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Please have a look....This 5 min may save a life

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Please have a look....This 5 min may save a life [Contributed By : Tarun Dasgupta]    Please have a look....This 5 min  may save a life      You could save a life. STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters... S.T.R .. My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a party , a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. (they offered to call ambulance) They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the party . Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be wi...

POP king into History

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[I found this interesting article in epaper.timesofindia.com and epratidin.in . Read this and post comments if you like: Source: 1) http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOIKM&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW&GZ=T&AW=1246158548125 2)  http://epratidin.in/epaperimages/2762009/2762009-md-hr-1/D28556184.JPG ] Jacko Moonwalks Into HIStory Peter Pan Of Pop Dies On Eve Of Comeback Ended $500m In Debt Net Slows Down Brooks Barnes  For his legions of fans, he was the Peter Pan of pop: the little boy who refused to grow up. But on the verge of another attempted comeback, he is suddenly gone, this time for good.   Michael Jackson, whose quintessentially American tale of celebrity and excess took him from musical boy wonder to global pop superstar to sad figure haunted by lawsuits, paparazzi and failed plastic surgery, was pronounced dead on Thursday afternoon at UCLA Medical Center after arriving in a coma, a city official s...

Planet six times the mass of Jupiter 'spotted' by astronomers

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[I found this interesting article in telegraph.co.uk. Read this and post comments if you like: Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5534891/Planet-six-times-the-mass-of-Jupiter-spotted-by-astronomers.html ]   The technology allows astronomers to see planets of Jupiter's mass in other galaxies Photo: AFP/GETTY  Researchers from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) claim it is the first planet to be seen outside of our galaxy. The scientists used a new method of viewing space called microlensing. The method uses a nearer object to bend the light of a distant star when the two align with an observer. The effect of large, massive objects between an observer and a distant planet or star can cause distortion or multiple images as the intermediary object's gravity bends the passing light.  Microlensing, by contrast, occurs when a less massive object lies in the middle. The technology allows astronomers to see planets of Jupiter's...