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| Cong Poll Debacle |
| DEFEAT is usually an orphan, but the election debacle of Congress, India's ruling party, in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday has a clear patrimony: pandering to the state's 36 million Muslims. |
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| ISRAEL'S BEST FRIEND |
| HE only question I have when it comes to US President Barack Obama and Israel is whether he is the most pro-Israel president in history or just one of the most. ... |
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 | Survivorman Bear Grylls is wild about khakis ON a recent morning, Bear Grylls, the star of the Discovery Channel survivor show Man vs Wild, was dressed in a rugged ensemble of army-green work shirt and cargo pants, a no-nonsense knife strapped to one leg. Standing in the middle of a
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| | Good football helmet fit key to preventing brain injuries | | WHILE football helmets don't prevent concussions, good helmet fit might help reduce loss of consciousness that can follow a blow to the head, a new study finds.
Expensive, high-tech helmets with air-lining systems aren't much better than vintage "leatherheads" at preventing concussions, the researchers said.
"The occurrence of concussion has been constant for the past 30 years: whether it was a leather helmet, whether it was a plastic helmet with web suspension, whether it was a plastic helmet with foam, or one with the new combination air cells and padding," said study author Dr Joseph Torg, an adjunct professor of orthopedic surgery at Temple University in Philadelphia.
The researchers looked at data from the US National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System from 2005 to 2009. Of the nearly 1,400 kids who sustained a concussion, 44 lost consciousness and 267 experienced amnesia.
Injury reports addressed helmet fit, type of inner-helmet padding and whether the helmet was new or reconditioned.
"Youngsters who had a concussion, if the helmet fit, they had 82 percent less chance of loss of consciousness," Torg said. "Helmets — and advanced helmet technology — do not prevent against concussions or the severe intracranial injuries of haemorrhage (bleeding) and brain swelling." The researchers also analysed previous studies comparing types of helmets.
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| | Tibetan cuisine thrives in exile | | WHEN Chime Doma and her three sisters were growing up, making sha momos – juicy beef dumplings that are an obsession among Tibetans – was a big, much-anticipated project.
"Finding beef was not so easy, but when we finally got some the whole family would help cut it up, and then do the mixing and the folding," said Doma, who was raised, like many Tibetans who now live in the India and United States.
Momos are shaped like halfmoons or like plump, round purses, and although they can be made with store-bought wrappers, most Tibetan households in the US have a small wooden dowel reserved for rolling out the thin rounds of dough. Back in Tibet, wheat was even scarcer than meat, so momos were treats for special occasions like Losar, the Tibetan New Year celebration. For people who have known hunger and sacrifice, Losar is a holiday built around the comforts of food – and a dietary paradox: Though most Tibetans are Buddhists, who would avoid taking a life, they are also great lovers of meat, and sha momos are the unofficial national dish.
The sisters' East Village restaurant, Tsampa, is mostly vegetarian, and offers only vegetable and chicken momos, in deference to the many customers who do not eat red meat. But there are always sha momos lurking off the menu, she said, for the Tibetan regulars who would be aggrieved not to find them. "Here, beef momos are everyday food," she said. "They make Tibetans so happy." The Dalai Lama himself has struggled with adopting a vegetarian diet, which is expected of Buddhist spiritual leaders; many Tibetans will tell you that doctors have advised him to eat meat for health reasons... |
| | Jersey Shore star Snooki is engaged, pregnant | | SHE may have recently topped a poll of nightmare celebrity dates, but Jersey Shore star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is officially no longer available after announcing her engagement and pregnancy on Wednesday.
One of America's biggest reality TV personalities in recent years, the 24-year-old Snooki graces the cover of the upcoming issue of US Weekly magazine and tells its editors she is pregnant and engaged to boyfriend Jionni LaValle.
The story confirms reports that began to surface in the media last week. Snooki told the magazine she is 15 weeks along in her pregnancy.
"I have different priorities now," the pint-sized personality known for her wild partying told the magazine. "I don't care what anybody else thinks. As long as I know I'm ready and he's ready." Snooki said she found out about the pregnancy after a typically wild New Year's Eve when she had been drinking. "I was worried.
It was New Year's Eve and we were in Vegas, so I did go crazy," she told the magazine.
Although Snooki and Jersey Shore have been the subject of some ridicule, the show has consistently topped US TV ratings for cable channel MTV, with critics attributing much of the show's popularity to Snooki's antics, including her real-life arrest in 2010 for disorderly conduct on a New Jersey beach.
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