...the toxin did not damage skin cells or hair follicles surrounding the tumour - suggesting that the toxin is highly selective, and may not lead to the severe side effects sometimes associated with alternative treatments.

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That gum eases tension and helps concentration has been known for years, not least by America's military, which first gave soldiers gum during the first world war. Chewing helps ease blocked ears and lessens an urge to smoke or snack. But the opportunity generating most excitement now is the use of gum as a cheap, effective delivery mechanism for medicine. Gary Kehoe, Wrigley's director of new product innovation, says gum outdoes pills at getting certain molecules into the bloodstream because of its prolonged contact with the mouth. Gum is insoluble and is chewed for 20 minutes on average. Alkaline saliva and the lack of stomach acid also give drugs a fighting chance. Wrapping an active molecule in a resin that dissolves slowly allows controlled release.

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Conducted by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC), the study gave failing grades to 16 of the 28 evaluated computer equipment makers when it comes to informing consumers about corporate environmental policies. Six of the nine American companies that went under the microscope got failing grades, including Dell Computer and Gateway.

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Under the barbaric laws of this custom, a girl suspected of having an extra-marital affair is labeled kari or black woman, while the suspected man is called karo or black man. Regarded as blots on the honor of the woman's family or tribe, instant murder of the accused is considered to be a social obligation.

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Many left disillusioned that Vatican II had not eased the rigid episcopal hierarchy or the rules on celibacy, and many left to marry. Those left behind included a greater percentage of priests who were theologically conservative, gay or maladjusted, a trend that the bishops had apparently begun to note. In 1971, they commissioned a study by Dr. Eugene Kennedy, a psychologist at Loyola University of America and a former priest, and Dr. Victor Heckler, the principal investigator. Their report, "The American Priest: Psychological Investigations," found that 57 percent of priests were psychologically "underdeveloped."

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The latest case involved a Toronto man who was stopped by police while driving a motorcycle downtown last summer. Police found the butts of two marijuana cigarettes on him, and charged the man with possessing less than a gram of marijuana.

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"The physicist Hermann von Helmholtz was the first to clearly state the fundamental problem in vision, namely that there is no way to directly specify objects and conditions in the world by means of the information conveyed to eye by light," Purves said in an interview. "Even though it doesn’t seem that way to us, the information carried by the light that falls on the retina is inevitably ambiguous. A particular stimulus can have many different physical sources. Since the goal of any visual animal is to react appropriately to the sources of visual stimuli, this fact presents a major problem."

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Computer crimes currently share sentencing guidelines with larceny, embezzlement and theft, where the most significant sentencing factor is the amount of financial loss inflicted, and additional points are awarded for using false ID or ripping off more than 10 victims. But in a congressional session that heard much talk about "cyberterrorism," lawmakers became convinced that computer outlaws had more in common with al Qaida than common thieves.

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"To the extent that television provides escape from feelings of inadequacy, it follows that people should be especially likely to seek television-watching opportunities when those inadequacies are made salient," Moskalenko said. "People were more likely to watch television when they were feeling bad about themselves and were less likely to watch it when they felt good about themselves, indicating that people actively seek situations to manage their current levels of positive self-feelings."

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Governor Ryan, a Republican who entered office as a proponent of capital punishment, declared a moratorium on executions in Illinois three years ago, after 13 death-row inmates were exonerated -- in one case just 48 hours before a slated lethal injection. "We nearly killed innocent people," Ryan thundered in indignation last week. "The system is broken."

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In his private railway car, meals sometimes ran to 20 courses. Kim the gourmand is also fond of the American teenage staple, pizza. In 1999 he imported pizza ovens and two Milanese chefs to teach the North Koreans how to make pizza. One of the chefs, Ermanno Furlanis, later reported (in an article entitled "I Made Pizza for Kim Jong Il") that he endured a "brainwashing session" to learn to eliminate capers and anchovies after the Pyongyang higher-ups deemed one of the lamb dishes to be too salty.

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He listened to the women's very American stories (Divorced at 21? Inhabitant of 70 -- 70?! -- foster homes?), noted the sense of humor that strippers tend to have, wondered what it's like to possess the open-sesame beauty that provokes instant marriage proposals and wildly exorbitant gifts. (As if to provide evidence, the Hooters waitress serving Ueland tells of a customer who regularly tips her $100 for his $10 meals.)
He watched countless women undress.

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Ask for an apple fritter in Tim Hortons and you're increasingly offered a small, over-cooked Dutchie. Injected by fast food surgeons with a squirt of applesauce, a smidge of apple pie filler goo, the kind sold at discount stores in dented cans. A false fritter -- tell-tale brown on the outside, evidence of the desperate attempt to thaw the middle.

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When the idea for this report was conceived, I'd assumed there would be more performance give and take across Mac and PC. Since the Mac is currently my primary computing platform, I'd certainly hoped this would be the case. But, the overall speed superiority of the PC is impossible to ignore: If the processing of RAW photos in particular is where your workflow hangs up, a Pentium 4-equipped single processor PC offers a compelling solution. Whether it's because of Mac hardware limitations or software that's not optimized for the Mac, the net result is a variety of professional digital photography processing tasks will take a lot longer to complete on even a top-of-the-line Mac.

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