Oilsands link to Fort Chip cancer rates?

As officials try to play down the raised cancer rates amongst aboriginal people in Fort Chipewyan others are pointing a finger towards oilsand plants that sit higher up the water courses that feed Fort Chip. For a...

'Elephant legs' woman set for operation

"Wang Cheng, 24, cannot work or even wear trousers because of the grotesque and painful elephantiasis which has dogged her since the age of six and left her with legs weighing 50 kilos. "I cannot go out to work,"...

Long Duck Dongs: Evolution and Sexual Organs

The interesting thing here (as it were) is that ducks seem to be able to grow their phalluses in competition with each other, thus eliminating their need to receive about 90% of email spam. However, female ducks...

Former Free Press publisher Neal Shine dies at 76

Neal Shine, who loved the Detroit Free Press so much he needed two retirements to leave, died today of respiratory failure after a recent illness. Shine started at the Free Press as a copyboy in 1950 and by 1995...

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