A recent study performed by Kowa, the manufacturer of the new, over-the-counter Lady Guard pills, claims that the constant need to always be near a bathroom profoundly affects the quality of life among Japanese women of all ages. They go on to say that this eternal quest is a cause of undue stress and bladder [...]
LOS ANGELES – Residents of a Southern California apartment complex say they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor’s patio, but didn’t call police because they thought it was part of a Halloween display. Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday. The 75-year-old was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony [...]
In an odd attempt at improving public relations between the police and the populace, the highway policemen in Bangkok, Thailand patrol the city wearing anti-pollution masks with bright red grins painted upon them. “For our highway policemen, we have the policy that the police must be friendly and smiling all the time, but the problem [...]
South Florida already has a problem with the growing numbers of nonnative Burmese Pythons and now a cluster of python captures within a square mile in South Florida has wildlife officials scrambling to prevent a new breed from spreading, CBS station WFOR-TV reported. Authorities are investigating the discovery of three African rock pythons in west [...]
BRIDGEWATER, S.D. — Behind the freezer doors at a meat plant mysteriously abandoned by its owner, 44 tons of bison meat managed to hold its own for months, masked by the brutal chill of two South Dakota winters. Once the power was cut and spring thaw arrived, nature took over. And enough rotting meat to [...]
SINGAPORE — Madam Salina Mohamed So’ot has no pulse. But she is very much alive. The 30-year-old administrative assistant is the first recipient in Singapore to get a new artificial heart that pumps blood continuously, the reason why there are no beats on her wrist. Older artificial hearts usually mimic the heart’s pulsations. And the [...]
October 24, 2009
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