Soon, Trekkies will be able to channel their inner Starfleet commander–or inner William Shatner–with “Tiberius,” or perhaps they could try “Red Shirt” or “Pon Farr”–for the ladies.
A little over a year and some three hundred exo-planet discoveries ago, astronomers at Chile announced that they had found what might be the first habitable planet outside the solar system. Known as Gliese 581c, the new planet is only five times as massive as the Earth and inhabits a rare sweet zone around a dim red star in the constellation Libra.
Perhaps my fears are unfounded, but, for a long time I have been reluctant to sign the back of my drivers license giving permission for my organs to be harvested in case of accidental death. My fear have always been that, they would hamper my survival or put in a less than one hundred percent effort to save my life, simply for the purpose of taking my organs. Therefore, I have not yet made the decision of whether or not I will give permission to be a donor.
I’m even more hesitant now when I consider the fact that recently, the father and mother of a teenager who had an accident while on a class trip, sued the hospital that received their son after the accident because, they claim that the hospital killed their son for his organs, when they did not wait until he was officially declared dead before they started the harvesting procedure.
I will be watching this trial to see it If what I fear is really unwarranted. Read to story posted on AOL News.
“Did Hospital Kill Teen For His Organs?
(March 16) - An Ohio couple whose teenage son was injured in a snowboarding accident has filed a lawsuit, claiming his doctors harvested his organs before he was declared dead.
Eighteen-year-old Gregory Jacobs, of Bellevue, Ohio, suffered a “closed head injury” two years ago while snowboarding on a high school-sponsored ski trip in Findley New York”…..Read the rest here!
In tests, the novel hybrid device was able to extract every fourth bit of a 170-gigabit-per-second telecommunications data stream and to demultiplex the stream to 42.7 gigabits per second.
After reading the following story posted on Yahoo finance I became outraged and wrote my own headline above because the one below does not convey the true content of this report. If you have a credit card you should be outraged as well. Creditors have found another way to steal from you and I without any penalty from the government, because, it is all legal. You will not have to be notified of this action against your account at present, because the law to give you such protection will not go into effect until next year. in the mean time check you available credit before you make a purchase, especially, in public. You may save yourself some embarrassment. Click on the headline blow and find the latest scheme from the credit card companies which may cost you more money!
For nearly 150 years, a story has circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch. On Tuesday, museum curators confirmed it was true.
Where the world’s richest head at the end of the day… In today’s tough economic climate, Warren Buffett is setting a good example. The world’s second richest man lives in the same five-bedroom, gray stucco house he bought in 1958 for $31,500.
Government subsidies were a big factor in the rollout of broadband in the countries with the fastest Internet service.
Stocks are at their lowest levels in about 12 years. The economy shrunk by more than 6% in the fourth quarter. Companies are laying off people left and right.
DEVELOPING: The Coast Guard has found an overturned boat with one person clinging to it in the search for missing NFL players.
