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Limbaugh said Fox’s spasms on camera were merely “an act”. As USA Today put it, “Limbaugh noted that Fox, a longtime advocate for research on embryonic stem cells, has said he sometimes does not take his medication in order to illustrate Parkinson’s severe physical effects. Uncontrolled shaking and stiffness are among the symptoms of the nerve disease.” The paper noted that stem cells are an is...

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the Mediterranean have also fallen by 99.99 per cent compared with previous numbers. For the rest of the top 20 predators, records were not comprehensive enough to plot a trend, though declines were evident. That may be because their decline began even earlier, when records were even more sparse, the researchers believe. “This study will hopefully contribute to a greater threat status for hamme...

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The aim of this work is to improve the digital images quality, in particular those relating to the Turin Shroud. ù The problem with Shroud images is that they are characterised by very low variations of the luminance of the various pixels. These almost unperceptible variations, cause great difficulty in analysing the images with the naked eye. Therefore some kind of elaboration becomes necessar...

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