Costs of safeguarding the world’s fast-disappearing coral reefs and mangroves are small compared to the benefits they provide from tourism to fisheries, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday.
Full Story: Planet Ark.
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Alexandra Munroe, who resigned as vice president of arts and culture at Japan Society in New York last summer, has been hired as the Guggenheim Museum’s first full-time curator of Asian art.
The Guggenheim has been seeking to open a branch in Asia, exploring partnerships in Hong Kong and Singapore, among other possibilities, and the creation […]

In experiments with mice, researchers have found that eliminating what appears to be a master genetic switch for the development of pain-sensing neurons knocks out the animals’ response to “neuropathic pain.” Such pain is abnormal pain that outlasts the injury and is associated with nerve and/or central nervous system changes. The animals rendered deficient in […]

A drug used to treat symptoms of moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease appears to be effective for one year, according to the results of a new multicenter study that provides additional support for the continuing effectiveness of the treatment, called Namenda®, for patients in the later stages of the disease.
Full Story: Science Daily.
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In laboratory studies at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, researchers have successfully treated the most common malignant abdominal tumor of childhood: neuroblastoma tumors. Researchers successfully treated the tumor in mouse models by administering a treatment based on a weakened version of the herpes simplex virus.
Full Story: Science Blog.
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The largest study so far has found no evidence of a link between cellphone use and brain tumours.
UK researchers interviewed 966 people from across Britain diagnosed with brain tumours, as well as 1716 apparently healthy controls between December 2000 and February 2004.
Full Story: New Scientist.
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Politics:
First women elected president in Chile.
Liberian becomes Africa’s first female president.
Bikers Win One: Judge Nixes City Law on Parade Permits.
Court nullifies ban on assisted suicide.
Ex-Pentagon analyst sentenced for sharing secrets.
Health:
‘No link’ between cellphones and brain tumours .
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Remember: BushCo is not above the law:

- A former Pentagon analyst was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison on Friday for passing U.S. defence information to two pro-Israel lobbyists and for sharing classified information with an Israeli diplomat.
Lawrence Franklin, 59, who had worked as an analyst in the office of the secretary […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for Oregon to continue to allow doctors to provide the drugs that terminally ill patients may use to take their own lives. The Court, saying that the U.S. attorney general had sought to make “a radical shift” of power from state to federal government, ruled that the […]

A judge late on Monday took a bite out of the city’s efforts to rein in the monthly Critical Mass rides when he ruled that the New York City law barring people from “parading without a permit” is unconstitutional.
Police have been using the statute to make mass arrests during Critical Mass rides–and during the Republican […]