Posts Tagged ‘ duration ’

Yek Business Program Gets $34,000 Gift From Cargill

May 17th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Education

Cargill Inc. has donated more than $34,000 to Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas.
The money is going toward a program that provides YEK students with backpacks filled with business supplies. They will be issued at the beginning of the school year and is theirs to keep through the duration of the business-education program.
“This support from Cargill gives [...]



Zinc Reduces Common Cold Symptoms

Apr 20th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

Zinc acetate lozenges taken within 24 hours of developing symptoms of the common cold reduce the duration and severity of symptoms, according to a report in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Previous studies of zinc treatment for common cold symptoms have yielded conflicting results Health, the authors explain.
Dr Ananda S Prasad from Wayne State University [...]



Denmark and Cyprus pay tribute to 12th century king

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

Erik I of Denmark, also known as Erik Ejegod (Evergood), died in the western Cypriot town of Paphos in 1103. The exact whereabouts of his tomb remain a mystery.
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller, on a working visit to the island, and Cypriot counterpart Markos Kyprianou, inaugurated a street named after Erik I in Paphos [...]



Sony films headed to mobile phones

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Culture

LAS VEGAS (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures Television is looking to launch the first movie network on mobile phones in the United States.
The studio has signed a deal with AT%26amp;T and MediaFLO USA to launch the linear channel as one of two exclusive channels coming to the newly announced AT%26amp;T Mobile TV with FLO service [...]



Angina Drug Potentially Useful Against Heart Rhythm Disorders

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

Cardiac arrhythmias are electrical malfunctions that throw the heart out of rhythm, causing many of the 330,000 sudden cardiac deaths each year in the United States. Most fatal arrhythmias occur in aging patients when scar tissue left by a heart attack interferes with the heart’s electrical system. As many as 1,000 deaths each year, however, [...]



Threatened Atlantic Leatherback Turtles Split Into Two Groups To Forage Isotope Analysis Suggests

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

What happens in the interval remains a mystery. It is sometimes possible to spot them offshore in the North Atlantic. Some even swim to very high latitudes (Canada) in search of their favorite food (principally jellyfish). Argos beacons have recently revealed that some females were swimming in two principal directions: the north as would be [...]



For some its better late than never for flu shot

Mar 4th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

It takes about two weeks to develop immunity to the influenza virus after getting the vaccine. This would mean that you would not be immune until late March. The flu season seems to be peaking late this year as activity over the last several weeks has been increasing, which would likely mean you would still [...]