Let's face it. The Bush-avoided-National-Guard-duty fiasco that cost him his job was just one instance where Big Dan's panties got all in a bunch. If the CBS Evening News had been # 1 in the ratings the network would have found a way to sweep it under the rug, but Dan's nightly broadcast was running dead last. It was all the excuse they needed to give him the boot.
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October 27, 2005
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Sheryl Swoopes |
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In one fell Swoopes, a major women's basketball player has come out of the closet. Reports are that the redneck pressure that was keeping her in was starting to stink so bad she thought she was going to die. Sheryl Swoopes, the right-on woman who declared her lesbianism to the wild and whacky Bush world, is a forward for the Houston Comets.
Her de-closeting was facilitated by a very lucrative endorsement offer from Olivia, a purveyor of lesbian cruises. She will be leaving on an Olivia cruise of the Mexican Riviera starting October 29. Apparently, there's nothing like a great deal of money to empower a person to say: "I'm gay, now kiss my ass."
Sheryl has an 8-year-old son Jordan from earlier in her life when she was repressing her sexuality. She was the first woman to have a Nike shoe named for her, which for a basketball player is bigger than winning the Nobel Prize. Word that Cheryl will be giving Condosleeza Rots counseling sessions remains unconfirmed. (Scott Rose)
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August 8, 2005
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The Kylie Minogue effect |
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Medical Journal of Australia has published a study revealing that bookings for mammograms rose by 40 per cent during the two weeks of coverage about Kylie Minogue's diagnosis and surgery for breast cancer reports ABC
Professor Simon Chapman from Sydney University, says there was a 100 per cent rise in bookings among women over 40 who had never been screened before.
The professor of public health said he looked at the numbers of booked mammograms as part of the government's BreastScreen programmes in the 19 weeks before, the two weeks during and the six weeks after the publicity surrounding Kylie's illness reports BBC
"A 100 per cent increase is absolutely unprecedented in the history of the screening program in Australia," Professor Chapman said.
"So if there has to be a silver lining on Kylie Minogue's diagnosis it's that undoubtedly a large number of women have done something very positive for their own health."
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Peter Jennings dies |
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Reports from sources inside ABC News, say that World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings is dead. Jennings died at his New York home, ABC News President David Westin said.
In April, Jennings was diagnosed with lung cancer , and has not been on the air since. Jennings, 66 at the time, told colleagues about his illness in an e-mail that was made available to reporters. "There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky," he said in the e-mail. Anchor duties have rotated between several anchors, most notably Good Morning America co-anchor Charles Gibson.
Jennings was the face of ABC News whenever a big story broke reports News Day.
"Peter has been our colleague, our friend, and our leader in so many ways. None of us will be the same without him," Westin said.
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July 17, 2005
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NASA shuttle launch indefinitely delayed |
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NASA's first shuttle flight in more than two years has been put off indefinitely as the space agency mounts a massive investigation into why a fuel gauge failed right before Discovery's scheduled lift off.
Deputy shuttle program manager Wayne Hale says that engineers are no closer to knowing why a fuel gauge acted up right before a scheduled lift-off of Discovery.
"Right now, rather than give you a launch date, I'm going to tell you what our real status is. We are going forward on a day-by-day basis, we have got the entire resources of the agency behind us to troubleshoot this problem. As soon as we find the problem, we will immediately move out to fix the problem, and as soon as we have fixed problem we will be four days from launch."
"Everybody is going to want to ask, 'What is that date going to be?' Well, I don't know," he said.
It was the latest setback in NASA's grueling and long drawn-out quest to return to space following the Columbia tragedy two and a half years ago.
Hale said it's possible NASA could try to launch again late next week, "but that would require a very near-term lucky find" of the source of the problem.
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pig sperm off to space |
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China is planning to study the effects of outer space on sperm by sending 40 grams of pedigree pig sperm to space on board the Shenzhou VI spacecraft in October.
Some of the sperm will be kept outside the spacecraft's biological capsule and some inside, according to China's Xinhua news agency.
Surviving sperm will be returned to earth and used to compare the effect of microgravity on the semen reports BBC
Agricultural experts hope to use the sperm to fertilise pig eggs back on earth and monitor the effects of the journey to space.
The pigs chosen are a breed called Rongchang, named after an area in the southwest of the country and famed for their physique and for the quality of their meat.
Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration, earlier told China Daily that Shenzhou VI will carry two men into orbit for five or six days.
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July 15, 2005
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San Andreas Sex Scene" Video" |
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US senator Hillary Clinton said she will introduce legislation to help keep inappropriate video games out of the hands of children, and has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the "Grand Theft Auto" game.
Clinton's proposal would institute a financial penalty for retailers who fail to enforce the video manufacturers voluntary ratings system rules. It would prohibit the sale of violent and sexually explicit video games to minors and put in place a $5,000 penalty for those who violate the law reports Reuters.
The growing controversy over the Hot Coffee mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas apparently set the former First Lady off.
The content can be unlocked by using the "Hot Coffee" code modification widely available on the Internet. By installing the modification, gamers can have their drivers find different girlfriends in the game who will have a "cup of hot coffee" -- a euphemism for sex -- with them.
Rockstar is still denying that it is responsible for the Hot Coffee content.
"Hackers created the 'Hot Coffee' modification by disassembling and then combining, recompiling and altering the game's source code," the statement explains
See Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hidden Sex Scene " Video" . Warning this is not work safe, in fact if you are under 18, you should view with your parents
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July 12, 2005
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Curry ingredient fights skin cancer |
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Tests in laboratory dishes show that the compound that makes curry yellow - curcumin made melanoma skin cancer cells more likely to self-destruct in a process known as apoptosis reports Reuters.
Researchers also found that curcumin helped stop the spread of breast cancer tumor cells to the lungs of mice. Curcumin acted as an antioxidant to help prevent tumors from forming in the laboratory.
Bharat Aggarwal of the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and colleagues treated three batches of melanoma cells with curcumin at different doses and for varying times.
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Rockstar denies sex in San Andreas |
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Rockstar has denied responsibility for the Hot Coffee game, saying that "the work of the mod community is beyond the scope of either publishers or the ESRB."
Using code written by Patrick Wildenborg and a few friends, some scenes in the best-selling video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas become sexually explicit.
Wildenborg's free code acts as a software key. Mr. Wildenborg said his code merely unlocked the sexually graphic images that are hidden inside the game and written by programmers who work for the game's developer, Rockstar Games.
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July 11, 2005
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M-5 rocket launched |
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Sunday, Japan launched the M-5 rocket carrying a satellite equipped with five X-ray telescopes to study the structure and movement of black holes and galaxies to study black holes and galaxies.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, staged a live Web telecast of the M-5 rocket being shot into space from Uchinoura, 620 miles southwest of Tokyo. It was the first liftoff since the February launch of Japan’s H-2A rocket reports MSNBC. The launch, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed to Sunday due to bad weather.
The satellite would be put into operation in about a month following minor adjustments to the orbit and various tests on onboard equipment.
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July 8, 2005
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London Death Toll Up to 50 |
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Four near-simultaneous explosions rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, killing at least 50 people and wounding 700, according to British officials.
By Friday though, determined Londoners were back on mass transit making the morning commute to work.
"We are convinced that the politics we represent will win and triumph over terror," said Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking from the G-8 economic summit in Scotland on Friday.
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Teens love prescription drugs |
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A report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found that more Americans were abusing controlled prescription drugs than cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants and heroin combined.
Abusers of prescription drugs nearly doubled to over 15 million from 1992 to 2003.
Of 15.1 million abusers of prescription drugs , 2.3 million are teenagers, but teens turn to prescription drugs at much higher rates than adults do, the study reports.
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July 7, 2005
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Meth is top drug problem, survey says |
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According to a crime survey of 45 states, Methamphetamine has overtaken cocaine as the biggest drug problem in rural and small towns in the US. More than half of the 500 county law enforcement polled said the highly addictive substance was their biggest drug problem. Methamphetamine is a chemical variant of amphetamine with much more powerful effects. It is easy to produce using chemicals found on farms, and the homemade labs which produce it are less easy to detect in the countryside reports BBC
The ingredients are highly toxic and highly flammable, often resulting in serious explosions. And the drug itself, which is smoked, inhaled or injected, is extremely addictive, producing a high that lasts several hours and leading to binges that often last days or even weeks.
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July 6, 2005
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Microsoft CRM 3.0 |
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Microsoft has unveiled the latest version of their customer relationship management (CRM) software. Microsoft CRM 3.0 will provide a complete suite of powerful marketing, sales and service capabilities, all with a familiar and consistent user experience based on Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook. Extensive new configuration, customization and integration capabilities will make it easier for customers and partners to deploy highly tailored solutions that help drive measurable business results and offer a low total cost of ownership ( TCO ).
Microsoft CRM 3.0 is designed to address the three key challenges that determine the success or failure of most CRM initiatives: user adoption, business fit and total cost of ownership.
Users of previous versions of the CRM code will get a free tool with the latest application to speed up migration and ensure data integrity. Users will also have the opportunity to buy the code via subscription for the first time.
A special small business edition will be available for companies running Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition. The final code will be released at the end of the year, and will be generally available in the first quarter of 2006.
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Aspirin, vitamin E fail in cancer prevention |
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A 12-year of study involving nearly 39,876 healthy U.S. women has found that regular, low doses of aspirin do not generally prevent cancer, and vitamin E is ineffective in warding off heart disease and cancer reports Reuters. The women were at least 45 years of age when the study began 1992. They were followed until 2004.
The report did find aspirin might have a protective effect against lung cancer, but the authors said that needs to be confirmed with more research, and they pointed out that there is no way of knowing whether higher doses of aspirin might have yielded different results.
"However, based on the data currently available, we do not suggest that doctors recommend low-dose aspirin therapy for primary prevention of cancer," said Nancy Cook of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, chief author of the aspirin study.
While aspirin may not work for cancer, a number of earlier studies have found it does appear to help prevent heart disease, a bigger killer of women than cancer.
Tuesday's findings on aspirin and vitamin E were published in two reports in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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July 3, 2005
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NASA ready |
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Thursday, NASA officially set July 13 as the launch date for the first space shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster 2 1/2 years ago. The U.S. space agency had previously hoped to launch the shuttle Discovery in May, but halted that plan in April and said more work was needed on a redesigned fuel tank.
"We believe this is the cleanest flight we have ever done," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told reporters after a two-day flight review, while acknowledging that all space flight carries risks.
"It's risky; we've done what we can do to minimize that."
"Based on a very thorough and very successful flight readiness review we're currently 'go for launch' of Discovery on July 13," Griffin said.
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Live 8 |
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Millions gathered at concert venues across four continents on Saturday to demand that the Group of Eight (G8) wealthy nations cancel the debts of poor African countries and boost aid at a summit in Scotland on Wednesday. Concert Bob Geldof appealed to G8 leaders to deliver an extra $25 billion dollars in effective aid for Africa alongside a further $25 billion dollars for the other poorest countries around the world.
Geldof said the G8 summit also needed to confirm the cancellation of all debt for all countries that need it and remove damaging economic policies imposed as a condition, and make "decisive steps" to end unjust trade, allowing poor countries to build their own economies.
"We will not applaud half-measures, or politics as usual. This must be a historic breakthrough," an open letter in Britain's Independent newspaper said.
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FDA Warns About Antidepressants, Suicide |
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Federal drug regulators on Friday issued a second warning that people taking antidepressant drugs be monitored for signs of suicidal thoughts and deepening depression.
The new warning was prompted by recent scientific publications that suggested a connection, the Food and Drug Administration said. The agency said it was in the process of reviewing data from drug manufacturers to determine the extent and seriousness of the risk, a review it said could take more than a year. The new advisory follows action taken in March 2004, when the FDA said there was a small, but real increased risk of suicidal behavior in adults and children taking these drugs.
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June 30, 2005
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Time magazine to surrender notes |
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Thursday, Time magazine, owned by the Time Warner group reluctantly agreed to hand over the notebooks one of its reporters to a grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA operative's name.
The name of the agent, Valerie Plame, was leaked in 2003 in a row over evidence used by the US government to justify the invasion of Iraq , BBC reports. In 2003 to journalist Robert Novak, identified Plame in a syndicated column. Plame's husband had criticized the Bush administration during the Iraq war.
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Canada to Restrict Online Pharmacies |
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Wednesday The Canadian government announced that it was drafting legislation to limit bulk exports of essential Canadian drugs in an effort to ensure that online pharmacy sales to the United States do not cause domestic shortages reports New York Times. Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh says says he will consult the industry on a plan to track the volume of drugs being shipped out of the country.
Diane Heibert, a pharmacy technician, at CanadaDrugs.com in Winnipeg. Online drug suppliers were concerned about proposed regulations.
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June 29, 2005
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Gates targets global health crisis |
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The Gates Foundation, run by Microsoft chief and billionaire, Bill Gates, said it has chosen 43 research projects which together will receive 436.6 mln usd to fight infectious diseases in the world's poorest countries.
Two years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation asked scientists around the world for ideas on how to improve public health in poor countries, develop vaccines that don't require refrigeration, and stop insects from spreading diseases. In response, scientists from 70 countries proposed more than 15-hundred research projects. The foundation has chosen to fund 43 of them. As well as targeting killer diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, its goals include improved childhood vaccines, controlling insects that cause disease, improving the nutritional content of staple crops and creating more accurate means of idenitfying, recording and tracking disease in poor countries.
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