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Ships asked to avoid whale route
Friday, 12 October 2007 - 1:55 AM SL Time
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The endangered right whale is to get extra protection after a safe haven from shipping was set aside off Nova Scotia in Canada.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) ratified a Canadian proposal to designate the 1,800-sq-km zone an `Area to Be Avoided` at a meeting in Denmark.
The voluntary restriction asks ship captains to steer around the area.
Collisions with container ships are seen as a key threat to right whales, thought to number just 400.
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Hip size `gives cancer risk clue`
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 - 5:17 PM SL Time
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Women whose mothers_day.jsp' class=black>mothers have big hips may be more likely to develop breast cancer, research suggests.
A study led by the University of Southampton found breast cancer rates were more than three times higher among women whose mothers had wide hips.
Rates were more than seven times higher if those mothers had already given birth to one or more children.
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