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Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’s disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell. What is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau. This has immediate implications for developing treatments.
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Potatoes lower BP: USDA study: Potatoes lower blood pressure in people with obesity and hypertension without increasing weight ~ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
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Need for Sikh ID Presence at National Events: I thought it was important to write "home" to my 700,000 fellow Sikh British about a remote Australian Sikh community ensuring "recognition" of Sikh identity at national celebrations.
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Punjab: Colonial discourse and beyond: Conclusively, we can understand.....The seeds of European and western ideology that were sown almost four generations ago, have now grown into trees where the youth of Punjab of either side, craves for an escape from its land and place of origin.
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The New Curiosity Stop: The verdant township of Anandpur Sahib, at the foothills of the Shivaliks in Punjab, has always drawn tourists by the hordes. But this time, it is not just the historic gurdwaras that is drawing them to one of the most sacred places for the Sikh community.
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Tech conversion: India's richest shrine goes green: Now the temple is using its religious influence and economic might to change the way energy is used here. Developing reserve forests around the temple to act as carbon sinks, the management has transformed the environment. They are promoting the use of sustainable technologies and hope to influence public opinion.
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Sikhs wanted attention? Fox & Friends’ Gretchen Carlson is at it again: This is certainly not the kind of “attention” we need nor desire. Sikhs have been trying to educate the American public on who we are and particularly so in the last decade, and now what most people know is the action of one person who decided to take legal recourse.
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Complete Shri Sai Satcharitra On Grains Of Rice: So he began to draw the faces of the Gurus on little grains of rice, mustard seeds and sesame. After that he drew the entire Sukhmani Sahib on 5,0000 grains of rice and has ever since been known in India for his work.
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Sikhs join in tribute to American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.: The InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (IFC) brought together region's only multi-religious service for Dr. King's birthday on Sunday, January 8, 2012. The service was conducted at the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C. The theme for this year’s celebration was “What Is Dr. King’s Dream for Us Today...
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