Medical Myths and Facts You've read them before and these health tips have been passed down over generations, but do they really work? We applied modern science to some of the most often repeated word...
Dengue Fever 1 Dengue fever is a mosquito borne 2 infection. The disease is characterized by high fever, headache, bone or joint and muscle pains, and rash. Dengue haemorrhagic 3 fever is a potentiall...
To Live or to Die The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vege...
Farewell, Concorde 1 The Concorde bowed out 2 with a spectacular triple landing finale 3 , closing an era of supersonic passenger travel and leaving the skies to the slower, cheaper jets that proved t...
Modern Olympic Games Review 1964 Olympics, Tokyo The 1964 Tokyo Games were the first to be held in Asia. Twenty six years after Japan's wartime government forced the Japanese Olympic Committee to resi...
Sting: With E v ery Breath He Takes Considered one of the most respected solo artists in music history as well as lead vocalist of one of the most popular bands of all time, The Police, Sting has beco...
English Meals The writer Somerset Maugham 1 observed that one could eat very well in England, simply by having breakfast -- three times a day. Although the great English home cooked breakfast a feast...
Mt. Rushmore Each year almost three million people from all over the world make a special trip to this remote part of the United States just to see this incredible sculpture. Gutzom Borglum was one of...
The Origins of Valentine’s Day February14 is Valentine's Day. Although it is celebrated as a lover's holiday today, with the giving of candy, flowers or other gifts between couples in love, it origi...
Wildlife in South Africa As you first enter the bush, you'll no doubt be greeted by mischievous apes like the vervet monkey, the chacma baboon, often with a baby on its back. An almost guaranteed sigh...