Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Headlines below the fold

Treating Multiple Sclerosis by using your own body's stem cells to regenerate a new immune system LINK

If I remember correctly, there are also similar studies for lupus and for scleroderma..
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Conservative blogger is shocked, shocked to find midwives in Texan ghettos are faking birth certificates...heck, half my farmworker patients in Idaho got papers claiming they were born there as soon as their English was good enough to fake it...and that was 30 years ago...

another conservative writer doesn't believe that jihadi recruits can be rehabilitated...
too bad, because this is done all the time, including here in the Philippines (both to MILF and NPA militia members) and the US was running prisons that did a similar retraining course in Iraq...
Of course, the problem is that if you don't clean up the neighborhood, the boys will rejoin the gang for lack of a better job, but that's another story completely...
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Ironman race is being run in Alaska...this one uses snowmobiles...
Discovery Asia has a program on the Iditarod race, that uses dogsleds...and they also run the series The Deadliest Catch...

The irony is that there are a lot of "blue collar" programs on Discovery and even Nat Geo...and of course "reality tv" has Storm stories..

So one BBC program showing prejudice in the US has to contend with reality shows, where ordinary folks get up and do their job and love their families...
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