My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Connor
A New York judge has dismissed the sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Most pet owners don't need reminding. Animals make people feel good. But we're talking about more than feeling glad they're around. Your favorite animal can make you healthy. You may be surprised at just how many ways a pet can improve your health.
Iron is obtained from food and stored for use as ferritin, an iron-carrying protein. Ferritin is found mostly in the liver, but it's also present in smaller amounts in the bone marrow, spleen, and muscles.
When a nation becomes liberalized, the economic effects can be profound for the country and for investors. Economic liberalization refers to a country "opening up" to the rest of the world with regards to trade, regulations, taxation and other areas that generally affect business in the country. As a general rule, you can determine to what degree a country is liberalized economically by how easy it is to invest and do business in the country.
Some 12 million people around the world do not have citizenship of any country, and are being denied basic human rights as a result, the UN has warned.
Hurricane Irene has destroyed about 100 homes in the Bahamas as it roars over the archipelago.
Pleurisy is a lung disease. It means inflammation of the pleura — the thin, 2-layer protective membrane that covers the lungs and also lines the inside of the chest wall. The 2 layers are lubricated by a thin layer of fluid between them. This helps them slide easily over each other when you breathe in and out.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well-known buildings in the nation's capital and sending scared office workers into the streets.
The air of two Midwestern US cities contains significant amounts of bacteria from feces, particularly dog poop, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder, published recently in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The researchers tested the air of four locations in the Great Lakes region, and found that, in addition to the more predictable organic sources (such as leaves and soil), fecal material, most likely from dogs, often represents an unexpected source of atmospheric bacteria in urbanized areas during the winter.