Teenagers who smoke, drink alcohol and eat junk food are significantly more likely to be unhappy than their clean- living counterparts, a study has found.
About 5,000 children were questioned on their appearance, family, friends, school and life as a whole, and had their happiness levels rated.
Researchers discovered that those who never drank alcohol were between four and six times more likely to have higher levels of happiness than those who did, while those who shunned cigarettes were about five times more likely to have high happiness scores than young smokers.
Pakistani government has now stepped forward to take a greater control over Internet by imposing harsh censorship. In a tender published on the Website of Information and Communications Technology Ministry’s Research and Development Fund the local government has asked for proposal from interested national and international parties dealing with the “development, deployment and operation of a national-level URL filtering and blocking system.”
Pakistan has reserved $10 million to work with interested company(ies) on Internet filtering technology.
The online proposal reads “The system would have a central database of undesirable URL’s that would be loaded on the
A new study from the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania has found that aging is not a factor in poor sleep. The study surveyed more than 150,000 Americans about the quality of their sleep and found that the quality actually improves over time. The fewest complaints of poor sleep came from people in their 80's. It was a popular belief that older adults wake up more frequently in the night than young adults This old notion has now been turned on its head.
First of all, the researchers found that health problems and depressions were associated with poor sleep. Also, women reported more sleep disturbances and daytime tiredness than men.
The University of Saskatchewan will need to decrease its expenses over the next four years in the face of budget pressures that include lower-than-requested provincial funding, salary and benefit costs rising faster than revenue increases, solvency and going concern pension issues, and the pressing need for capital renewal to support teaching, research and innovation. At a public town hall meeting April 3, Provost and Vice-President Academic Brett Fairbairn and Vice-President Finance and Resources Richard Florizone outlined how the 2.1 per cent increase in 
For the first time, students from around the world can compare Australia’s 39 public universities on the basis of their courses, student satisfaction levels, the qualifications of academics, staff-student ratios, drop-out rates and graduate employment. Although criticised immediately for including information of doubtful validity, the MyUniversity website is probably unique in providing so many comparative details of each university’s operations. Officially launched on Tuesday 3 April in Canberra by Tertiary Education Minister Senator Chris Evans, MyUniversity is an interactive, searchable site that includes a wide variety of indicators. Evans said the site would “empower students to make the right call”. “Enrolling at university is a huge life decision for young Australians and their families. MyUniversity will help ensure that students have all the relevant information to make an informed decision about what’s best for them,” he said. Evans said the site was designed to ensure accountability and transparency as universities began competing for students in Australia’s new demand-driven system after the government this year lifted limits on the number of students each university could enrol. Creation of the A$1.5 million website
Students from Trinity College Dublin’s School of Computer Science and Statistics have won the first-ever upStart entrepreneurship programme. The competition, organised by Citi, saw master’s students from TCD and Queen’s University Belfast universities create their own start-up business for a new technology product or service. Each business plan had to provide a real market prospect and teams competed with each other to win the opportunity for virtual funding from Citi for their business. The winning entries were Happy Swap, a consumer exchange website for goods created by students from Trinity College Dublin, and Woogie Tap, an interactive tag for downloading information instantaneously, created by students from Queen’s University Belfast. Pictured at the upStart awards at Citi’s offices in Belfast were (left to right back row), Nathan O’Reilly, Citi, Dr Peter Middleton, Queen’s University Belfast, Prof. Siobhán 
DePauw University senior Case M. Nafziger will spend the upcoming academic year in South Korea teaching English as a result of being awarded an English Teaching Assistant grant through the 2012-13 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and established in 1946, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition aims to increase mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchange while serving as a catalyst for long-term leadership development. “As a student at DePauw, I have had the privilege of traveling to two continents, taking courses in numerous disciplines, and studying alongside students from across the globe,” Nafziger wrote in his Fulbright application. “My dual degrees in English writing and vocal performance have prepared me to look at the world through a creative lens.” The senior notes 
Thirty-one top engineering students have been awarded Kick Start Scholarships from The University of Auckland. The scholarships, worth $2000 each, are awarded to outstanding first-year students studying at the Faculty of Engineering. Faculty of Engineering Dean Professor Michael Davies says the scholarships, awarded to students of academic excellence, are designed to help first-year engineering students get established. “The scholarships were set up to help alleviate some of the financial pressure for the students, in particular to help them pay for their textbooks, fees and accommodation costs.” There are four types of Kick Start scholarships: Affirmative Action, City of Sails
Pensive, yet again very brief but nonetheless important. Here it is: listen attentively to what others have to say. A major contributor towards effective communication, this is a habit many of us are in dire need of. We interrupt. We start disagreeing before the other person has stopped. We tend to impose our own opinions. The consequences, of course, aren't very healthy. A lot of shouts, disagreements and unfruitful debates are what we are left with. Happy trying!
Earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, floods in Thailand and a series of severe storms in the U.S. resulted in the highest-ever catastrophe economic losses in a year this year.
Total economic losses to society, which include insured and uninsured losses, reached an estimated $350 billion, up from $226 billion in 2010.
A 16-member expedition team lead by Viktor Kozlov will attempt to climb K2 in winters. If this epic adventure is successful, it would be the first ever summit by any team on K2 in winter. The mountain has a history of killing one out of four climbers under normal weather conditions.
Earlier two expeditions to climb the mountain in winters have failed while In 2010, an expedition involving three climbers from Italy and Russia successfully reached the summit of Gasherbrum II during the winter season.
The team, a blend of engineers, scientists, guides and experienced mountaineers, is considered to be the toughest team in the mountaineering world and has a list of achievements.
Heinrich Boere, 90, begins jail term for murders committed as a member of the Nazi hit squad during the World War II.
Boere argues that whatever he did at that time, was because of orders from his superiors and that he saw nothing as a crime back then. Not following the orders would have meant possible confinement in a concentration camp.
Born in Germany, Boere joined the German SS after the Nazis raided his hometown of Maastricht in 1940.
Bronchitis is a disease of the air passage that leads to the
lungs.Chest pain, low fever, shallow breathing, joint swelling (mainly
feet & ankle), and fatigue are some of the signs.
The disease may be acute (short lived) or chronic (long lived) based on the cause.Acute is mainly caused by bacteria (Mycoplasma pneumonia) or viruses(flu viruses) and the signs include inflammation of air passages ans secretion of sputum. Chronic bronchitis, on the other hand, is mainly a result of extensive smoking or air passage irritants. and frequent coughing is a main characteristic.
Bronchitis can be diagnosed by “pulmonary infection test” , by x-ray of chest , by bacterial culture test (for bacterial causes) and by the oxygen level test with the help of “pulse oximetry”. It can be prevented by healthy living styles such as regualar hand washing, avoiding air pollutants and smoking. Smokers are usually victimized by chronic bronchitis while other people (children, youngsters or senior citizens) may acquire acute disease. Once it happens so, certain treatments exist such as,Use of Inhalers (Albuterol sulfate and derivatives inhalers), Antibiotics(if the root cause were bacteria specifically), more intake of liquids or even aspirin for adults.
The disease may be acute (short lived) or chronic (long lived) based on the cause.Acute is mainly caused by bacteria (Mycoplasma pneumonia) or viruses(flu viruses) and the signs include inflammation of air passages ans secretion of sputum. Chronic bronchitis, on the other hand, is mainly a result of extensive smoking or air passage irritants. and frequent coughing is a main characteristic.
Bronchitis can be diagnosed by “pulmonary infection test” , by x-ray of chest , by bacterial culture test (for bacterial causes) and by the oxygen level test with the help of “pulse oximetry”. It can be prevented by healthy living styles such as regualar hand washing, avoiding air pollutants and smoking. Smokers are usually victimized by chronic bronchitis while other people (children, youngsters or senior citizens) may acquire acute disease. Once it happens so, certain treatments exist such as,Use of Inhalers (Albuterol sulfate and derivatives inhalers), Antibiotics(if the root cause were bacteria specifically), more intake of liquids or even aspirin for adults.
