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...Phnom Penh market stall encrusted with chicken excrement, the 30-year-old Cambodian sells live birds shipped fresh each morning from farms that border Vietnamese provinces that have been struck hard by the disease. But Ngan is confident her merchandise is safe. Her chickens "are exposed to the sunlight and can eat from the earth," she explains, "so the disease does not affect them." Besides, she adds, "only foreign chickens are affected, not the local ones...
...dangerous. "A problem in a remote part of the world becomes a world problem overnight," Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters last week. If so, the blind faith of a Cambodian chicken seller in the preventative powers of sunlight and local earth should be ample cause for international concern...
Sexual impotence is often the first sign of serious cardiovascular disease ? A diet rich in kelp may decrease a woman's risk of breast cancer ? The net worth of nonsmokers is roughly 50% higher than that of light smokers and twice that of heavy smokers ? Sunlight may have a beneficial effect on some types of cancer, including, surprisingly, a deadly skin cancer it helps to cause...
...methane rains. The ground seems to be a thin, frozen crust over a smoother, softer layer. "Kind of a creme brulee consistency," says John Zarnecki, a principal science investigator. The atmosphere produces plenty of wind and weather, and there is even a flicker of a greenhouse effect, but with sunlight a thousand times dimmer than on Earth, it doesn't amount to much...
Howie Kapostash is an alert man with a nuanced awareness of things. He enjoys the increments of summer sunlight or the nice construction of a simple lunch box. He also spots the looks that pass between people when they notice his forehead. A Vietnam War injury has left him with a deep indentation in his skull and a messy plug of scar tissue. The wound has all but deprived him of the power of speech. Anytime he tries to talk, the best he can do is bark out one or two syllables. "I gave up explaining years ago," he says...