Italy’s National Anti-doping Tribunal operating under the jurisdiction of the Italian Olympic Committee has announced that it has suspended Mutu according to the demand made by the office of the anti-doping prosecutor on January 28. Mutu tested positive for the banned substance sibutramine (a medicine principally used in the treatment of obesity and which would enable an athlete to increase his level of aggression) after scoring in his side’s 2-1 home win over Bari in the league on January 10th and again 10 days later. The Romanian faces suspension for between one and four years for the offence. Reports have been made to the effect that Mutu may have been given the drug by his mother.
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We have always heard about search warrants being issued to allow law enforcement agents to legally look through areas where suspects or evidence of their misdeeds may be hiding. For this piece of news we saw on morningsun.net, search warrants were issued to look through certain by-products produced by a suspected drug dealer.
In Weymouth, Massachusetts, a search warrant allowed police to monitor the bowel movements of 24-year-old suspected drug dealer Rene Valencia.
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In a bid to deal with violence related to alcohol in the UK a special unit of officers wearing head cams will be distributed throughout Northamptonshire’s nightlife areas to monitor such behavior. A new drug detection computer will also be used to test revelers queuing to get into some nightclubs.
These measures are all part of an attempt to reign in drunken troublemakers and pubs operating illegally in a week-long operation dubbed Operation Mortlake.
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Having tested positive for the blood booster CERA in this years Giro dItalia Danilo Di Luca could be facing a 3 year ban from the Italian Olympic Committee’s (CONI) anti-doping prosecutors.
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A Canadian study of 17,000 adults [gated, but with abstract] also found a consistent link between chair time and deaths from heart disease: The more people sat, for any reason, the more likely they were to die of heart disease within 12 years even if they were slim and exercised regularly.
Full article on the negative health effects of prolonged sitting.
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Authorities in Hawaii say that they face a seemingly insurmountable level of violent crime in the country and most of it is linked to some form of drug abuse. A recent crime involving the murder of 23-month-old Cyrus Belt (the boy was dropped from a freeway and hit by a teo-ton delivery truck 30 feet below) happened while his accused murderer was high on meth according to authorities and many of the adults in the small boys life were also drug abusers. Witnesses called on by the court talked about the crystal meth use of accused killer Matthew Higa, and Belt’s mother, Nancy Chanco, her live-in boyfriend, her father and Higa’s father. According to the authorities this is but one of many crimes that have occurred because of the presence of drugs and while meth use has gone down in recent months it still seriously affects the islands in many ways.
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If you earned $50,000 a year in Dallas, heres what youd need to make in other cities to enjoy the same standard of living:
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According to research at least half of teenage girls who become sexual active have developed STD within two years of having started, and for many of these girls the infection occurs by the time theyre 15 years of age.
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Between 1970 and 2006, the global poverty rate has been cut by nearly three quarters.The percentage of the world population living on less than $1 a day went from 26.8 percent in 1970 to 5.4 percent in 2006.Over the period:
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