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► SCIENCE DAILY 15 May 2013 : New Research Shows What Raises and Lowers Blood Pressure: Cell Phones, Salt and Saying Om — Considered the "silent killer," high blood pressure affects approximately one billion people worldwide, including one in three adults in the United States.
► WAPO 16 MAy 2013 : David Beckham to retire at the end of the season
► GUARDIAN 15 May 2013 : Life-sized Barbie house unveiled in Berlin. Barbie house will have to be guarded by police after feminist groups said they would picket the pink, plastic villa
► TODAY in HISTORY : May 15, 1756: The Seven Years War begins
► Political storm over IRS targeting scandal shifts to Congress
► House lawmakers reach tentative deal to revamp immigration
► Obama: U.S. preserves options on Syria
By Nick Tattersall and Matt Spetalnick - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said he reserved the right to resort to both diplomatic and military options to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but insisted that U.S. action alone would not be enough to resolve the Syrian crisis.
* Syrian rebels launch offensive in south to reverse losses
* VIDEO
► VIDEOS
■ Pope rails against "dictatorship of the economy"
■ Turkish president calls for less talk and more action on Syria
■ Top Stories and Analysis
► Blind Senegal jazzman Pape Niang. Pape Niang is one of the most important musicians in Senegal's vibrant music scene. Blind by birth, he has been organizing for several months "Handicapable", a project to train and support the disabled. It will launch with a concert on May 24 and Pape Niang hopes it will help improve conditions for handicapped people in Senegal.
► Hollande under pressure as key speech looms. President Francois Hollande's nagging headache to reboot the French economy has turned into a migraine as the economy slipped into its second recession in four years, fuelling speculation of an impending cabinet reshuffle as the president prepares for a major press conference.
► France's first lady visits Mali's war-torn north. France's first lady Valerie Trierweiler began a tour of Mali on Thursday with a visit to Gao, one of several northern cities liberated by a French-led military operation against an Islamist occupation.
► S a r i n. Sarin is a deadly nerve agent developed by Nazi scientists in the 1930s. Inhaled or absorbed through the skin, it kills by crippling the respiratory centre of the central nervous system and paralyses the muscles around the lungs. The combination results in death by suffocation.VIDEOGRAPHIC
► Kabul blast kills 6 NATO personnel, 8 civilians. A powerful suicide car bomb targeting a NATO military convoy in Kabul killed eight Afghan civilians including two children in the first major attack in the capital for more than two months.
► Obama and Turkish PM Erdogan discuss Syria. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the White House for talks with Barack Obama on Thursday. The two leaders held a press conference where they discussed the situation in Syria.
► Students in Ghana launch satellite prototype. Students at a university in Ghana launched a prototype Cansat satellite from a weather balloon on Wednesday, with the ultimate aim of sending a satellite into orbit by 2016.
► Taiwan stages exercise amid Philippines row. Taiwan holds a military exercise in waters near the northern Philippines in response to the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman, after rejecting repeated apologies from Manila.
► Cast of Ozon's "Young and Beautiful" walks red carpet at Cannes. The Cannes Film Fest's main competition gets underway with Frenchman Francois Ozon's entry, "Jeune et Jolie" ("Young and Beautiful"), a tale of the sexual awakening of a 17-year old girl which gets a warm reception at the festival. || ► Chinese director hopes Cannes entry will spark discussion || ► Big night for Sofia Coppola at Cannes Film. Director Sofia Coppola surrounded by young stars, including Emma Thomson, walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. || ► Cast of Mexican Cannes entry walks red carpet. The cast of Mexican film "Heli", in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Films Festival, walks the red carpet.
► Beckham calls time on 20-year career. Football megastar David Beckham announced on Thursday that he is to retire after a glittering 20-year playing career in which he became one of the most widely recognised figures in world sport.
► Berlin's Barbie Dreamhouse a pink feminist nightmare. The opening this month of the first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in Europe may be the fantasy of many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are mobilising against what they call a sexist icon.
► Philadelphia, the 'city of murals'. If walls could talk, Philadelphia would be abuzz with the stories ringing out from its murals. The historic colonial city is home to the nation's biggest public art project, and is redefining its urban fabric one mural at a time.
► Chris Hadfield talks of his time as space superstar. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recalled Thursday his safe return from a five-month mission to space, and his welcome as a celebrity back on Earth.
► Beckham to Retire From Soccer at End of Season
► Obama Says He's 'outraged' by IRS Case. President Barack Obama dismissed the idea of a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service Thursday, saying probes by Congress and the Justice Department should be sufficient.
► Brothers Arrested in NOLA Parade Shooting.Two brothers with suspected ties to a neighborhood gang each face 20 counts of attempted second-degree murder in a shooting spree that brought a sudden bloody end to a neighborhood Mother's Day parade.
► FINANCE : How the Obamas Manage Their Money
► SHINE : Update: Disney's Response To Princess Merida Controversy At Odds With Petitioners
► GOOD MORNING AMERICA : Pat Robertson Tells Wife of Cheater, 'He's a Man'
► Russia 'sends modern arms to Syria'
Russia has sent sophisticated anti-ship missiles to Syria which could be used to deter future military intervention, US media reports say.
* Why Russia sells Syria arms
* Could conflict become regional war?
* Saraqeb - scene of chemical attack?
* Israel enforces 'red line' in Syria
* Little support for arming rebels
* Arms ban debate intensifies in Europe
► Too much time spent on gay marriage, says Hammond
► Bulgaria tobacco growers hope for EU cash
► French recession: Farms feeling the pinch
► MAGAZINE
■ The Quiverfull: The evangelical Christians opposed to contraception
■ I, Robot Maker: Making robots to interact with humans
► SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT
■ Uncovering the secrets of North America's Ice Age giants. Scientists are helping to uncover the secrets of giant Ice Age beasts like the sabretooth cat - by foraging in crates of dirt which were collected during the building of a car park.
■ UK's rare spring butterflies make a late show
■ Invasive ladybirds wage 'biological war' on natives
► FUTURE
■ Cities: How crowded life is changing us
■ We for one welcome our robot overlords
► CULTURE
■ Gatsby: A great Cannes reception?
■ Cannes 2013: Day one on the red carpet
► TRAVEL
■ El Salvador rises from the ashes
■ How to save time and money at Disney
► AUTOS
■ Singer Vehicle Design: Bespoke menace
■ Lincoln MKZ aims for greatness, settles for grace
► VIDEOS
■ Malaria-carrying mosquitoes 'more likely to bite'
■ Pope Francis-themed bus tours hit Argentina
► PICTURES
■ Berlin Barbie doll house attracts fans and foes
■ Raw power of the Sun
► Today's African Proverb : "The rain that makes a bitter leaf even more bitter is the same one that sweetens the sugar cane" - A Krio proverb from Sierra Leone sent by Mariama Barry, Green Valley, United States
Hello there, how are you there? Rain? Here, yes. Here is raining. When the rain drop fall as if thousands of needles silver piercing your skin and you feel the pain then you cry because of the rain, in the rain, that's what I mean about the rain here. This rain is not yours, but mine. No image can draw My Rain appropriately. Leaf is only a witness. Now, do not kiss me under the rain. It is not good for health. Shut your mouth.
► Islam could be dominant UK religion in 10 years – census analysis
► Market Buzz: Crude recovery could bump Russian floors
► Concussion epidemic linked to underreported US military suicide – study
► Rebels film execution of 11 Syrian soldiers, as Obama continues anti-Assad rhetoric
► Pentagon plans to fight 'War on Terror' for another 20 years
► Cell phone users 'have no legitimate expectation of privacy' – judge
► Iraq in ruins: Post-war life overshadowed by crumbling infrastructure, corruption, poverty
► Syria not a bargaining chip in relations with West – Lavrov
► Monsanto CEO trashes company's opponents over 'elitism'
► OP-ED : 'Political football': Gitmo detainees 'abandoned' by US government
► VIDEOS
■ Blocking Blitz: 'Assault on file sharing may radicalize internet users'. Downloading free music in the UK may soon be a thing of the past. British record labels have come up with a list of 25 services they're willing to take to court to stop online bootlegging and save their shrinking profits. The leader of the UK's Pirate Party, Loz Kaye, told RT the record industry's using an outdated approach that could return to haunt it.
► Hunger Hell: Gitmo force-feeding in handcuffs 'medical aid, not torture'
► Falsterity: France slips into new recession amid higher taxes
► 100 Days of Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Special Coverage. May 16 marks a dark milestone in the history of the world's most maligned prison - 100 days of a mass hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. Out of 166 inmates - 130 are on strike according to prisoners, while the military only admits to 102. At least a third of them are being force fed - a procedure recognized by various medical organizations as painful enough to constitute torture. And by all accounts - there's no end in sight to the protest.
RT discusses the stand-off with former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, who's now the Director of the Cageprisoners activist group, Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei, the legal representative of 8 Guantanamo detainees, military attorney Lt. Col Barry Wingard on the line from the detention camp, and Col. Morris Davis, former Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay.
► The Truthseeker: Wall Street $$$$s the world (E15). Meet the Wall Street-International Monetary Fund Brothers of Destruction; why Ben Bernanke can't count; the 10-year hangover from the Tequila Trap; and the fox guarding the chicken coop. Seek truth from facts with Econned author Yves Smith, Web of Debt author Ellen Brown, former senior financial regulator Bill Black, Balkans specialist Nebojsa Malic, and globalization debunker Dr. Carlos Encinas.
► Inside Story Americas: Is the US intimidating the media? Outrage is being expressed at what the American Civil Liberties Union has called "an act of press intimidation" and an "unacceptable abuse of power" by the Barack Obama administration.
► The Stream - Meme-ifying black interviewees. Are viral memes like Charles Ramsey and Sweet Brown lighthearted snapshots of popular culture or racist caricatures of African Americans?
► UN chief in Russia as Syria crisis deepens. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been playing host to an increasingly long queue of statesmen trying to stop the bloodshed in Syria. The latest to arrive is the UN's Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon. So far, Putin shows no sign of abandoning Bashar al-Assad. Al Jazeera's David Chater, reporting from Moscow, said: "He (Putin) will not sacrifice such a vital strategic partnership, no matter what weight of international pressure is applied."
► Despite President Obama's Optimism, No Quick Fix Likely For IRS
By Michael Scherer
* Joe Klein: Lunacy, Policy Disputes and Real Scandal
* House Committee to Grill Ousted IRS Chief
* IRS Head Resigns His Post
► MARKETING & ADVERTISING : Forget the IRS — There's an Olive-Oil Scandal Afoot
► CNN : U.S. options to 'capture or kill' Benghazi suspects
► HEALTH : Don't Drink the Pool Water! It Contains a Surprising Amount of…Human Waste
That's right! Why do not you tell the fish, "Do not pee in the pool water!"?
"What?ehehhee... there is no fish in the pool, Cisca!"
► CONGRESS : Groundhog Day in the House: A Gift to Republican Freshmen, and Possibly Democrats Too
► PHOTOGRAPHY
■ Stillness and Light: Chris Levine Captures Kate Moss
■ Deadly Tornadoes Leave Path of Destruction in Texas
■ Buzz Thrill: LIFE Goes to a Bee Market
► L.A.'s RACE FOR MAYOR
* Election result may be unknown for weeks
By James Rainey - The outcome could be delayed because of mail-in ballots, the apparent tightness of the race and the peculiarities of city counting procedures. Above, Eric Garcetti greets an Aztec dancer at Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center.
* Villaraigosa denounces ads aimed at Latinos
* Forecast for L.A.'s mayor race: paltry turnout
* Attack ads in L.A. mayor's race seek Latino votes
* Billboard companies playing big role in L.A. city election
* Labor group says Wendy Greuel will push minimum wage to $15
► House showdown set over IRS targeting of conservative groups
► House immigration group reaches 'agreement in principle'
► House Republicans repudiate Obama healthcare program -- again
► White House announces new IRS leadership
► FRAMEWORK
■ The Rolling Stones 32 years later — It's only rock 'n' roll, but I like it. May 16, 2013 - Posted By: Marc Martin
■ Pictures in the News | May 16, 2013 - Posted By: Marc Martin
Bhubaneswar, India — A langur baby looks out from the lap of its mother at the Khandagiri cave hills. PHOTOGRAPH BY: BISWARANJAN ROUT / Associated Press
My dear baby, this one is like you. The other one is like your mom. And that one is also like your dad.
What? WowowoW! A vivid depiction, Cisca. Yesyesyes, we are a family of mammals. Hooray!
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