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April 24, 2005 - April 30, 2005


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April 30, 2005

Another Texas Hospital Plans To Stop Treating Critically Ill Baby

The mother of a critically ill baby is trying to figure out where to take her child after being told by doctors at Memorial Hermann Hospital that they would stop treating her in 10 days.

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Daughter Charged in Alleged Assisted Suicide

A 14-year-old girl who claimed she shot her father to death to help him commit suicide has been charged with second-degree murder.

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The Very Slippery Slope of Human-Animal Hybrids

On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs

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Environment Plays Role in Sex of Child

The sex of a child is determined by a man’s sperm. An X chromosome results in a girl, and a Y chromosome brings about a baby boy. But now a new study finds the environment may have an impact on the X and Y chromosomes.

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Iran says time running out for nuclear talks with Europe

The time for negotiating over Iran's nuclear program is quickly running out, Iranian official Cyrus Nasseri said Friday as talks began with the EU on Tehran's determination to enrich uranium, a fuel for nuclear power plants which can also be used to make atom bombs.

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Taser Used In Inmate Death

The man's widow, Yanga Williams, said he was in a rage when she called officers to her home last May. She says her husband's violent behavior was due to his failure to take medication for epilepsy. After being tased five times to his chest, he's dead.

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On The Shooting Of The Italian Intel Agent: The Eye In The Sky Documents The Lie (Updated)

Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian anti-American journalist, had said that the car taking her to safety was traveling at a normal speed of about 30 miles an hour when U.S. forces opened fired on her vehicle, wounding her and killing Nicola Calipari, the Italian agent who had just secured her release from a month's captivity(sic).

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Key Taliban commander killed, other arrested in Afghanistan

Afghan military forces have killed a key commander of the ousted Taliban militia and captured another important militant in south-central Afghanistan

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Worldwide cancer rates 'double'

Reports have shown cancer rates have doubled from 1975, Cancer Research UK says it's because people are living longer. And older people are normally affected by the disease.

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April 29, 2005

Travel Extended through Friday

Thanks to readers for the two days off, which were taken to be with my son just before he left for six months in Iraq. My son and the other members of his team are in Iraq now, and Hyscience will be returning to its routine posting schedule of seven days a week, tomorow.

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April 28, 2005

Travel Day

For only the second time(the first time was this past Sunday) since Hyscience was started, there will be very limited to no posting at all, Today(Thursday). The entire international and intergalactic staff of Hyscience is traveling today. This is a rare event, so you can expect the routine of full-time news and perspectives to be continued on Friday.... ... more

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April 27, 2005

On The New Osama

According to the article, the computer files also yielded recent communications with al Qaeda leaders including a message from bin Laden's No 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in which he urged Zarqawi to expand his operations outside Iraq to include attacks on Americans in the United States.

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‘Living Wills’ Dangerous to Health and Soul, Catholics Warn

With an increasing trend in hospitals and society to judge "futile care" based on quality of life, the "living will" becomes dangerous, National Right to Life ethicist Burke Balch said.

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West Bank Terrorists Have Anti-Aircraft Missiles, Anti-Tank Rockets

The Shin Bet revealed at a high-level security meeting two weeks ago that Bedouin from Egypt and Israel's Negev have succeeded in smuggling anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles to West Bank terrorists.

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Study Sheds Light On Age-related Changes Of Prion Diseases

A new study sheds light on why normal prion proteins may experience age-related mutations in inherited diseases.

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Church and State

The Democratic leadership seems to have a problem with someone with faith and religious values being appointed to the judiciary, prefering someone with no faith and secular-only values to "judge" over right and wrong, and the legal from the illegal.

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Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment

I wrote a post over at NewHopeBlog this morning that may be of interest to some of you who are or know a cancer patient. The topic is hyperthermia ...

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Morning quick take on the blogosphere

Having gotten a late start this morning, I'll give you a quick-start by alerting you to a few items of interest on some of my favorite blogs.

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April 26, 2005

'Atomic Iran' TV ad rejected: What some TV stations don't want to show you because of "fear of inflaming Muslims"

"If a rogue state like Iran has the ability to produce nuclear weapons, most of the technical problems are solved for terrorist cells that want to explode a bomb in a major U.S. city

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Satanic dress

From one of our Muslim friends(don't really know the guy and don't want to) down under we have this interesting perspective on women... Now as bizzare as all this sounds, and is, the guy does have a few points that ring a little true:

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Brain Stem Cells Coaxed to Produce Insulin

Researchers have found a way to transform neural stem cells into insulin-producing cells -- a discovery that could one day lead to a possible cure for the blood sugar disease diabetes.

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Landmark Finding In Mice May Lead To New Approaches For Cancer And Trauma Care In Human

Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have, for the first time, induced a state of reversible metabolic hibernation in mice.

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Herceptin® Combined With Chemotherapy Improves Disease–Free Survival for Patients With Early–Stage Breast Cancer

Results from two large randomized clinical trials for patients with HER-2 positive invasive breast cancer show that those patients with early-stage breast cancer who received Herceptin® (trastuzumab) in combination with chemotherapy had a significant decrease in risk for breast cancer

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U.S. pushes Iraq as attacks rise

Rising casualties, coordinated rebel attacks and the failure of Iraqi politicians to form a new government are pushing U.S. leaders toward a more active role in Iraqi politics.

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April 25, 2005

Official: Zarqawi Eludes Capture; Computer Discovered

If we have his computer then we're getting close, close enough to learn more about his habits and his network. But don't get too excited about this information, it's old news from February 20. But what is does give us is an indication of...

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Farewell La Papa, John Paul II, We Love You

The Holy Father died looking towards the window as he prayed, and that shows that in some way he was conscious," Cielecki said. A short while before dying, the Pope raised his right hand in a clear, although simply hinted at, gesture of blessing

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New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign

German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican theologian who was elected Pope Benedict XVI, intervened in the 2004 US election campaign ordering bishops to deny communion to abortion rights supporters including presidential candidate John Kerry.

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Pandemic Flu: We Are Not Prepared (Video)

We don't know when the next one will hit, but flu experts agree that we are now at high risk for a serious pandemic.

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Why Lebanon Matters

Lebanon may be the only place in the world where you can buy a necklace with a Christian cross and a Muslim crescent moon fused together as one. What other country would even think of making something like this?

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Louisville Rally Calls for End to Democrat-Led 'Pattern of Discrimination'

Any "Action Plan" of BlogsForTerri(now having gone beyond the single issue of Terri Schiavo to the broader issue of blogging for life), MUST begin with addressing judicial issues - and the appointment of pro-life judicial nominees is as good a place as any, to begin!

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Saudis arrest 40 Christians for praying

What do the "religion of peace and tolerance(sic), and Saudi Arabia, have in common? Answer - no peace or tolerance for non-Muslims.

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Poll: American Catholics Support New Pope

Eighty-one percent of Catholics in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of the pope's election; a quarter call themselves "very enthusiastic" about it.

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From Blogs for Terri to Blogs for Life

A global search of the Internet with the words "Schiavo" and "Internet" yields such telling mainstream media headlines as: "Terri Schiavo Case Provokes Blogging Storm" and "Blogosphere Erupting With Schiavo Chatter."

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A Scathing Chairman Dean Finds Republicans 'Evil,' 'Corrupt' and 'Brain-Dead'

Howard Dean is over the top again. He's screaming and making scathing attacks on Republicans in his latest tactic to win-over the Red-staters in his latest and greatest creative and brilliant manuever.

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Treating Blacks Like Children

I'm all for one person, one ID, one vote - but the liberals would rather have one person, no ID, many votes ...

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Iran plans to knock out U.S. with 1 nuclear bomb

Iran is not only covertly developing nuclear weapons, it is already testing ballistic missiles specifically designed to destroy America's technical infrastructure

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Life-saving surgery has to wait, patient told

A Sydney patient with cancer of the appendix says she needs life saving surgery now, but a surgeon is not able to perform the operation until June.

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Islamic Jihad Network Reawakening in Northern Samaria

Israeli intelligence sources see evidence that the military wing of the Islamic Jihad network in the northern West Bank has resumed planning major attacks.

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New technology unveiled for breast cancer

MammaPrint more accurately distinguishes between lymph node-negative breast cancer patients who would benefit from additional therapy from those who would not, helping oncologists offer more effective therapy to their patients,

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Why Europe Deserves To Die

Europe will be Islamic and subject to Islamist Totalitarianism by 2100, unless Europeans turn to faith and family. If Europe fails to live for faith and family, succumbing further to Socialist Human Secular Totalitarianism, then European culture deserves to die under Islamic culture.

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Iraq new cabinet on hold

The unveiling of Iraq's new government was again delayed Monday because of last-minute negotiations between political factions, a senior Shiite politician said.

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Twins survive abortion, mother sues: Live "Materials" survived?

An unborn child is now "live material," and a "mother" sues because her child survived the abortion.

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