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Poland wins Auschwitz name change

The United Nations has agreed to rename Auschwitz concentration camp to stress that Nazi Germans, not Poles, were responsible for the world's most notorious death camp, Poland's Culture Ministry said on Wednesday.

"Auschwitz Concentration Camp", a U.N. heritage site, will be renamed "the Former Nazi German Concentration Camp of Auschwitz", the ministry of culture said in a statement.

Poland asked the U.N. in April to rename Auschwitz, where 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, died in World War Two.

Warsaw objects to references to "Polish gas chambers" at the "Polish concentration camp" in foreign media. Nearly 3 million non-Jewish Poles died at Nazi hands, and Poles see themselves as victims of the war.

Because of this image, the role of Poles in the deaths of millions of Polish Jews, and at Auschwitz, is a sore topic.

This month, Jewish and Polish officials marked anniversaries of two massacres of Jews carried out by Poles before and after World War Two, and some accounts say Poles assisted the Nazis at Auschwitz, where 6,000 died every day during 1944.

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Pigface is an industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and Bill Rieflin.

Pigface was formed from Ministry's The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste tour, from which the In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up live album came. For the tour, Alain Jourgensen brought Martin Atkins, Nivek Ogre, Chris Connelly. Also on the tour was regular Ministry drummer, at the time, William Rieflin. While Atkins enjoyed the dynamic of playing with a second drummer, he felt that the lineup was capable of doing much more than being, what he has frequently called, "a Ministry cover band." Once the tour was over, Atkins and Rieflin decided to continue working together and recruited several of their tourmates from the The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste tour. Pigface was born with the intention of keeping a revolving-door style collaboration with many experimentally-minded musicians, many of whom, especially early on, had recorded for the influential industrial music record label Wax Trax.

Trent Reznor was also an early partner, before Nine Inch Nails became a household name. "Suck," co-written and sung by Reznor, was something of an underground hit, and Reznor later re-recorded the song for the Broken EP.

Rieflin eventually left Pigface, leaving Atkins in charge. The dozens, perhaps hundreds, of musical collaborators to record and perform with Pigface have ensured that each album, and each song, is unique. This practice has, however, led to some negative criticism due to a perceived lack of continuity.

Pigface concerts are characterized by high-energy performances. Frequently there will be upwards of 10 people on stage at any time during the show. Not only that but Martin Atkins and the rest of the band love interacting with the audience, and members of the audience are occasionally invited on stage for the encore.

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Women could make sperm? WTF?

A new scientific breakthrough may lead to women in future being able to produce sperm.

Scientists in England have turned stem cells from am embryo into sperm which are capable of producing offspring.

The breakthrough is likely to lead to new advances in treating male infertility and even the possibility that women could manufacture sperm.

The researchers at Newcastle University say that the advance, when developed further, could help men with certain types of infertility to become fertile and even one day could enable a lesbian couple to have children that genetically would be their own.

The experiment used embryo cells to produce seven baby mice, six of whom lived into adulthood, although the survivors suffered adverse events of the kind seen in cloning experiments.

The researchers isolated embryonic stem cells from an embryo only a few days old consisting of a cluster of cells. The cells were grown in a laboratory and screened to isolate the spermatogonial stem calls which were grown and then injected into female mouse eggs and grown in early stage embryos.

The research team says its project will aid the understanding of the biological process through which sperm is produced, which should help in the future treatment of infertility

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Clerk Attacks Boy For Not Buying Yo-Yo

Police said a convenience store clerk is being held without bail on suspicion of attacking a boy in Fort Pierce, Fla., for not buying a yo-yo.

Amar Shreiteh is charged with attempted murder and false imprisonment. Police said he was working at Friendly's Meat and Grocery Store Monday morning when 14-year-old Jeremius Howard came in with his sister.

As the girl browsed for snacks, Howard allegedly played with a yo-yo.

Police said that after the girl paid for the items, Howard put down the toy and tried to leave the store. They said Shreiteh demanded the boy pay for the yo-yo, but Howard told him it was already opened and he didn't want it. Authorities said Shreiteh then punched the boy.


Investigators allege he pulled the teenager behind the counter and stabbed him on the back of his arm with a butcher knife.

Another clerk tried to stop Shreiteh and suffered a serious wound to his right forearm. The teen was treated and released. Shreiteh is currently in police custody.

After Dozens Of Cats Removed, Woman Found Dead In Box

Police said an elderly woman's body was found in a plastic box in her condemned townhouse in Delaware.

The townhouse had been condemned because dozens of ill cats were living there.

Dover police Capt. Lester Boney said 84-year-old Mary Haas' body was found in a container in an upstairs bedroom and has been turned over to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

Police are trying to find her daughters, Pamela Haas, 48, and Candy Haas, 43, for questioning. They said they may be driving a four-door silver 1995 Buick LeSabre with Delaware registration.

Two weeks ago, the city gave daughter Pamela Haas a week to clean the house -- after complaints from the neighbors about odor. City officials returned to the home Thursday with police, SPCA animal control officers and workers from the state Department of Health and Social Services. City officials removed more than 100 cats and three dogs from the house. The house was condemned, and Pamela Haas was taken to a shelter.

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Abortion drug could rapidly treat depression

A hormone treatment used to induce abortion could provide a rapid-acting treatment for depression.

The drug, called RU486, was one of two new rapid treatment strategies, revealed on Sunday at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies' annual meeting in Vienna, Austria.

Most antidepressants are thought to work by raising levels of the signalling chemical serotonin, which acts in the brain. But these drugs can take several weeks to take effect. The new treatments could be effective within days or even hours.

The hormone treatment is based on earlier findings that stress plays a major part in triggering and prolonging depression. Stress hormones appear to damage a part of the brain called the hippocampus. The region is susceptible because it is particularly rich in hormone receptors, allowing it to regulate ongoing hormone release.

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'Magic Mushroom' Drug Study Probes Science, Spirituality

Volunteers who tried the hallucinogenic ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms during a controlled study funded by the U.S. government had "mystical" experiences, and many of them still felt unusually happy months later. The aims of the Johns Hopkins researchers were simple: to explore the neurological mechanisms and effects of the compound, as well as its potential as a therapeutic agent. Although psilocybin -- the hallucinogenic agent in the Psilocybe family of mushrooms -- first gained notoriety more than 40 years ago, it has rarely been studied because of the controversy surrounding its use. This latest finding, which sprang from a rigorously designed trial, moves the hallucinogen's effect closer to the hazy border separating hard science and religious mysticism. "More than 60 percent of the volunteers reported effects of their psilocybin session that met the criteria for a 'full mystical experience' as measured by well-established psychological scales," said lead researcher Roland Griffiths, a professor in the departments of neuroscience, psychiatry and behavioral biology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. What's more, most of the 36 adult participants -- none of whom had taken psilocybin before -- counted their experience while under the influence of the drug as "among the most meaningful and spiritually significant experiences of their lives," Griffiths said. Most said they became better, kinder, happier people in the weeks after the psilocybin session -- a fact corroborated by family and friends. The researchers also noted no permanent brain damage or negative long-term effects stemming from use of psilocybin.

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