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A. Representations of Christ
Following diplomatic tensions over an August article published in Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet accusing the Israeli army of illegally harvesting the organs of Palestinians, Israel has admitted its forensic pathologists removed organs from dead bodies without consent from their families, reports the Associated Press.
A strange flying object was spotted in the sky above the capital of Russia, Moscow today, December 18, 2009.
Hundreds of residents saw a large triangle-shaped object hovering above Red Square. Many people filmed the object on their cell phones and uploaded the videos on YouTube.
A new study presented on December 1 at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) verified that annual mammography screenings may be responsible for causing breast cancer in women who are predisposed to the disease. Epidemiologist Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide from the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands suggests that doctors should be very cautious when screening younger women, especially those under age 30….
Having a CT – or CAT – scan puts patients at far greater risk of developing cancer than previously thought, scientists claim.
The radiation generated by the scans – an increasingly popular diagnostic tool – may trigger the disease in as many as one in 80 patients.
There never was a Bible in the Orthodox Church
“Strictly speaking, there never was a Bible in the Orthodox Church, at least not as we commonly think of the Bible as a single volume book we can hold in our hand. Since the beginning of the Church, from the start of our liturgical tradition, there has never been a single book in an Orthodox church we could point to as the Bible. Instead, the various Books of the Bible are found scattered throughout several service books located either on the Holy Altar itself, or at the chanter’s stand. The Gospels (or their pericopes) are complied into a single volume — usually bound in precious metal and richly decorated — placed on the Holy Altar.
Ashkenazi Jewish Women and Ovarian Cancer
In a study published Monday, researchers at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto found that about one per cent of Jewish women in Ontario carry mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes,… a genetic mutation that dramatically raises their risk of developing both breast and ovarian cancer.