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20.02.2015 13:49
CHICAGO — President Obama
on Thursday offered a hearty
White House embrace to his
friend and former chief of
staff, Rahm Emanuel, who is
running for re-election as
mayor here and faces voters
next week.
“Before Rahm was a big-shot
mayor, he was an essential
part of my team,” Mr. Obama
told a crowd...
20.02.2015 13:42
By the time Sgt. Madot
Dagbinza showed the
photographer Michael
Christopher Brown a handful
of snapshots, she’d been
fighting with the 42nd
Commando Battalion of the
Armed Forces of the
Democratic Republic of
Congo for four years. A
member of an elite unit, the
baby-faced soldier in her
mid-20s...
16.02.2015 15:42
As books that give answers go, there’s one
classic that often gets overlooked – the
dictionary. So next time you’re wondering
whether a £10 tub of the latest miracle
food can really stave off cancer, diabetes
and heart disease, and get rid of a podgy
belly in time for summer, run your finger
down...
16.02.2015 15:24
Better Call Saul, the long-awaited spin-off
of Breaking Bad, has already thrown up
some interesting questions: why is Saul
chopping up cookie dough in a shopping
mall? Will Mike Ehrmantraut ever let him
out of the car park at the first time of
asking? But perhaps most intriguing is the
one raised...
16.02.2015 15:21
It used to be thought that the brain was
hardwired and that, unlike other organs, it
could not repair itself or restore lost
functions once damaged or diseased. Now
we know that, in fact, the brain is
neuroplastic – that activity and mental
experience can be used to change the
structure of the...
16.02.2015 15:15
The Mail on Sunday has shouted that
‘ cannabis TRIPLES psychosis risk’ and that
skunk is to blame for ‘1 in 4 of all new
serious mental disorders’. Is this what the
study they cite shows? Well, no, but it’s
really interesting research which could
advance our understanding of the
relationship...
16.02.2015 15:10
California is in the midst of its worst
drought in over 1,200 years, exacerbated
by record hot temperatures. A new study
led by Benjamin Cook at NASA GISS
examines how drought intensity in North
America will change in a hotter world, and
finds that things will only get worse.
Global warming...
16.02.2015 14:09
At the National Book Awards
last November, Daniel
Handler, better known as the
children’s author Lemony
Snicket, bounded onstage
after Jacqueline Woodson
won a top prize for “ Brown
Girl Dreaming,” the chronicle
of her family’s history from
slavery to civil rights. As the
applause for her award...
16.02.2015 13:51
VERBANIA, Italy — Celebrity
came late to Emma Morano.
Her routine life, in fact, might
have raised barely an
eyebrow were it not for the
fact that she’s managed to
hold on to it for so long.
At 115 years and nearly three
months, Ms. Morano is the
oldest person in Europe, the
fifth oldest in the...
14.02.2015 15:19
PHOENIX (AP) -- Caylyn Otto bought a
bracelet for her unborn son, but not for his
baptism.
"I pictured it being on an urn or being
buried with him," Otto said. "I never
thought he'd get to wear it."
But now instead of planning his funeral,
the Mesa, Arizona dental assistant can
start planning her...