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That hardly justifies a suicide test kit, say anti-euthanasia groups, who are up in arms about Nitschke's move. "Nitschke is an extremist and a self-publicist," says Peter Saunders, director of Care Not Killing, an anti-euthanasia group in London. "He will prey upon vulnerable people with these...
Several other institutions, like the National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology (NIANP) in Bangalore, are also researching herbs. "We're studying the effect of tannin compounds from various easily-available sources like tea leaves. We're also studying prebiotic and probiotic feed supplements," says K.T. Sampath, director of NIANP...
Others were already asking the same question. Friday's edition of the La Repubblica daily featured a spot (and certainly preliminary) probe into the collapse of a six-story apartment building in L'Aquila that crumbled to the ground, killing 26 of its 75 residents. A seemingly identical building right...
Seismic tests and architectural retrofitting standards are by now accepted practices in the developed world. Italy, a G-8 country - and host of the next summit of industrialized countries, in July - has been exposed before for lagging behind on antiseismic safety. In 2002 an earthquake that registered just 5.5 on...
6 | Italy ON DEADLY GROUND Before dawn on April 6, a devastating earthquake rocked the city of L'Aquila, about 60 miles (95 km) east of Rome, killing at least 260 people. With more than 10,000 buildings damaged or destroyed, some 28,000 people were left homeless--many of...