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Before the week is out, Tony Blair will discover whether he can remain Prime Minister, and if he can, whether the office is still worth holding. First there's the culmination of weeks of feverish campaigning, arm twisting and strategic concessions by Blair's Education Minister to contain a massive Labour rebellion over plans to increase university budgets by making students pay more. A loss on this bill would mean a central plank of Blair's push to rejuvenate British education - and his broader drive to find ways of modernizing public services without raising taxes - would stand rejected...
...visitors forging travel documents, a dangerous practice that is currently all too easy. Biometrics is the vanguard of identification technology, and the U.S. is pioneering a system that will soon become the norm. Within a few decades, passports of most—if not all—countries will contain biometric information, contributing to the security of the whole world and the peace of mind of all travellers...
...also regretful that US-VISIT was not publicly announced to the world further in advance of its implementation. Acting unilaterally, the U.S. imposed Oct. 26, 2004 as a deadline for all visitors’ passports to contain biometric information. After that date, non-biometric passports will have to be accompanied by biometric visas. But even the United Kingdom, one of the world’s wealthiest countries, has announced that it will not be ready to issue biometric visas until mid-2005. By not providing appropriate communication to the international community in advance, the U.S. has essentially imposed an additional...
VITAMIN D: A comprehensive study of more than 3,000 U.S. veterans found that fiber-rich diets that contain lots of vitamin D--the so-called sun vitamin, which is also plentiful in mackerel, salmon and fortified milk--significantly reduce the incidence of precancerous growths in the colon. British researchers linked an abundance of vitamin D to fewer fractures in people 65 years and older...
Score two more points for red wine. Researchers have long believed that the antioxidants in wine promote heart health. Now they have nosed out a couple more beneficial compounds. The waxy skins of grapes contain chemicals called saponins, also found in olive oil and soybeans, that researchers believe may lower cholesterol. Grapes, especially those grown in cooler climates, also contain resveratrol, which may play a role in longevity. The chemical has been shown in the lab to prolong the life of yeast by 70%, and it mimics the effects of a low-calorie diet, which can extend life span...