Stress shown to Shrink your Brain

"Stress shown to Shrink your Brain Feeling stressed? Well here is another good reason not to be so.  It has now been discovered by scientists that if you experience long term...

Cops Make Major Drug Bust When FedEx Delivers Pot Package to Wrong Address

And here I thought that Big Brown and FedEx trucks mostly brought goodies from shopping or expedited business materials. But one drug pusher decided that his business would do best by FedEx--which luckily then took a shipment to the wrong address."When it absolutely,...

United Airlines to temporarily lay off 950 pilots

"United Airlines will temporarily lay off about 950 pilots by the end of 2009 as a result of plans to reduce the fleet by 100 aircraft to cope with surging oil prices, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. ...

Penis snatch witchcraft panic hits Congo

This is a terrible crime. I wonder, if I can blame them too. Here a women, whose touch makes the penis shrink would be called "Ice Queen". "Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused ofusing black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave ofpanic...

Opinion: More Con, Less Pro on Immigration

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Perhaps a quote by Liberal immigration critic says it all.Liberal immigration critic Maurizio Bevilacqua had the chutzpah to say yesterday that "family reunification …...

Sony reports record profits as PS3 losses shrink

Japan's Sony Corp. said Thursday that its third-quarter net profit jumped by 25 percent to a record high as its video game division finally returned to the black. Sony is enjoying a strong recovery after being caught off guard in recent years by innovative new products such...

Scientists shrink Hebrew Bible to size of sugar grain

"Scientists have succeeded in writing a full version of the Hebrew Bible — including vowel points — in a space smaller than the size of a pinhead.Using a scientific device called a Focused Ion Beam, scientists in...

Digital consumer rights

"Digital consumer rights Sean Whelan, Europe Correspondent, reports that the plea for digital consumer rights is pretty much Jim Murray's last act after 17 years as director of the European Consumer Organisation. 'Do we have to accept that when we take the shrink wrap off a...

Shrink costs the world`s retailers US$98.6 bln

"Eight hundred and twenty retail companies, operating 138,603 stores with sales of U.S. $948 billion, provided the data used in this study. The retailers taking part represented 16% of total European retail sales, 13% of North American retail sales and 5% retail sales in...

The Road Ahead for Canadian Venture Capital

Mark Skapinker is one of the board members at NowPublic and one of our esteemed investors.  I love it when he goes on a rant about the VC market in Canada.  People should sit up and listen.  He is...

Forced perspective: Giant hands make for tiny iPhone

I'm rather tired of the iPhone hype. Other WiFi handsets have beaten Apple to market already, and I reckon critics will be gagging to find flaws in this product. At the moment, though, the the juggernaut continues,...

Study: Men's earnings shrink

"American men in their 30s earn less than their fathers' generation did at the same age, potentially reversing longtime assumptions that each successive generation will be better off than their predecessors, according to a study released Friday. Family incomes of...

It’s A Small World For Death Valley Pupfish :: Oblate Spheroid

"In a small pool of water, guarded by an eight foot high fence, lives an evolutionary miracle of aquatic nature. In a place where water is considered a most rare commodity, Death Valley is home to a very small...

Motivation through Hardship

"Motivation through Hardship Sometimes, the best lessons and the strongest motivations come from our hardest experiences in life. My friend Quinn Simons and I met in college in Colorado, became fast friends, and did...

The Failed Attempt to Leash the Dogs of War

" The dogs of war unleashed As of 1999, the U.S. military had troops in 132 countries. The budget for the U.S. military is larger than those of the next 20 largest militaries combined. Since 1950, the military has been deployed 71 times to 42 countries and U.S. soldiers have...

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