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...itching, coughing and reddening of the skin. But after just three months, most of the kids were able to eat five peanuts a day with no reaction; at the end of year, the majority of them could safely eat 32 peanuts, which meant they no longer needed to read food labels for possible nut contamination. Clark has just embarked on a three-year, $1.5 million controlled trial to test the same treatment in 104 children with peanut allergies. Similar studies are also under way at Duke University and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, among other places...
...stiffed their bankers over the past 30 years. In fact, the sovereign-debt crisis goes back as far as the concept of the sovereign state. The first recorded government default took place in the 4th century B.C., when Greek municipalities failed to pay back loans granted by a temple. (Read "The Party's Over for Spendthrift Greeks...
...cost of the crisis on the U.S., the U.K. and Japan would be spread over many years and is therefore less scary than it may appear. "We do not believe that the global crisis is a watershed for the long-term fiscal sustainability" of those countries, the report said. (Read "Greek Tragedy: Athens' Financial Woes...
...Read "Greece's Debt and Economy Woes: As Bad as Dubai...
...South China tiger, the rarest of the world's five surviving subspecies, back into its natural habitat. In this Year of the Tiger, the project has secured $3 million to restore a 250,000-acre (100,000 hectare) nature reserve straddling the borders of Hubei and Hunan provinces. (Read "No Valentine? Celebrate the Year of Tiger Instead...