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A village in rural India has been home to something that seems to be taken directly from the story books, namely the wedding of a two year-old infant to a dog, so as to avoid possible attacks from tigers and other such beasts. The ritual is not recognized in the country, but many in the poorest regions still practice... |
18 February 2009
10:16 GMT |
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Eddie Murphy’s affair with Scary Spice Melanie Brown was as stormy as it has been mediated. However, Angel Iris came out of it, a little girl that Eddie first refused to acknowledge and, so far, to see in person. The actor seems to have had a change of heart, as he has just agreed to pay child support to Me... |
9 February 2009
08:28 GMT |
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Every once in a while we browse our software index to remember what crazy, fun, or useful free apps we've added in the past that we haven't looked at thoroughly enough. I recently stumbled upon AlphaBaby, a free Mac app that can teach small kids letters, numbers, colors, geometrical forms and, of course, th... |
17 November 2008
09:18 GMT |
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Having had a glimpse at Yves Behar's concept / mockup of the new top-to-bottom XO laptop, we couldn't help but wonder: could it just be that Apple is planning on introducing something like this in the nearby future? Could it just be that Apple's next announcement is something close to this?It may very ... |
29 September 2008
14:25 GMT |
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An Australian boy pleaded guilty to 33 counts of fraud. Between March 10 and July 3, the 15-year-old attempted to trick several banks into accepting fake checks. Although he was planning to gain 300,000 Australian dollars, the equivalent of 250,000 USD, fortunately for the institutions, only few of his chec... |
6 September 2008
04:54 GMT |
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Obesity kills over 160,000 US citizens annually. In just 25 years, the number of obese people in the US boomed from 15 % to 33 %. Oppositely, in 1980, 8% of the British women and 6% of men were entered in the obese category. By 2004, this percentage had increased to 24% for both sexes. Obesity is accompanied by two o... |
12 May 2008
10:25 GMT |
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We are all well familiar with the story of Snow White and Cinderella so that we have already formed an opinion about stepparents. For many, the word "mother" revokes the image of the natural mother and no other woman can come to replace her. How do things really stand when it comes to stepparents? Is the new mom or d... |
12 May 2008
09:08 GMT |
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The dog may be man's best friend, but sometimes this can be true in ways you would not have expected. A new research published in the European Respiratory Journal shows that young kids having a pet dog may have a stronger immune system that could protect them against asthma and other allergies. The team, led by ... |
7 May 2008
04:38 GMT |
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In the end, soap operas seem to be good at something: slowing down the demographical boom. At least in Brazil, they have mitigated the population growth, as signaled by a new research made at the London-based Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). And this is not simply because Brazilian women spend less time in... |
18 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This is the name of the most incomprehensible crime: pedophilia. A new research made at the University of Missouri has analyzed how these predators entrap their victims. "Our children are our greatest gift and our greatest responsibility. The fact that they could be abused in any way, shape or form is horrific - both... |
18 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Public opinion has no mercy when it comes to this crime. And results of the fight against child sexual abuse can be seen: a 5% decline from 2005 to 2006, summing an over 50% decrease in 14 years, as revealed by an analysis released by the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire and ... |
17 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Pedophilia has always been a problem and, even if authorities from all over the world struggled to eradicate this phenomenon. As you may have heard, there were several arrests around the world after long investigations which took from a few months to multiple years. Because pedophilia is still an important problem, t... |
17 April 2008
06:55 GMT |
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It has been proved that abused children turn into tomorrow's aggressors. But children who are neglected before turning two years old may display increased levels of aggressive behavior between ages 4 to 8, as revealed by a study made at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published in the journa... |
14 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The data are gruesome. About 4 million people got infected with HIV in 2006 and another 3 million died of it. Until now, about 25 million people have died of AIDS and other 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide, most of them in the Sub-Saharan Africa.A new report made by World Health Organization, UNICEF ... |
4 April 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Hugh Hefner or Michael Douglas are just faithful followers of an evolutionary pathway. A new statistical research published in "Biology Letters" reveals that monogamous men indeed have more children if their wives are younger than them, more exactly, by 4 to 6 years.The research team used the data from a Swedish rese... |
19 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The FBI and international authorities have put an end to one of the most sophisticated global child pornography rings encountered in the past years, but managed to do so only after the network managed to distribute more than 400,000 pictures and videos of children engaged in sexual activities.The charges brought agai... |
5 March 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Hello.com, owned and operated by Google, turned up a big catch in the war against child pornography and, to some extent, averted scarring experiences that were to come if high school teacher Timothy Lynn Brumit were to continue with his 'hobby' and decide to mix business with pleasure. The pedagogue sent ov... |
18 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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It is said that younger parents deliver healthier babies. But this new research, so far the largest of its kind, and published in the journal Human Reproduction, shows that teenage fathers present a higher risk of having ill babies, the issues varying from pre-term delivery or low birth weight, to death in or near t... |
13 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Annually, one in 8 children reach the hospital following an accident, which occurred mainly inside the house. An infant can easy fall from the table where its dippers are changed or choke with food or small objects that got stuck in the throat. Toddlers often fall while climbing over all places or get burned or poiso... |
20 December 2007
07:41 GMT |
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Are you turned on by long-legged women? In this case, you really prefer healthier women. A complex British research, made at the Bristol University and published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, has found that women with shorter legs display a higher vulnerability to liver disease. The study was c... |
19 December 2007
04:35 GMT |
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1.Three diseases cause 70% of the 13 million child deaths in developing countries: pneumonia, diarrhea and measles, which can be treated or prevented with the existing methods. Pneumonia kills 3.45 million children annually, mainly in African and Southeastern Asia, and is caused in most cases by bacteria. A 5 day ant... |
4 December 2007
10:21 GMT |
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Fred Donald Manning, a 58-year-old man living in Spanaway, Washington, was investigated by the FBI after he was suspected of pedophilia and distribution of child porn on the web. Today, he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to Shipment of Child Pornography according to a report published on the official ... |
29 November 2007
10:05 GMT |
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A Spanish woman looking for information about babies on the Internet discovered an impressive amount of child pornography on a file sharing website. Her next step? She alerted the authorities that decided to prepare simultaneous raids at several Spanish addresses to arrest the ones accused for pedophilia. According t... |
28 November 2007
05:27 GMT |
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The fact that a mother is more important than a father has become clear. A new study from the University of Bristol and published in Research in Public Policy from the Center for Market and Public Organization has found that some fathers would deliver to their young sons less intellectual stimulation than their mothe... |
26 November 2007
03:26 GMT |
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This is one of the most unexpected results related to the emancipation of women: kids get increasingly fatter. A novel study made at the University of Bristol and published in Research in Public Policy from the Center for Market and Public Organization revealed that children aged 5 to 7, whose mothers had a full-time... |
23 November 2007
04:32 GMT |
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Career, hard economics, social life and family life make women reach menopause finding they are childless. And what's next: frozen eggs and all the SF crap? Here comes a team of Duke's Fuqua School of Business, made of Professor Ralph Keeney and doctoral student Dinah Vernik, with a sophisticated logical de... |
8 November 2007
05:24 GMT |
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Admit it - the last thing you expected to hear about the pretentious Mimoo was that she dreams of being a regular housewife. And yet it's true - or so the pop diva claims. The 37-year-old singer is desperate to find a husband so she can settle down and start a family, because - hold on to your pants, guys - she ... |
24 October 2007
09:31 GMT |
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What a cute little puppy... but few realize that in a few months they are already big beasts. And how many people know that dogs have preserved through generations many of the instincts of their ancestors, the wolves? Anyhow, children are the most exposed to dog bites, with more severe effects.A new research made by ... |
5 October 2007
07:40 GMT |
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If you think you can help your little child become a fashion model, that's very risky. A new research showed that parents who eliminate all types of fats from their children's alimentation could cause serious health issues for their kids. It is well known fact that some amount of 'good' fats, like... |
20 August 2007
04:03 GMT |
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The cybercriminals are now using legitimate websites to spread child pornography on the Internet. Moreover, most of the webpages are clean and some of them are even targeting children so the threat is extremely dangerous. Security company Sophos discovered this campaign of child pornography distribution and informed ... |
14 June 2007
04:56 GMT |
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A 26-year-old American man was charged by the UK authorities for possession of child pornography after he tried to lure a 15-year-old boy to meet him. The entire attempt was done online where the two persons were chatting for a long period of time using the Internet instant messaging clients. The case was discovered ... |
1 June 2007
03:48 GMT |
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