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what caught my eye today
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19 Apr 2008 Sat 04:46 am |
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Quoting catwoman: Quoting CANLI: İt must have been very scary Teas,glad that everyone is alright there . |
Canli, I think you are such a kind person.  |
I believe she is as well.  Even though we rattle her chains sometimes  I think she is a very heartfelt person. I pick up on this through her postings.
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19 Apr 2008 Sat 04:52 am |
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What I like about her also is that she doesn't "gang up" against someone she disagrees with. She can fight with someone, and in another thread she sends flowers to the same person and wishes that this person is alright...
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19 Apr 2008 Sat 01:19 pm |
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A Chinese ship carrying arms destined for Zimbabwe has been forced to leave the South African port of Durban four days after failing to unload.
Earlier, a South African judge ruled that the cargo of rocket-propelled grenades, mortar rounds and ammunition could not be transported overland.
Human rights groups had petitioned for a block on the arms and dockers had refused to unload the shipment.
Some fear Zimbabwe will use the arms to repress political opposition.
Source: BBC News
It is good to read that normal folk are making a stand by refusing to unload a shipment of arms from China destined to suppress an already heavily supressed country.
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19 Apr 2008 Sat 10:17 pm |
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alternative to anaesthetics?
Hypnotist Alex Lenkei snubbed anaesthetic and sent himself into a trance before undergoing surgery on his hand at Worthing Hospital in Sussex.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7355569.stm
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20 Apr 2008 Sun 10:06 pm |
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I have always been skeptical of hypnosis and this surely proves there is a place for it in modern medicine.
I found this really interesting too.
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21 Apr 2008 Mon 02:29 am |
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(advancements in science has always amazed me..but sometimes it scares me  )
Are we 10 years away from artificial life?
In late August 2007, an Associated Press article put forth the claim that scientists were no more than 10 years away from creating artificial life -- and possibly as few as three. Could such a thing be possible? Scientists have made tremendous strides in decoding human and animal genomes, synthesizing DNA and cloning. Creating artificial, functioning biological organisms seems to present a tremendous leap beyond any of these abilities. But some of the companies and researchers involved in the quest for artificial life believe that the 10-year time frame is possible. Not only that -- they say that the development of wet artificial life (as it's often called) will radically affect our views of biological life and our place in the universe..........
http://science.howstuffworks.com/artificial-life-news.htm
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22 Apr 2008 Tue 09:19 am |
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A mother has given birth to a rare set of quadruplets in which three of the four boys are identical.
http://www.kcra.com/health/15921771/detail.html
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23 Apr 2008 Wed 02:30 pm |
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An amazing piece of research that tells us, women trying to conceive a child should eat toast for breakfast if they want a girl and cereal if they want a boy! Well I blew that one out of the window, as I nearly always ate toast (and marmite ) and I had two boys!
This sort of research really gets on my nerves, how dare they spend money on proving / disproving ridiculous concepts when it could be better spent on more deserving causes. 
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23 Apr 2008 Wed 02:43 pm |
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...the wonderful photo of Janissary. It is the most handsome picture I have seen of him 
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