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CIA 1232 .indd

Correspondence: Anastasios Dontas, Hellenic Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Athens, Greece 9 Afroditis Str., Athens, 105 58, Greece Tel 0030 210 3245 090 Fax 0030 210 3245 090 Email [email protected] Abstract: There are now several scientifi c studies that relate this traditional dietary pattern with the incidence of coronary heart disease, various types of cancer, and other diseases. T...

Curating the CIA World Factbook

The CIA World Factbook is a prime example of a curated database – a database that is constructed and maintained with a great deal of human effort in collecting, verifying, and annotating data. Preservation of old versions of the Factbook is important for verification of citations; it is also essential for anyone interested in the history of the data such as demographic change. Although the Fact...

The Ama and Chiropractic

The State and Territory Competition Policy Reform Acts of 1995 applied the competitive conduct rules to Australian professions, including the medical profession, for the first time. The competitive conduct rules are basically the prohibitions on restrictive trading practices contained in Part IV of the Trade Practices Act. As the medical profession was effectively sheltered from the operation o...

CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing

In July 1995 the CIA declassified, and approved for release, documents revealing its sponsorship in the 1970s of a program at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, to determine whether such phenomena as remote viewing "might have any utility for intelligence collection" [1]. Thus began disclosure to the public of a two-decade-plus involvement of the intelligence community in the invest...

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