…nd are often impractical in many areas of the developing world. The UN estimates that disease caused by unsafe sanitation is responsible for half of the hospitalizations in the developing world. About 1.5 million children die each year from diarrhoeal disease. The Gates Foundation has committed $370 million to its future toilet initiative and hopes to field test the prototypes within three years….
Neat Freaks, a new TLC special, chronicles the weirdest and wackiest sanitation habits that seem perfectly normal to many clean-obsessed people. The one-hour show features Alfreta, a woman who not only cleans her own bathroom, but all the public bathrooms, and strangers’ houses she visits as well. “ I clean once a day, but once a day is all day,” Alfreta says on the show, premiering Wednesday, De…
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…mers for “not freaking out”. Sanitarium Marmite uses a different recipe than the English version of Marmite, manufactured by a different company. It was first brought to New Zealand in the 1900s but the country came up with its own version, which has its own distinctive taste. Australia also has a similar product called Vegemite. Marmite has returned to New Zealand supermarkets for th…
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…lies – Disinfectant* – Household chlorine bleach* – You can use bleach as a disinfectant (diluted nine parts water to one part bleach), or in an emergency you can also use it to treat water. Use 16 drops of regular household liquid bleach per gallon of water. Do not use scented, color safe or bleaches with added cleaners. – Medicine dropper – Important Family Documents such as copies of insu…
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New reports claim that Katie Holmes and daughter Suri Cruise were involved in a minor car collision in New York City yesterday. Katie Holmes and her six-year-old daughter with Tom Cruise are believed to have been riding in the back of a black Mercedes sedan when it was struck by a sanitation truck on Monday evening. No one was reported hurt in the incident. The actress was seen leaving Manhattan&…
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…no fresh water. The islands, known in China as Xisha but the Paracels elsewhere, are claimed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan. China has controlled Paracel Islands since a short war with South Vietnam in 1974. In recent years tensions have been rising over the over-lapping territorial claims in the South China Sea, amid a more assertive stance from China. The islands, known in China as Xisha but the…
The United Nations has announced that the number of Syrian refugees who have fled the conflict has reached a million. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said the number of people seeking haven in neighboring countries had jumped since the beginning of the year. Half of the refugees were children, the UN said, most of them under 11 and often traumatized by their experiences. The largest numbers…
A 1946 cartoon, produced by Disney in collaboration with Kotex, explains “the story of menstruation” – and as the first film to use the word vagina, it was played to 105 million students in health classes across the country. Complete with a soothing-sounding narrator and plenty of wide-eyed illustrations, the film avoids all mentions of sexuality and reproduction, instead emphasizing the im…
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…hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who had fled the fighting. Oxfam said a combination of rising summer temperatures and poor sanitation posed increased health risks for the refugees. More than 100 cases of a condition known as “Aleppo boil” had been diagnosed in Lebanon in the past two weeks, caused by a parasite, it added. Fighting has raged in Syrian town of Qusair near Leba…
Actress Christine White, who played a calming wife on a classic 1963 Twilight Zone episode that featured a young William Shatner, has died at age 86. Christine White portrayed Julia Wilson in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet in which her husband Bob, portrayed by William Shatner, becomes unnerved after seeing a gremlin on the wing of the mid-flight plane. The tension mounts throughout the episode as Bob…
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…g with mice, roaches and ants, and food preparation areas swarming with flies. According FDA health violation records obtained by ABC’s 20/20, over the past four years, there have been more than 1,500 violations in the airline food industry. The federal agency said that “significant” problems were found at a much higher rate than in other industry it inspects. The FDA reported evidence of mi…
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…was shot in the firefight and then run over and dragged by a vehicle Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was buried under a shroud of secrecy Wednesday evening at the Al-Barzakh Cemetery in central Virginia, about 15 miles from Richmond, with the help of Christian Martha Mullen. The Tsarnaev brothers are accused of carrying out the April 15 twin bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260. Tame…
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…rbucks and thought, maybe I’m the one person who needs to do something.” Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried under a shroud of secrecy Wednesday evening at the Al-Barzakh Cemetery in central Virginia, about 15 miles from Richmond Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was buried under a shroud of secrecy Wednesday evening at the Al-Barzakh Cemetery in central Virginia, about 15 miles from Richmon…
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High winds and driving rain are lashing the coast of Haiti as Tropical Storm Isaac moves closer to the shore. The centre of the storm was last reported as being about 100 km from the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. Aid groups warn that some 400,000 Haitians still living in makeshift camps after the deadly earthquake of 2010 are extremely vulnerable. Forecasters say Isaac could cause life-threate…
Real battles took place last night between police and Occupy Oakland protesters after officers fired tear gas into a crowd trying to reclaim an encampment. Police had cleared the site of Occupy Oakland protesters around 12 hours earlier in a dawn raid where at least 97 people were arrested. Authorities gave repeated warnings to protesters to disperse from the entrance to Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakl…
Prostate cancer: a new treatment option from Swedish Lund University researchers. Zelboraf for metastatic melanoma approved by FDA. Potential breakthrough in cancer research: a new treatment for leukemia had amazing results. Hereditary cancer: future methods of diagnosis and treatment Progressive telomere shortening characterizes familial breast cancer patients Telomere chromos…
Russian cities introduced for the first time the anonymous baby drop boxes, where unwanted children could be left. The Krasnodar Territory in south Russia bought five of the so-called baby drop boxes in the beginning of November so mothers could drop off unwanted children anonymously. The first three boxes were installed in Sochi, Novorossiysk and Armavir, and by the end of the month one child ha…
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Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, the heir to the Dutch throne, made a media splash by hurling a toilet for fun in a contest recently – but has now spoken of his shame. Prince Willem-Alexander said the event on Queen’s Day last month was “a laugh”, but he also felt “shame at the thought of some 2.6 billion people around the world” who lack toilets. He won a cup wi…
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…rst fell foul (literally) of health standards less than one month after launching, scoring a boarder-line “C” with 31 violations. It sharpened up its act, being up-graded and just scraping an “A” with 12 out of a possible 14 counts. While the “C” shame was swept under the carpet, the restaurant embraced its new found “A”, posting photographs of its qualifying certificate among beaming staff on Fac…
…the cities of the future should look One of the winners, designer Alastair Parvin, wants to see a more democratized approach to house building. “For too long, cities have been made by the 1% and consumed by the 99%. We wanted to see what it would take to create something that would allow the 99% to make cities for the 99%.” With this in mind, he and fellow designer Nick Lerodiac…
…and anything else that is not tied down. • Determine how and where to secure your boat. • Install a generator for emergencies. • If in a high-rise building, be prepared to take shelter on or below the 10th floor. • Consider building a safe room. Hurricanes cause heavy rains that can cause extensive flood damage in coastal and inland areas. Everyone is at risk and should consider flood insurance pr…
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