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Painkillers can cause fatal stomach bleeding
Some Internet Phone Customers May Be Cut
Robertson Apologizes for Chavez Remarks
Daydreaming activity linked to Alzheimer's
Study Sees Race Disparity in Traffic Stops
Feds Evacuate Hanford Nuclear Workers
Hawaii Sets Caps on Wholesale Gas Prices
Nonprofits Cloak Donors to Governor
Judge Sets Bail at $250K for 12-Year-Old
Quadriplegic Woman Sails English Channel
Incoming Freshmen Grew Up With Starbucks
Conde Nast to Start Business Magazine
Four Palestinians, Jew Killed in Israel
Zotob Worm Targets Windows XP
Tropical Storm Katrina Nears Florida
London Store Set to Unveil Diana Statue
President of Leisure
Animal testing backed by 500 UK scientists
Sperm donor reality show?
Clashes Erupt Between Iraq Shiite Groups


Painkillers can cause fatal stomach bleeding
Approximately one third of all hospitalizations and deaths related to gastrointestinal bleeding can be attributed to the use of aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs) painkillers like ibuprofen, a study in Spain suggests.

Some Internet Phone Customers May Be Cut
Providers of Internet-based phone services may be forced next week to cut off tens of thousands of customers who haven't formally acknowledged that they understand the problems they may encounter dialing 911 in an emergency.

Robertson Apologizes for Chavez Remarks
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, only hours after he denied saying Chavez should be killed.

Daydreaming activity linked to Alzheimer's
Reuters - The parts of the brain that young, healthy people use when daydreaming are the same areas that fail in people who have Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported on Wednesday in a study that may someday help in preventing or diagnosing the disease.

Study Sees Race Disparity in Traffic Stops
Black, Hispanic and white motorists are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched, handcuffed, arrested and subjected to force or the threat of it, a Justice Department study has found.

Feds Evacuate Hanford Nuclear Workers
The U.S. Energy Department evacuated some workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation Wednesday because of a suspected breach in a container, but initial surveys detected no radioactive contamination, officials said.

Hawaii Sets Caps on Wholesale Gas Prices
In an effort to gain some control over what motorists pay at the pump, Hawaii on Wednesday became the first state in the U.S. to set caps on the wholesale price of gasoline.

Nonprofits Cloak Donors to Governor
Los Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is benefiting from millions of dollars raised by a network of tax-exempt groups without revealing that the money comes from major corporations with business before his office.

Judge Sets Bail at $250K for 12-Year-Old
A juvenile court judge shocked prosecutors by setting bail at $250,000 for a 12-year-old boy charged with firing a gun in the city.

Quadriplegic Woman Sails English Channel
A British woman on Tuesday became the first quadriplegic to sail solo between Britain and France across the English Channel, coast guards said.

Incoming Freshmen Grew Up With Starbucks
For this year's crop of college freshmen, Starbucks has always been around the corner, "America's Funniest Home Videos" has always been on the air, and men named George Bush have been president for more than half of their lives.

Conde Nast to Start Business Magazine
- Conde Nast Publications Inc., the publisher of Vanity Fair and Vogue, said Wednesday it will start up a monthly business magazine, the company's first foray into the business magazine world.

Four Palestinians, Jew Killed in Israel
An Israeli military raid on a West Bank refugee camp left four militants dead Wednesday and an Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed to death in Jerusalem — an eruption of violence a day after Israel completed its evacuation of 25 settlements.

Zotob Worm Targets Windows XP
PC World - Microsoft admits that more users may be vulnerable to the highly-publicized worm.

Tropical Storm Katrina Nears Florida
Tropical Storm Katrina threatened to dump more than a foot of rain on parts of water-logged Florida as it approached the state Wednesday, with forecasters expecting it to strengthen to a weak hurricane before hitting the coast. Katrina was expected to strike Florida's east coast early Friday.

London Store Set to Unveil Diana Statue
A statue of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, who died together in a Paris car crash in 1997, will soon be displayed at Harrod's department store in central London, its owner, Mohamed al Fayed, said Wednesday.

President of Leisure
The Nation - The Nation -- Often, when an executive faces lingering questions about his skills, he works extra hard to make sure that every "i" is dotted and every "t" is crossed.

Animal testing backed by 500 UK scientists
Reuters - More than 500 leading British scientists and doctors gave their backing to animal testing on Wednesday, a day after a farm targeted by activists said it would stop breeding guinea pigs for medical research.

Sperm donor reality show?
Reuters - Billionaire television producer John de Mol, behind the pioneer show Big Brother, will test the limits of reality TV with a program in which a woman searches for a potential sperm donor to conceive a child.

Clashes Erupt Between Iraq Shiite Groups
Clashes erupted between rival Shiite groups across the Shiite-dominated south Wednesday, threatening Iraq with yet another crisis at a time when politicians are struggling to end a constitutional stalemate with Sunni Arabs

Aug 2005