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6/16/06
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Today
we have the following updates:
NEW
FOR TODAY:
BIG
BROTHER:
EUROPEAN
UNION:
EZEKIEL
38-39/ARMAGEDDON PLAYERS:
-
Iran,
Syria Sign Defense Agreement
(Defense
ministers from close allies Iran and Syria on Thursday signed an
agreement for military cooperation against what they called the
"common threats" presented by Israel and the United
States.)
-
Iran
Seeks Aid in Asia In Resisting the West (Overshadowing
a regional summit, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested
Thursday that China, Russia and neighboring Central Asian nations
should help Iran resist growing pressure from the United States and
Europe to limit its nuclear development program.)
-
Iran
would 'use nuclear defense'
(Iran's defense minister on Thursday vowed
that his country would "use nuclear defense as a
potential" if "threatened by any power.")
-
Iran's
Place at Summit Raises Fears of Anti-West Alliance
(Iran's hard-line
president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrived in China last night for a
summit of Asian states and Russia that Washington fears is forming a
new anti-western alliance.)
ISRAEL
HAPPENINGS:
NOTE:
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LAST
DAYS DECEPTIONS:
MEDICAL
BREAKTHROUGHS:
-
Acupuncture
Helps Fibromyalgia (A
new study out of the Mayo Clinic reveals acupuncture can help ease
the painful symptoms associated with fibromyalgia (FMS), a chronic
musculoskeletal condition characterized by fatigue, stiffness in the
joints, and sleep problems.)
-
Eating
Less, Avoiding Fat May Ward Off Alzheimer's
(According to researchers who studied a mouse
model of the disease, a calorie restricted diet based on limiting
the intake of carbohydrates reduces beta-amyloid peptides in the
brain. Higher beta-amyloid peptide levels are known to play a role
in the plaque buildup that leads to Alzheimer's disease.)
-
Pesticide
Use Ups Parkinson's Risk in Men
(Men who are exposed to pesticides run a
higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease.)
NATURAL
DISASTERS:
PLAGUES:
RUMORS
OF WARS:
SCIENCE/ARCHAEOLOGY:
-
Among
ruins, new plausibility for a biblical tale
(Excavators have found a large
copper-processing center and fortress at Khirbat en-Nahas in modern
Jordan. The site is thought to have once been the home of the
Edomites, who were rivals of the ancient Israelites. Some
archaeologists now think that the Edomites had a complex state much
earlier than previously thought.)
SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT:
TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:
NEW
FOR YESTERDAY:
AMERICA:
CHRISTIANITY:
-
Southern
Baptists refuse to back pullout
(GREENSBORO, N.C. - There will almost
certainly be no Southern Baptist exodus from the nation's public
schools — at least for now. Leaders of the nation's largest
Protestant denomination Wednesday refused to support a resolution
that would have urged the denomination to form an "exit
strategy" for pulling Southern Baptist children from public
schools in favor of home schools or private Christian schools.)
EZEKIEL
38-39/ARMAGEDDON PLAYERS:
-
Ahmadinejad
to Meet Russian, Chinese Leaders
(Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans
separate meetings this week with leaders of China and Russia, key
players who have resisted US efforts to seek tougher UN action in
the standoff over Iran's nuclear program. Those meetings were
expected to take place Friday following a summit meeting of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or SCO, although host China, has
said the Iranian nuclear issue won't be on the summit's agenda.)
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ISRAEL
HAPPENINGS:
-
Israel
prime minister OKs arms for Abbas
(Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said
Tuesday he had given the go ahead for a shipment of weapons to
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, whose loyalists are engaged in
bitter infighting with the militant Islamic Hamas.)
-
Olmert
Says West Bank Plan Unstoppable
(Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday
that plans to set Israel's borders unilaterally were irreversible,
but he still hoped to negotiate a border deal with Palestinians.)
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PR
blitz for Israel after Gaza strikes (Armed
with the IDF's findings that the seven Palestinian deaths on a Gaza
beach Friday were not caused by Israel, the Foreign Ministry
launched an information campaign Tuesday night to change the minds
of a world that has already largely blamed Israel.)
MEDICAL
BREAKTHROUGHS:
-
Is
It Really Epilepsy? (Nearly
a third of patients diagnosed with epilepsy may really be suffering
from another condition called psychological nonepileptic seizures
instead, report researchers in three new studies aimed at better
differentiating the two.)
-
New
Diabetes Marker Identified
(When doctors want to identify people at risk
for diabetes they assess them for insulin resistance. In the future,
they may also look at blood levels of the RBP4 protein.)
-
Rage
Disorder Running Rampant?
(We've
all heard of "road rage" -- those inexplicable situations
where someone overreacts to a minor traffic incident with violent
behavior. But it's not just bad manners. According
to researchers, many of these people actually suffer from a real
medical condition known as intermittent explosive disorder (IED). In
addition, it's far more common than anyone ever believed.)
-
Two
New Drugs Beat Leukemia, Too
(Most
people with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) respond well to the
breakthrough drug Gleevec, with 93 percent still doing well five
years after treatment. Now there's new hope for the minority of
patients whose cancer can't be cured by the drug. Researchers
publishing two new papers report promising results for the drugs
dasatinib and nilotinib (also known as AMN107).)
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U.S.
Finally Gets Hip to Replacement Surgery
(The procedure, using something called the
Birmingham hip resurfacing system, won federal approval in May as an
alternative to the total hip replacement for suitable candidates.)
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SCIENCE:
SIGNS
OF THE TIMES/NATURAL DISASTERS:
-
Indonesian
villagers flee after eruption
(A large eruption of searing hot gas and
volcanic debris sent more than 1,000 villagers fleeing from the
slopes of Indonesia's Mount Merapi on Wednesday, a day after
government scientists lowered the alert level at the volcano.)
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Have
a blessed, peaceful day in the Lord! Peg.
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