Positive News Update 8-10-05
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
U.S. tests suggest that Bird flu vaccine works on people
An experimental vaccine seems to protect people against
the bird flu strain that experts fear could spark a deadly
global pandemic, a U.S. government scientist says.
Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday that the
U.S. government planned to arrange for mass production
of the vaccine to start as early as mid-September.
Government scientists tested the vaccine on about 450
healthy adults under age 65. Preliminary results from
115 of them showed an immune response that scientists
believe is strong enough to protect against the H5N1
strain of avian flu.
The strain has killed millions of birds as it spreads in
Asia and Russia, along with more than 50 people in A
sia since 2003.
Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find.
LONDON - Men who are accused of never listening by
women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more
difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said.
The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist
magazine NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield
university in northern England discovered startling differences
in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.
Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of
the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged
a simpler mechanism, it said.
The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying,
"The female voice is actually more complex than the
male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of
the vocal cords and larynx between men and women,
and also due to women having greater natural 'melody'
in their voices."
B.C. sailor saves 3-year-old boy
From the CBC News Site
A three-year-old boy is recovering after an unknown
hero pulled him from under a capsized boat off British
Columbia's Gabriola Island. Jerry Lushman says a man
on board another boat, the 12-metre sailboat Outrageous,
came to the rescue when a five-metre craft holding Lushman,
his son Zachary and another man overturned on Saturday.
The man, whom Lushman knows only as Clayton, jumped
into the water and saved Zachary, who was trapped under
the smaller boat. "He threw me a life-jacket, and then he
dived into the water and he went up under the boat,"
Lushman told CBC Radio. "
And he told me to get off the boat, because he might have
to slip it. "So I started swimming towards the sailboat and
he went up under and pulled my son out. "He said he was
right there. As soon as he put his hand up under the boat,
my son was right there. And he pulled him out.
"As I was swimming back, I heard him say, 'The kid is all
right.' And I was so relieved." Darren Morely of the Victoria
Rescue Co-ordination Centre said members of the Outrageous
crew are crediting Zachary's life-jacket with saving his life.
But Morely believes the rescuer's efforts were what really
saved the boy. "It's a very brave thing to do. I mean, the
water temperature is between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius,"
he said.
"And, you know, you're safely aboard your own boat and you
leave it in order to effect the rescue of others. It's a dangerous
maneuver, but it certainly worked."
US NEWS
Discovery Lands Safely in California
The space shuttle Discovery landed safely atEdwards,
Air force Base in California. After two weeks in space
resupplying theInternational Space Station, testing out
a new technique for fixing tiles on the heat shield to the
dramatic removal of two protruding thermal tile fillers
from the underneath of Discovery.
The mission was a big success for NASA."Congratulations
on a truly spectacular test flight," Mission Control said
after Discovery came to a stop on the concrete runway
at 5:11 a.m. PDT. "Welcome home, friends."
Now from Prevention Magazine...
Anyone who enjoys a sport like tennis or golf knows that
having a partner who plays as well as you do--or even
better--motivates you to practice more and play harder.
"So why wouldn't that same dynamic work for people
who diet together?"
To test the theory 109 people who wanted to lose weight,
and their dieting partners were studied. Sure enough, those
who had a successful partner dropped twice as many pounds
after a year of serious weight loss effort than those who
dieted on their own.
BACK TO SCHOOL
Wendy Kopp isn’t a household name. But her creativity and
perseverance is changing America. In 1988, from her dorm
room at Princeton University, then-college senior Wendy
Kopp developed a plan to call upon the most talented members
of her generation to teach for two years in the nation’s neediest
urban and rural public schools.
Wendy envisioned a new national service corps called
Teach For America that would heighten our country's
commitment to its most disadvantaged children.
Teach For America, has grown from a one-person startup
operating in a borrowed office to a full-scale social movement.
This coming school year over 3,000 corps members will
teach students in disadvantaged schools across the country.
Teach for America now has over 9,000 alumni, former
teachers from the corps working from all professional
sectors to expand educational opportunities for children.
Wendy’s dream has become a blueprint for a new civil rights
movement, a movement that demands educational access
and opportunity for all children in America.
PNN salutes Wendy Kopp and her dream that is truly
making a difference in the lives of so many children…
and making our world a better place!
For more information www.TeachForAmerica.org
STAY POSITIVE!
Mr. Positive!
Dave Boufford
Web SitesPNN-Positive News Network
http://www.positivenews.net
Mr. Positive! (View the Rules Movie)
http://www.mrpositive.com/rules.html
Dream no small dreams for they have
no power to move men.--Goethe
www.positivenews.net
All Positive News, All the Time...
News You Can Really Use!
++++++++++++++++++
Positive News Update
++++++++++++++++++
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
U.S. tests suggest that Bird flu vaccine works on people
An experimental vaccine seems to protect people against
the bird flu strain that experts fear could spark a deadly
global pandemic, a U.S. government scientist says.
Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday that the
U.S. government planned to arrange for mass production
of the vaccine to start as early as mid-September.
Government scientists tested the vaccine on about 450
healthy adults under age 65. Preliminary results from
115 of them showed an immune response that scientists
believe is strong enough to protect against the H5N1
strain of avian flu.
The strain has killed millions of birds as it spreads in
Asia and Russia, along with more than 50 people in A
sia since 2003.
Men do have trouble hearing women, scientists find.
LONDON - Men who are accused of never listening by
women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more
difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said.
The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist
magazine NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield
university in northern England discovered startling differences
in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.
Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of
the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged
a simpler mechanism, it said.
The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying,
"The female voice is actually more complex than the
male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of
the vocal cords and larynx between men and women,
and also due to women having greater natural 'melody'
in their voices."
B.C. sailor saves 3-year-old boy
From the CBC News Site
A three-year-old boy is recovering after an unknown
hero pulled him from under a capsized boat off British
Columbia's Gabriola Island. Jerry Lushman says a man
on board another boat, the 12-metre sailboat Outrageous,
came to the rescue when a five-metre craft holding Lushman,
his son Zachary and another man overturned on Saturday.
The man, whom Lushman knows only as Clayton, jumped
into the water and saved Zachary, who was trapped under
the smaller boat. "He threw me a life-jacket, and then he
dived into the water and he went up under the boat,"
Lushman told CBC Radio. "
And he told me to get off the boat, because he might have
to slip it. "So I started swimming towards the sailboat and
he went up under and pulled my son out. "He said he was
right there. As soon as he put his hand up under the boat,
my son was right there. And he pulled him out.
"As I was swimming back, I heard him say, 'The kid is all
right.' And I was so relieved." Darren Morely of the Victoria
Rescue Co-ordination Centre said members of the Outrageous
crew are crediting Zachary's life-jacket with saving his life.
But Morely believes the rescuer's efforts were what really
saved the boy. "It's a very brave thing to do. I mean, the
water temperature is between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius,"
he said.
"And, you know, you're safely aboard your own boat and you
leave it in order to effect the rescue of others. It's a dangerous
maneuver, but it certainly worked."
US NEWS
Discovery Lands Safely in California
The space shuttle Discovery landed safely atEdwards,
Air force Base in California. After two weeks in space
resupplying theInternational Space Station, testing out
a new technique for fixing tiles on the heat shield to the
dramatic removal of two protruding thermal tile fillers
from the underneath of Discovery.
The mission was a big success for NASA."Congratulations
on a truly spectacular test flight," Mission Control said
after Discovery came to a stop on the concrete runway
at 5:11 a.m. PDT. "Welcome home, friends."
Now from Prevention Magazine...
Anyone who enjoys a sport like tennis or golf knows that
having a partner who plays as well as you do--or even
better--motivates you to practice more and play harder.
"So why wouldn't that same dynamic work for people
who diet together?"
To test the theory 109 people who wanted to lose weight,
and their dieting partners were studied. Sure enough, those
who had a successful partner dropped twice as many pounds
after a year of serious weight loss effort than those who
dieted on their own.
BACK TO SCHOOL
Wendy Kopp isn’t a household name. But her creativity and
perseverance is changing America. In 1988, from her dorm
room at Princeton University, then-college senior Wendy
Kopp developed a plan to call upon the most talented members
of her generation to teach for two years in the nation’s neediest
urban and rural public schools.
Wendy envisioned a new national service corps called
Teach For America that would heighten our country's
commitment to its most disadvantaged children.
Teach For America, has grown from a one-person startup
operating in a borrowed office to a full-scale social movement.
This coming school year over 3,000 corps members will
teach students in disadvantaged schools across the country.
Teach for America now has over 9,000 alumni, former
teachers from the corps working from all professional
sectors to expand educational opportunities for children.
Wendy’s dream has become a blueprint for a new civil rights
movement, a movement that demands educational access
and opportunity for all children in America.
PNN salutes Wendy Kopp and her dream that is truly
making a difference in the lives of so many children…
and making our world a better place!
For more information www.TeachForAmerica.org
STAY POSITIVE!
Mr. Positive!
Dave Boufford
Web SitesPNN-Positive News Network
http://www.positivenews.net
Mr. Positive! (View the Rules Movie)
http://www.mrpositive.com/rules.html
Dream no small dreams for they have
no power to move men.--Goethe
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