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Effective communication key to keeping up cancer patients’ spirits

Washington, Sept 20 : A new research has found that effective communication is the key factor to keeping the spirits of cancer patients intact.

New York rejects Iranian President's bid to directly honour "Ground Zero" dead

New York, Sept.20 : New York City officials have reportedly pulled out all stops to prevent The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from laying a wreath at Ground Zero during his visit here next week.

New York Police Department, Secret Service and Port Authority officials are reported to have told the Iranian Mission that no one is allowed in the pit because it's a live construction site and dangerous. They said that if a wreath was to be laid, it could be "shoved" from a distance.

Some cancer cells ‘mimic’ stem cells to evade chemotherapy

Washington, Sep 20 : A new study has found that in order to survive chemotherapy, some cancer cells mimic stem cells.

The study, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, suggests that some anti-cancer treatments might have an opposite effect on cancer cells, actually expanding the small population of cancer stem cells believed to drive the disease.

Lindsay Lohan planning post-rehab memoir

 Washington, Sept 20 : It seems that rehabbing actress Lindsay Lohan is planning to pen a post-rehab memoir.

Kate Walsh voted ‘Hollywood’s Hottest Redhead’

Washington, Sept 20 : Actress Kate Walsh has topped a poll of ‘Hollywood’s Hottest Redheads’.

The poll was conducted by entertainment magazine In Touch Weekly.

Walsh, a natural blonde, admits that flame-haired women definitely have more fun than their fair-headed or brunette counterparts.

"When I was blonde, they treated me like a girly girl. As a redhead, it was a little more sassy," Contactmusic quoted her, as telling the mag.

‘The Rock’ wants flicks like Damon’s Bourne trilogy

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Washington, September 20: Wrestler-turned-movie star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has made it clear that he will now do an action movie only if its script is as qualitative as that of the Bourne trilogy.

Johnson, who was tipped to become the next Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger when he started his movie career with ‘The Mummy’ franchise, said that he still had a liking for action movies.

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