The long-distance call came about 8pm while Eleanor Catton was cooking dinner. “Everything is about to change, your life is about to change,” the voice from England said
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Tipsy Woods embarrasses Vonn
Tiger Woods reportedly embarrassed Lindsey Vonn at a Met Gala after-party.
Rihanna hits back at Brown
Rihanna has seemingly hit out at Chris Brown, saying love isn’t “for kids”. The singer confirmed over the weekend that the on/off couple have called time on their relationship
Science: Aluminum Plating
Electroplating stout metals with aluminum was described at the Chicago Institute of the American Chemical Society last week. If the process should become practicable commercially, housewifery and industry will benefit by inestimable billions.
Cause of Death: Sloppy Doctors
Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It’s a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine , preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually
Manners Matters
When I’m in a restaurant, I don’t know what to do,” confides Glorian Persaud, 20, a pharmacy student, with a defeated tone in her voice. “There are a million spoons.” I know what she means
HISTORICAL NOTES: Remember Pearl Harbor
VESSELS MOORED IN HARBOR: NINE BATTLESHIPS; THREE CLASS-B CRUISERS; THREE SEAPLANE TENDERS; SEVENTEEN DESTROYERS. ENTERING HARBOR ARE FOUR CLASS-B CRUISERS; THREE DESTROYERS.
Katrina’s Lingering Medical Nightmare
Melinda Amedee was scheduled to have a tumor removed from her kidney at a New Orleans hospital on August 30. She lives far enough away from the city to have missed serious damage from Hurricane Katrina.
How Did Life Begin?
The molecule was not alive, at least not in any conventional sense.
Health: Why I Would Vote No On Pot
Maybe it’s because I was born a couple of months after Woodstock and wasn’t around when marijuana was as common as iPods are today, but I’m constantly amazed that after all these years–and all the wars on drugs and all the public-service announcements–nearly 15 million Americans still use marijuana at least once a month. California and 10 other states have already decriminalized marijuana for medical use