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Archive for November, 2008
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Pratibha Patil visits Vietnam museum of natural history
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Indian president Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Tuesday visited Museum of Natural History in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The Museum displays artifacts from Champa Civilization, which depicts the result of an entirely peaceful relationship between India and Vietnam.
Patil harped on the cultural ties between India and Vietnam.
Britney Spears feels old and boring
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Britney Spears says her life is so dull under her father’s watchful eye that she feels old and boring.
With her new album “Circus” out next week, the 26-year-old singer is working on a comeback after seeing her life spiral out of control with a run of strange behavior, a bitter custody battle over her two sons and the loss of her rights to administer her own affairs.
“I feel like an old person now,” Spears told Rolling Stone in an interview for the music magazine’s December 11 issue.
“I do! I go to bed at, like, 9:30 every night and I don’t go out or anything, you know what I mean? I just feel like an old fart.”
In 2007, the Louisiana native was a near-constant figure on the Hollywood party scene. She shaved her head, then wore a pink wig and spoke with a fake British accent. By early this year, she was hospitalized twice for psychiatric evaluation.
By February, a California court named her father as a conservator of her estate, giving Jamie Spears control over her personal and business affairs. Since then, she seems to have put her life back in order.
“Womanizer,” the first single from “Circus,” reached the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart in October. The album is set for release on December 2, the singer’s 27th birthday, and she plans to tour this spring to promote it.
In excerpts posted online on Tuesday, the story “Britney Returns” — www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24612561 — details limitations put on her life by her conservatorship and notes she is watched constantly by guards hired by her father.
The interviewer was restricted from asking Britney about her troubled months.
Instead, she talks about her current life and going on chaperoned dates with men who failed to impress her. She jokingly describes one as “an older version of Harry Potter but skinnier.”
Spears also discusses being a mom to her two sons, Sean Preston, 3, and Jayden, 2, whom she sees three days a week.
“To be a really good mom, I feel your child needs to be your full-time job,” Spears told the magazine. “I want to raise my kids and share all of those precious moments with them.”
The Rolling Stone with Spears on the cover hits newsstands on Friday.
A1 Team India booted out of Sprint and Feature Races
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Narain Karthikeyan witnessed perhaps the worst day in his racing career with Team India getting booted out of both the Sprint and Feature races in the Malaysian A1 Grand Prix.
In the Sprint Race, as the cars came in formation towards the rolling start, an incident involving USA, Brazil and India brought out the red flag.
In the Sprint Race, as the cars came in formation towards the rolling start, an incident involving USA, Brazil and India brought out the red flag.The pack appeared to pick up pace as it approached the start line but then backed off and the USA car of Marco Andretti and the Brazilian car of Felipe Guimaraes climbed over the back of Karthikeyan’s Indian entry, scattering debris across the pit straight.
Despite the crash at the start, the Indian team got ready to take the grid for the afternoon’s Feature race but met a similar fate. Karthikeyan’s car was booted out by Team Netherlands and the Indian could not finish the feature race either.
This is the first time in Karthikeyan’s career where he could not complete one racing lap across two consecutive sessions.
“We had the pace and were quite confident for a podium finish in the Feature Race. USA started behind us and finished third which could have been us if not for the crash,” A1 Team India Principal, Piers Hunnisset rued.
Neel Jani became the fifth different race winner this season as A1 Team Switzerland took victory in the Sprint race, while Team Ireland’s Adam Carroll won the Feature race.
Some breast cancers may naturally regress: study
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Researchers who tracked breast cancer rates in Norwegian women proposed the controversial notion on Monday that some tumors found with mammograms might otherwise naturally disappear on their own if left undetected.
But leading cancer experts expressed doubt about the findings and urged women to continue to get regular mammograms, saying this screening technique unquestionably saves lives by finding breast cancer early on when it is most treatable.
Dr. Per-Henrik Zahl of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo and Norwegian and U.S. colleagues examined invasive breast cancer rates among nearly 120,000 women age 50 to 64 who had a mammogram — an X-ray of the breast used to find evidence of cancer — every two years over a six-year period.
They compared the number of breast cancers detected with another group of about 110,000 Norwegian women of the same age and similar backgrounds who were screened just once at the end of the six-year period.
The researchers said they expected to find no differences in breast cancer rates but instead found 22 percent more invasive breast tumors in the group who had mammograms every two years.
This raises the possibility that some cancers somehow disappear naturally, although there is no biological reason to explain how this might be, according to Zahl, whose findings were published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
“We are the first ones to publish such a theory,” Zahl said in a telephone interview. “What we say is many cancers must spontaneously disappear or regress because we cannot find them at later screenings. I have no biological explanation for this.”
Mammography and breast self-examination for tumors are standard methods used for early detection of breast cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide.
The American Cancer Society estimated that about 465,000 women die of breast cancer globally each year, and 1.3 million new cases are diagnosed.
“I think generally when we look at studies like this it is important to keep in mind there are some studies that change practice and others that make us think a little bit more, said Dr. Eric Winer, director of the Breast Oncology Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
“The idea that somehow these cancers go away entirely is, I would say, an intriguing hypothesis, but one we don’t have a lot of evidence to support,” said Winer, who was speaking on behalf of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
In much of Europe women undergo mammograms every two years after age 50 except for in Britain where it is every three years, Zahl said. The American Cancer Society recommends that women get an annual mammogram beginning at age 40.
Bob Smith, director of cancer screening for the American Cancer Society, said Zahl’s team misinterpreted the data, and expressed doubt about the idea that a significant number of breast tumors “spontaneously regress.”
“I imagine there are still some people who believe the Earth is flat, but there are not very many of them,” Smith said in a telephone interview. “It’s not usual — it happens every day that research is published that gets it wrong.”
The researchers acknowledged many doctors might be skeptical of the idea but they cited 32 reported cases of a breast cancer regressing, a small number for such a common disease.
The researchers said their findings provide new insight on what is “arguably the major harm associated with mammographic screening, namely, the detection and treatment of cancers that would otherwise regress.”
Kevin Spacey lauded for reviving London’s Old Vic, EU
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Kevin Spacey received a drama award Monday for reviving London’s historic Old Vic Theatre. Spacey, an Oscar winner for “American Beauty” and “The Usual Suspects,” received a special prize at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards “for bringing new life to the Old Vic.
” Spacey took charge of the Old Vic in 2003, reviving the 190-year-old theater with a series of acclaimed and popular productions. The award judges cited a recent revival of David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow” starring Spacey and Jeff Goldblum, and the theater’s current production of Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy “The Norman Conquests.
” London’s tiny Donmar Warehouse was the big winner at the awards, taking four prizes. Chiwetel Ejiofor was named best actor for the Donmar’s production of “Othello,” while Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack were jointly named best actress for “The Chalk Garden.
” Donmar artistic director Michael Grandage won the best director prize for several productions at the theater. The award for best new play went to “The Pitmen Painters,” the story of a group of miners-turned-artists by “Billy Elliot” playwright Lee Hall.
Twenty-eight-year-old American writer Tarell Alvin McCraney was named most promising playwright for “In the Red and Brown Water” and “The Brothers Size” at the Young Vic. The Young Vic, a publicly subsidized theater aimed at new actors and directors, also won the best musical category for its production of Kurt Weill’s “Street Scene.
” Now in their 54th year, the Evening Standard awards are sponsored by London’s afternoon newspaper.
Bernanke says he failed to gauge impact of crisis
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledged that he underestimated the fallout that the subprime mortgage crisis would have on broader financial sector, according to an article in the latest edition of The New Yorker magazine. “I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained,” Bernanke said in an article in the December 1 issue of The New Yorker.
” The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict,” he said, according to the report. Reuters.
Patel asks airlines to cut fares
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008Renewing his pitch for making air travel cheaper, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has asked air carriers including, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines, to cut fares in response to the government’s support to the industry.
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“Perceptionally, the government is trying to help you (aviation industry) to tide over the situation…It has taken the onus to help you. Now with the fuel prices coming down, you must match the perception that fares are coming down,” Patel said while addressing the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi on Saturday.
He said the government also has a responsibility towards people and if there were no reciprocal gestures from the airlines to the steps taken by it to support them, it would fail in the public eyes.
Patel, when queried if he would ask state-owned carrier Air India to cut prices, said: “We have never dictated what Air India (AI) should do in terms of pricing or routes or capacity, but AI as a responsible government carrier will also understand that if the oil prices are coming down so should the fares.”