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Crown slips out of reach for Kenya’s “kingmaker” (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)Dubbed the “kingmaker” for helping put Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in power five years ago, Raila Odinga lost what some say was his best chance to dethrone his former ally on Sunday.

Arens’ latest project a book (The Morning Sun)Al Arens is one of those people who just can’t sit still. The 68-year-old Westphalia native graduated from the General Motors Institute of Technology (now Kettering University) in 1962 with an electrical engineering degree.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) on Thursday signed into law a bill that will increase the state’s cigarette tax by 44 cents per pack to fund a health insurance program for low-income residents, the AP/Louisville Courier-Journal reports. The tax, which will take effect on July 1, is expected to generate $206 million annually. [click link for full article]

- Indiana Gov. Daniels Signs Law To Increase Cigarette Tax To Fund Health Care Program

According to a new report published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, farmers fare badly on every measure of health and quality of life, despite the fact that self-employment has been shown to be advantageous for productivity. [click link for full article]

- Farmers Have Lowest Levels Of Happiness Among Self-employed People

There are signs that Donald J. Trump?s sense of luxury in his new Chicago hotel and condo project may be more than some locals are willing to pay for.

- Trump & Co. Hits Chicago to Drum Up Apartment Sales

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prince is giving away the first single from an upcoming album to cell phone users as the rock star, who is also launching a perfume, looks to create a buzz around his “Planet Earth” album, due out in weeks.

- Prince single free to cell phone listeners

Technology, developed for surgery after nasal cancers, used in multiple reconstructive operations on 23-year-old whose face was disfigured. It took only seconds for the Humvee to flip over and crash on a highway near Camp Bucca in southern Iraq in August 2005. The force of impact was blunted by the body armor protecting Senior Airman Michael Fletcher. [click link for full article]

- Surgeons Rebuild Iraq War Veteran’s Entire Nose Using His Own Body Parts

In a survey of more than one thousand infertility patients with frozen embryos, 60 percent of patients report that they are likely to donate their embryos to stem cell research, a level of donation that could result in roughly 2000 to 3000 new embryonic stem cell lines. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Duke University report the startling findings in the July 6, 2007 issue of Science. [click link for full article]

- Donated Embryos Could Result In More Than 2,000 Embryonic Stem Cell Lines

The Food and Drug Administration proposed sweeping new rules for sunscreens, intended to give consumers more detailed information.

- F.D.A. Plans New Labeling for Sunscreen

Diabetes causes sperm damage, which may affect men’s fertility, a UK study suggests.

- Diabetes may cut male fertility

A man accused of ordering parts to make nuclear arms has been extradited to Germany.

- Nuclear arms suspect extradited

WHAT: In planning for a future influenza pandemic, most experts agree that two things are known for certain - there will be another pandemic someday, and nobody can predict when. [click link for full article]

- Planning For A Future Influenza Pandemic

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Never has one person attacked a problem with such force and disregard for political convention as Robert Sillen has the California prison system.

- Using Muscle to Improve Health Care for Prisoners

Some ethnic minorities could be twice as likely as white and Native American people to prefer counseling and prayer to medication for treating depression, according to a national Internet survey. African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians who took the survey were skeptical about the biological basis of depression and wary of becoming addicted to antidepressants, according to Jane Givens, M.D. [click link for full article]

- Minorities Prefer Counseling To Drugs For Treating Depression

Two papers to be published in the Early Edition online of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the week of July 30-August 3, 2007 report findings that demonstrate that neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1) protects against damage to retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells and identifies an important trigger for its production and novel molecular mechanisms that support vision. [click link for full article]

- LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Research Shows NPD1 Protects A Key Component Of Vision