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...That success has drawn international admirers. Parlaying the benefits of innovation and research clusters into cleaning up inner city areas is "smart economically, and sustainably, since densely built cities use less energy and generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions," says Bruce Katz, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Washington-based Brookings Institution. "The revival of older industrial cities in Europe has much to teach their counterparts...
...cancer (as well as other cancers), but the data were conflicting. In a trial involving 29,000 Finnish subjects in which researchers tested whether vitamin E could reduce lung cancer in smokers, those taking the supplements did not enjoy a lower rate of lung cancer but did develop 34% fewer cases of prostate cancer compared to controls. In the same study, subjects taking supplements that contained a form of selenium also showed a 63% lower risk of developing prostate cancer. But a separate trial of 7,000 heart patients found that vitamin E provided no additional protection against prostate cancer...
...terrible toll disease and war take on the world's children, but a lot less attention is paid to how many kids are claimed each year by accident and injury. Part of that is a numbers game: 10 million children ages 5 and under die annually of disease, while fewer than a million - 829,000 - die from accidents. Still, that's 2,270 children every day, all year, who won't get a chance to grow up. The World Health Organization (WHO) just released its first annual report on the problem, listing the five leading killers and the steps...
...That leaves FAS administrators with far fewer resources to combat a deficit for the upcoming fiscal year, which will see increased costs from debt and energy payments on new buildings, increased demands from financial aid, and a $25 million shortfall on the current year’s expenditures...
...Mumbai massacre. But experts say little concrete action has been taken so far. One reason is the scale of the problem: India is a country of 1.1 billion people and is regularly (and increasingly) targeted by terrorists, but its internal security agency, the Intelligence Bureau (IB), has fewer than 3,000 field operatives. Only 400 of these operatives are assigned to counterterrorism operations...