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Tiny chemical differences in how our skin reacts to ultraviolet light could explain why redheads are more likely to suffer skin cancer, say US scientists.
The answer lies in the skin and hair pigment melanin, the team from Duke University, North Carolina, believe.
People with ginger hair have pigment that is chemically different from that of people [...]

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I’m not known for having one - a spine - and it’s a long time since I checked my standings at ,
but apparently I finally made it on to dry land in TTLB Ecosystem, after languishing as either a flippery fish or a crawly amphibians for about forever.
Last year some time, a Blog Personage [...]

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Nearly 1,600 children under the age of six have died in India’s Maharashtra state, many from malnutrition, in the past four months, officials say.
Let’s see: that’s approximately 400 children a month, 13 children a day, or 1 child every two hours, in just one state of one country battling poverty.
It’s time I gave somebody a [...]

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Annie at London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground’s Blog reports that New Orleans Police captain Tami Brisset is stranded in London awaiting word from her family - she had originally gone to London to take part in the Tube Relief charity Tube challenge, and had been photographed taking part in the challenge and shown [...]

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No, no, no, no, no.
I’m not really tinkering around with the blog. I’m not considering a complete re-design so soon. I’m not really tired of the wacky display issues inherent in a 3-column design.
I am, however, embarassed at the tacky kludge that be my CSS and “main template” files.
Of course, one way [...]

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