| Diluting the pain of arsenic poisoning in Nepal
As part of the launch of Progress for Children No. 5: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation, UNICEF is featuring a series of stories focused on achieving the 2015 targets set by Millennium Development Goal 7 to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. NAWALPARASI, Nepal, 20 September 2006 Twelve years ago, Harilal Gupta was thrilled to finally have a tube well dug at his doorstep. Little did he know that the well water was contaminated with arsenic. The symptoms started with nausea and weakness, said Mr. Gupta, a resident of Thulo Kunwar village in Nawalparasi District. In time, my skin hardened and small nail-like warts emerged on my palms, and soon I developed tumours, too. It turned out that the water in his village had an arsenic level well above accepted limits, the highest reported level in Nepal.
Chill leaves as slow warm-up gets under way
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Feel-good brain-booster
Speaking at last week's Montreal International Game Summit, McGill psychology professor and MindHabits creator Mark Baldwin said just as playing Tetris for hours on end can have you seeing falling blocks in your dreams, a game like MindHabits can sculpt and reinforce new ways of thinking. "There's a lot of potential for using the repetitive, interactive nature of games to train patterns of thought that research has already shown are beneficial," said Baldwin, who wears multiple hats as MindHabits Inc.'s president and chief scientific officer. .
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Hip-Hop Rumors: The Game's New Mixtape, Kanye Loves Kanye, Tank Gets ...
You remember back in the day, I heard that The Game and his brother Big Fase 100 are back on good terms again. I hope it to be true. Brothers don't need to fight – they are all they got! Anyway, I didn't confirm/deny the rumor, but I heard something that supports it. I heard that The Game and his brother are working out a new mixtape venture that bigs up the West Coast. So, I know Game is in jail right now, but maybe the vocals were dropped before and then Fase will get it mixed and mastered?
What happened to all the happy (Young MC)/weird (Pharcyde)/ and conscious (Def Jef) rappers from the West Coast! Send me some artists that don't use a gun to get their point across! ahhrumors@gmail.com.
COMMON COMMENTS ON KANYE…
We all saw the slick lil' comment Kanye made about Common at the Grammys.
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