Juicy watermelon can be as miraculous as Viagra

Watermelon produces an effect similar to that of Viagra, researchers say. A slice of juicy watermelon contains citrulline that can trigger the production of a substance that relaxes the body’s blood vessels. A similar effect is produced when a man takes a Viagra pill...

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http://english.pravda.ru/science/health/03-07-2008/105688-watermelon-0

More Rain, More Flooding In Midwest

FORSYTH, Mo. -- Still more heavy rain in the Midwest is causing more flooding. Southwest Missouri got as much as 5 inches of rain Saturday, triggering widespread flooding of low-lying areas and roads. A local emergency official said a bridge along a lake collapsed. In the town of Winfield, Mo., along the Mississippi River, an emergency sandbag levee failed Saturday, flooding dozens more homes. Hundreds of National Guard volunteers had worked to build the levee   more...around a cluster of 100 homes after the main levee protecting the town gave way Friday. But in the end, as a fire department official put it, "Mother Nature won"...

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F-Secure: "Mass SQL injection"

There's another round of mass SQL injections going on which has infected hundreds of thousands of websites. Performing a Google search results in over 510,000 modified pages...

Leggi: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

Global Food Crisis: Food crisis points to 'imminent massacre,' UN official says

Paris - The recent crisis sparked by spiralling prices for basic foods such as rice and wheat is only the beginning of a long period of rioting and instability in many parts of the world, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Jean Ziegler said in an interview published Monday in the French daily Liberation. "We are heading for a very long period of rioting, conflicts (and) waves of uncontrollable regional instability   more...marked by the despair of the most vulnerable populations," Ziegler said...

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