Death Panels Begin: Reaction to FDA’s Decision to Begin RationingThe Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announced yesterday that it would ration the late-stage cancer drug Avastin for breast cancer patients. (Ironically, the same day, the EU announced it would not ration access to Avastin.) The reaction to the FDA’s decision has been fierce:
US Senate lifts 'don't ask, don't tell' gay soldier banThe US Senate has approved landmark legislation allowing openly
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Feds Force Okla. Bank To Remove Crosses, Bible VerseA small-town bank in Oklahoma said the Federal Reserve won’t let it keep religious signs and symbols on display. Federal Reserve examiners come every four years to make sure banks are complying with a long list of regulations. The examiners came to Perkins last week. And the team from Kansas City deemed a Bible verse of the day, crosses on the teller’s counter and buttons that say "Merry Christmas, God With Us." were inappropriate.
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UN mulls internet regulation optionsThe United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet. ...At a meeting in New York on Wednesday, representatives from Brazil called for an international body made up of Government representatives that would attempt to create global standards for policing the internet - specifically in reaction to challenges such as WikiLeaks.
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How To Walk Through WallsImagine being able to walk through a solid wall. That sort of trick might sound far-fetched, but it’s a little closer to reality now that researchers in China have created what they call an “invisible gateway”.
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Bones Found On Island May Belong To Amelia EarhartUS aircraft history buffs are hopeful that tiny bones along with artefacts from the 1930s found on a remote Pacific island may reveal the fate of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart.
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Facebook Facial Recognition Software To Suggest Friends When Tagging New PhotosFacebook has launched a new service that will automatically identify faces in photographs that are uploaded to the site. The facial recognition software will then suggest the names of people in the photos so that the user can decide whether they will tag that person in the picture or not.
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FBI, Homeland Security issue holiday threat notice to law enforcementWashington (CNN) -- U.S. officials say they have no specific and credible information about planned terror attacks on the United States, but they have issued an intelligence bulletin to state and local law enforcement warning terrorists could target large crowds at holiday gatherings
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Big Easter Sunday quake may have put Southern California at greater risk of future temblorsEquipped with new NASA technology, scientists say there is mounting evidence that the 7.2 Easter Sunday earthquake in Mexicali directed tectonic stress toward Southern California, putting the region at a higher risk for a future quake. The observations are made possible by a new radar imaging system created by NASA that can detect how land moves after...
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