Danger Danger - I Still Think About You

White Lion - Little Fighter

about the Rainbow Warrior (Greenpeace ship)

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Philip Bailey & Phil Collins - Easy Lover

Selenium aids AIDS

AIDS patients who took selenium suppressed the deadly virus in their bodies and boosted their fragile immune systems, adding to evidence that the mineral has healing powers, researchers said on Monday.

An 18-month study of 262 patients with AIDS found those who took a daily capsule containing 200 micrograms of selenium, a semi-metallic element found in some foods and soils that is a byproduct of copper production, ended up with lower levels of the AIDS virus and more health-giving CD4 immune system cells in their bloodstreams than those taking a dummy pill.

"The exact mechanism by which selenium exerts its effects on HIV-1 viral replication is not known, although the literature suggests several possibilities," lead author Barry Hurwitz of the University of Miami wrote in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.

Selenium, which is sold as a dietary supplement, is an antioxidant that can repair the damage done to immune system cells by oxygen, which is more actively produced in the bodies of AIDS patients. Another theory holds that the AIDS virus needs selenium to replicate itself and attacks more cells to find it -- so providing more selenium slows the virus' advance.

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Camel - Beached

1997, Hollywood

EDGE of Existence

Scientists have launched a bid to save some of the world's rarest and most neglected creatures from extinction.

With an initial list of just 10 - including a venomous shrew-like creature, an egg-laying mammal and the world's smallest bat - the program will give last ditch conservation aid where to date there has been little or none.

"We are focusing on EDGE species - that means they are Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered," said Zoological Society of London scientist Jonathan Baillie.

"These are one-of-a-kind species.

"If they are lost there is nothing similar to them left on the planet.

"It would be a bit like the art world losing the Mona Lisa - they are simply irreplaceable."

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Kailua Kona, Hawaii

LIKE many visitors to the Hawaiian Islands, Donna Rehling was smitten right away with the lush landscape, temperate breezes, indigo ocean and, of course, the near-perfect weather year-round. She even invested in a time share on Maui 14 years ago, so she and her family could revel in it all at least once a year.

But when it came time to fulfill her dream of buying a second home on the islands, she picked Hawaii, better known as the Big Island — and specifically Kailua Kona, a community on the western coast — over more populated places on Oahu or Maui.

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Antibiotic properties of the Atun tree

A 252-year-old botany text may seem an unlikely place to prospect for potential new medical treatments, but a team of scholars have done just that, and the effort may lead to the development of an important new antibiotic.

The researchers are a diverse group: a physician, a neuroscientist, three botanists, a graduate student in molecular biology and an expert in Germanic languages.

The book they studied, “The Ambonese Herbal,” was written by Georg Eberhard Rumpf, now known by the Latinized name Rumphius, an employee of the Dutch East India Company who spent most of his life documenting the properties and uses of the plants of Ambon, an island in Indonesia. The book was published in seven volumes from 1741 to 1755, nearly a half-century after Rumphius’ death.

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Jethro Tull - Jack in the Green

Germany, 1982