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• Depression in elderly tied to heart disease
That variation "could mean the difference between developing a cardiovascular disease or not," said lead author Nicole Vogelzangs of VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in an e-mail. Both groups, depressed and non-depressed ...
• European ministers pledge billions for space
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - In spite of the global economic crisis, European ministers pledged 10 billion euros ($12.8 billion) Wednesday to an ambitious list of 30 space missions, including one to put a robotic rover on Mars. European Space Agency ...
• Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program
The Netherlands started a smaller program in 2006, and it serves nearly 600 patients. Britain has allowed individual doctors to prescribe heroin since the 1920s, but it has been running trials similar to the Swiss approach in recent years. Belgium ...
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,174
Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South Korea, one death each. Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 30,840 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according ...
• Graffiti triggers crime, littering, study shows
With funding from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, the university's Kees Keizer and his colleagues set up six field experiments. In one, the researchers placed a standard prohibition sign with the text "Graffiti" in the middle of a red ...