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BBC News: Genes 'may cut seizures'

London :: United Kingdom | about 2 hours ago

Carrying two genes linked to epilepsy may actually make you less likely to have a seizure, say US researchers...The Baylor College of Medicine team, which carried out its research on mice, reported its findings in the Nature Neuroscience journal. More...

Tags: medicine, news

Etched in blood! Angie's tattoos

Gwalior :: India | about 2 hours ago

Posted by city786

In an interview sometime during the time of the 'Billy Bob' tattoo removal procedure, Angelina Jolie is reported to have said, "I'll never be stupid enough to have a man's name tattooed on me again.

Tags: news, Angelina Jolie

Information Week: Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail Account Hacked

Memphis :: TN :: USA | about 2 hours ago

The summary lists five screenshots of Palin's Yahoo Mail account, three text files with contact information and related data culled from the account, and two photos of Palin's family. It concludes, "The list of correspondence, together with the account...

Tags: palin, hack, news, internet, Sarah Palin, mail account, information week

Aliens Invade Europe. Seriously!

Gwalior :: India | about 11 hours ago

Posted by city786

It was bound to happen. The aliens have finally landed and what's more, they've made themselves known. And these are not aliens in the 'illegal immigrant' sense of the word. Frankly, they also aren't aliens in the 'ET' sense of the word either.DAISIE...

Tags: news, science, technology

Rockford Register Star, Illinois: Will state budget mess get fixed? Maybe next year

Springfield :: MO :: USA | about 21 hours ago

As with most things that have to do with the Illinois budget, you have to take the good with the bad, and the good seldom makes up for the bad. When Gov. Rod Blagojevich finally acted on Senate Bill 1103 to restore spending cuts he made during the summer,...

Tags: president, things, election, money, news, obama, Senate

Maureen Lipman admits using LSD

London :: United Kingdom | about 23 hours ago

Maureen Lipman, who once played the proud Jewish mother Beattie in the 1980s BT commercials, has admitted she took the hallucinogenic drug LSD, as well as cannabis. The confession of her acid trip is in a three-part TV documentary series on Five, which...

Tags: quantum of solace, news, Maureen Lipman

Worst of global crisis yet to come: IMF

Zurich :: Switzerland | about 23 hours ago

Olivier Blanchard also warned that the institution does not have the funds to solve every economic problem. "The worst is yet to come," Blanchard said in an interview with the Finanz und Wirtschaft newspaper, adding that "a lot of time is needed before...

Tags: worst, financial crisis, economic crisis, news, Olivier Blanchard

Geithner and Clinton Likely Cabinet Picks

Gwalior :: India | 1 day ago

Posted by city786

President-elect Barack Obama intends to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as his treasury secretary to confront the nation's intense economic turmoil, senior Democratic officials said Friday. The stock market soared on...

Tags: news

Teen Commits Suicide Live on Web

Gwalior :: India | 1 day ago

Posted by city786

MIAMI (Nov. 22) -The family of a college student who killed himself live on the Internet say they're horrified his life ended before a virtual audience, and infuriated that viewers of the live webcam or operators of the Web site that hosted it didn't...

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Obama 'to unveil Treasury chief'

Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 day ago

Senior strategist David Axelrod told Fox News TV that Mr Geithner, currently head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, had "the right temperament". The job of treasury chief will need to be confirmed by the US Senate.

Tags: obama, geithner, summers, Barack Obama, news, Obama Treasury, tax cut, elect barack, Congress, wall street