links for 2006-09-25
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Three out of four hospitals that have guidelines on Jehovah’s Witness patients have said they would give young children blood transfusions even if their parents opposed such procedures on account of their faith, according to a survey released Sunday.
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What are newspapers around the world saying about the latest speech by President George W. Bush? More importantly, how much of what they are saying is factual and how much opinion? And down the line, are some of the opinions being presented as if they wer
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Harnessed to the walls, their surgical tools moored down with magnets, a team of French doctors are Wednesday to attempt the world’s first human operation in zero-gravity, as a test run for performing surgery in space.
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Britain has raised concerns with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, over last week’s withdrawal of Shell’s permit to develop the $20bn (£10bn) Sakhalin-2 energy project, suggesting the move could spark a diplomatic row. Approval by the Russian natural r
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LOS ANGELES – The pace of home sales kept slowing in Southern California in August and prices rose at modest rates, a real estate research firm said Tuesday.
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Why bring up a five year old failed investigation now? To remind us how no one has been caught or punished for the events of September 2001? Or to remind us of the threat of bioterrorism and maybe give Republicans a little fear-boost in the polls.
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But for the Christians out there — including those who insist we are a “Christian nation” — the question can be put in much simpler terms: Given the chance, would Jesus attach the electrodes and pull the switch? Would he waterboard? Would he dangle them
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A federal judge in Texas yesterday threw out a lawsuit against Halliburton Co. that had been brought by survivors and the families of those killed when a fuel convoy was assaulted by insurgents outside Baghdad in April 2004.
The suit had claimed Hallib
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WASHINGTON — The Army’s top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders last month after protesting to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that the service could not maintain its current level of activity in Iraq plus its other g
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Investigators believe anthrax used in a series of attacks in the US in 2001 was not of military grade as originally thought, a US newspaper reports.
The Washington Post paper says the FBI has widened its investigation into the source of the anthrax afte -
If you are trying to commit something to memory, take a nap. Even a short daytime snooze could help you learn.
A good night’s sleep is known to improve people’s ability to learn actions such as mirror writing. REM sleep, when most dreaming occurs, is t
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Pakistan is the key to the strategies of both US/NATO and Taliban/al Qaeda in central Asia. Unfortunately, while the Taliban/al Qaeda strategy rests on a broad base of support, the US/NATO strategy rests on the survival of one man: Pervez Musharraf. This
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A new study by researchers at the California Institute of Technology has revealed important findings about the nature of ruptures and sliding behavior, which could impact how we respond to earthquakes and other disasters.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 — A Congress derided as do-nothing has a week to do something, and the prospects are cloudy. Procrastination, power struggles and partisanship have left Congress with substantial work to finish before breaking for the elections. Th
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A recent study conducted by researchers at Louisiana State University and Southeastern Louisiana University demonstrates that the Internet has the capacity to sustain a geographic community in a crisis situation as much as any other communication tool and
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Bleezer is a powerful blogging client. And it’s free.
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“Many have fought in Afghanistan; first and foremost, the British fought there in the 19th century. The astonishing thing today is that Nato and the coalition seem to have learnt nothing, neither from their own experience nor from our experience.”
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Millions of older Americans are confronting a temporary break in their Medicare drug coverage this month that will require them to pay the full cost of their prescriptions or face the painful prospect of going without.
This is the “doughnut hole” in the -
US President George W. Bush’s own church has called for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and is urging direct action to end the war.
Writes Mark Schoeff Jr: United Methodist Church leaders helped launch a week of protest and civil disobedience aga
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According to a new report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), despite the debacle following the drug Vioxx which was withdrawn from the market two years ago, few lessons have been learned and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. still lacks
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The UN has said it will investigate the detention of the Venezuelan foreign minister as he tried to leave New York after a UN General Assembly session.
Nicolas Maduro said he was mistreated by US airport security staff in revenge for Venezuela’s critici -
The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior has announced final test results, which confirm that low pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus was found in samples collected last month from wild mallard ducks in Pennsylvania.
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Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi photographer who helped the Associated Press win a Pulitzer Prize last year, is now in his sixth month in a U.S. Army prison in Iraq. He doesn’t understand why he’s there, and neither do his AP colleagues.
The Army says it think
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