| Thursday, January 31
MYERS: Well, yes. And I think people do—it‘s not just sort of the relationship of words. These are relationships of deeds that Bill Clinton has built over many, many, many years, not just as president, but even before he was president. As governor, he was out helping people, trying to build a national party. Those—but—but... MATTHEWS: Does he have a good memory, Bill Clinton? MYERS: Yes. Yes. He has a tremendous memory. And I don‘t mean for slights necessarily. MATTHEWS: I mean for big memory. MYERS: He just remembers everything. (CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: So, if he got somebody a new 100,000 acres for their college campus or something, whatever he got, they would remember it? MYERS: He just remembers—he remembers a lot of details. That‘s why he‘s great at policy.
Retailers chant wellness mantra
MUMBAI: After fast moving consumer goods companies contracted the fast spreading health and wellness fever in the country, it is the turn of retailers to cash in. Three months after the first wellness store by Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Retail was launched in Hyderabad, Maharashtra gets its first in Mumbai. Armed with 8,000 stock keeping units and spread over 3,100 square feet, this specialty store will provide customers products in the categories such as medicines, sports nutrition, personal care and beauty, cosmetics, opticals, OTC, health foods, self help medical and fitness equipment. Even books on yoga and health and massaging chairs. Himalaya Drugs is also expanding its retail presence and has over 150 retail stores, aiming to double this number by 2009.
Dog Decapitated In Coyote Trap
DUNLAP, Tenn. - A man and his son walking their dog saw the animal decapitated when it put its head in a trap baited with bacon. The trap is commonly used to kill coyotes and is legal in Tennessee. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency spokesman Dan Hicks said officers are searching for the trap owner, but probably will not file charges because the dog had strayed onto another person's property. A spokesman for the Humane Society said the traps are like land mines for animals. He said there is no data showing how many domestic animals are killed in traps each year, but it's common enough that trappers can buy insurance for it. (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) .
US plans to shoot down spy satellite
New Delhi: While thousands of space objects burn up in the earth's atmosphere each year, America isn't taking chances with the classified data and toxic fuel on board this time. The US Department of Defense will shoot down a satellite that experts predict will land on Earth in late February or early March. The department announced Thursday that it will "engage" the decaying satellite, which it earlier deemed to be low risk. The department said this week that the chances that the "uncontrollable US experimental satellite" will hit a populated area are small, but "the potential consequences would be of enough concern to consider mitigating actions." The NROL-21 USA-193 satellite was launched for the Defense Department in December 2006 and failed within hours.
Study says obese diabetics may be helped by surgery
Obese diabetic patients who underwent weight loss surgery were found to be five times more likely to gain control over their condition as opposed to people who did not go for the surgery. The study involved 60 obese patients with type 2 diabetes. Lead researcher Dr John Dixon and colleagues set out to analyze the benefits of stomach banding surgery on type 2 diabetes. All participants in the study had a body mass index greater than 30, but lower than 40. Any person having a BMI of over 30 is considered to be clinically obese. The participants were either allocated to the surgery group or the conventional therapy group, which stressed on diet and lifestyle changes. Overall 26 study participants or 43 percent experienced remission from diabetes at the end of two years. However 73 percent or 22 of the 30 in the surgery group experienced remission as compared to 13 percent or 4 out of 30 people in the conventional-therapy group.
GMO Crops: A Growing Concern
Let's see if we can cut through some of the hyperbole and deal with facts. First, some complain that companies that invent genetically modified seeds should not be able to patent them and charge royalties to farmers. The first thing to note is that patent rights were expressly provided for by our founding founders in the Constitution. Second, patents promote innovation and have brought innumerable valuable products to people, such as the light bulb, the telephone, computers, and a host of medicines. Next, it cost hundreds of millions, indeed billions, to develop some genetically modified crops. Assuming that profit is not a dirty word, how are these costs to be recovered so that additional research and development can take place, workers can be paid, and a reasonable profit can be made on the investment? Gee, I guess that means the company will have to charge for its invention.
More dairies go raw
Jill Ebbott, a holistic health counselor in Brookline, buys 8 gallons of unpasteurized milk a week for her household of three people, and she pours a splash in the bowls that her three dogs eat from. She says a year of drinking raw milk has cleared up her husband's allergies. "He suffered tree pollen allergies for 21 years," Ebbott said. "In the spring, he was swollen and oozing and had to wear mittens to bed so he didn't scratch himself too much. After 13 months on raw milk, his gut was rebalanced to such a degree that he was healed." The US Food and Drug Administration warns on its website that drinking unpasteurized milk is "like playing Russian roulette with your health," but Ebbott is part of a growing number of people who reject the long-held belief that pasteurized milk is better for you.
FBI Wants To Build Huge Biometric Database
We just found out that the White House has chosen not to staff the official "Privacy Board" that is supposed to make sure gov't surveillance doesn't infringe on American citizens' privacy. That came right after National Intelligence Director, Mike McConnell, announced that he's hoping to get the rights to monitor all internet traffic. Since news tends to come in threes (well, so says the urban legend) now comes the news that the FBI is looking to put together a huge biometric database containing info on fingerprints, palm prints, iris recognition mug shots and scars of anyone they can gather this info on. This seems like a typical reaction from a gov't agency, and with the announcement comes all the typical political doubletalk about how this is for safety, claiming that the database is "important to protect the borders to keep the terrorists out, protect our citizens, our neighbors, our children so they can have good jobs, and have a safe country to live in." However, as has been made clear countless times, these types of databases always get abused.
Local fans love watching LSU roll
Only so many people were able to have a spot in the Louisiana Superdome and watch LSU roll over Ohio State to become the 2007 national champions.The rest of them had their eyes glued to television screens across Louisiana as they filled homes, bars and restaurants with cheers that at some points may have seemed just as intense as the actual game.At Carabella’s in New Iberia, jaws dropped and a dead silence fell over the place after Ohio State scored the first touchdown and field goal early in the game. But, it didn’t take long for LSU to gain the lead and then dominate the game, and the fans there loved every minute of it. .
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Tour: 30 Days & 30 Nights ...
Vince Vaughn is a funny guy. Just ask him. And the thin line between self-regard and auto-eroticism gets obliterated very early on in this film that documents Vaughn and his show-biz buds on a 30-day tour. To hear Vaughn tell it in a series of local media interviews — each one more fatuous then the last — this flick ain't just some roving band of comedians dispensing dick jokes; rather, it's a sacred pilgrimage to the mystic heart of America. When the star and his crew of comedy ham-and-eggers roll into Nashville for a gig at the hallowed Ryman auditorium, Vaughn has a near religious epiphany at the sight of Minnie Pearl's dressing room. Want more corn pone? Watch his breathless fawning over now-deceased Hee Haw star Buck Owens, who presents Vaughn his own engraved red-white-and-blue guitar, as if Owens were Arthur knighting Galahad.
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