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StumbleuponSmoking Makes you Depressed - Especially When you Are Dying for a Fag and Can't Get One...If you smoke, you are more likely to become depressed, a recent study has found. A survey of a large group of initially happy teenagers, found that those who were smokers were at a higher risk of becoming depressed over the following year. The researchers then looked at an...Environmentally-friendly Green Use for Old Yellow Pages15 tonnes of old Yellow Pages directories are being shredded and laid under new road surfaces in south Devon in an attempt to cut down traffic noise.Computers Get it WrongHow computers can do more harm than good…a 5 year old boy from Sheffield, who Parents don't even own a car, has been summoned to court for driving without a licence - just a few weeks after his 8 year old brother was mistaken charged with committing a string of motori...Beaver College Upset By Disparaging Abuse of its Name !An American college has changed its name from Beaver College to Arcadia College after years of lewd remarks about its name. The final straw came when college emails and internet traffic started to be rejected by filters designed to stop people reading sexually explicit mat...Affairs Make for a Better HusbandAn Italian study has found that men having affairs become better husbands and more attentive fathers, spending an extra 20% of their time at home. This is largely, the researchers say, thanks to guilty feelings about their clandestine behaviour.A New Non-invasive Test for Down's SyndromeResearchers have developed a non-invasive test that can determine whether a developing baby has Down's syndrome, a condition caused by the baby having an extra chromosome no. 21. Until now the only way to diagnose the condition was to take a small sample of the fluid surro...Stress Affects How Blood Vessels FunctionStress increases the risk of developing heart disease and researchers think they have found out why. In a recent study they asked 10 healthy men to defend themselves to an audience against a false charge of shoplifting. In all of the men the stress caused the endothelium, ...Air Pollution Increases Blood 'stickiness'Scientists have known for years that air pollution causes an increase in the death rate, usually from heart attacks, but they have never understood why. A recent study on civil servants from whitehall has found that on days when the air pollution is bad, blood samples coll... |
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