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An injury is surely can become a serious problem for an athlete. The injury can force them to resign from a competition just like what happen on Andy Murray recently. Andy Murray is a Scottish professional tennis player who made his debut as a professional at the year 2005. He is well known as a proficient in the fast surface such as the hard court, but he’s been work hard to be better at the clay court since the year 2008.

Currently ranked fourth in the world, Andy Murray pulled out of the Barcelona Open Tennis Tournament because he is having the elbow injury in his right arm.
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The new study that has already released in dew days stated of the revelation on the origin of human language. Science Magazine on their 15th April edition stated that the fist human language used was firstly found on South Africa and the spread out through the world.

Quentin Atkinson, researcher from Auckland University of New Zealand made research by doing tracking of language imprinted and divided 504 languages into smallest component called as phoneme. Phoneme is a word that originally comes from Latin, phonema, which means one voice spoken. The research showed that there is more and more phonemes variation that possessed by a language was the factor why other languages have less phoneme. In the conclusion, the research found that the further race of people lived from Africa on their history track, the fewer phonemes they use in their phoneme. As the research predicted, languages in South America and Pacific Islands has less phonemes that is contradictory with languages in Africa that have the highest phonemes.
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FDA has put legalization of Yervoy or ipilimumab, medicine that can cure melanoma, the most deathful skin cancer. In past, the main melanoma therapy was done by doing tumor removal through surgery.

Usually, melanoma appears from melanin, a cell that produces skin pigment, and doesn’t cause any pain. The major cause of the disease is UV radiation, but some types of moles can also turn into melanoma.

According to FDA prediction, there would be around 68.130 patients with melanoma diagnoses in US at 2020 and 8.700 from them will be die.
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Scientists from Allen Institute of the Brain Science successfully made human brain map after doing four years research. For the first time, human brain map were published on Friday (15/4/2011) and could be accessed at http://www.brain-map.org/.

Human Brain map could help scientists to understand more on how human brain works. Thus, scientist could analyze deeper causes of several diseases and provide proper treatment.
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The fanfare of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding would turn into glorious as Canada would take part on the celebration of their celebration.

Through their governor, General David Johnston, Canada introduced two series of William and Kate stamps at Rideau Hall, Ottawa. According to Xinhua news on Saturday (16/4/2011), the stamps would be lunched exactly on the couple’s wedding day next Friday (29/4/2011). “On that date, the stamps would be available on the post offices, internet, or via direct order,” said Johnston.
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