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With the right test, a single round of screening can decrease the risk of death from cervical cancer by more than 50%, according to research published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...
Protesters wanting to deliver a message to world leaders in London for this week's G-20 summit gathered outside the high walls of the Bank of England in the heart of London's financial quarter on Wednesday and demonstrated over everything from the meltdown in the financial system to the growing threat from climate change. Some people got a little too excited; after protesters broke windows at the nearby headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland - which recently needed a government bailout to avoid going under - one or two people looted the lender's computer equipment. A few dozen...
...Spotting a banker for her to get behind wasn't easy. Employers had suggested that financial workers dress down for the day, fearful a baying mob could set about them. That was never likely. While some outside the Bank of England jeered at the staff standing behind its leaded windows, others waved. Those workers who did brave the streets went unmolested. Riccardo Dilorenzo, an immaculately suited property developer stepping out from a nearby office, even dared to label the protesters "hypocrites" since "half of them don't work." (Even he, though, might have admired the opportunism of others; street hawkers...
...where does this rule about not touching the Queen come from? The sovereigns of England and France at some point in their nations' long histories claimed a divine right to rule, a right often amplified by titles bestowed by the Pope in Rome. (The Queen, in fact, still has the title Defender of the Faith, an honor given to Henry VIII before he broke with the Catholic Church and established the Church of England.) That touch of holiness once gave the occupant of the throne the supposed ability to cure certain diseases - most famously, scrofula, a terrible skin ailment that...
...Brown a set of Hollywood-movie DVDs, sparking outrage in the British press, which took the mass-produced gift as evidence that Obama "dislikes Britain." (Only later did Brown discover that the DVDs did not even work on British formatted DVD players, yielding another round of public recriminations in England...