Man with strange name and no passport found dead in a hotel in Denver...the week before the big convention...with a bottle of cyanide in the room.
No, folks, no terrorism here...
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If it costs too much to save your life, the UK NHS won't pay for your treatment...according to "NICE"...
No it's not a joke. It's according to an ethical paper from The National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Trivia Note: In CSLewis' book That Hideous Strength, the fascist organization that reprograms human beings is called NICE too...
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It's nice to be sarcastic about the UK, but a more worrisome example is Oregon, where a woman was denied a life prolonging drug to treat her cancer but told that the state insurance will cover "assisted suicide".
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The good news...the Vatican agrees with the Jews that the Lord's name isn't to be bandied about.
So Yahweh, Jahweh and Yehovah are out...presumably the alternative translation "Yahoo" will still be allowed....but only for internet searches and emails.
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Could the carbonized scrolls of Herculeneum be restored and read? this could be a big find for scholars.
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