London's long drawn summer is gradually coming to an end. This eventual transition to the cold winter months will obviously evoke certain feelings amongst folks living in London, most especially Nigerians and other African immigrants who may have grown up in the sunshine continent. These feelings may be those of nostalgia, despair, loneliness and even satisfaction, yes, satisfaction! Especiall...

G. Thomas1, S. Jeremiah1, J. Bethel1, T. Bogdanova2, M. Tronko2, CTB Pathology Panel

1South West Wales Cancer Institute, Human Cancer Studies Group, Swansea, United Kingdom

2Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kiev, Ukraine

There was a large increase in the incidence of papillary thyroid cancer inj those areas of Ukraine exposed to radioactive fallout following the Cher...

Porn is a big business on the Web. Two in five Internet users visited an adult site in August, according to tracking by technology research firm ComScore Media Metrix. The company said 3 percent of all Web traffic and 2 percent of all surfing time involved an adult site.

The Internet accounted for $2.5 billion of the adult industry's $14 billion in U.S. revenue last year, about the same ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Purveyors of porn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex sells in tiny packages -- especially when it is portable.

One online social network of amateur pinup girls said it logged 500,000 downloads of the sexy "featurettes" -- three- to five-minute video clips -- in the first 24 hours targeting the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Purveyors of porn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex even sells in tiny packages -- especially when it is portable.

One online social network of amateur pinup girls said it logged 500,000 downloads of the sexy "featurettes" -- three- to five-minute video clips -- in the first 24 hours targeting ...

They capture Detroit's car culture, and America's.

This classic either tells, or foretells, every significant event in the U.S. auto industry since 1965. When small cars first appeared on American roads, Mr. Yates wrote, Detroit's moguls dismissed them as affectations of weirdos, pinkos and cheapos. Instead, Americans were becoming fascinated with new technology in all sorts of product...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Purveyors of porn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex even sells in tiny packages -- especially when it is portable.

One online social network of amateur pinup girls said it logged 500,000 downloads of the sexy "featurettes" -- three- to five-minute video clips -- in the first 24 hours targeting...

The company isn't offering much in the way of sex on videos, though some of the music videos it sells for $1.99 each can tend toward titillation. Apple officials refused requests for interviews on whether they might offer adult content on iTunes for iPod owners.

For many high-profile companies, sex remains a tough sell.

Although wireless phone companies support devices that play v...

The naughtiness is already finding its way into video handhelds through business models tried-and-true, along with some new ones, as the adult-entertainment industry works to untether video content.

Soon enough, skin flicks whose viewing has been largely restricted to the privacy of homes and theaters could be on view in the open public of parks and mass transit, for all ages to see.

Saturday, November 5 SAN FRANCISCO - Purveyors of porn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex even sells in tiny packages - especially when it is portable.

One online social network of amateur pinup girls said it logged 500,000 downloads of the sexy ''featurettes'' - three- to five-minute video clips - in the ...