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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new chemical compound, part-cat and part-human, may provide an end to misery-making cat allergies, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday. And they said their approach in creating the compound may work against more dangerous allergies, such as deadly peanut allergies. The compound, tested in mice bred to be allergic to cats, virtually shut down the histamine reaction that causes the uncomfortable symptoms of cat allergies such as runny eyes, sneezing and itching, Dr. Andrew Saxon of the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine and colleagues reported. Writing in the April issue of Nature Medicine, they...

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Week of June 19, 2004; Vol. 165, No. 25 , p. 397 Compound in salsa kills off salmonella Alexandra Goho Salsa is more than just a spicy condiment. New research suggests it may also offer protection against Salmonella, the common foodborne pathogen that can cause severe sickness and even death. In preliminary experiments, chemist Isao Kubo of the University of California, Berkeley determined that the juice from salsa, which contains mainly tomatoes, onions, cilantro, and green chilies, has antibacterial properties. Now, reporting in the June Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Kubo and his colleagues have zeroed in on a...

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, May 31 — The Saudi police were waiting today to question Nimr Al-Bigami, the critically wounded ringleader of the four gunmen who terrorized a luxury residential compound for foreigners over the weekend in a kidnapping and killing spree that left 22 people dead and 25 wounded.

A team of military intelligence and police drug enforcement units rounded up some 50 Muslim residents of the Al-Salam Mosque Compound in Barangay Culiat, Quezon City as part of intensified operations against illegal drugs and firearms in the metropolis. Senior Superintendent Procopio Lipana, chief of the Central Police District-Criminal Investigation Unit (CPD-CIU), said 12 suspects remained under their custody while the rest were released. Lipana identified the 12 as Dawabe Ben Albi Maulana, businessman from Basilan; Musa Sabaddin Abdurahman, 27; Awop Wadja Ignus, 26; Radjail Karawan Tirih, 34; Raquel Francisco Mabajo, 26; Pamaran Alain Awali, 48; Abubakar Cuevas Zunco, 34;...

FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. Marines in the third day of a battle to pacify this Sunni Muslim city fired rockets that hit a mosque compound filled with worshippers Wednesday, and witnesses said as many as 40 people were killed. Shiite-inspired violence spread to key cities in Iraq (news - web sites). The fighting in Fallujah and neighboring Ramadi, where commanders confirmed 12 Marines were killed late Tuesday, was part of an intensified uprising involving both Sunni and Shiites that now stretched from Kirkuk in the north to the far south. An Associated Press reporter in Fallujah saw cars ferrying the...

Source: American Chemical Society Date: 2003-10-15 Highly Active Compound Found In Coffee May Prevent Colon Cancer Drinking coffee may help prevent colon cancer, according to a group of researchers in Germany. They identified a potent antioxidant compound in the popular brew that appears in animal studies to boost the activity of phase II enzymes, which are thought to protect against colon cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. The study is scheduled to appear in the Nov. 5 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society,...

Yasser Arafat is surrounding his West Bank office with women and children as a shield against an attempt to assassinate him, reports said Thursday. Since the Israeli cabinet decision last week to deport Arafat, many Palestinians have arrived at the Muqata compound in Ramallah daily to support Arafat, Ha'aretz reported. According to security forces, the Palestinian Authority wants to ensure a permanent presence of civilians around Arafat and will see to it that women and children also stay in the compound, at night. A senior Israeli military source said a move against Arafat is "a matter of how, not if."...

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on Saturday ordered his security forces to round up 17 wanted men sheltering in his compound in Ramallah and to transfer them to Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources in Ramallah said the men were detained in a pre-dawn raid on their rooms inside the compound by masked security agents belonging to Force 17, Arafat's "presidential guard." Palestinian security officials said most of the wanted men belong to Fatah's armed wing, Aksa Martyrs Brigades. They confirmed that the decision to evict them from Arafat's compound was in line with an agreement with Israel and...

"Explosions in Riyadh, So Let's Blame Dubya!" Posted by Doc Farmer Sunday, May 18, 2003 I lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for about four-and-a-half years before I moved to Doha, Qatar, last July. And other than the way they drive in Riyadh, I really liked it there. I've still got friends there. I've even got family there--my cousin and her hubby. So you can imagine my concern when I heard about the terrorist bombings of three residential compounds and a joint Saudi/American business there. I sent an e-mail to my friends and colleagues there, and thank God, they're all fine....

FOX NEWS has reported that Saddam is either dead or severely wounded as he was believed to be in the compound that was recently struch by B-117 bombers

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Voluntary Alternatives to Taxation Stuart K. Hayashi Most Americans believe paying taxes is a patriotic duty. Yet this very nation was founded upon people evading taxes in 1776. When individuals don’t pay taxes, the government goes after them with guns, even though they haven’t used force on anyone else. Thus, taxation is an initiation of physical force against the individual’s right to life, liberty and property. Because taxation is forcible extortion, it violates your right to property. If you don’t pay taxes, you can be jailed, hence depriving you the right to liberty. And if tax “evaders” fight tax...

Reprinted from ScienceDaily Magazine ...Source:             Washington University In St. Louis Date Posted:    Thursday, July 25, 2002Web Address:   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020724080652.htm Weather In Outer Space? Ask A Brown Dwarf Until recently, "How's the weather up there?" was a question for pilots, NBA stars and friendly giants. Today, however, you might also ask a dwarf. A brown dwarf, that is. Brown dwarfs, which have been described as "failed stars," are celestial bodies more massive than planets like Jupiter but not large enough to sustain the thermonuclear reactions that make a star shine. In the June 1, 2002 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, Katharina Lodders, a senior research...

Arafat in "PANIC ROOM"

Also: The entire city of Ramallah is without electricity and water.