You can be thin, vegetarian, and a marathon runner and still have your arteries calcified, according to a March 14, 2007 press release from the University of Maryland Medical Center, "University of Maryland Researchers Find Heart Disease in a Marathon Runner: Is Too Much Excercise a Bad Thing?" The press release doesn’t say whether the […]
Women’s Health & Fitness Day reveals low vitamin D levels raises risk of high blood pressure
Women’s Health and Fitness Day is Wednesday, September 30, 2009. It’s the nation’s largest annual health promotion event for women of all ages. For information on Sacramento/local health and fitness events see the Sacramento Bee’s Health and Fitness Blog. Women are spending too much time indoors, worsening the levels of vitamin D3 they need to help […]
Cold Fusion: The Ghost of Free Energy
Two decades ago a pair of eminent chemists claimed to find the secret of almost limitless energy, only to have their results dismissed several weeks later. Today many scientists think there was truth in the claims but, as Jon Cartwright discovers, few are still listening The late writer Arthur C Clarke had a knack for […]
Unabated hawala exchanges thrive in Kashmir
Unabated hawala exchanges thrive in Kashmir HAWALA MONEY is being pumped into our country for the past many years, obviously with a mission to cause economic disturbance and to support the ongoing insurgency in various parts of the country. As per the sources, police and security forces have seized hawala money worth Rs 3.22 crore […]
Bay Area Cement Plants and Global Warming
Article by Chris Amico CUPERTINO, California–From the lip of the quarry at Hanson Permanente cement, all of Santa Clara stretches out in panorama. (Photos here). Few plants in California are this close to this many people. Most of the state’s 11 kilns are well away from population centers, close enough for workers to commute, but […]
The other color of terror
The news that the convoy of Buddhadev Bhattacharya, the West Bengal chief minister escaped being mined and that naxalites are the ones being accused, will draw attention to Left wing terrorism once again. Although left wing terrorism and insurgency affects large pieces of the country, it has never had the kind of visibility that it […]
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