InkLess World

This memorial day its about the remembrance of the fallen heroes, those sent to war for the cause of peace.

We wish our children are not sent into harms way but someone children are sent into harms way, and those families suffer greatly the lost of a love one. Our conditioning by our cultures have made us tolerate this unfairness for some to suffer excessively while others are enjoying to the extreme. The goal is to balance both sides to a middle ground.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081224/ap_on_he_me/med_drug_interactions

The report showing just how many older people are using risky combination comes from a study of nearly 3,000 interviews with people aged 57 to 85. The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and University of Chicago, appears in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
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The Wise Giving Alliance of the Better Business Bureau says if charities are efficient, they’ll give at least 65 cents out of every dollar they receive to helping others.

But nonprofit organizations and study groups warn that using ratios and too much analysis of finances can be misleading and destructive.
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NEW ORLEANS – Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside.
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WASHINGTON – In an industry first, Eli Lilly and Co. says it will begin disclosing how much money it paid to individual doctors nationally for advice, speeches and other services.

The drug company’s move comes as members of Congress push a disclosure bill in an effort to prevent such payments from improperly influencing medical decisions.
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Train Collision

“LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Friday’s two-train collision killed 25 people and injured more than 130 others near Los Angeles after an engineer failed to heed a traffic signal, a spokeswoman for Metrolink commuter trains said.”

Yes, but human error on a single line to share two trains, is very probable! and there should be two lines, one for the freight and one for the commuter train to start with. Hopefully with all the money coming into place to implement the transportation infrastructure, this type of accidents will not be attributed to human error…

The crash occurred about 4:30 p.m. PT Friday in Chatsworth, a northwest Los Angeles suburb. The Metrolink train had about 220 passengers and two crew members on board at the time, according to Tyrrell.

LUBBOCK, Texas – A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra — but don’t necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.

Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax the body’s blood vessels, similar to what happens when a man takes Viagra, said scientists in Texas, one of the nation’s top producers of the seedless variety.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Too many people may consider themselves at low risk of sexually transmitted diseases simply because they trust their partner, a new study suggests.

The study of patients at an STD clinic found that many people relied on subjective measures in judging their partner’s “safety” — such as how long they had known the partner or how intelligent or well-educated he or she was.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday they may have found a way to flush out herpes viruses from hiding — offering a potential way to cure pesky and painful conditions from cold sores to shingles.
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