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...Police investigating Monday's heist suspect that two robbers were involved; one is thought to have dark hair, tan skin and a local accent, but no witnesses have yet come forward regarding the other...
Anyone in search of a new identity in the coming years might find it easiest to opt for becoming British. Robbers hijacked a security van on its way from Manchester to London Monday morning and made off with about 3,000 blank British passports and visas that were destined for embassies overseas. The Foreign Office said the heist amounted to a "serious breach of security" but insisted the blank documents are unusable because of their high-tech-chip security features. "A blank isn't able to be used for crossing a border," said a Foreign Office representative...
Hearing loss is more common than ever before. About 16% of American adults have an impaired ability to hear speech, and more than 30% of Americans over age 20 - an estimated 55 million people - have lost some high-frequency hearing, according to a new study published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The finding has got experts - and concerned parents - wondering anew: Does listening to loud music through headphones lead to long-term hearing loss? Brian Fligor, director of diagnostic audiology at Children's Hospital Boston, explains how much damage your headphone habit might cause - and how to mitigate...
...their previous studies, Mt. Sinai psychiatrist Michal Beeri and her team discovered that people with diabetes in midlife had up to three times the risk of developing dementia 35 years later. Building on that work for their current study, which Beeri presented Monday at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Chicago, researchers analyzed samples of brain tissue from 248 patients, stored in the Mt. Sinai Brain Bank. Detailed medical histories, including medications taken, were available for all patients. Beeri matched 124 patients with diabetes with 124 non-diabetic patients, who were similar to the first group...
...Apart from the longstanding Kurdish issue, Turkey has been increasingly edgy over the past few months, with the country's secularist establishment - mainly the military and the courts - locked in a struggle for power with the Islamic-rooted ruling party. On Monday, the 11 judges of the Constitutional Court began deliberating in the capital, Ankara, on whether to ban the AKP for anti-secularist activities. Separately, a court last week agreed to take up an indictment against 86 people - including military officers, journalists and senior businessmen - accused of high-profile political killings, extortion and violence designed to foment unrest...