Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Stuff below the newspaper fold

Good News: Reversing Alzheimer's in rats? Take brain cell out, change genes, put cell back...gene produces enzyme in cell that destroys amyloid causing brain killing plaques...good news if it works.

Bad News: Human to human transmission of bird flu in Indonesia...

Should a strain of avian flu acquire the ability to cause sustained human-to-human transmission, the results could be catastrophic, Longini said. “If not contained, the outbreak could spread worldwide through the global transportation network...


Attention Osama: Get your cell phone here...150 thousand news cellphone subscribers in Afghanistan each month...

Attention Col. Updraft: Beware of Rock Snot...
the aquatic algae called "rock snot" is creeping into New England, where it is turning up in pristine rivers and alarming fishermen and wildlife biologists....
Pristine rivers? Heck, when I lived there we couldn't eat our local fish due to high PCB levels...



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