It was especially touching that Vike-Freiberga reminded us in her statement that the UN plays a major part in protecting various groups of people in rich and poor countries. It made me think about a certain group of people - 475,000 of them, in fact - whom the Latvian president could start protecting now, without moving to New York.

They are the Russian speakers of Latvia who still carry ...

WALLA WALLA -- When a dozen-or-so video and print newshounds crept close to gawk with open lenses, the four mallards in the semi-submerged, wire trap quacked, flapped and splashed with noticeable agitation.

One frenetic fowl somehow worked its way into the small end of the whole-corn baited, funnel-style trap, slipped through the larger opening and flew quacking away.

The others fla...

Andrew Furber and colleagues at the South East Sheffield Primary Care Trust reviewed about 3,500 studies and said smokers were 60-300 percent more likely to acquire HIV as compared to non-smokers.

Although smoking tobacco did not appear to speed the progression of HIV to AIDS, the researchers said that the increased HIV risk could be because smokers were more likely to take sexual risks, ...

Back to Home > Monday, Sep 25, 2006 Posted on Mon, Sep. 25, 2006 email this print this reprint or license this Yesterday: Mental illnesses hit blacks harder Yesterday: The great health divide Graphic: Five-year cancer survival rates Graphic: Average age of death Graphic: Average life span in Summit County (pdf) Graphic: Estimated life expectancy at birth Day 1: The great health divide The serie...

Back to Home > News > Monday, Sep 25, 2006 Nation Posted on Mon, Sep. 25, 2006 email this print this reprint or license this Yesterday: Mental illnesses hit blacks harder Yesterday: The great health divide Graphic: Five-year cancer survival rates Graphic: Average age of death Graphic: Average life span in Summit County (pdf) Graphic: Estimated life expectancy at birth Day 1: The great health d...

Back to Home > News > Monday, Sep 25, 2006 Nation Posted on Mon, Sep. 25, 2006 email this print this reprint or license this Yesterday: Mental illnesses hit blacks harder Yesterday: The great health divide Graphic: Five-year cancer survival rates Graphic: Average age of death Graphic: Average life span in Summit County (pdf) Graphic: Estimated life expectancy at birth Day 1: The great health di...

Dr Victoria Lukats is a psychiatrist and an expert on relationships and dating. Today, she helps James with something cultural, and very taboo.

If you want to ask Dr Lukats's advice send an email to askvictoria@ukmetro.co.uk . Please bear in mind she cannot enter into private correspondance and cannot answer all questions. Any advice given will be published on the website.

Dr Victo...

Pretendingit doesn't exist won't make it disappear. Nor will cleverly couching it incultural sophistry and erudition, as Harold Bloom does. Browbeating those of uswho have experienced it first-hand won't make us shut up either.

Bias, prejudice,discrimination. It's a problem faced by Indian English authors today that isalmost never talked about. Often the discrimination begins with the...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- A classified report prepared by U.S. intelligence agencies says the Iraq invasion has made the world less safe from terrorism, The New York Times reports.

The Times story was based on interviews with government officials and outside experts, all of them speaking on condition their names would not be used. The National Intelligence Estimate, 'Trends in Gl...

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As Pia Dounglomchunt spent the summer in Thailand, he just knew something big was about to happen.

Dounglomchunt, who is from Greeley, saw discontent with the Thai prime minister and weekly street protests in Bangkok that were drawing crowds of as many as 500,000 people. There was violence and blood, too, he said, frustrated...