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Birth season can help in large advantage over a person's life- popping up since construction began
determining allergies in time," said Lisa D Cook, associate pro- for the building in 1876.
future life fessor at Michigan State University.
A report released by the Cincinnati
The season in which a child is born can Florida Man Turns Self in Center City Development Corp., the
determine whether or not he or she is for Stealing TV in 1989 project manager for the renovation,
likely to suffer from an allergy in later speculated that the bones may have
life. A 60-year-old Florida man returned to been moved from an original burial
Connecticut to turn himself for steal- ground and reburied in a single grave.
Researchers at the University of ing a color TV - 27 years ago.
Southampton have discovered specific Sunbathing may give you
markers on DNA that link the season After his admission, Randy Lannacone, more life expectancy
of birth to risk of allergy in later life. of Port St. Lucie, was booked on third-
degree larceny charges, according to Women who sunbathe might live
The study conducted epigenetic scan- the Norwalk, Conn., police. According longer despite risk of melanoma, re-
ning on DNA samples from a group of to police the theft took place at the searchers have found. A study con-
people born on the Isle of Wight. They Norwalk Jewish Center, which has since ducted by Karolinska University Hospi-
found that particular epigenetic marks closed, on April 26, 1989. tal and Lund University in Sweden
were associated with the season of found that women who avoid the sun
birth and still present 18 years later. The Norwalk police issued a warrant live 0.6 to 2.1 years less than women
for Lannacone but were unable to lo- who sunbathe frequently.
Having traditional name cate him, and the warrant was not
can add up to you life served until Lannacone's arrival at the Analysis of 29,518 women, who were
police station. followed for 20 years, revealed that
A new study suggests that having a sun exposure can decrease the risk of
traditional name can lead to longer Skeletal Human Remains heart disease and other non-cancer
life. It found that black men with his- Found at 100-Year-Old related diseases - though the reason is
torically distinctive names, such as Music Venue yet to be determined.
Elijah and Moses, lived a year longer.
The study, one of the first to find ben- Workers renovating a century-old per- Dr Pelle Lindqvist, even suggested that
efits of having a racially distinctive formance hall discovered human re- avoiding the sun could have the same
name, examined three million death mains under the orchestra pit and now effect on life expectancy as smoking.
certificates from 1802 to 1970. archeologists are planning to analyze "We found smokers in the highest sun
the bones. exposure group were at a similar risk
"A number of studies indicate that as nonsmokers avoiding sun exposure
modern black names can act as a bur- The property under Cincinnati Music indicating avoidance of sun exposure
den, whereas our findings show that Hall, Ohio, USA was a public burial to be a risk factor of the same magni-
historical black names conveyed a ground in 1818, and bones have been tude as smoking" Pelle said.
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