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Now living in Canada, Jamaican-born Dr Patrice Smith and her colleagues at Harvard have discovered a way to repair damaged nerves by allowing the adult brain to respond to repair signals that are induced after injury. Dr Smith explained to Flair in an email interview, that as we get older, we lose the ability to repair damage to the brain and spinal cord, because our nervous system is actively preventing the immune system from sending out repair messages... click on "Jamaican Scientist" in the News section.

The gargantuan buildings are so iconic that they appear on a Chinese stamp. The most famous have distinctive round shapes, appearing from a distance like flying saucers that have plopped down in the middle of farm fields. Some were reportedly mistaken for missile silos by American officials poring over satellite images. But the thousands of “earthen buildings” here, built by the ethnic Hakka and Minnan people of rural Fujian Province, are the ultimate architectural expression of clan existence in China... click on "China Monuments" in the News section.

VENDORS in the Negril craft market say they are not reaping the benefits of Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett's recently announced boom in visitor arrivals — a reported 47,000 up to March 20 — landmark numbers for Jamaica... click on "Tourism" in the News section.

A decade or more ago it would have been hard to find much that was tangible to write about China and the Caribbean. Today it is difficult to know where to begin, so pervasive and economically vital has its role become in the region.... click on "China Caribbean" in the News section.

FC Edmonton players and coaches spent a well-deserved day off checking out the sites in and around Casa Grande and Phoenix. Some of the boys took in a Phoenix Suns NBA game, some did a little shopping and others golfed and relaxed by the pool, but all of them came back Monday ready to put in a hard training session. Everyone including the club’s latest signing, American midfielder Shawn Chin.... click on "Shawn Chin" in the Articles section.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them - NOT under them. This space is what I call the 'triangle of life'. The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured... click on "Earthquake Survival" in the Articles section.

I believe......that what started out as a natural disaster with the earth-quake and subsequent tsunami that devastated several areas of Japan, and causing untold number of loss of life, is very likely to escalate into a man-made disaster that will have far, far reaching proportions worldwide... click on "I Believe" in the Articles section.

Read assorted info, this and that... click on "Dis ’n Dat"

Make Snapper Fish & Cho Cho ... go to the Recipes page.

Tsun Tsin Association of Ontario has launched their website www.tsungtsinontario.ca

April 2011