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International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander calls for action over the “worsening” humanitarian crisis in Palestine.

- ‘Worsening crisis’ in Gaza Strip

Fog, pavements and depression. The colour grey has dreary associations but a new exhibition recasts this ashen shade as one that suggests an intelligent perspective on the complexities of life.

- Grey’s anatomy

A new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement offers federal and state policy recommendations for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). SCHIP is a successful 10-year-old program that provides health insurance coverage to 4 million children nationwide. [click link for full article]

- American Academy Of Pediatrics Offers Health Insurance Program Recommendations

Patients with stage III colon cancer who have undergone surgery and chemotherapy with the goal of cure may have a higher risk of relapsing and dying early if they follow a predominantly “Western” diet of red meat, fatty foods, refined grains, and desserts, according to research led by investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. [click link for full article]

- Diet May Influence Survival After Treatment For Stage III Colon Cancer, Study Suggests

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Sabertooth ‘Tigers’ Were Social Beasts (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)Leopards and tigers today are fairly solitary beasts, but the extinct sabertooth cat was likely a social animal that lived and hunted like today’s lions, a new study suggests.

Mozambique: Govt to Launch Science Parks for Development (AllAfrica.com)Mozambique’s government will drive the development of four ’science parks’ across the country to encourage scientists to find solutions for its social, health and infrastructural problems.

Kinship and Social OrganizationAn extensive hypertext tutorial covering kinship basics for introductory anthropology students and undergraduate majors. Basic topics covered include: descent, marriage, kin .

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The suit involves the public financing of an association that provides therapeutic and rehabilitative services for troubled youth by steeping them in Christian teachings.

- North Dakota Is Sued in Church-State Case

Steven Gerrard slots in a late penalty to earn top of the table Liverpool a win over a stubborn Portsmouth at Anfield.

- Liverpool 1-0 Portsmouth

His discoveries helped define nuclear astrophysics and his work toward developing an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany spurred him to help found a postwar peace movement.

- Obituary: Carl Friedrich von Weizscker, scientist and philosopher, dies at 94

For liver transplant recipients without hepatitis C (HCV), survival has improved over time. However, for recipients with HCV, survival has not improved, according to a study in the May issue of Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS). [click link for full article]

- No Improvement In Survival Rates Of HCV Patients After Liver Transplantation

The White House is trying to distance itself from the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki before the troop buildup in Iraq undergoes a re-evaluation.

- News Analysis: U.S. Takes a Step Away From Maliki

The innate immune response is the body’s first line of defense against pathogen infection. In the June 15th issue of G&D, Dr. Xin Li (University of British Columbia) and colleagues report that three proteins work together in the MOS4-associated complex (MAC) to execute innate immunity in the mustard weed, Arabidopsis.Dr. [click link for full article]

- On The Defense: Conserved Features Of Plant Innate Immunity

Scientists with the International Atomic Energy Agency, an arm of the United Nations, have been quietly working for more than half a century with radiation to mimic the evolutionary process, scrambling the genetic material in crops worldwide. It’s a process, they say, that has produced useful mutants ranging from red grapefruit to disease-resistant cocoa and premium barley for Scotch whiskey.

- UN scientists using radiation to prod nature into producing better crops

CSSP Welcome to the Center for the Study of Social PolicyStrives to help states and localities implement strategies that strengthen disadvantaged communities and ensure that children grow up healthy, safe, successful in school, and ready for productive adulthood.

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An aide to Mitt Romney has resigned from the campaign after being accused of using fake badges so he and other members of the staff could enter closed areas.

- Romney Aide Resigns in Badge Controversy

Police arrest a 40-year-old man in connection with the stabbing of a couple at their home in north London.

- Man held over Camden stabbing

By a vote of 93 to 1, the Senate passed a bill Wednesday afternoon that gives the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new power to police drug safety

- U.S. Senate votes to give FDA sweeping new powers

People suffering from sickle cell anemia may one day find relief from a red blood cell substitute based on human hemoglobin, a new study says. Sickle cell is an incurable, painful genetic disease in which red blood cells contain an abnormal type of hemoglobin and often have a sickle or half-moon shape. [click link for full article]

- Red Cell Substitute May Work Against Sickle Cell Disease