May 13, 2008

Schools In China’s Quake Trap Thousands Of Students

The earthquake disaster in China may well be remembered by the massive amount of young students lost when their schools tumbled down trapping them into the earth.

Juyuan Middle School has beneath its former walls at least 900 students. At this time 60 bodies have been pulled from the rumble. The school comprised of eighth an [...]

May 13, 2008

Neil Young Has New Spider Named After Him

A fan of Neil Young who happens to be a biologist named a newly discovered spider after the Canadian rocker. The trapdoor spider, Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi lives in Alabama.

East Carolina University biologist Jason Bond recently declared the spider is a new species and has sent students there to collect more of the species for specimens.
The musician [...]

May 13, 2008

Chinese Earthquake Causes 9,000 Dead, Buries Students, Sparks Chemical Leak

The news coming in from China after a massive afternoon earthquake is not good: Already there are reports of more than 9,000 dead, students buried under the rubble of a school and a toxic chemical leak that the nation is having to deal with.

The magnitude 7.9 earthquake shook much of China early this afternoon about [...]

May 13, 2008

Panama Searches For 6,000 Potential Victims Of Contaminated Drugs From Two Years Ago

Panamanian investigators are on the hunt for 6,000 patients who received medicine that was contaminated with a chemical found in antifreeze and brake fluid. The medicine was handed to the government two years ago when 116 people died.

The medicines handed to the government were cough syrup, antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion and rash ointment made at [...]

May 13, 2008

Canadian Named Playboy’s Playmate for 2008

The 2008 beauty named Playboy’s Playmate of the Year is Jayde Nicole of Canada. She is the first Playmate of the Year from Canada since Shannon Tweed claimed the title in 1982.

Jayde Nicole of Port Perry, Ontario was the owner of a modeling agency, Jayde Nicole Incorporated before getting the attention of Playboy in 2007. [...]

May 13, 2008

NASA Makes Plans To Land On An Asteroid

NASA is about to make history as it plots to land spacemen on an asteroid that is traveling in space at 28,000mph towards the Earth. The massive rock called 2000SG344 is the size of a yacht.

If projections are correct it will narrowly miss the third rock from the Sun in 60 years.
If this yacht sized [...]

May 13, 2008

Robbery At The Sick Kid’s Shopper’s Drug Mart In Toronto

A man with a knife robbed the Shopper’s Drug Mart at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto on Saturday. Along with an unknown amount of money the robber took off with regular Tylenol.

Wielding a knife the man demanded money from a clerk at the hospital’s drug store. The store is often filled with youngsters and their [...]