May 29 2008
Babies younger than six months old should never be given water to drink, physicians at Johns Hopkins Children\’s Center in Baltimore remind parents. Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition known...
May 28 2008
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign...
May 28 2008
We know what it\’s like to fall in love with a car, and we have nothing at all against a little steamy-window sex in the backseat of a \’67 Chevy — as long as you\’re with someone else.
May 28 2008
A solar eclipse in Asia Minor brings an abrupt halt to a battle, as the warring armies lay down their arms and declare a truce. Historical astronomy later sets a likely date, providing a debatable calculation point for pinning down some dates in ancient...
May 28 2008
Newly diagnosed cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan surged 46.4 percent in 2007, bringing the five-year total to nearly 40,000, according to U.S. military data released on Tuesday.
May 25 2008
Although I was much inspired by Svengali and wanted to embark on my very own Gajrewali Gulabo, Peter Panwala, Kulfi Kukreja, Muthu Murrukusamy kinda posts but like the man says I\’m aging rapidly like a turnip and am gonna leave the KK, TT, PP...
May 24 2008
The hospitals with record numbers of deaths linked to the superbugs MRSA and Clostridium difficile were named and shamed yesterday.
May 24 2008
Too often the trend in our society is for people to be separated from either other, to be cut off from the great mass of humanity, and in doing so to be dehumanized a little bit more with each step.
May 23 2008
From Scotland comes news that a fashion designer is selling bikinis made from salmon skin. I’m serious. I have to ask whether this is a great idea.
May 21 2008
Eleven elderly people accused of being witches have been burned to death by a mob in the west of Kenya, police say