay royalties based on average listening hours through the end of 2008.

The ruling is a huge blow to online broadcasters, and the new royalty structure could knock a large number of them off the 'Net entirely."

Digital Journal - Candidate says US going bankrupt

Digital Journal - Candidate says US going bankrupt: "Presidential candidate Ron Paul, campaigning in Iowa, says that the US is going bankrupt.
Speaking to a group of supporters at the University of Iowa, the Republican candidate said that:

'As time goes on, our country will realize that we can't afford to pay all the promises we've made.'

He said that our entitlements programs, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and our monetary policy are causing such a drain on the country's finances that in the very near future our trading partners abroad will lose confidence in the dollar and then there will be a very severe financial crisis, possibly worse than the Great Depression of the 30's. "

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? - Independent Online Edition > Wildlife

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? - Independent Online Edition > Wildlife: "The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up."