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Cast And Crew
Cast: Jennifer Aniston,Jason Bateman,
Patrick Wilson,Juliette Lewis,Jeff Goldblum,
Todd Louiso,Bryce Robinson,Thomas Robinson,
Directors:Josh Gordon, Will Speck
Producer:Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
Music Director: Alex Wurman
Release Date: 20 Aug 2010
Genre: Comedy
Language: English

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The Switch, formerly titled The Baster, is an upcoming romantic comedy film directed by "Josh Gordon,Will Speck".
Kassie Singleton (Jennifer Aniston) decides she wants to have a baby. Despite the objections of her neurotic best friend Wally (Jason Bateman), she chooses to go it alone, with the services of handsome and charming sperm donor Roland (Patrick Wilson). Wally has always had feelings for Kassie, but as his friend (Jeff Goldblum) points out, he missed his chance and she put him in the "friend zone". But things don't go to plan, as Wally gets so drunk at Kassie's "insemination party" that he accidentally spills Roland's semen and replaces it with his own. Seven years later, Kassie returns to New York along with precocious-but-neurotic son Sebastian (Bryce Robinson). Wally forms a bond with this loveable mini-version of himself, but the bad news is that Roland is in the picture too.

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The first poster is out for The Switch, Jennifer Aniston is starring in yet another romantic comedy, acting alongside leading man Jason Bateman.
The film features Aniston as Cassie, a single woman living in New York who decides to have a baby by way of artificial insemination, despite the objections of her neurotic best friend, Wally (Bateman). Wally quickly becomes jealous of the handsome and charismatic donor she has selected (played by Watchmen’s Patrick Wilson), and in a drunken stupor, substitutes his own sperm in place of Wilsons’. Seven years later, he meets his son when Aniston moves back to New York, and has to decide how to reconcile himself to the situation.
The Switch is directed by Blades of Glory helmers Josh Gordon and Will Speck. The screenplay is written by Allan Loeb (Things We Lost in the Fire, 21, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps).The Switch hits theaters August 20th, 2010.

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There are at least 40 dictators around the world today & approximately 1.9 billion people live under the grip of the 23 autocrats on this list alon.

The Worst of the Worst
Bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.
BY GEORGE B.N. AYITTEY | AUGUST 2010

A continent away from Kyrgyzstan, Africans like myself cheered this spring as a coalition of opposition groups ousted the country's dictator, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. "One coconut down, 39 more to harvest!" we shouted. There are at least 40 dictators around the world today, and approximately 1.9 billion people live under the grip of the 23 autocrats on this list alone. There are plenty of coconuts to go around.
The cost of all that despotism has been stultifying. Millions of lives have been lost, economies have collapsed, and whole states have failed under brutal repression. And what has made it worse is that the world is in denial. The end of the Cold War was also supposed to be the "End of History" -- when democracy swept the world and repression went the way of the dinosaurs. Instead, Freedom House reports that only 60 percent of the world's countries are democratic -- far more than the 28 percent in 1950, but still not much more than a majority. And many of those aren't real democracies at all, ruled instead by despots in disguise while the world takes their freedom for granted. As for the rest, they're just left to languish.

Although all dictators are bad in their own way, there's one insidious aspect of despotism that is most infuriating and galling to me: the disturbing frequency with which many despots, as in Kyrgyzstan, began their careers as erstwhile "freedom fighters" who were supposed to have liberated their people. Back in 2005, Bakiyev rode the crest of the so-called Tulip Revolution to oust the previous dictator. So familiar are Africans with this phenomenon that we have another saying: "We struggle very hard to remove one cockroach from power, and the next rat comes to do the same thing. Haba!" Darn!

I call these revolutionaries-turned-tyrants "crocodile liberators," joining the ranks of other fine specimens: the Swiss bank socialists who force the people to pay for economic losses while stashing personal gains abroad, the quack revolutionaries who betray the ideals that brought them to power, and the briefcase bandits who simply pillage and steal. Here's my list of the world's worst dictators. I have ranked them based on ignoble qualities of perfidy, cultural betrayal, and economic devastation. If this account of their evils makes you cringe, just imagine living under their rule.

The World's Most Powerful Prisoners Five people who are still making an impact from behind bars.Story.

The World's Most Powerful Prisoners
Five people who are still making an impact from behind bars.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | AUGUST 10, 2010


HUANG GUANGYU Country: China In jail since: 2008

Impact: Huang may be China's ultimate rags to riches to prison jumpsuit story. The 41-year-old high school dropout started out in business by selling radios out of a single market stall and eventually built Gome electronics into one of China's largest companies, making himself the country's richest man in the process.
All that seemed to come to an end when, as part of a crackdown on corporate corruption, the Chinese government made an example of Huang and sentenced him to 14 years in prison on charges of bribery and insider trading.

Huang formally stepped down as Gome's chairman in 2009 but has continued to exert his influence over the company nonetheless, fighting a battle for control against U.S. private-equity firm Bain Capital, which owns a 10 percent stake in the company. In August, 2009, Huang bought enough shares to allow him to retain a one-third stake in the company. Then in May of this year, shareholders affiliated with Huang voted out Bain's representatives on Gome's board of directors. They were reinstated a month later. Most recently, a holding company controlled by Huang recently called a shareholders meeting to cancel decisions made by the company.

Gome has now filed an additional insider-trading lawsuit against Huang, who is also facing charges from Hong Kong's top financial watchdog. The authorities certainly seem to have enough on Huang to keep him in jail for the next few decades, but if the past year is any indication, it will take more than prison to keep this tycoon away from the company he founded.

In yet another sign that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is coming to an end,

The Iraqi Who Knew Too Much
Why is Saddam's oil minister still in prison?

BY CHARLES DUELFER | AUGUST 9, 2010

In yet another sign that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is coming to an end, the last U.S. military prison in the country, Camp Cropper, was transferred in July to the control of the Iraqi government, which took custody of hundreds of al Qaeda terrorists, Shiite militiamen, and former Baathist officials -- some of whom were complicit in the crimes perpetrated by Saddam Hussein's regime.
But there was also a detainee with a rather different pedigree: Saddam's former oil minister, Amer Mohammed Rasheed al-Obeidi. His continued detention represents a sign of a different sort -- the continued corruption and politicization of the new Iraqi government's judicial system.
Rasheed, now 70 years old, was detained by U.S. forces in April 2003. He was immortalized as the six of spades on the deck of playing cards that the U.S. military produced as its blacklist of the most-wanted regime members following the invasion, due to his role in Iraq's program to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the 1980s.
However, the reason that Rasheed continues to rot in jail has nothing to do with WMD: His former position as oil minister made him privy to information regarding corruption among the current characters vying for power in the new Iraq -- as well as among some very senior Russian officials.
I directed the final investigation of Iraq's WMD program as the head of the CIA's Iraq Survey Group in 2004. In my final report, I included an annex emphatically stating that there was no longer any purpose in detaining those Iraqis who had been captured due to their connection to these programs. We had our answers, and these individuals presented no further risk to Iraqi society -- indeed, many were extremely talented and could contribute to Iraq's reconstruction.
So why is Rasheed still lingering in jail, five years later? The answer has much to do with the struggle between Iraq's many centers of power after Saddam's fall. Authority over detainees on the U.S. blacklist passed to the Iraqi government in June 2004, when the United States officially transferred sovereignty. However, the prisoners remained at Camp Cropper under the control of the U.S. military. Saddam himself was Camp Cropper's most prominent resident until he was delivered to Iraqi hands to be hanged in December 2006.
The nascent Iraqi "justice system" that was developing in 2005 laid the foundation for Rasheed's continued detention. A court issued a warrant accusing him of "wasting the national wealth through his position that led to the loss of a great amount of money and Iraqi national wealth." He has been waiting in jail without action ever since.
In fact, Rasheed was one of the more careful Iraqi bureaucrats when it came to accounting for resources. When we debriefed Rasheed and other former Oil Ministry officials, it became clear that the normal operations of the ministry -- directed by Rasheed -- were conducted appropriately. It was when the inner circle of Saddam's coterie got involved that oil contracts were allocated to the benefit of those who bent to Saddam's will.
My own experience with Rasheed dates back to the early 1990s, when I served as the deputy executive chairman of UNSCOM, the U.N. weapons-inspection team established to verify that Saddam had destroyed his old stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and halted production of more advanced WMDs. Rasheed was one of the top technocrats Saddam assigned to deal with the U.N. inspectors. A former general in the Iraqi Army, Rasheed was a brilliant -- if sometimes loud and difficult -- technical program manager for some of Iraq's most advanced military-development efforts.
His talent was recognized by the regime, and he was rapidly given greater responsibilities. He was particularly proud of the construction of the so-called 14th of July Bridge over the Tigris River, which was quickly constructed to replace the crossings that were destroyed during the Gulf War.
In 1995, Saddam appointed Rasheed oil minister, a position he held for virtually the rest of the regime's existence, including during the critical period when the United Nations permitted Iraq to export under the so-called Oil-for-Food program.
Saddam wanted out of sanctions one way or another -- either by convincing the U.N. Security Council to lift them, which would require a judgment that Iraq had fully disarmed, or by undermining their effectiveness through illicit means, eventually causing them to collapse. It was this latter course that had made the most headway before the 2003 invasion, and its success was the result of carefully dispensed allocations of oil to those who could influence the sanctions on Iraq.

Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah presented his party's case against Israel in the matter of 2005 assassination of billionaire former Pm Rafiq al-Hariri.

The Best Defense
Posted By Elias Muhanna. Monday, August 9, 2010

This evening, in Lebanon's most widely anticipated press conference in recent memory, Hizbullah secretary-general Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah presented his party's case against Israel in the matter of the 2005 assassination of billionaire former Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.

Even by Nasrallah's standards, who is one of his generation's most gifted orators, the event was a masterpiece of political theater. Over the course of two hours, Nasrallah presented "material evidence" suggesting that Israel had been engaged in preparations for some sort of covert operation in Lebanon immediately prior to al-Hariri's assassination on Feb. 14, 2005.

The most significant and surprising piece of evidence came in the form of footage obtained from Israeli unmanned surveillance drones. Nasrallah revealed that Hizbullah had acquired the technical ability, some time in the early 1990s, to tap into the direct video feeds that passed from the many reconnaissance drones circulating in Lebanon's skies to the Israeli military command. What kind of qualitative edge did this breakthrough afford the party, and what implications would it have upon the five-year-long investigation into Hariri's murder.

Yemen is seen as vulnerable to take-over by terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda that threaten America's and the region's security. Photo.

Yemen: not on the verge of collapse
Posted By Steven C. Caton Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 2:56 PM

The Republic of Yemen is often spoken of in the press and in policy circles as a society on the verge of collapse (last year it was "another Somalia"), based largely on two claims, the first being the supposed weakness of its state, the other the supposed lawlessness of its tribal population that makes up the majority ethnic group (about seventy-five percent are settled agriculturalists in the mountains and another five per cent, nomadic Bedouin in the eastern desert). And supposedly being on the verge of collapse, Yemen is seen as vulnerable to take-over by terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda that threaten America's and the region's security. Let us consider how tribe and state, law and conflict operate in Yemen that few analysts seem to grasp when they make these pronouncements.

History may provide some perspective. There has been a state or dawlah in Yemen for thousands of years, whether the Sabaean state that built Marib Dam and was the reputed homeland of the Queen of Sheba, or the Islamic state created shortly after the advent of Islam which lasted for a thousand years, or the republican state that came into being in 1962 and has lasted until the present day, despite two bitter civil wars. To be sure, the state has waxed and waned in power and contracted or expanded in territory during this history, and it has faced formidable outside opponents, beginning with the Romans and most recently with al-Qaeda, but it has never fully collapsed or disappeared from the scene. It is unlikely to do so in the present in spite of arguments that the current regime is at a tipping point and about to fall apart because of an unprecedented number of seemingly intractable problems facing it (an ever weakening economy, unsustainable water consumption, projected diminished oil reserves, conflicts between the state and certain regional populations, rampant corruption, and let us not forget al-Qaeda).

To those who would say to me, "How do you know it is not at a tipping point?" I can only respond with, "How do you know that it is?" and remind ourselves of the longue durée of Yemeni history.

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Electronic Cigarettes: Are They Really Better For Your Health? Is This The Death Of Big Tobacco?

Electronic Cigarettes: Are They Really Better For Your Health? Is This The Death Of Big Tobacco?

Part of a new series: It's what many smokers are calling a “miracle technological breakthrough.” But, could making the switch to electronic cigarettes really change your life?

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We investigate the truth behind this new technological breakthrough.
E lectronic cigarettes have recently grabbed the attention of almost every tobacco user in North America. Everywhere you look there’s an internet blog, an ad, or a doctor calling the “e-cigarette” the new healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes. But can this clever looking contraption live up to all the hype? Or have we embraced the latest Hollywood trend without real merit or scientific evidence that electronic cigarettes truly are the #1 smoking alternative?

On the day when we first inspected the electronic cigarette, it was easy to see that the device in fact does look and feel like a normal cigarette. Creators and product users are claiming that you can now enjoy a healthier cigarette without the bad smells, second-hand smoke, or cancer causing chemicals. Plus they claim you can still get your nicotine fix and enjoy the ability to smoke indoors, and in many areas that real cigarettes were previously banned. Sounds almost too good to be true right? That's what we thought as well. So we had our own Jared Brague test these incredible claims. And the results, to say the least, were very shocking. Here are just a few of the outstanding benefits that Prado™ Electronic Cigarettes has been claiming on their website:

* No tar, tobacco, carbon monoxide, or ash. * Get the same amount of nicotine as a regular cigarette. * Each cartridge costs less than $2 and is equivalent to an entire pack of cigarettes. * You can save over $1,000 each year. * You won't "smell" like a smoker any longer. * Different flavors are available. * Smoke in many locations that traditionally ban smoking. * No more second-hand smoke.


When Jared received his electronic cigarette trial kit, he passed the device around so everyone could take a look. Sure enough, the product looked and felt like a cigarette. The device was also very well made and seemed safe to use. When Jared took his first few drags on the device, we all stared in amazement. It looked like Jared was smoking in the office, but with one huge difference. There was no tobacco smell and no second-hand smoke. Just a harmless vapor.
We were also able to confirm the money savings claims. Each cartridge was equivalent to approximately 1 pack of cigarettes at a cost of only a couple of dollars each, meaning that smokers who smoke 1 pack per day can easily save over $1,000 per year. And since the device satisfied Jared's nicotine cravings, we knew that we had found a product that actually works.
For smokers who have thought about quitting, the Prado™ electronic cigarette brings even better news. The United Health Organization concluded that "In the short time that electronic cigarettes have become popular, the number of people who have been able to quit smoking and stay cigarette free have risen by an estimated 300%. No other methodology has proven so successful in such a short period of time."

A Top 10 U.S. Health Trend?
Four very well known doctors, from the popular TV show “The Doctors”, a US syndicated TV show, have shared great insight with us on the topic of the electronic cigarette. The electronic cigarette was featured as one of their top 10 key health trends for 2009.
“The greatest issue with cigarettes is the 500+ other ingredients added, not just the nicotine. Do we recommend this for non-smokers? Of course not, but for current smokers this is the most revolutionary device to date” - Dr. Travis Stork

From The TV Show "The Doctors": from left to right, Dr. Drew Ordan, Dr. Travis Stork, Dr. Lisa Masterson & Dr. Jim Sears


So How Does The Prado™ Electronic Cigarette Work?
Technology has enabled engineers to create a safer cigarette for everyone. Using the device is simple enough. If you know how to smoke a regular cigarette, then you'll know how to smoke an electronic cigarette. But it's what happens on the inside that makes this breakthrough so important to smokers.
Here's a simplified explanation of the 4 step process that occurs when you smoke an electronic cigarette:
Step #1: A flow sensor will detect that air is traveling through the e-cigarette when the user inhales.

Step #2:Liquid nicotine and flavoring contained in the cartridge goes into the atomization chamber while the Smart Chip controls the amount.

Step #3:The Heating Vapor Coil "atomizes" the liquid creating a rich vapor very similar to smoke. While this vapor is enjoyed, the indicator light is signaled.

Step #4: When the smoker finishes inhaling, the LED in the indicator light fades out. The smoker is free to partake in additional drags on the device.



We are pleased to report that all of this occurs in an extremely safe manner. In fact, it is virtually impossible to unintentionally start a fire with an electronic cigarette, another huge benefit that can potentially save lives.

The death toll climbed to more than 1,300 in Pakistan on Date as the nation's military and emergency services struggled to cope with the flood .Video.

Death toll tops 1,300 in Pakistani flooding
By the CNN Wire Staff August 11, 2010 -- Updated 1331 GMT (2131 HKT)

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The death toll climbed to more than 1,300 in Pakistan on Wednesday as the nation's military and emergency services struggled to cope with the flood waters that have washed across the landscape.

The Pakistan Disaster Authority has confirmed 1,313 deaths, although officials say the number could reach 1,500.

The authority also said 1,588 people have been injured and 352,291 people have been rescued. More than 722,000 houses have been damaged.

The Pakistani military has 55 helicopters and 621 boats taking part in aid and rescue efforts.

The flooding, which has affected some 14 million people, started in the northwest and has threatened places as far south as the port city of Karachi.

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For many parts of southern Pakistan, the worst is yet to come.

The "Indus River at Kotri in Southern Sindh Province is likely to attain a very high to exceptionally high flood level," according to the Pakistani Meteorological Department. "Under this scenario, the inundation and flooding of low lying areas of district of Hyderabad, Thatta and adjoining areas in South Sindh."

Food and housing shortages are widespread.

"The assistance that we have so far provided has alleviated suffering, but relief operations need to be massively scaled up," said Martin Mogwanja, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Pakistan.

The United Nations will launch an initial Pakistani emergency response plan Wednesday with $400 million more in aid.

U.S. emergency relief teams continued to arrive in Peshawar to help, the U.S. State Department said. The U.S. Agency for International Development has committed $55 million in aid to international organizations and nongovernmental organizations, it said. The United States has provided more than 435,000 meals.

This assistance is in addition to U.S. military efforts, which include rescue airlifts, food supplies and other deliveries provided by the Pentagon.

Of the total, $20 million will be used to expand humanitarian operations farther south as the flood zone expands, Mark Ward, acting director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, told reporters Tuesday.

Islamic militants, however, called on the Pakistani government to reject any aid provided by the United States for flood relief.

"For the sake of God, don't accept donations from the U.S. because they are our enemies," said Azem Tariq, spokesman for Pakistan Taliban. "Whatever amount the U.S. will give as donation, we will give the government of Pakistan more."

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Many Pakistanis have not been happy with the government's response to the floods, calling it slow and ineffective. The Taliban's offer of aid may be an attempt to win the hearts and minds of flood victims.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has taken much of that heat. He was in England for talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron during the worst of the crisis.

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Russian emergency workers have increased forest patrols in a western region previously contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster,Photos.

Russian wildfires raise Chernobyl radiation fears

MOSCOW – Russian emergency workers have increased forest patrols in a western region previously contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, trying to prevent wildfires from spreading harmful radiation, officials said Wednesday.

At least six wildfires were spotted in the Bryansk region this week — the part of Russia that suffered the most from the Chernobyl catastrophe in what was then Soviet Ukraine — and fire crews quickly extinguished all of them, Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Yegorushkina said. Her agency also had reported sporadic wildfires last week, saying all had been put out.



Radiation experts from Moscow conducted a thorough check of the Bryansk area, which borders Belarus and Ukraine, and concluded there has been no increase in radiation levels, she said.

Large forested areas in Bryansk were contaminated when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's Reactor No. 4 exploded during a pre-dawn test on April 26, 1986, spewing radioactive clouds over much of the western Soviet Union and northern Europe.



Radioactive particles settled into the soil, and environmentalists have warned that they could be thrown up into the air once again by wildfires and blown into other areas by the wind.

Russia's Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu acknowledged the danger last week, and his department says they are taking all precautions.

"We had several fires, but the situation here is not as difficult as in the areas around Moscow," Yegorushkina told The Associated Press on Wednesday.



The chief of the Bryansk forest protection service said his agency had increased patrols around the forests, particularly in the southwest section affected by Chernobyl.
"There is a danger, but we are controlling the situation," agency chief Vladimir Rozinkevich told the AP.

Vasily Tuzov, a deputy head of the federal forest protection service, said wildfires engulfed a total of some 9,600 acres (3,900 hectares) in several regions of Russia hit by the Chernobyl fallout, including the Bryansk region, but most of them have been put out.



He said it wasn't immediately clear whether any of the fires had spread any radioactive particles into previously unpolluted areas.
"Our workers will need to conduct measurements to determine that," Tuzov told the AP. "All we know now is that there have been fires in the areas with higher radiation levels."
Greenpeace and other environmental groups say radioactive dust from the Chernobyl disaster could be harmful even though doses will likely be small.

A top Russian forest expert said that the mixture of radioactive elements that remained in the forest floor in the affected regions remains dangerous.

"A cloud may come up with soot and spread over a huge territory," said Alexander Isayev of the Moscow-based Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity.

In Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had no comment on the radioactive dangers posed by the wildfires.

Hundreds of wildfires sparked by the hottest summer ever recorded in Russia have engulfed large areas around Moscow and other parts of western Russia, cloaking the Russian capital in suffocating smog for a week. The death rate in Moscow has doubled to 700 people a day, morgues are overflowing and residents are desperately seeking ways to counter soaring temperatures and acrid smoke.

About 165,000 workers and 39 firefighting aircraft were battling more than 600 blazes nationwide Wednesday over 220,000 acres (more than 90,000 hectares), the Emergency Ministry said.

Actor Shahid Kapoor, who has been learning to fly for his new movie Mausam,Shahid had been training to fly a plane secretly in India," Photo.

Shahid Kapoor takes secret flying lessons

Updated at: 1031 PST, Sunday, August 08, 2010 MUMBAI: Actor Shahid Kapoor, who has been learning to fly for his new movie Mausam, apparently flew a Tornado battle aircraft at the Royal Airforce airbase in Leuchars near Edinburgh on Tuesday while shooting for the film. "Shahid had been training to fly a plane secretly in India," a source told media. "Shahid actually flew the Tornado in Edinburgh, though no-one is talking about it on record. "At first, we somehow managed permission to shoot in the airbase. Then we became ambitious and wanted Shahid to actually fly the Tornado a bit. That was tougher than we thought."

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Cancer cells love sugar!
Updated at: 1008 PST, Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Cancer cells love sugar! LONDON: Here is one more reason to stop indulging your sweet tooth. Our love for sweets adds to the calorific value of our diet, it increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease and now new studies have shown further proof of the damage caused by sugars. Some sweets contain fructose and some others contain glucose.

Now, it seems, that cancerous cells feed off fructose! In fact, they slurp it up and relish it no end.

When cancer cells that are found in the pancreas come across fructose, then these cancer cells divide and proliferate quickly. A team of researchers at the UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) conducted a study in which they fed both, glucose and fructose to tumour cells. They discovered that cancer cells gobbled up the fructose and multiplied faster.

They published the results of their study in the journal "Cancer Research". In it, Dr. Anthony Heaney and his team from Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre at UCLA wrote, "These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation...

They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or

35 gas wells closed, as water enters Qadirpur gas field QADIRPUR: The flood water that broke through Tauri Bund five days ago,

35 gas wells closed, as water enters Qadirpur gas field
Updated at: 1606 PST, Wednesday, August 11, 2010

35 gas wells closed, as water enters Qadirpur gas field QADIRPUR: The floodwater that broke through Tauri Bund five days ago, is now fast pacing towards Jakobabad, Geo News reported Wednesday.

According to DCO Kazim Jatoi, the water from Tauri Bund, that capitulated to water pressure five days back, is roaring its way to Jakobabad through Ghauspur, Karampur and Thul.

The helicopters have been called for to winch people marooned in the flooded areas.

Meantime, the administration in Thul directed the early evacuation of Thul, Mirpur Buroro and Goth Jangan, as the flood torrent has approached near.

The flood torrent in Sukkar caused the city’s protective wall to receive cracks, causing the water to seep through faster, amassing on Bundar Road.

According to Field Manager Qadirpur Gas Field Abdul Majeed Malik, the water entered into the compressor stations of Sui Northern Pipeline Limited; accordingly, at least 35 wells of gas, have been shut down.

He said the gas supply has been suspended on the request by SNPL.

It should be mentioned here that the flood high tide, rampaging from Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw, has turned into a supper flood in Larkana with mounting water pressure on various bunds.

The most catchments areas in the district have submerged under water.

The water pressure persisted unabated at Jamshed Lope Bund near Khairpur at River Indus, Alarjageer Bund and Faridabad Bund.

Two kids were swept away adrift floodwater in Goth Punhal near Razi Dero; of them, one was rescued.

China where weekend flooding killed at least 702 people, as hopes of finding more survivors faded and crews worked to stave off outbreaks of disease.

Little hope for more survivors of China floods
By DAVID WIVELL, Associated Press Writer David Wivell, Associated Press Writer – 23 mins ago

ZHOUQU, China – Heavy rains on Wednesday lashed a remote section of northwestern China where weekend flooding killed at least 702 people, as hopes of finding more survivors faded and crews worked to stave off outbreaks of disease.

More than 1,000 people were still listed as missing in the disaster, with mud, stones and debris covering many houses.

The National Meteorological Center warned there was a "relatively large" chance of more landslides in the coming days, as the rain was expected to grow heavier, with up to 3 1/2 inches (90 millimeters) forecast for Friday.

With the chances of finding more survivors falling by the hour, troops and rescue teams joined by traumatized survivors turned to recovering bodies and seeing to the needs of the living. Clean drinking water was a primary concern, with most local sources destroyed or too polluted to use.

Entire communities in Gansu province's Zhouqu district were swallowed up when the debris-choked Bailong River jumped its banks Sunday, releasing wave after wave of mud and rubble-strewn water. While torrential rains were the direct cause, tree cutting that left the dry hills exposed and the weakening of cliff faces by a massive 2008 earthquake were seen as contributing factors.



Buildings were torn from their foundations, their lower floors blown out by the force of the debris-laden water. Three villages comprising hundreds of households were entirely buried and much of the county seat left submerged.

Crews using explosives and excavators rushed Wednesday to drain an unstable lake on the Bailong upriver of Zhouqu, fearing more rain could cause a massive breach bringing more misery to the town.



Disinfectant crews in protective suits sprayed chemicals across the ground and over machinery, the smell of death heavy in the air. State media reported numerous cases of dysentery, while infected injuries, a lack of sanitation, clean drinking water and accumulating garbage increased the risk of typhoid, cholera and other diseases.

Rescue crews have been largely reliant on hand tools, with heavy equipment either unable to traverse the difficult terrain or mired in mud up to several yards (meters) deep.



But roads reopened Wednesday, allowing heavy earth-moving equipment and supplies to flow in.

At least 45,000 people have evacuated their homes, and the Civil Affairs Ministry reported the delivery of 7,000 tents and 21,400 blankets to the area, with thousands more on the way. Zhouqu has a population of 134,000, but it wasn't clear how many needed emergency shelter.

Shen Si, a member of the Tibetan ethnic group native to the area, watched forlornly as troops dug to reach the bodies of her relatives inside their buried home.

"My mother and father in their 60s and my younger brother, all three of them, are buried here in our house still," she said.

Throughout the area, bodies were seen wrapped in blankets and tied to sticks or placed on planks and left on the shattered streets for pickup.



China's leadership has ordered teams to continue the search for survivors, and the ruling Communist Party's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee met Tuesday to discuss rescue and relief work.

"It is now a critical time ... we must give the highest prominence to the protection of people's lives and properties," it said in a statement.

Flooding in China has killed about 1,800 people this year and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage across 28 provinces and regions.