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Alzheimer?s disease may be more common among people with a small waist and large hips than it is among people with the opposite proportions, researchers suggest. The measurement of the waist relative to the hips, called the waist-to-hip ratio, measures the distribution of body fat. People carrying extra weight around their waist (a ?high’? waist-to-hip ratio) are thought to be at increased risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes compared with those carrying extra weight around their hips (a ?low? waist-to-hip ratio). Dr. Eric B. Larson and colleagues from the University of Washington in Seattle found that the group with the lowest waist-to-hip ratios were about three times more likely to develop Alzheimer?s disease than those with a high waist-to-hip ratio.
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Men are in danger of extinction because sperm banks, fertility treatments and human cloning may make them no longer necessary. Since men have historically started all major wars, the world would be a more peaceful place without them.
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NOAA has issued a space weather advisory in response to an X-1 class solar flare that took place at 8:20AM PST. A G2 class magnetic storm is expected to reach earth around 6:00PM PST on Monday. A magnetic storm of this magnitude has the capacity to cause can lead to minor problems with electrical power systems, spacecraft operations, communications systems, and some navigational systems.

The flare was followed by a strong solar radiation storm whichhas reached the S3 level on the NOAA scale and is continuing on Sunday evening.

There are widespread high-frequency radio blackouts taking place on the dayside of the earth, and low-frequency navigation systems are being affected.
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Radio France International and the French newspaper Le Figaro have reported that a CIA agent met Osama bin Laden in a hospital in July and received ?precise information? about an imminent attack on the U.S. The agent met bin Laden while he was being treated at the American Hospital in Dubai for a kidney infection. During bin Laden?s stay, the local CIA representative was seen going into bin Laden’s room and ?a few days later, the CIA man boasted to some friends of having visited the Saudi-born millionaire.?
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