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Chilean Artist in the UK: Karin Momberg
In Chile people who like to travel or wander the earth, who are curious enough about other parts of the world that they are rarely at home for long, are sometimes affectionately called 'patiperros' (like the dogs roaming the streets). There are over 5000 Chilean-born residents in the UK according to the 2001 UK census, no doubt the figures will show an incerase when the latest census data comes out over 2012/13. So what are they all up to? Well, we caught up with one Chilena currently living in
Meningitis vaccine breakthrough
Credit: Simon Fraser/Newcastle Hospitals NS Trust/Science Photo Library Caption: Meningitis. Coloured magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of a section through the head of a 34 year old woman, showing meningitis (yellow). The brain is seen, with the folded cerebrum (at top), brainstem (centre), and cerebellum (centre right). The spinal cord passes into the neck. Meningitis infection is coloured yellow on surfaces of the brain and spinal cord. Meningitis is an inflam- mation of the meninges, the