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The generally accepted definition of health is "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity", used by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1948.
Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities".
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BP Uses Giant Shears To Cut Broken Pipe After a diamond-tipped saw became stuck, BP engineers have successfully sliced through the leaking oil pipe in the Gulf of Mexico and are poised to try to cover it with a device called a "top hat" that would capture most of the crude spewing into the Gulf -- if all goes as planned. |
Fake Mars Mission: 'Real World' Meets Space Travel Six men will enter a mock interplanetary spaceship in Moscow, close the hatch and then live inside for more than 500 days. They'll conduct the first ever full-duration simulation of a mission to Mars. |
Oil Cleanup Dirty, Not Toxic, For Workers About 20,000 workers are toiling long hours to clean up all that oil in the Gulf of Mexico. One New Orleans hospital has seen 11 cleanup workers in the past few weeks with symptoms such as dizziness, headache and nausea. But the greatest risk is not chemicals, it's likely heat stress from people working long hours in temperatures hovering around 95 degrees. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us |
Oil Capture Efforts Continue After Saw Freed BP engineers are using the saw to slice through a pipe to fit a cap over the blown-out well. Officials acknowledge that the "cut and cap" procedure could end up sending more oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, the oil slick drifted perilously close to the Florida Panhandle. |
Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The Mind After performing Albert Einstein's autopsy, the pathologist put the brain in a jar of formaldehyde and made off with it. That single act torpedoed his reputation, but years later it helped researchers learn more about how our minds work. It turns out that Einstein's brain had more of certain key cells, which were previously thought to be unimportant. |
Falcon 9: A Future Space Taxi? A rocket set to launch this week could be the bellwether for President Obama's new vision for NASA. The Falcon 9 rocket was designed by a private company called SpaceX to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. The company is hopeful that one day it will also carry astronauts into space. |
U.S. Opens Criminal Investigation Of Gulf Oil Spill Attorney General Eric Holder announced that federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. He confirmed the investigation after meeting with attorneys general from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. |
Agatha Christie And Nuns Tell A Tale Of Alzheimer's One of Agatha Christie's last novels apparently contains not only a messy plot, but signs of undiagnosed Alzheimer's. Likewise, early diaries by Catholic sisters revealed clues to the eventual fate of their brains. Those trying to diagnosis Alzheimer's say some answers may be in the writing. |
Florida Fishing Town On Edge Over Gulf Oil Spill No oil has yet been found on any Florida beaches. But the huge spill in the Gulf of Mexico is taking a toll on tourism and the seafood business. Concerns are rising in Apalachicola, a fishing town on Florida's Panhandle, just as the summer vacation season begins. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us |
Study: A Cigarette A Month Can Get A Kid Hooked Occasional smoking among middle-schoolers can lead to tobacco addiction, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics. Of the young people in the study who said they had inhaled from a cigarette, nearly two-thirds said they smoked at least once a month. Half experienced symptoms of dependence. |
With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices Research suggests that parents have a great deal of influence over when and how their teens start drinking alcohol. Parents who disapproved completely of underage drinking tended to have students who drank less. |
After Top Kill Fails, BP Scrambles To Stem Leak Six weeks after the spill, oil giant BP PLC said that its latest plan to cap the well wouldn't capture all the crude fouling the Gulf. And the relief wells currently being drilled -- which are supposed to be a better long-term solution -- won't be done for at least two months. |
Federal Response To Immigration Unconvincing The national debate over illegal immigration is heating up. It's been fueled by Arizona's passage of a controversial law, which allows police to question people suspected of being undocumented. This past week, President Obama announced his plan to send 1,200 National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, a plan that some say is inadequate. Host Liane Hansen talks with Rick Nelson, director of the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. |
La. Coast Darkens As BP Turns To Plan B Again Saturday, oil giant BP gave up on its latest attempt stop the leak spewing millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It was just the most recent in a series of disappointments for southern Louisiana as residents watch mushrooming and shifting columns of oil march against their coastline. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us |
Top Kill Fails; Oil Continues To Gush Oil will continue gushing into the Gulf of Mexico until later this week at the very least. That's because BP's "top kill" strategy for stopping the leak didn't work. Host Liane Hansen talks with NPR Science correspondent Richard Harris. |
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