n the UK, the parents of a teenage murder victim have blamed the crime on the Rockstar game Manhunt.
Manhunt blamed for UK murder - News at GameSpot - 0 views
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The parents of Stefan Pakeerah, 14, said their son was lured to a park by a 17-year-old player of the game, who stabbed and beat their son to death with a knife and claw hammer.
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"When one looks at what Warren did to Stephan and looks at the brutality and viciousness of the game, one can see links,"
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Eating Disorders: Body Image and Advertising - HealthyPlace - 0 views
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Advertisers often emphasize
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he importance of physical attractiveness in an attempt to sell products
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In recent survey by Teen People magazine, 27% of the girls felt that the media pressures them to have a perfect body
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Shark Fin Soup - 0 views
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It has a very high level of mercury and the United States Environmental protection agency advises women and young children to stay clear of it. Click here to see the levels of mercury found in shark compared to other fish.
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A survey in 2006 by Wild Aid and the Chinese Wildlife Association showed that 35% of participants had consumed shark fin soup in the previous year. This equates to an immense number of sharks being taken from the ocean.
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harks take anything from 7 to over 20 years to reach maturity, meaning that it takes populations a long time to recover; the current demand for their fins makes it impossible for populations to return to previous levels.
EBSCOhost: Starvation on the Web - 0 views
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adolescent anorexics and their parents conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine found that 39% of the kids were visiting pro-ana forums.
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The adolescents in Peebles' and Wilson's study who entered pro-ana websites tended to do so without their parents' knowledge and, compared with their peers who didn't visit the sites, to spend less time on homework, more time on the Internet and more time in the hospital. But the study did not find major differences in body weight, duration of eating disorders, number of missed periods or bone density between anorexics who visited the sites and those who didn't.
Comparing English and Hebrew Speakers - 0 views
The Mozart Effect: A Closer Look - 0 views
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most mysterious and complex object known to man: the brain
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Neuroscientists were interested in how the brain develops and functions.
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Mozart's music increases I.Q.
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Music and Memory and Intellegence - 0 views
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these researchers believed that memory was improved because music and spatial abilities shared the same pathways in the brain.
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laboratories have tried to use the music of Mozart to improve memory, but have failed.
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original work on the Mozart Effect was flawed because: only a few students were tested it was possible that listening to Mozart really did not improve memory. Rather, it was possible that the relaxation test and silence IMPAIRED memory
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New evidence for the Mozart Effect? - 0 views
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enriched sound environment -exposing rats to piano music- helps the recovery from neural damage
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Compared to rats that also had brain damage, but that did not listen to music, they performed significantly better in a spatial memory task (finding their way in a maze) and in their emotional reactivity (using a marble burying task).
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music has a larger role in shaping the brain than previously thought.
Solar Cycles Cause Global Warming & Cooling, not Humans - 0 views
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Planetary warming has also been observed on Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and on Neptune's largest moon Triton during the decades following the peak of the "Solar Grand Maximum" - wonder why - there are no humans there!
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And Pluto is moving further from the sun in its orbit,
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it should be cooling, but instead it is warming.
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What Are Shark Fins Used for? | eHow.com - 0 views
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In Mexico, the use of shark fin is widely accepted as an alternative medicine for prostate cancer,
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The Chinese use shark fin as a type of health tonic comparable to the consumption of chicken soup
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high levels of mercury that are often found in shark meat can actually cause infertility,
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Stress over teen's 'addiction' | Perth Now - 0 views
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THE father of a 15-year-old Perth computer-game addict has described the family's extraordinary nightmare - comparing it to heroin addiction.
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his son's life had spiralled out of control in the past 14 months.
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The Year 11 Ballajura Community College student has not attended classes for two months. He spends his time alone in a dark room playing the RuneScape game for up to 16 hours a day.
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