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Wednesday, May 07, 2003
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A graduate of Harvard Medical School and Professor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Dr. N. Arthur Coulter is a synergic science pioneer. He began searching for a better way for humanity over 50 years ago. The Time-binding Trust is pleased to announce the availability of the new Revised Internet Edition of his classic: Human Synergetics. (05/07/02) | |
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Terri Jean writes: One of the greatest events in human rights history occurred when a man stood alone, challenging the United States government and its constitution, demanding the right to be treated equal to any other. His name was Standing Bear, chief of the Ponca's, and his heroic story rivals the likes of any other civil rights proponent in American history. ... Standing Bear faced quite a legal battle because at that time, there were those (both citizens and lawmakers) who believed that Indians do not qualify as "persons" or human beings and therefore were not covered by the 14th Amendment. Standing Bear, his attorneys and counsel for the government appeared before Judge Elmer Dundy who had to first determine whether the Ponca's were humans, and then citizens, and thus eligible for protection and rights under American law. The trial lasted two days and focused on Standing Bear's life, loss, health and theft of property. He ended his court testimony with an eloquent plea of humanity saying, "My hand is not the color of yours, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain. If you pierce your hand, you also feel pain. The blood that will flow from mine will be the same color as yours. I am a man. The same God made us both." (05/07/03) | |
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CNN World -- Pakistan has offered to dismantle its nuclear weapons program if India is prepared to do the same. "If India is ready to denuclearize, we would be very happy to denuclearize," foreign ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan said Monday. "We can talk about that, but it will have to be mutual." The offer is the latest in a series of diplomatic overtures between the nuclear rivals aimed at defusing tensions over the disputed region of Kashmir. (05/07/03) | |
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New York Times: Science -- The invention of agriculture has long been invoked to explain the spread of the Indo-European languages. Now, Dr. Jared Diamond of the University of California at Los Angeles and Dr. Peter Bellwood of the Australian National University in Canberra have applied the concept to 15 major language families. Their article appeared in the April 25 issue of Science. The premise is that when humans lived as hunters and gatherers, their populations were small, because wild game and berries can support only so many people. But after an agriculture system was devised, populations expanded, displacing the hunter-gatherers around them and taking their language with them. On this theory, whatever language happened to be spoken in a region where a crop plant was domesticated expanded along with the farmers who spoke it. Even if the farmers interbred with the hunter-gatherers whose land they took over, genes can mix, but languages cannot. So the hunter-gatherers would in many cases have adopted the farmers' language. That is why languages "record these processes of demographic expansion more clearly than the genes," Dr. Bellwood said. (05/07/03) | |
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New York Times: Science -- In the realm of the subatomic, shape is not a straightforward concept. At the very least, a new theory suggests, a proton, a basic constituent of atoms, may not be as simply round as physicists once thought and as drawn in textbooks. ... Dr. Miller's theory is that a proton is not always round — or rather, it is not just round. The proton instead exists as a mixture of many shapes. Some look like doughnuts. Others resemble peanuts or odd-looking pretzels. "It's all these shapes at the same time," said Dr. Miller, who presented his latest ideas at a meeting of the American Physical Society last month in Philadelphia. While Dr. Miller can easily produce pictures of these shapes on his computer, they are not tangible attributes. And, on average, the shapes still smudge into a round sphere, he said. Dr. Ji of Maryland said any directly measurable property, like the density of electric charge, would appear spherical. Thus, the proton can be thought of as both round and not round. (05/07/03) | |
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New York Times: Science -- Orchids can be elegant, gaudy, lurid and even downright bizarre. But while the unusual flowers of these species have excited plant lovers for centuries, they have also made it difficult for evolutionary biologists to place them in the plant family tree and identify their closest relatives. But now, scientists say, studies of the DNA of orchids are revealing a host of surprises, chief among them, that orchids are actually part of the asparagus group, closer kin to these vegetables than to the other, flashier, flowering plants they had been placed with before. "They're so weird, so different from everything else," said Dr. Ken Cameron, orchidologist at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. At the same time, scientists are finding that orchids, long thought to be the recent product of plant evolution, are actually quite ancient, having emerged more than 90 million years ago. (05/07/03) | |
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New York Times: Environment -- Thunderstorms kill twice as many men as women, a new study has found. The gender gap is biggest for lightning strikes; 85 percent of those killed are men. But it also applies to deaths from flooding by storms, tornadoes and high winds, according to the study, which was presented last week at a conference on safety held by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study examined information from local offices of the National Weather Service on 1,442 deaths related to thunderstorms from 1994 to 2000. (05/07/03) | |
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National Institutes of Health -- This study documented changes in lens clarity among 49 patients over a six to 24-month time period. The average participant age was 65. All participants suffered from senile cataracts in varying degrees of severity. Patients were divided into two groups with one receiving a daily dose of NAC eye-drops and one receiving a placebo. The patients were then evaluated at two and six-month intervals. Results: After six months, 88.9% of all eyes treated with NAC became significantly less sensitive to glare. 41.5% of all eyes treated with NAC showed a significant improvement in the transmissivity (clarity) of the lens. Most importantly, a full 90% of all eyes treated with NAC showed improvements in visual acuity (focus). The placebo group showed little to no change in eye acuity at six months, and a gradual deterioration in 12 to 24 months. (05/07/03) | |
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CNN World -- U.S. officials have accused Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash of overseeing Iraq's suspected biowarfare research programs -- a claim she denied. ... Ammash was one of the few women close to Saddam and was promoted in 2001 to the Baathist National Command. She is believed to be the first woman from his regime taken into U.S. custody. Born in 1953, Ammash received a masters degree in microbiology from Texas Women's University in Denton, Texas. She obtained a doctorate from the University of Missouri at Columbia. (05/07/03) | |
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