Interview With 15-Year-Old Iraqi Girl Who Survived Being Strapped With Explo...

"ania al Ambaki was handcuffed to a gate at an Iraq security checkpoint. She was a human bomb, CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports. Suspicious officers immobilized her, jammed cell phone signals that...

Deutsche Bank Sold Massive Amounts of Phantom Stock

" delivery records,” there were “only two failures to deliver.” So Deutsche Bank systematically failed to even locate the stock that it sold, but the NYSE isn’t calling it “naked short selling,” and...

Mentally challenged man says Aide Voted for Obama against his Will

"ALBANY, GA (WALB) - There are allegations of voter fraud, as a Dougherty County family claims the vote of a mentally challenged relative was stolen. They say the adult day rehab program where Jack Justice...

World's oldest blogger signs off for the last time, aged 108

"An Australian woman renowned as the world's oldest blogger has died at the age of 108. Her last post described her ailing health but also how she still sang a happy song every day. Olive Riley, of Woy Woy about...

115-year-old Woman's Brain in Tip-Top Shape

" A Dutch woman who reached 115 years of age and remained mentally sharp throughout life also had a healthy brain when she died, a new study finds.The woman's brain showed almost no evidence of Alzheimer's disease. The finding suggests Alzheimer's disease and other forms of...

Blogging--It's Good for You

"Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing...

53 Illegal Immigrants Held by Human Smugglers in Phoenix

Fifty-three illegal immigrants being held against their will were found by authorities in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday after immigration officials received a tip. The immigrants were a group that had been smuggled into the US illegally and were being held in a fortified one...

Beyond beds [ Mayor Newsom Stalling Shelter Standards Law

San Francisco homeless residents cannot understand why Mayor Gavin Newsom is stalling ?   If he was at the table for the past nine months and 2 years, like everyone else, we could have passed this last week and ended suffering,  immediately start reducing 20 to...

Stressed at Work - Mentally Ill by 32

According to a new study, stress at work place is making people of all professions, including doctors and electricians, mentally ill. The study showed that 10 per cent of men and 14 per cent of women who often find themselves in stressful situations at work, suffer depression...

Media Flog Ires Bloggers

 Getting tired of the Media 'Flogging' a story to death?Bloggers are posting their disgust over the Media frenzy with the Virginia Tech mass murderer's Press Package being broadcast and picked up by all."The only people who learned anything from NBC's screening of the...

Libraries, the new homeless shelters

Actual News Guy pointed me to this very interesting piece, written by a public librarian, about America's libraries increasingly becoming a daytime "homeless shelter" for people who live on the streets. The...

Eli Lilly Suppressed and Minimized Health Risk of Zyprexa

"The drug maker Eli Lilly has engaged in a decade-long effort to play down the health risks of Zyprexa, its best-selling medication for schizophrenia, according to hundreds of internal Lilly documents and e-mail messages among top company managers."Back in the mid 90's...

The High Costs Of Jailing the Mentally Ill: 15,000 per Stay

"Keith Ervin of The Seattle Times reports today that someone booked into the King County Jail will usually stay an average of 9-35 days, but if the offender is mentally ill , the stay is usually about 158 days. And the cost to the county is $15,000 , or much more for the...

A Guide to Healthy Eating and Living

"Do you want to go through life feeling tired, needing a nap after you've eaten, overweight, bloated and overfull, nauseous, with intestinal gas, cramps or pains in your stomach, belching after you've eaten, with heartburn, constipation, foul stools, dull and slow thinking,...

Death Penalty Upheld For Muslim Sgt.

"On March 22, 2003 Hasan Akbar rolled grenades into the tents of his fellow 101st Airborne, at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait. The attack, which was carried out the night before the unit was supposed to cross into Iraq, killed Captain Christopher Seifert, 27, and Air Force Major...

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