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...part of "a well-orchestrated campaign or plan to consistently discredit Russia and its leader." Asked about the matter at a Russia-E.U. meeting in Helsinki on Friday, Putin described it as a tragedy and offered his condolences to Litvinenko's family, but he questioned whether the deathbed note was genuine and said he hoped the case wouldn't be whipped up into "a political scandal." Russia stood ready to help British authorities with their investigation, he added...
...stop calling friends for fear they can't remember voices and names, a form of isolation that can lead to depression, accelerate the disease and put them in a nursing home. An Intel phone comes with a screen that projects a caller's picture and name along with a note typed or recorded by the two parties after their previous phone conversation, describing what they had discussed. The memory joggers make the patient more willing to keep in touch with loved ones...
...Gogh by a Islamist radical. That killing and the subsequent arrests of extremists plotting terror attacks have understandably raised Dutch concerns over violence committed in the name of Islam, but they don't justify the over-kill and subtle bigotry behind the promised ban. Opponents of the move note that only a few score women wear a burqa or niqab in the Netherlands, and that such high-profile measures directed at a statistically irrelevant minority are really a message to all Muslims to start acting more Dutch (whatever that means) and less Muslim...
Sinners, take note. Sex won’t increase your risk of a heart attack—but cocaine could up your chances nearly 24 times over, according to two Harvard researchers. Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine James E. Muller and former lecturer Geoffrey H. Tofler published a study on heart-attack risks last month in the weekly medical magazine Circulation. Though sex has been associated with increased risk because of physical activity, that risk is transitory and relatively small, the pair found. And cocaine’s dramatic increase lasted only an hour. Muller and Tofler compiled past...
...from refrigerators to clothes to cameras to children's toys flood Indian markets. China's pavilion is the most popular by far at the India International Trade Fair, which opened in Delhi last week and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors some days. (At one stand, The Hindu newspaper noted with amazement, punters can buy not only a pair of bargain-priced Chinese jeans, but also the Chinese machinery that makes them.) Indian newspapers are talking up the idea of an emerging "Chindia" - a phrase coined by Indian economist Jairam Ramesh - that acts as a counterbalance to traditional powers Europe...