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VIENNA (Reuters) - Obesity is set to become the biggest disease of the century and health experts said curbing childhood obesity could prevent millions of cancer cases and other related diseases.
Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of cancer-rel...
DATE: May 31, 2001
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Ninety years young is a hackneyed description for some non-agenarians, but it fits Bishop Norris Dickenson perfectly.
For he is still a very active citizen who preaches occasionally at Warwick Holiness Church, enjoys travelling, and has just passed h...
DATE: May 31, 2001
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Bermuda's corner was strongly represented yesterday at a live online forum on reinsurance.
``Global Perspective on Reinsurance'' was to have a panel of experts from Towers Perrin Reinsurance, Benfield & Greig and XL Capital.
They will be joined by ed...
DATE: May 31, 2001
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Government Senate Leader and Education Minister Milton Scott defended the Ministry of Education's Terra Nova testing of P2 classes yesterday and was supported by all of the independent Senators.
Sen. Scott commended an article in Wednesday's Royal Ga...
DATE: May 31, 2001
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principal Esme Trott.
One parent, who wished to remain anonymous, said plans to boot her out were unfair.
She said: "We don't want to lose her. She's caring and loving.
"She cares about the black boys and girls coming from the ghetto. They don't need...
DATE: May 30, 2001
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Although she left here at age eight, Bermudian Lisa-Anne Rego never forgot her roots. Every summer until she was 13 she returned to visit relatives, and then again in 1990 before beginning her college education.
Eight years would then pass until she ...
DATE: May 30, 2001
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Bermuda's economy is vulnerable to recession in the US, according to a Financial Times survey of the Isand published last Friday.
"Although the insurance and reinsurance industries tend to fare relatively well in economic downturns, a substantial slo...
DATE: May 30, 2001
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Premier Jennifer Smith yesterday slammed a suggestion that parents should stop their children from attending school in order to prevent them taking controversial tests.
And she backed up her remarks by saying she hoped that Bermuda's young people wou...
DATE: May 30, 2001
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The following is the text of a speech Devonshire South MP John Barritt gave to Hamilton Rotary on Tuesday May 22.
Third Party Politics, or pass the pliers, they're downsizing democracy.
From talking with (Rotarian) Toppy Cowen about a topic it soon b...
DATE: May 30, 2001
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The general secretary of Bermuda's teaching union has said parents should keep their children at home if they do not want them to take controversial exams next month, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) is strongly oppos...
DATE: May 29, 2001
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