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Archive for March, 2008

Cops Bust a (Root) Beer Kegger Party

Monday, March 31st, 2008

When his friends got suspended from school sports because of photos showing them drinking from red cups, Dustin Zebro decided to mount a protest of sorts: he invited scores of kids to a kegger party, which got busted by the cops. But the kids got the last laugh, and here’s why:

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Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Riot police have taken to the streets of several cities in Mexico to … defend Emo kids?

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Vaccine for Ebola virus

Monday, March 31st, 2008

One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use.

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Royal Marine Throws Himself Onto Grenade to Save His Team

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

A Royal Marine who threw himself onto an exploding grenade to save the lives of his patrol has been put forward for the UK’s highest military honour. Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, 24, a reservist from Birmingham, survived because his rucksack and body armour took the force of the blast.

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Regenerative Power Grows Back A Man’s Finger

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Through use of a new regenerative powder, a man’s severed finger is regrown. Incredible…

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Human trials to begin on diabetes cure after mice are cured

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Most diabetes sufferers could be cured within four years if a revolutionary treatment involving the BCG vaccine works, scientists said yesterday. A human clinical trial with hopes of finding a cure for type 1 diabetes is to start at a leading American research hospital using BCG, universally given for many years in Britain to prevent tuberculosis.

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Boys And Girls Brains Are Different

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

The researchers found that girls still showed significantly greater activation in language areas of the brain than boys. The information in the tasks got through to girls’ language areas of the brain — areas associated with abstract thinking through language. And their performance accuracy correlated with the degree of activation in some of these language areas.

To their astonishment, however, this was not at all the case for boys. In boys, accurate performance depended — when reading words — on how hard visual areas of the brain worked. In hearing words, boys’ performance depended on how hard auditory areas of the brain worked.

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Reznor makes $750,000 even when the music is free

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Trent Reznor released a new Nine Inch Nails record over the weekend and has already sold out his 2,500 deluxe editions at $300 a pop. This is what “competing with free” looks like.

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