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  • New oral diarrhea vaccine shows promising results in phase I-study

    A novel oral, inactivated Escherichia coli diarrhea vaccine has been developed in Sweden and a clinical phase I-study of this vaccine has now been successfully completed. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the primary cause of diarrhea in children living in low and middle income countries result in 400 million diarrheal episodes and approximately 300 000 deaths among children ...

  • Home sales fall in Spain

    The 54,512 home sales recorded in Spain in this year's first quarter represent a decline of 21.5 percent from the same period in 2012, the development ministry said. Foreigners were the buyers in 17 percent of the transactions. The decline in the first quarter reflects the impact in the sector of the end of the tax deduction for buying a primary residence and the increase in the levy on new ...

  • European leaders hold summit on tax evasion

    The heads of state and government of the European Union held a summit Wednesday in an effort to make more progress in fighting tax evasion and tax fraud. EU leaders are targeting tax crimes both within the borders of their countries and in foreign tax havens despite the reluctance of Austria and Luxembourg. The leaders of the EU's 27 member states are expected to give the go ahead to the ...

  • Italy has lowest graduate share in Europe

    Italy has the lowest graduation rates in Europe with just one-fifth of people aged 30-34 holding a university degree, according to a study. A total of 31 percent of Italian families cannot afford to pay for their children's university studies, and must take out loans or have their offspring seek jobs to help fund tuition and living costs, said the report by charity Save the Children. It said ...

  • US tourist stabbed in Italy loses kidney

    A 68-year-old American tourist underwent emergency surgery to remove a kidney after he was stabbed in Italy's Florence city. The tourist, who was not named, was attacked near the famous Duomo cathedral. Doctors at the Santa Maria Nuova hospital said the man suffered knife wounds to a kidney and a lung but was no longer critical, and was conscious and breathing unaided. Police arrested a ...

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

In the early eighties, a 22-year old reporter for "Rolling Stone" named Cameron Crowe did a very odd thing. Curious about what life was really like in a contemporary American high school, he decided to go undercover and pretend to be a teenager. He spent an entire year infiltrating a Southern California high school, making friends with a large group of kids and writing down everything he could. Wh ... ...

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  • Council of Europe Concerned About Russias Human-Rights Record

    MOSCOW Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary general of the Council of Europe, has told President Vladimir Putin that the human rights body is concerned about Russia's law requiring non-governmental organizations to register as foreign agents. Jagland said Europe will watch how the Kremlin implements the law that went in effect last November, a measure requiring non-governmental organizations ...

  • Russias commitment to new budget rule already in doubt

    By Maya DyakinaMOSCOW (Reuters) - Just last year Russia's government reimposed a rule meant to restrain spending and borrowing and channel substantial amounts of the country's energy revenues into its wealth fund.But the economy is weakening and budget discipline is already slipping.Finance Minister Anton Siluanov's inability to hold the line, in contrast to his predecessor Alexei ...

  • Amnesty International Report Slams European Asylum Policies

    Millions are fleeing from war and violence, but Europe is sealing itself off to those in need, a new report from Amnesty International alleged on Thursday. The human rights organization urged EU countries to act and save ...

  • Riots in Sweden Cars Burn in Fourth Night of Youth Violence

    Youth in several Stockholm suburbs have rioted for four nights in a row, throwing stones at police and setting cars on fire. Leaders have appealed for calm, but the violence has spread to the southern city of ...

  • Woman hailed for heroism in London attack

    A British woman who confronted a man suspected of hacking a British soldier to death on a London street has been praised for her courage after an attack that officials described as an act of terrorism.Cub Scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, was on a bus heading through Woolwich in southeast London on Wednesday when she spotted the bloodied soldier on the road and thought he had been injured ...

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