Going to school students open their books to look at a colour picture of Saddam Hussein on the first page. That was five years ago. How has life changed in five years? Looking at some Iraqi citizens the answer is mixed.
Today freedom of speech has improved in that nation. Shiite Muslims have the chance to [...]
The American Heart Association is warning emergency room doctors to ask patients that show signs of heart attacks if they used cocaine. It’s a matter of life and death. Treatments used for heart patients can be lethal for those using cocaine.
New guidelines were published online on Monday in the AHA journal Circulation. Cocaine can cause [...]
Ivan Dixon, best known as Kinchloe on the 1960s “Hogan’s Heroes” has died at the age of 76. He died at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, from a hemorrhage and kidney failure.
Sidney Poitier had been friends with Dixon since they worked together on the 1958 movie “The Defiant Ones” where Dixon was his stunt [...]
There’s a new concern with the Beijing Olympics: the toilet situation. There were over 30 test events held by organizers and the squat toilets that have been provided are a source of complaints.
“We have asked the venues to improve on this, to increase the number to sit-down toilets,” Yao Hui, deputy director of venue management [...]
Five years ago the United States was a different country. Five years ago a war was waged against a dictator who had weapons of mass destruction. President George Bush says that he has no doubts that the Iraqi War has been worth it.
Since the beginning of the war in Iraq 3,900 military members from the [...]
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