THE wind shoves you sideways as it hits. The sand is stinging your face, grazing your eyes and cheeks as it sweeps across the beach. The mighty waves roar towards the shore: huge, galloping walls of froth that few are willing to take on.
But there are exceptions. Some brave dark specks bob out toward the horizon, vanishing and then reappearing as they pick their way through the rolling Atlantic surf.
Giving surf lessons to youngsters is one of the few growing businesses in this region of Ireland — and it’s booming, creating a pack of health-conscious, fit and world-class athletes, many under 16.
The surf scene in County Clare is gaining such a following it sustains up to six training schools set up along the promenade of Lahinch Beach.
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(CNN) — Q: The New England Journal of Medicine has published more information on prostate cancer screening. Why is it so controversial?
A: Approximately 28,200 American men will die of prostate cancer in 2012. Among cancers, only lung cancer kills more men in the U.S.
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Tags: Cancer, Prostate Cancer
Womens rights NGO Aurat Foundation has launched a pilot study on honour killings in Pakistan, which focuses on legislation to counter the trend.
The study was launched on Wednesday under the foundations Legislative Watch Programme for Women Empowerment. Norwegian ambassador to Pakistan Cecilie Landsverk was the chief guest at the ceremony.
Speaking at the ceremony, the foundations Chief Operating Officer Naeem Ahmed Mirza stressed on the need to look into the hindrances in implementation of the law against honour killings that was passed in 2004.
Tags: Aurat Foundation, Honour Killings, Killings
Take a cow. Chop it into pieces. Sell the edible bits to supermarkets, ship its hide to a handbag factory, send leftover bones and organs to a rendering plant. Now, what’s left? In most of the developed world, the answer is simple: pet food.
But in America, they do food differently. Here, scientists discovered a way to turn scraps from the abattoir floor into a substance called “pink slime”, which is then sold in hamburgers, tacos and other beef-based products.
In 2001, it became legal to sell “pink slime” in America. Today, more than half the ground beef sold in America contains the stuff.
US foodies have earnestly cited “pink slime” as exhibit A in the list of liberties taken by the food industry.
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I am a 72-year-old woman. I had an abdominal ultrasound. The report said there is an approximately 1.5-cm calculus (stone) in my gallbladder.
I found on the computer that there are nonsurgical alternatives to surgery. I have some pain, but it is bearable and forgettable.
People with one or more gallstones can ignore them if they are not kicking up a fuss. Fewer than one in five people with a stone or stones will have a true gallbladder attack within 15 years. If no attack happens within 15 years, none is likely to ever occur. That’s a relatively small number who have an attack, and those people can be treated when and if an attack occurs. A gallbladder attack is a memorable event.
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