In Torbay, Devon, police officers will hand out “fixed-reward notices” such as cinema tickets or other vouchers, which have been donated by local businesses, for youngsters spotted carrying good deeds such as handing in lost property, picking up litter, helping pensioners across the street and more .
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A new case study reveals the option to have a one time treatment for HIV patients, instead of taking many expensive and toxic antiretroviral drugs for life. A 42 years old man who suffered from HIV for 10 years, developed leukaemia and therefore received a bone marrow transplant. After this operation,he didnt take anymore drugs.
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This week, for the first time, the ‘Cyberknife’ will be used for cancer treatment in the UK. This machine follows the patients’ breathing movement and therefor can target the tumor with much more accuracy than usual.
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Bear the Afghan dog was born and almost immediately was trained to be at dogfights, his ears and tail been cut. A British soldier first found this dog a year ago and brought Bear to the animal shelter, the animal shelter contacted Paul Farthing who now runs a charity for abandoned animals, and he asked Mayhew International to find Bear a home.
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Google and NASA will soon launch a new university which will teach all aspects of future technologies. This university, Singularity University, will first allow 30 students this summer.
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Near Berlin, The workers at the steel junk yard, were amazed to discover an old safe with 100000 Euros inside it. The bank, which decided to through away this old safe, forgot to empty it from all cash before sending it to the junk yard. the workers returned all he cash to the bank.
last week, the Indian Human Resource Development Ministry, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science met in order to discuss a roadmap for a direct challenge to the One Laptop, which will cost 10USD Per Child program. The technical spec of this laptop are not yet known but it will include a 2 GB memory.
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