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Cellphones and driving don’t mix. According to the National Safety Council, an estimated 200,000 crashes a year are caused by drivers who are texting. And that doesn’t include the near-misses. Added to that, a recent Car & Driver Magazine study found that texting and driving was more hazardous than drinking and driving, with texting drivers [...]
Like the character she played in the film “The Stoning of Soraya M.,” Shohreh Aghdashloo (SHOH’-reh ahg-DAHSH’-loo) is speaking out against the practice of stoning. There was a world outcry over the death sentence by stoning for an Iranian woman convicted of adultery. A judicial official has said the sentence will not be implemented for [...]
A genetic test has been developed that can predict whether someone is likely to live an extremely long life, but scientists have warned that society is still not ready for such predictions. The test is based on a scan of a person’s entire genome; so far it can predict whether someone is likely to live [...]
A massive month-long survey of households across Dubai, including house help, shows that a significant number of Asian and Arab expatriates do not have health insurance cover. The Federal government is working on new laws to make sure these people have health coverage, said a senior Dubai Health Authority (DHA) executive on Sunday, announcing the [...]
Harold T. Shapiro, the former president of Princeton University and the University of Michigan, has agreed to become chairman of a new 12-member panel that will review the practices of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The group will look into the policies of the panel on climate change that contributed to errors [...]
It is claimed that the Panchatantra has travelled more widely than the Bible, for it has been translated through the centuries everywhere from Ethiopia to China, the renowned English writer Doris Lessing once wrote in her introduction to the great Indian classic. “Yet it is safe to say that most people in the West will [...]