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...things...
- Another high school shooting spree. Two students, guns, pipe bombs, gernades, and random firing. Up to 25 dead, including shooter suicides. Somebody tell me why a mind with any wits about it would choose to not only destroy itself, but to bring others along for the ride. Fun society - we can shred away the deepest instinct of carbon based life.
- Not long before NATO countries pull out all the stops in Yugoslavia (or what's left of it). Why do I get the strange feeling that Nostradamus wasn't talking about Hussein at all...
- India is out in the open without a government for now - the previous party was voted out. That makes for 6 (governments) in the last 3 years. "Everybody knows, that the world is full of ..." (fill in the blanks from Santa Monica).
- The courts do work sometimes. A judge is withholding physical custody of an infant from a HIV postive mother who insists on breastfeeding, ignoring all accumulated data pointing towards risk of infection by doing so. She was lucky enough the kid wasn't born with the disease, and now she's playing the famous Russian game. At least she's following her natural instincts. She could teach the kids in Colorado a little bit about that.
- New breed of painkillers out...if you know someone who needs it, Celebrex and Vioxx are a couple of the newest arthritis drugs out - nice thing is that they seem to be much safer than the current standard class of painkillers, the NSAIDs.
- For now, cancer rates are going down, mostly because of men who quit smoking sometime during the 70s and 80s. Which sucks, because the latest rash of smoking trends are probably going to bring the rate back up to all new highs in a decade or so. I wonder if smokers have seen what a lung looks like. I'll let you guys know what one feels like sometime next year if I get a chance. Some nice things that happen when a person stops smoking.
Some not nice things.
- Eat more potatoes. The RDA for vitamin C is probably going to go up from 60mg/day to 200mg/day because of some, er...fruitful data. (had to do it, forced at gunpoint and all).
- Attention George, Louis, and Nasser - don't park your new cars outside. This might happen.
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