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PSN Roundup Review by Dan Whitehead
Like an enormous bag of anvils sliding down a hill, the PlayStation Store is starting to gather momentum - well, at least as far as retro downloads are concerned. After a sporadic few months of drip-drip PSone offerings, things seem to be settling into something resembling a regular service, with another trio of worthy games showing their adorable faces this week, all at GBP 3.49. Motorhead Overlooked by many when it was released in 1998, this semi-futuristic racer from Digital Illusions (them what did Pinball Dreams and Battlefield) is actually something of an unsung classic. Inevitably overshadowed by the more hyped blockbuster racers of the time, you'd be wise to splash a few quid in its direction while you wait for Rage Racer or Gran Turismo to show up on the Store. Ten cars and eight tracks await you, all carrying a rather downbeat dystopian flavour.
Iraq: The Road to Learning Can Be Dangerous
The income is now a good deal better. "We have started to buy back what we sold during the last 10 years of the previous regime," Prof. Abdullah Mahdi from Diyala University in Baquba, 40 km northeast of Baghdad, told IPS. "We had sold our furniture and all we had just to eat." "Now almost all professors have their own cars for the first time," said Prof. Adnan Juma'a from the university. Today, a newly appointed university teacher can receive a salary of 500,000 Iraqi Dinars (400 dollars). A senior professor can get 1,000 dollars a month. And yet, not many say life is better. The university campus is located seven kilometres from the town. Many professors have been killed or kidnapped by militiamen and criminals en route. "Professors, employees and students have stopped coming to the colleges and to their offices for fear of being kidnapped or killed," the head of one department told IPS on condition of anonymity.
Accused of hiding drug dangers again, Big Pharma starts 2008 defending ...
Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments to Prevent Fractures in Men and Women with Low Bone Density or Osteoporosis in the February 8 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. They did find the newer drugs can have serious side effects such as strokes, blood clots in the lungs or bleeding in the uterus (a January 15 Journal of Rheumatology paper finds oral bisphosphonate drugs nearly triple the risk of developing bone necrosis) and that "data are insufficient to determine the relative efficacy or safety" of all the studied drugs. Some will notice the antidepressant article in the New England Journal of Medicine and bone drug article in the Annals of Internal Medicine are unusually short. They lack the obligatory six inches of drug company financial support to the researchers which most journal articles show at the end.
PSN Roundup Review by Dan Whitehead
Like an enormous bag of anvils sliding down a hill, the PlayStation Store is starting to gather momentum - well, at least as far as retro downloads are concerned. After a sporadic few months of drip-drip PSone offerings, things seem to be settling into something resembling a regular service, with another trio of worthy games showing their adorable faces this week, all at GBP 3.49. Motorhead Overlooked by many when it was released in 1998, this semi-futuristic racer from Digital Illusions (them what did Pinball Dreams and Battlefield) is actually something of an unsung classic. Inevitably overshadowed by the more hyped blockbuster racers of the time, you'd be wise to splash a few quid in its direction while you wait for Rage Racer or Gran Turismo to show up on the Store. Ten cars and eight tracks await you, all carrying a rather downbeat dystopian flavour.
Iraq: The Road to Learning Can Be Dangerous
The income is now a good deal better. "We have started to buy back what we sold during the last 10 years of the previous regime," Prof. Abdullah Mahdi from Diyala University in Baquba, 40 km northeast of Baghdad, told IPS. "We had sold our furniture and all we had just to eat." "Now almost all professors have their own cars for the first time," said Prof. Adnan Juma'a from the university. Today, a newly appointed university teacher can receive a salary of 500,000 Iraqi Dinars (400 dollars). A senior professor can get 1,000 dollars a month. And yet, not many say life is better. The university campus is located seven kilometres from the town. Many professors have been killed or kidnapped by militiamen and criminals en route. "Professors, employees and students have stopped coming to the colleges and to their offices for fear of being kidnapped or killed," the head of one department told IPS on condition of anonymity.
Accused of hiding drug dangers again, Big Pharma starts 2008 defending ...
Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments to Prevent Fractures in Men and Women with Low Bone Density or Osteoporosis in the February 8 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. They did find the newer drugs can have serious side effects such as strokes, blood clots in the lungs or bleeding in the uterus (a January 15 Journal of Rheumatology paper finds oral bisphosphonate drugs nearly triple the risk of developing bone necrosis) and that "data are insufficient to determine the relative efficacy or safety" of all the studied drugs. Some will notice the antidepressant article in the New England Journal of Medicine and bone drug article in the Annals of Internal Medicine are unusually short. They lack the obligatory six inches of drug company financial support to the researchers which most journal articles show at the end.
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