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California considers adding meat to cancer-alert list

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(Reuters) – California is examining new World Health Organization findings to determine whether to add red meat and foods like hot dogs, sausages and bacon to a cancer-alert list, setting the stage for a potential battle with the meat industry over warning labels.

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Seeking paths for peace

Voices were heard in El Salvador this week looking for alternative ways to end the cycle of gang violence in the country.

On Monday, the government released its draft proposal of a law for rehabilitation and “re-insertion” of gang members into society.  In announcing the proposal, the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Benito Lara, stated that the law was aimed at youth who had come under the influence of the gangs, to give them a reason to make the decision to exit.  The law would seek to slow the growth of gangs through programs of formal and informal education, job creation, and productive projects leading to a culture of peace.  

Lara emphasized that this law did not provide for amnesty for gang members, nor was it directed at those who had committed serious crimes.   The law now goes to the National Assembly for debate, where a central question will be how to finance the programs.

On Tuesday, marchers converged on Plaza Salvador del Mundo clamoring for an end to violence.  The march was convened by member churches of IPAZ, the pastoral initiative for life and peace, including the Anglican and Lutheran churches of El Salvador.  Among the marchers were family members of gang members who joined their voices to those seeking to stop the violence.

Coverage of the march from ContraPuntoTV

With notice that families of gang members would be in the march, the police were stopping buses on the way to the march, making people get out, and searching for those wanted for crimes.   Media coverage was summarized by this headline in La Prensa Grafica:  Family Members of Terrorist Groups Will March for Peace.   

The hundreds of marchers today were only a shadow of the tens of thousands who filled the same space seven months ago in a similar march for peace on March 26.  Tragically the daily, weekly and monthly tally of murders has only increased since March.  


Shell halts Carmon Creek oil sands project in Alberta, Canada

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Tar sands site had been slated to produce 80,000 barrels a day but lower global prices, cost-cutting and lack of infrastructure contribute to shelving

Royal Dutch Shell will halt construction of its Carmon Creek thermal oil sands venture in Canada due to “uncertainties” facing the project, including a lack of infrastructure.

The decision to stop the project in the western province of Alberta comes as Shell cuts costs and a shortage of pipeline capacity constrains growth in the Canada’s oil sands industry.

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Rhythm without the blues: how dance crazes make us feel a step closer

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Doing energetic dance routines together makes people feel more connected and raises their pain threshold, psychologists have found

Psychologists in Oxford may have unravelled the mysterious appeal of Gangnam Style, the Macarena, and the Village People’s YMCA, all in one fell swoop.

The dance crazes rose to prominence in three separate decades, but all require an unwavering dedication to synchronised movement and exertion that seems natural only to wedding reception DJs.

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