By Melinda Smith Washington 30 March 2007 Since the mid-20th century the World Health Organization reports there has been an increase in the rate of breast cancer among women in developed countries. For decades, doctors have urged their patients to d

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Searching the Internet can be a totally exhausting experience, as you bounce from one site to another to another, sometimes until you cant remember what you were looking for in the first place. But according to scientists at U.C.L.A., all that virtua

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A new study has shown that we tend to remember the bad times better than the good. The study, from Boston College psychologist, Elizabeth Kensinger and colleagues, has suggested that we retain and bear in mind events that carry negative emotional bur

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Why smells from childhood mean so much Why does the hint of certain smells instantly transport you back to childhood? It may be because the first smell you associate with an object is given privileged status in the brain Yaara Yeshurun and colleagues

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The European Union budget 欧盟预算 The gourmands of Brussels 布鲁塞尔的贪食者 The EU may be spending less, but the cost of running it is rising 欧盟也许会削减开支,但是运营成本在增加 THE European Union is on the verge o

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