Recreated Oetzi Shoes Show Ancient Craft at Czech Univ
A Czech team at Tomas Bata University rebuilds the 5,300 year old glacier hunter Oetzi's shoes using bark fiber string, bear skin, and a liver brain tanning method. They test fit with hay lining and grass prototypes, aiming for authentic flexibility and barefoot comfort.
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Zlin
Czech Republic
Oetzi
Petr Hlavacek
Tomas Bata University
Hlavacek
Curtsey
Vaclav Gresak
Gresak
Canada
Shoe Technological Institute
Vitamin E and aspirin fail to prevent cancer in women
Washington notes the Women’s Health Study involving about 40 000 participants found that neither low dose aspirin nor vitamin E supplements prevent cancer in women and vitamin E offers little shield against heart disease. The researchers say routine use of either substance by healthy women is not advised.
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Washington
Julie E. Buring
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston
Nancy Cook
Brigham and Women’s
Cindy Churns Toward Gulf With Rain Threat
Cindy strengthened toward the Gulf with near sixty mph winds and up to ten inches of rain prompting inland movement and oil-rig evacuations while another tropical storm Dennis formed in the Caribbean and could hit Florida later in the week. Cindy is forecast to reach the southeastern Louisiana coast before moving ashore near the Louisiana Mississippi line. warnings extend from Morgan City to Destin. Local authorities urge evacuations outside storm protection levees and residents in flood-prone areas brace for rain totals up to ten inches. 23 platforms and six rigs have been evacuated, cutting gulf output. Dennis tracks toward Haiti and South Florida as it strengthens from tropical storm status.
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New Orleans
Cindy
Gulf Coast
Gulf of Mexico
Dennis
Caribbean
Florida
National Hurricane Center
Louisiana
Louisiana-Mississippi
Morgan City
Florida Panhandle
Destin
Jefferson Parish
Barrier
Grand Isle
Ray Santing
Lafourche
Plaquemines
Mississippi
Hancock County
Dee Lumpkin
Gulf
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Mississippi River
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Haiti
Hurricane Center
Trisha Wallace
Pakistan interior minister says bin Laden may be in Afghanistan
Pakistan's interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said bin Laden could be hiding in southeastern Afghanistan and denied he was in Pakistan. He noted Taliban control areas may conceal him, as U.S. and allied forces pursue al Qaeda figures along the Afghan Pakistan border.
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Pakistan
Aftab Khan Sherpao
Islamabad
Sherpao
al-Qaida
Osama bin Laden
Afghanistan
bin Laden
al- Qaida
Ayman al-Zawahri
Taliban
Mullah Mohammad Omar
U.S
Zalmay Khalilzad
Kabul
Omar
Associated Press of Pakistan
al-Zawahri
Osama
United States
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