OlympicsSF Zoo Tiger Attack "Victim" Goes to Prison
You'll recall the tiger attack that occurred last Christmas at the San Francisco Zoo. In it, Paul Dhaliwal and his older brother Kulbir, along with their friend Carlos Sousa Jr., were attacked by a tiger who escaped from her enclosure.
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Medvedev: Russia Will Crush Anyone Threatening its Citizens
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has promised what he called a shattering blow to anyone threatening Russian citizens.
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No more hugs as Obama tears into McCain
So much for hugging in church.
A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a California megachurch, Obama called the U.S. economy a disaster thanks to "John McCain's president, George W. Bush," and chided his Republican rival's campaign team for trying to make him look unpatriotic and weak.
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Did McCain lift POW story from Russian novelist?
Senator John McCain (R-AZ), in a Christmas-themed December ad for his presidential campaign, told the following story:
"One night, after being mistreated as a POW, a guard loosened the ropes binding me, easing my pain. On Christmas, that same guard approached me, and without saying a word, he drew a cross in the sand. We stood, wordlessly, looking at the cross, remembering the true light of Christmas. I'll never forget that no matter where you are, no matter how difficult the circumstances, there will always be someone who will pick you up."
"It just sounded so fake and so contrived, so I did a little research about it," said DailyKos contributor rickrocket. The research revealed a similar story by recently departed novelist and McCain favorite Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, recounting his experience in a Soviet gulag in The Gulag Archipelago, released in the United States in 1973.
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U.S. Sees New Missile Move From Russia in Georgian Fight
Even as Russia pledged to begin withdrawing its forces from neighboring Georgia on Monday, American officials said the Russian military had been moving launchers for short-range ballistic missiles into South Ossetia, a step that appeared intended to tighten its hold on the breakaway territory.
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John McCain hires a Hollywood agent in hunt for convention glamour
John McCain’s campaign has asked a Hollywood agent to sprinkle some glitter over his anointment as the Republican nominee - while Barack Obama frets about celebrities stampeding towards the Democratic convention in Denver next week.
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On Saturday, July 12, 2008, Officers with the North Missouri Drug Task Force, Chariton County Sheriff's Department, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Moberly Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations, ...
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Lack of Sunshine Appears to Be Harming Black Health and Life Expectancy
By Robert N. Taylor
(Taylor Media Services) There is a growing body of scientific and medical research suggesting that concerns about skin cancer may have been exaggerated and that most Americans, especially Blacks, actually need greater exposure to sunshine and the valuable vitamin D it helps to produce. The most recent in a series of studies was released on Tuesday by the prestigious Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The researchers used data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to conclude that not getting enough of the so-called “sunshine vitamin” appears to increase the risk of an early death by as much as 26 percent. Johns Hopkins cardiologist Dr. Erin Michos said low levels of vitamin D appear to “confer an increased risk of dying from any cause.”
As far as African Americans are concerned, Jean Mayer of the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston concluded in an earlier report: “Vitamin D insufficiency is more prevalent among blacks than other Americans and, in North America, most young, healthy blacks to not achieve optimal” levels of vitamin D from sunshine.
It appears that the gods of Africa gave Blacks perhaps the best protection there is to skin cancer – the dark pigmentation of their skins. However, the same pigmentation which protected the African ancestors of American Blacks from the harmful ultra-violet rays of the hot African sun now works as a disadvantage because it reduces vitamin D production in the skin in the less sunny North American environment.
Studies show the sunshine vitamin offers a broad range of health benefits including boosting bone and muscle strength to offering protection against both cancer and diabetes. The Johns Hopkins study suggested it may also help prevent heart attacks. But Dr. Michos said more clinical studies were needed before that conclusion could be definitively made. Meanwhile, in 2007 a team from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska found that the lower the levels of vitamin D in a woman’s body the greater is the risk of her developing breast cancer.
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With Same Score, Chinaa s He Beats Liukin in Uneven Bars
After performing her uneven bars routine Monday, she saw her name in second place and glanced over the scores, assuming she was at least one- or two-tenths of a point behind He Kexin of China.
But, upon closer inspection, she noticed something strange about the gymnast in first and the gymnast in second.
“Dad, I think we have the same score,” she told her father, Valeri, as she nudged him.
He answered: “Oh. Yeah.”
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Taliban kill 10 French soldiers near Kabul
KABUL - Taliban insurgents killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 in a major battle east of the Afghan capital, the French president's office said on Tuesday, the biggest single loss of ...
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