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School board reviewing new drug testing policy (Point Pleasant Register)POINT PLEASANT - Members of the Mason County Board of Education have been waiting for attorneys to look at a new policy for drug and alcohol testing for students.

Nigeria: Lamido Bags Social Security Award (AllAfrica.com)The first awardee of the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), has emerged. He is the Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido whose formal implementation of the social security policy in the state has been commended.

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A man pleads guilty to throwing a traffic cone off an Edinburgh bridge which injured a woman below.

- Man pleads guilty to hurling cone

Unlike many traditional alcohol and drug dependence treatment programs, mainstream smoking cessation programs generally exclude spiritual practice and beliefs from the treatment process. But a study by Oregon Health & Science University Smoking Cessation Center researchers reveals many smokers are receptive to and may benefit from their own spiritual resources, when attempting to quit. [click link for full article]

- Smokers May Be Helped To Quit By Spiritual Beliefs, Practices

A Portuguese law that legalizes abortions during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy was published in official government records on Thursday and will come into effect July 15, the AP/Chicago Tribune reports (Hatton, AP/Chicago Tribune, 6/21).Abortion currently is illegal in Portugal except when necessary to protect the life or health of a woman or if a woman becomes pregnant as a result of rape. [click link for full article]

- Portugal Law That Loosens Abortion Restrictions To Come Into Effect July 15

DETROIT (Reuters) - Nissan North America has a warning for customers: placing your electronic key too close to your cellphone could leave you stranded.

- Nissan warns U.S. cellphones can disable car keys

Rice University chemists have found a way to package some of nature’s most powerful radioactive particles inside DNA-sized tubes of pure carbon — a method they hope to use to target tiny tumors and even lone leukemia cells.”There are no FDA-approved cancer therapies that employ alpha-particle radiation,” said lead researcher Lon Wilson, professor of chemistry. [click link for full article]

- Nuclear Nanocapsules, The New Cancer Weapon

Children and pretending (The Times-News)Excerpts from a recent Washington Post online readers’ chat with William Corsaro, sociology professor at Indiana University, who discussed the changing nature of how children pretend, the power of imagination and the need for unstructured play.

Bishop (The Providence Journal)Prologue: Across the Water

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Iomai Corporation (Nasdaq: IOMI) today announced that its patch-based vaccine for enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) bacteria conferred statistically significant protection from travelers’ diarrhea as compared to placebo, particularly for more severe cases, according to interim data from a double-blind Phase 2 field study. [click link for full article]

- Iomai Vaccine Confers Statistically Significant Protection Against Travelers’ Diarrhea In Phase 2 Study

With just a week to go before the Scottish elections, the main parties continue to look for votes.

- Final week poll push for parties

Play is abandoned for the day at Wimbledon with Tim Henman and Feliciano Lopez locked at one game all.

- Wimbledon day three

Focus on middle class drinkers (Epolitix via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)The public health minister has said that Britain’s drinking culture “has to change” after new research revealed that people in middle class areas are more likely to consume too much alcohol.

Exhibit shows struggle for global power (The Daily Targum)Darwin has risen from the dead, but not the Darwin most students are familiar with from middle school science class. “Darwin’s Nightmare /Whose Nightmare? Globalization on Film,” the current exhibit at the Kilmer Library on Livingston, focuses on social Darwinism.

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The role of Social Class in allergic diseases has changed over 30 yearsThe role of Social Class in allergic diseases has changed during the second part of the 20th century, according to a new . The role of Social Class in allergic diseases has changed over 30 years. Main Category: Allergy News. Article Date: 27 . has affected all Social Classes, but the steepest increase occurred in conscripts from less advantaged Social Classes. A . The authors speculate that tobacco smoking contributes to the increased risk of asthma in low Social Classes, but . Title of the original article: Social Class in asthma and allergic rhinitis: a national cohort study over three decades .

fsPhysioMed announced today that its mechanical penile traction device, the Extender, has been demonstrated to produce from 10 degree to 45 degree improvements in Peyronie’s curvatures for study patients. The device also produced up to a 2 cm increase in length with accompanying increases in girth. The trial was conducted as a controlled study by Dr. [click link for full article]

- Significant Peyronie’s Curvature Correction Achieved In IRB Trial With Penile Traction Device

Pain in persons with severe dementia is often not recognized or treated because these persons cannot communicate their needs. Family caregivers are in the best position to provide information to hospital care personnel about the patients’ needs, including pain. Little research has evaluated the role of the family caregiver when patients move between care facilities. [click link for full article]

- Pilot Study Of Families’ Perceptions Of Professional Caregivers’ Pain Management In Persons With Dementia

Mystery grains found in a package, spark a security alert at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in Cumbria.

- Security alert at nuclear agency

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Archives (Jewish World Review)10/08/07: A plan to take down Hillary 10/02/07: Hillary and Bill’s true colors unfold on Fox News 10/01/07: Answering A’jad: Disinvest, N.Y.! 09/26/07: Dinner with Hillary: Talking points for the next round 09/21/07: The dark side of Hillary Clinton’s health care plan 09/20/07: Fearless Fred 09/17/07: Dems’ great senate hopes 09/12/07: Iowa vs. America 09/11/07: Fred Thompson: First lobbyist for .