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21.02.2015 15:11
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's filthy air is
cutting 660 million lives short by about
three years, according to research
published Saturday that underlines the
hidden costs of the country's heavy
reliance on fossil fuels to power its
economic growth with little regard for the
environment.
While New...
21.02.2015 14:45
Conventional wisdom has it
that hot flashes, which afflict
up to 80 percent of middle-
aged women, usually persist
for just a few years. But hot
flashes can continue for as
long as 14 years, and the
earlier they begin the longer
a woman is likely to suffer, a
study published on Monday
in JAMA...
20.02.2015 14:38
Mark Zuckerberg has tapped into an area
of growing social anxiety with his fourth
book club choice, announced on
Wednesday.
The Facebook founder showed his talent
for surfing the zeitgeist by selecting On
Immunity: An Inoculation, by essayist Eula
Biss, which investigates the fears...
20.02.2015 14:21
I always wonder, when people say a
woman has lost her looks, what she did
with them. Where did she last see her
looks? If she were to rummage down the
back of the sofa, would she find them, a bit
crumpled but otherwise nice and youthful?
It would be like finding your lost keys,
only better: you’ll...
20.02.2015 13:46
PARIS — As the trial of
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
comes to a close on Friday,
some here are breathing a
sigh of relief after cringing,
gasping and giggling
uncomfortably for weeks
while the sexual proclivities
of the man once thought
likely to become France’s
president were paraded
before the...
20.02.2015 13:39
Less than 12 months after
investors valued Snapchat,
the red-hot messaging app, at
about $10 billion, the start-up
is again in the market for
money — and poised to
nearly double that valuation.
A range of other popular
start-ups are also poised to
propel their net worths to
similar...
16.02.2015 15:46
It’s still more than three months until
finals, but there’s a whiff of panic in the
air of the Edinburgh student flat where I’m
having dinner. “Everybody’s feeling it,”
says Suzy. Feeling what? “The pressure.
There’s just so much pressure.” About
what? Your exams? Or what to do next?
“Everything....
16.02.2015 15:37
A senior US scientist has expressed
concern that the intelligence services are
funding climate change research to learn if
new technologies could be used as
potential weapons.
Alan Robock, a climate scientist at Rutgers
University in New Jersey, has called on
secretive government agencies to be...
16.02.2015 15:12
She won the heart of King Henry VIII,
divided the church and lost her head. But
nearly 500 years after Anne Boleyn met her
death, only one uncontested portrait of her
remains.
Pictures of the beguiling queen – who is
played by a steely Claire Foy in the hit BBC
historical drama Wolf Hall – were...
16.02.2015 15:05
YouTube’s first video may have been
uploaded on 23 April 2005, but the
website’s domain name was registered on
14 February. Hence the 10th birthday
milestone this past weekend at a time
when Google’s online video service is more
popular than ever.
From zero to one billion viewers in a
decade is...
