Weekend avalanches killed five people in Montana, Utah and Idaho, with one bruised survivor traveling miles by snowmobile and on foot to reach help, authorities said. In Montana’s Big Belt Mountains, the bodies of two snowmobilers caught in an avalanche were found by searchers early Sunday and removed by helicopter later in the day. That avalanche happened Saturday at the base of Mount Baldy, about 20 miles from Townsend. A survivor traveled the 15 or 20 miles back to the trailhead, initially by snowmobile and then on foot after the machine became stuck, Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Cheryl Leidle said. Upon reaching a pickup truck at the trailhead, he used a cell phone to call for help. “It would appear the avalanche drove them into a grove of trees downhill from the avalanche itself,” Leidle said. ...
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 Some cocoa may improve brain blood flow |
A nice cup of the right kind of cocoa could hold the promise of promoting brain function as people age. In an increasingly aging world, medical researchers are seeing more cases of dementia and are looking for ways to make brains work better. One potential source of help may be flavanols, an anti-oxidant found in cocoa beans that can increase blood flow to the brain, researchers said Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ian MacDonald of England's University of Nottingham reported on tests given to young women who were asked to do a complex task while their brains were being studied with magnetic resonance imaging. Among the women given drinks of cocoa high in flavanols, there was a significant increase in blood flow to the brain compared with subjects who did not drink the cocoa, he said....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-02-18-cocoa-brain-function_x.htm?csp=34
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Editor - 15:30:00 02-18-07
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| Bird flu outbreaks blamed on rats |
JAPANESE scientists fear that rats were responsible for carrying avian flu into four poultry farms over the past month, in an alarming development that suggests the virus could spread more quickly than realised.A team of government-appointed specialists who inspected the farms in the Miyazaki and Okayama prefectures, in the country's south, believes that rodents infected by wild ducks from China may have been carrying the highly virulent H5N1 virus strain.At all of the farms they found nets and coverings in place to prevent large migratory birds from coming into contact with the poultry. At three of the farms they found scores of dead chickens in areas furthest from the entrance of the coops, leading inspectors to believe that wild birds were not the direct source of the infection....
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bird-flu-outbreaks-blamed-on-rats/2007/02/18/1171733612885.html
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| 'Rogue' Shi'ite militias using Iranian bombs |
Lethal Iranian bomb technology spotlighted by US officials in Iraq last week is being used by rogue elements of Shi'ite militias that are not under any kind of central command, the US military says. The evidence presented at a briefing in Baghdad last week further confuses an enemy landscape in which death is as likely to come at the hands of government-allied Shi'ite militias as from disgruntled former Ba'athist extremists and their al Qaeda allies. US military officials think members of Shi'ite militias most of which have links with both Iran and Iraq's Shi'ite-led government are receiving and using the "explosively formed penetrators" (EFPs), or shaped bomb charges. "Our intelligence has assessed that they are Shia rogue elements of illegal armed groups," Lt. Col. Christopher Garver told The Wash Times. Illegal armed groups using bombs not supplied by America??? They need to apply for a License or Permit and buy American Bombs, work for us we will call you freedom fighters...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070217-114937-6734r.htm
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| Hicks to return home 'this year' |
Australia's only remaining detainee at the US military jail in Guantanamo Bay could be home by the end of the year. David Hicks will face a US military commission this year, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said. Mr Hicks will either be sent home a free man or, if found guilty, serve any sentence in Australia, Mr Downer said. Mr Hicks, 31, has been held at Guantanamo Bay for five years. He was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 for allegedly fighting with the Taleban. "If the trial proceeds and proceeds quickly... then it'll be possible to get Mr Hicks back to Australia by the end of the year, either to serve in a prison in Australia or of course just to be released, depending on the result of the trial," Mr Downer told Australian TV network Channel 9. ...
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| US and Israel agree boycott plan |
The US and Israel will not work with a new Palestinian unity government unless it recognises Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said. He spoke as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepared for three-way talks with Mr Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Mr Olmert said he and Bush had agreed on their position on Friday. Hamas, the largest group in the proposed Palestinian unity government, refuses to recognise Israel. Mr Olmert said a Palestinian government that failed to accept conditions laid down by the quartet of the US, EU, Russia and UN "cannot receive recognition and there will not be co-operation with it". "I spoke about this on Friday with the president of the United States, and I can tell you the Israeli and US positions are completely identical," Mr Olmert said in televised comments. Sounds like the Palestinians can have a Democracy as long as they do what we say and elect only those approved by the US and Israel. ...
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