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Zahl der Organspender stark gestiegen

ORF – Die Zahl der Organspender ist in Niederösterreich so hoch wie noch nie: 73 Spender wurden im Jahr 2009 in Niederösterreich gemeldet, das sind dreimal so viele wie im Jahr 2007. 14 Niederösterreicher warten derzeit auf ein Herz, 13 auf eine Leber, jeweils fünf auf einen Lunge oder Bauchspeicheldrüse. 118 Patienten warten auf eine [...]

Es kommt die Wahrheit aus dem Wein

Im Wein liegt die Wahrheit, und im Wasser die Bazillen Volksmund WIEN-Galinas Candid Photo Sammlung

Swine Flu Follies: Regional Overreactions

RFE/RL – As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to possibly political. Moldova In Moldova, which has 269 confirmed cases and four reported swine-flu deaths, health officials on November 9 closed schools and universities for a week. The timing of [...]

National disaster of Russia

Alcoholism is a national disaster in Russia. But past efforts to control abuse of vodka in Russia occurred to be politically unpopular. At a first sight, it might not seem like a good idea to copy the methods of Mikhail Gorbachev – a leader whom Russians regard as the most disastrous failure in living memory. [...]

Oh, I want pee-pee!

Every housewife knows that the real sign of her adequate housekeeping is sanitary state of kitchen and WC. Smell of toilet can narrate story about  lodgers, as single bone can help paleontologist create picture of dinosaur. Human body is a system of exchange with environment where nor input of nourishment neither output of excretion can [...]

Yellow paper, or Hippocratic Oath

Some time ago in group of Austrian unemployed I participated in anonymous psychological test on personal wishes and dreams. Living on allowance, people dream mainly about money. If to go to Amazon with idea to find most popular self-improvement books, it will be books how to become rich. It seems there is no sphere of [...]