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• India reports new strain of 'totally drug-resistant tuberculosis'

  Mon Jan 16, 2012
  • No one has mentioned the patient who checked himself out of the hospital and went home.

• Should humans be allowed to own wild animals?

  Wed Oct 19, 2011
  • Regulations and insurance premiums and these animals would still be alive and contributing to the gene pool. Too few places IN the wild lef

• In unlikely place, the human face of 9/11

  Sun Sep 4, 2011
  • and yet the i my and no crowd raised money for a scholarship fund and has sent 134 people to school...

• Bat on Wisconsin flight prompts rabies probe

  Fri Aug 12, 2011
  • "Rabies is transmitted most often through animal bites, although other contact with the saliva or brain tissue of an infected animal can cause the disease." Not touching, unless you get the saliva in an open would. I've touched rabid animals (but not the rabid cow from Wisconsin).

• Brain pacemakers aim to zap severe depression

  Mon Feb 21, 2011
  • SmallStuff, I am glad this worked for you. It also worked beautifully for my brother-in-law until they took it out at the end of the study. No follow-up, no "brain how-to" and now his life is worse than before. The before- and after-care are critical and long-term effects are still understudied.

• U.S. demands release of diplomat who killed 2

  Sat Jan 29, 2011
  • Oh, and diplomatic immunity was put in place initially to protect diplomats who were in foreign countries when their countries went to war (wouldn't do to have them immediately arrested or killed) and also, to avoid situations like this where there is political pressure to make an example for …

• U.S. demands release of diplomat who killed 2

  Sat Jan 29, 2011
  • First diplomatic immunity is only a get-out-of-jail-free in the host country; you're not a diplomat at home in the US and yes, you are placed on leave, subjected to prosecution after PNG (persona-non-grata) from the host country (leaving everything, including pets and possessions behind, by the way, …

• Should women be allowed to serve in military combat roles?

  Fri Jan 14, 2011
  • Gender blind or not, pick one, stick with it.

• 'Act of a madman': Dad kills wife, 2 kids, self

  Sat Jan 15, 2011
  • I am so afraid that one day I will see my brother-in-law in one of these stories. He would be all those things, successful, stable, average, middle class, normal, nice.

• A total eclipse of the moon

  Tue Dec 21, 2010
  • Music of the spheres. Galileo (the last guy who watched this full moon+full eclipse+winter solstice invented a new way of thinking!) said that the planets each had their own note (he didn't know about poor demoted Pluto) and there were times when you could hear the music of the spheres.