Popular Elsewhere
16:27 UK time, Tuesday, 21 June 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
A tale of is proving popular with Daily Mail readers. It claims gluten free pasta prescribed on the NHS ends up costing up to £50 a packet. Its source is the Eastern and Coastal Kent NHS Trust's assistant director of medicines management, Alison Issott, who is quoted as saying a £2 packet of pasta would cost £5 to buy, plus a £1 dispensing fee, £1 pharmacy fee and a delivery charge up to £40. The paper reports the Trust is now advising patients to buy the pasta themselves.
Guardian readers are catching up with the . The newspaper reports the resort has been hyped up as becoming the world's best. But Mr Trump announced, while the course will be open for play next July, the five star hotel and villas have been postponed because, in Mr Trump's words, "the world has crashed". The Guardian adds that there has been a long running dispute with local residents over the protected dunes and the neighbours' boundaries.
A popular Independent story . The article reports a technique developed by Deirdre Barrett, an assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, called dream incubation. She is quoted in the article as advising "if you want to dream about a particular subject, focus on it once you are in bed. Since dreams are so visual, hold an image related to that subject in your mind as you fall asleep." She also suggests we can use the information presented by our unconscious by trying to recall our dreams as soon as we wake up.
An Economist article popular with readers asks . It comes after two of the candidates competing to become the Republican leader ahead of the US presidential election are from the Church of Latter Day Saints. The article suggests that the biggest difference between Mormonism and other world religions is that it is relatively new which "may contribute to the scepticism about it, which contributes to the faith's insularity, which contributes to additional scepticism, and so on."
A according to Time's most popular article. According to the magazine, in the first three months of this year alone, the Russian drug control service says it confiscated 65 million doses of "krokodil". It says the drug has roughly the same effect as heroin but is at least three times cheaper and extremely easy to make. It goes on to say the over-the-counter painkiller codeine is the active component but addicts mix it with gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous, "which they scrape from the striking pads on matchboxes".
