Tuesday, May 13, 2008
US recession affecting world
clipped from http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=1&art_id=65708&sid=18890456&con_type=3
Breast-feeding prevents Arthritis?
clipped from http://www.nbc5.com/family/16251024/detail.htmlBreast-Feeding Cuts Mom's Arthritis Risk
love Hardy, go to his place
County Dorset: Far from stress of modern life
David Armstrong, Special to The Chronicle
Sunday, May 11, 2008
(05-11) 04:00 PDT Dorchester, England -- The unwavering gaze of Thomas Hardy looks out from a hilltop, affording the Victorian writer - or, rather, a statue of him - a sweeping view of the town he immortalized as Casterbridge and the rustic county he called Wessex.
It is a beautiful place to behold.
fly on toilet
clipped from http://www.mercurynews.com/weirdnews/ci_9242973Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet
Monday, May 12, 2008
platfomed to stay right
Suzy Menkes on fantastical, funky shoes
LONDON: When Gwyneth Paltrow showed up in Rome for the premiere of "Iron Man," the movie star was riding high. And so were the hemline of her little black dress and her stiletto heels.
Public speaking- fear of
clipped from avialblah.blogspot.comFood Crisis - Indin Solution?
India mulls ban on food futures
Reuben EaseyTuesday 06 May 2008
Singapore - Defamation case
Court hearing on defamation award adjourned
By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia Posted: 12 May 2008 2228 hrs
Myanmar cyclone and US Aid
Myanmar allows U.S. aid to arrive
BANGKOK: The authorities in Myanmar allowed a United States military aircraft to land with relief supplies Monday, crossing a barrier that has prevented the delivery of aid to more than a million victims of the May 3 cyclone.
A group of top officials greeted the unarmed C-130 transport plane in an extraordinary scene of cooperation between two nations whose only relations in recent years have been acrimonious.
vaccinate to invite lifelong problems?
Families go to court to try to link vaccines to autism
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine today as they take their case to a federal court.
They seek vindication and financial redress from a government fund that helps people injured by shots.
Two 10-year-old boys from Portland, Ore., will serve as test cases that determine whether the children and their families in similar situations should be compensated. Attorneys for the boys will try to show the boys were healthy and developing normally. But, after being exposed to vaccines with thimerosal, they began to regress and show symptoms of autism.
