My Haiku featured in Bobbing Around

Austrialian writer Dr Bob Rich who was voted best book editor for 2007 at Preditors and Editors recently included one of my little haiku about Australia in the poetry section of his popular online magazine Bobbing Around

http://mooramoora.org.au/bobrich/mudsmith/bobbing7-8.html#


Poetry

Boomerang -- a Haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo

boomerang
memories of Australia
bounce back

Dr Rich gave this comment about the haiku -

When I read this, I was amazed at the depth of many-layered meaning so few words could hold.

Thanks very much for it Rich.

Being a health freak, I was also drawn by this feature in the magazine
about the goodness of brocolli

Brocolli could save your life
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Farmers might be doing their bit to prevent bladder cancer. An international team of researchers discovered broccoli sprouts can lower the incidence of bladder cancer in rats by more than half.
This study builds on past evidence that vegetables from the cabbage family containing glucosinolates stimulate the body's defence mechanisms against cancer.
More than 300,000 people worldwide are annually diagnosed with what is the fourth most common cancer in men and the eighth most common in women.
Now scientists hope to look at ways of growing mature broccoli with high levels of glucosinolate compounds.
New Zealand scientists Carolyn Lister from Crop and Food Research and Rex Munday, from AgResearch collaborated with two United States researchers and another from New Zealand to arrive at these findings.
It was funded by Horticulture Australia Limited (HAL) under its Vital Vegetables program.
"We were interested in the results of the study from the perspective of developing vegetables with elite characteristics," Dr Lister said.
"The fact that we've shown this extract can cut the development of bladder cancer in rats is great news for our broccoli and Vital Vegetables programs since the compounds, known as glucosinolates, are also present in the mature broccoli plant, and one of the aims of our research is to produce conventionally-bred broccoli with naturally high levels of them."
The researchers' latest experiment, the findings of which were recently published in the prestigious international journal Cancer Research showed that this is indeed the case.