Archive for July 14th, 2008

Claire Jones

A woman hid her dead newborn baby in the boot of her car to keep an affair and resulting pregnancy secret from her partner.

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A ‘vulnerable’ man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after being ordered to move out of his home to make way for developers, police believe.

David Phyall’s severed head was found beside… Continue reading

Raw Story

The Bush administration willfully pushed fictional portrayals of Pat Tillman’s death in Afghanistan and Jessica Lynch’s capture in Iraq to create “compelling public narratives” at times when public opinion was starting… Continue reading

WASHINGTON (Xinhua) — Nearly 70 percent of U.S. residents who get water from community water systems now receive fluoridated water, according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention… Continue reading

HARRISBURG – A new law signed this month by Gov. Edward G. Rendell will help to improve the health of newborns in Pennsylvania, according to the state Health Department.

By amending the Newborn Child… Continue reading

canada 

The late U.S. president Ronald Reagan once remarked that “facts are stupid things.” While Reagan’s comment was an inadvertent slip of the tongue… Continue reading

The Guardian

I’ve got a theory - an untested, unprovable theory - that the more interesting your life is at… Continue reading

We know what a criminal White House looks like from “The Final Days,” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s classic account of Richard Nixon’s unraveling. The cauldron of lies, paranoia and illegal surveillance boiled over, until… Continue reading

bud460

After a month of resistance, Budweiser - dubbed the King of Beers - is joining Stella Artois and Beck’s… Continue reading

Veteran London Times journalist William Rees-Mogg predicts that the collapse of U.S. mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could herald a downturn into a 1930’s style depression that threatens to sweep away democratic governments.… Continue reading

timesonline

Today I am celebrating my 80th birthday, an age that seems less formidable when one has reached it than when one can see it only from afar.

I was born on… Continue reading