New Drug Targets Cancer Stem Cells

This will give new hope for breast cancer patients in battling out cancer. "They come up with this discovery when they used a new method of screening for drugs that aims to target and kill cancer stem cells. This method can be used to find drugs that will detect and other...

ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY, May be Palins biggest Problem

"(Political Animal) THE ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY.... What may prove to be the single most damaging angle to Sarah Palin's role on the Republican Party ticket? There are quite a few contenders (ethics...

Obama, McCain Spar over Immigration

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe Sway to get the Ethnic Vote is underway as two Presidential candidates fight to get elected as President. It seems both are trying to top one another in who is the...

British Shin Kicking Championship

"The crowd that assembled on Dover’s Hill near Chipping Campden last Friday weren’t in the Cotswolds for views of the rolling countryside.They came instead for scenic pleasures of sheer, shinbone-shattering violence that forms part of the Cotswold Olimpick Games.To the...

Fight Club: Brawling for Safer Streets

One neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica, has come up with a novel way to curb street violence: a weekly boxing event. Local amateur combatants square off each Thursday in a makeshift ring, and so far it seems to be...

Hillary and Obama and Super Delegates

"Washington (ABC Live): As fight in Democrats to be nominated as presidential candidate is going to be photo finish. Smelling it now both main contenders Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama has started to debate on role of party super delegates in final say in tie situation."

Jason Reitman's Juno nets Independent Spirit nomination

This week's Independent Spirit Awards nominations (for many, this writer included, the last real barometer of good filmmaking in North America) netted a number of significant nods for Canadian filmmakers and...

Johnson chosen as Tory candidate for London mayor

"Boris Johnson was today chosen as the Tory candidate to take on Ken Livingstone for the post of London mayor. The gaffe-prone Henley MP garnered three-quarters of the votes cast as he saw off the challenge of less well-known contenders Victoria Borwick, Andrew Boff and...

Fugitive Democratic Fundraiser Turns Self in to Police

 I thought it was only Repubulicans who were the party of corruption weren't they? "REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A top Democratic fundraiser wanted as a fugitive in California turned himself in Friday to face a...

Democratic rivals in race to recruit bloggers

The Guardian UK reports this morning that democratic contenders for the White House are hiring bloggers to spread the mesage that they are better than their republican counterparts.  All this while democrats...

Gallup: Giuliani is "acceptable" to 3 in 4 Republicans

Is this "damning with faint praise"  or am I missing something here? Pollster Gallup has just released a poll which rates the contending Republican presidential candidates and finds (apparently) some lukewarm...

Brown Says Labour Must Modernise

"The big challenges facing the UK such as terrorism and climate change cannot be solved "unless we involve the people of this country", Gordon Brown says. To achieve that the Labour Party must reform and modernise again, he told a youth hustings in Oxford. "Only 1% of the...

Will Brown Replace Blair?

Does this mean an end or beginning for the US/UK Alliance?  Bottom line...likely the same old, same old.  Goodbye Tony...thanks for the love. "Chancellor Gordon Brown is preparing to officially launch...

Revenge of the Sith: Le Pen to Unveil Electoral Plans

This guy is like a boy band: so many records get sold, but nobody openly admits to being a fan. Untranationalists prey on opinions and emotions that voters like to keep hidden: racism, entitlement, xenophobia. His...

Internet sabotages Stockholm library competition

The internet has threatened to derail one of the biggest open competitions in recent years after two of the six supposedly anonymous shortlisted contenders for the new Stockholm library were posted on the web. One of these, a young British architect who beat more than 1,000...

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