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SierraLeoneTimes.com Friday 19th March 2010 Volume 078/2010
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"The idea of human rights begins with a fundamental commitment to the dignity that is the birthright of every man, woman and child."
Hillary Rodham Clinton
The U.S. Secretary of State was speaking on the release of the 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

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My Visit To Sierra Leone
African Union Commissioner Calls For End To 'harmful' Traditional Practices
South African Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Jacob Zuma’s Lavish Lifestyle
Gulf Of Guinea Pirates Deemed More Dangerous Than Somali Pirates
Guinea: Unicef Supports Guinea's Health Authorities In Their Fight Against Child Malnutrition
South African President Says Zimbabwe Crisis Talks 'fruitful'
Debate On African Unity Takes Centre Stage

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Rafter urges Oz parents to get children off computer games and into sport
10 Ways Women Turn Men Off
Boating Big Guilty In Lake Death
Controversy Erupts Over Captive Endangered Bat Colony
Evolution Of Fairness Driven By Culture, Not Genes

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Emma Bunton plans to have second child
Jackson's biographer making movie about the singer
Australia to honour Ravi Shankar for commitment to music and humanity
Sandra Bullock moves out of family home
Katy Perry wants to marry in church

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Rio Tinto, Chinalco Sign Guinea Iron Ore Joint Venture
Rio Hires New China Boss to Improve Ties The venture, not binding at this stage, marks a turnaround for the companies after Rio last year scrapped a $19.5 billion equity and asset tie-up with the...

Rio, Chinalco Agree To Develop African Iron Ore Mine
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Rio Tinto Group agreed with Aluminum Corp. of China, its biggest shareholder, to jointly develop the Simandou iron ore mining project in...
Rio, Chinalco Agree On African Joint Venture
Mining giant Rio Tinto has signed a non-binding agreement with Chinalco to jointly develop an iron ore mine in Guinea. The world's third biggest miner says the memorandum of understanding with...
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International News
UN envoy says Pakistan should not have arrested Taliban leadersUN envoy says Pakistan should not have arrested Taliban leaders
The BBC has reported that the UN's former envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has made strong criticisms of Pakistan's recent arrest of high-ranking Taliban...

Headley convicted over Mumbai conspiracy Headley convicted over Mumbai conspiracy
US citizen David Headley has pleaded guilty to finding the targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of...
Polanski lawyers cite prosecutorial misconduct for appealPolanski lawyers cite prosecutorial misconduct for appeal
Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski have filed an appeal to ask for a special investigation into alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-year-old sex...
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Business News
UK Chancellor pledges major cut in deficitUK Chancellor pledges major cut in deficit
In the UK, Chancellor Alistair Darling has pledged to cut the budget deficit by...

EU could be embarrassed by Greek requests for moneyEU could be embarrassed by Greek requests for money
Greece's financial prospects have taken another bad turn with suggestions that Athens might ask the International Monetary Fund for aid early next month if it cannot get a formal aid plan from the...
Scotland passengers expect meagre BA serviceScotland passengers expect meagre BA service
Scotland is expecting to be hit hard by the British Airways strike with flights to and from Scotland among the routes that will suffer from a three-day strike by British Airways cabin...
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African American children with asthma in metropolitan Washington, DC, are significantly more likely to have low levels of vitamin D than healthy African American children, researchers have claimed.

The study by researchers at Children's National Medical Center has been published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

Vitamin D deficiency has been recently linked to a variety of non-bone related diseases including depression, autoimmune disorders, and now asthma.

"It's been well-documented that as a group, African Americans are more likely than other racial groups to have low levels of vitamin D," said Robert Freishtat, MD, MPH, an emergency medicine physician and lead author on the study. "But we were shocked to see that almost all of the African American children with asthma that we tested had low vitamin D levels. After adjusting for differences in age, weight, and the time of year of the testing, the odds of these kids with asthma being vitamin D deficient were nearly twenty times those of healthy kids."

The study took a one-time measurement of vitamin D in the blood of 85 African American children with asthma, who were between 6 and 20 years old. Additionally, the researchers measured the vitamin D levels of 21 healthy African American children between the ages of 6 and 9 years of age. The research team found that 86 percent of the children in the study with asthma had insufficient levels of vitamin D, while only 19 percent of non-asthmatics had these low levels. (ANI)


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