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четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

West Wales Farmers Bloodhounds

DECEMBER 18 last year saw a very different country scene wheresnow and ice had stopped all hunting for some six weeks before thefestive break.

Not the case this year, as the pre-season hunting kicked off witha short hack to the first lines. Hunters ready for a day's jumpingand crossing country behind hounds, set out from the Pant y BwlchSquare.

With hounds on form and hunting their live quarry well, the threeCardigan Club runners, including veteran runner Gordon Ormes set achallenging course to hunt.

Field Masters Katie Hall and Vicky Haines took the field …

Sheehan Considers Challenge to Pelosi

CRAWFORD, Texas - Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That's when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group's war …

Paraguay president hit with $104 traffic ticket

Fernando Lugo occupies Paraguay's highest office, but he's not above the rules of the road.

Police issued the bishop-turned-president a $104 traffic ticket Friday for illegal passing and failing to keep his driver's license up to date, highway transit chief Eduardo Petta said.

Petta told Nanduti radio he was accompanying officers in the field when they stopped a black Ford Explorer without license plates after it passed another vehicle illegally on a highway south of the capital.

"When I got up to the vehicle, I saw that President Lugo himself was behind the wheel," Petta said. "I explained why I had pulled him over and asked for …

среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

RESEARCH

HELP FOR HEARTBURN

Heartburn, that unpleasant burning sensation in the chest thatcomes when you can't believe you ate the whole thing, may becontrolled by rolling over in bed, Philadelphia gastroenterologistshave shown. Ten percent of the American population has heartburnevery day and about $1 billion is spent annually on over-the-countercures and $3 billion on prescription remedies. Donald Castell, chiefof medicine at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, and associate LeoKatz wrote 103 heartburn specialists, asking which was worse inproducing heartburn: to lie on your right side or your left side.Forty-five said they didn't know; 27 said the right side is worse.Then …

Reforming the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Time Is Running Out

Revelations earlier this decade about Iran's clandestine nuclear activities reignited global concerns that the spread of such sensitive fuel-cycle technology would lead to nuclear weapons proliferation. In a 2003 Economist op-ed, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei proposed that the time was right to re-examine multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle.1

Similar studies had already been undertaken in the 1970s and 1980s but had not produced concrete results.2 Nonetheless, states responded with a plethora of proposals aimed at thwarting the unchecked spread of uranium-enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing technologies, for example, …