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...farm commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel downplayed the changes to Europe's Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) she unveiled Tuesday as a mere "health check". Her proposals, she said, are "all about freeing our farmers to meet growing demand and respond quickly to what the market is telling them...
...things are as terrifying as losing one's mind. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia among the elderly and affects as many as 4.5 million Americans, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. It currently has no cure. But recent research offers groundbreaking insight into what causes the disease, and how researchers could reduce people's risk. Walter Kukull, director of the U.S. National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, explains...
...been one of the warmest weekends so far this year and so, Weis argued, there was simply "more outdoor activity, more opportunity for crimes to occur" - a common explanation for such crime outbursts, but not an especially persuasive one. The superintendent also noted that 15 of that weekend's 38 shootings were gang-related - as if that should make Chicagoans more comfortable with a homicide rate that has jumped 8.9% in the first four months of 2008 over 2007. Nor has Weis begun to truly address how this city of 3 million intends to thwart a gang population estimated...
...Dozens of children aged between 10 and 16 have landed in recent months on the remote island of Leros, near the Turkish coast. They arrived in Greece without their parents, a worrisome pattern immigration experts say is increasingly common. Most of the 121 children held on the island are from Afghanistan, but there are also Palestinians and Eritrians, said Sophia Ioannou, spokeswoman for the Greek branch of the humanitarian aid group Médecins du Monde (MdM). She said all the children were crammed into a single facility without enough beds or toilets...
...Greece, like Italy and Spain, has miles of exposed coastline, making it a common entry point for immigrants aiming for European Union soil. Often people-smugglers, eager to avoid capture, force their charges off their boats and into the water well before arriving at shore. Thousands of would-be immigrants are believed to die each year in the Mediterranean, according to a top European Union official. Arrivals in Greece, most of them smuggled by boat from Turkey, have been increasing in recent months. Ioannou said that on this small island of Leros, for example, more than 800 immigrants have come...