From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 03:53:32 MST
http://www.futureport.dk/news - 2003-01-10 (9 articles)
[Health]
AlterNet - The Obesity Gap
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http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14913
According to Greg Critser's "Fat Land," one of the few news stories to
break through the coverage of the previous day's attacks "was one about
the latest obesity statistics (the national rate had jumped again – to
26 percent)." Overweight will kill far more Americans each year than any
terrorist would dare dream of taking out, and Critser is rightly
incensed about the death toll racked up by cardiovascular disease,
hypertension and especially diabetes, along with all the other
fat-related illnesses.
[Health]
Center For Advancement Of Health - Individuals' Medical Costs Rise With
Increasing Obesity
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http://www.hbns.org/news/obesity01-10-03.cfm
Overweight and obese individuals incur up to $1,500 more in annual
medical costs than healthy-weight individuals, according to a two-year
study of nearly 200,000 employees of General Motors.
[Health]
New Scientist - Bone transplants growing success
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993252
A remarkable surgical technique allowing transplanted bone to grow has
proven successful in reconstructing the hip of a four-year old girl.
Italian surgeons performed the operation in 1997, while removing a
life-threatening cancerous bone. They reconstructed the hip using a
graft of bone and blood vessels from the child's lower leg, along with
donor bone to support it. Now, nearly five years after the operation,
the bones are still growing and child can walking and swim.
[Health]
New Scientist - Frequent drinking cuts heart attack risk
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993249
Half an alcoholic drink every other day, be it wine, whisky or beer, can
reduce the risk of heart attacks by a third, a new study shows. The
12-year study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found
that the frequency of drinking was the key to lowering the risk of heart
disease, rather than the amount, the type of alcohol, or whether or not
it was drunk with food.
[Politics]
NY Times - Scientists Discuss Balance Of Research and Security
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/10/science/10SECR.html
Leading scientists began talks here today on whether and how to withhold
publication of scientific information that could compromise national
security. The discussions at the National Academy of Sciences follow a
raft of post-Sept. 11 restrictions on research into some 64 substances
that could be used in biological weapons. The discussions were also
partly an effort to fend off potential government censorship or other
steps to control unclassified research that the new domestic security
law terms "sensitive."..
[Politics]
Tech Central Station - Learning Your Limits
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-010903D
Just before Christmas, a San Jose, Calif., jury took the law into its
own hands and acquitted a Russian software company, Elcomsoft in the
first criminal case brought under the controversial Digital Millennium
Copyright Act of 1998. That act makes it a crime to offer products for
sale that circumvent digital copy protections. ElcomSoft agreed that it
sold software that did exactly that, circumventing protections developed
by Adobe against copying of its eBooks. But the jury may have bought the
testimony of the company's young programmer that his and ElcomSoft's
intent was innocent.<br />
[Robotics]
Betterhumans - Cheap Navigation System Will Open Consumer Robot Market
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-01-09-10
Just weeks after artificial intelligence researcher and futurist Hans
Moravec announced the completion of a robot vision system, a US startup
company has announced developing a robot navigation system that is cheap
enough to make consumer robots commercially viable.
[Skeptiscism]
BBC - Brigitte Boisselier: Scientific genius or PR guru?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2643445.stm
As scientists wait for proof that baby Eve is indeed the world's first
human clone, BBC News Online looks at the woman who may or may not, have
created her. Dr Brigitte Boisselier was born in France and is a trained
scientist... Clonaid, which will not reveal where its facilities are,
was founded in the Bahamas in 1997 by the man who founded the Raelian
religious sect...
[Skeptiscism]
Reason - Don't judge reproductive cloning by the Raelians.
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http://www.reason.com/sullum/011003.shtml
It looks like the Raelians' cloning claims, like their founder's
revelatory 1973 encounter with extraterrestrials, will have to be taken
on faith. After initially promising genetic tests to prove they had
produced a baby with the same DNA as an adult donor, the followers of
Rael are now backpedaling.
Made in corporation with Transhumanity at:
http://transhumanism.com/news.shtml
-- hilsen/regards Max M http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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