By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 17:42 EST, 7 January 2013 | UPDATED: 18:00 EST, 7 January 2013 The pricey detergent is known as ‘liquid gold’ on the streets, with a 150-ounce bottle going for either $5 cash or $10… Read More ›
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NYC mayor pins crime rate spike on iPhone, iPad theft
If it weren’t for Apple kit, crime would be down By Neil McAllister in San Francisco Posted in Security, 29th December 2012 06:31 GMT Free whitepaper – Media and Entertainment Goes Digital Major crime is on the rise in New… Read More ›
New York newspaper draws fire after publishing names and addresses of gun permit holders
World Dec. 27, 2012 – 03:10PM JST ( 8 ) NEW YORK — A New York newspaper has sparked outrage by publishing a detailed map with thousands of names and addresses of gun permit holders in the wake of the… Read More ›
Officials defend decision not to prosecute in money-laundering case despite HSBC’s ‘blatant failure’ to implement controls
EEV: So the Investors pay while the criminals once again go free HSBC’s record $1.9bn fine preferable to prosecution, US authorities insist Dominic Rushe in New York and Jill Treanor in London guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 December 2012 15.37 EST Assistant attorney general Lanny… Read More ›
80th Health Research Report 22 APR 2010 : Reconstruction
Editors Top Five: 1. Vitamin K May Protect Against Developing Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Say Mayo Clinic Researchers 2. First evidence that chitosan could repair spinal damage 3. Over half of women in abusive relationships still saw their male partners as dependable… Read More ›
Bomb materials, weapons found in Ridgewood home : A 60-year-old doctor with ties to the Occupy Wall Street movement
Bomb materials, weapons found in Ridgewood home Saturday, November 17, 2012 Last updated: Sunday November 18, 2012, 9:51 AM BY JEFF GREEN STAFF WRITER The Record RIDGEWOOD — A 60-year-old doctor with ties to the Occupy Wall Street movement… Read More ›
Jill Kelley ‘asked for $80m fee to broker an energy deal claiming her connections to General Petraeus and “honorary consul” title’
By Paul Thompson In Tampa, Florida PUBLISHED:10:49 EST, 15 November 2012| UPDATED:14:50 EST, 15 November 2012 Looking for a cut: Jill Kelley said that she wanted two per cent of a multi-billion dollar deal Socialite Jill Kelley tried to cash… Read More ›
Russia will send humanitarian aid to New York
Nov 11, 2012 21:58 Moscow Time Photo: RIA Novosti On Monday, the 12th of November, the Russian Emergency Ministry is planning to send two planes with humanitarian aid to New York which was hit by Hurricane Sandy. Two Iliushin-76 planes… Read More ›
FEMA centers in New York closed due to… bad weather
Published: 09 November, 2012, 21:19 Instead of staying open to help displaced victims of the hurricane during the nor’easter that blanketed New York City in snow, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was “closed due to weather” as the storm approached…. Read More ›
New York’s emergency management director fired for sending crews to his OWN house during Superstorm Sandy to remove downed tree
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:09:24 EST, 8 November 2012| UPDATED:12:40 EST, 8 November 2012 Fired: Steven Kuhr, New York’s emergency management director, was accused of abusing his power New York’s emergency management director has been fired by the governor after… Read More ›
Man who claimed a huge ownership stake in Facebook, arrested by Investigators for the Postal Inspection Service
New York man who sued Facebook faces criminal charges 4:43pm EDT By Emily Flitter and Grant McCool (Reuters) – A New York man was arrested Friday on charges he forged documents in a multibillion-dollar scheme to defraud Facebook Inc and… Read More ›
Moriguchi broadly admits to lying about trailblazing stem cell trial
News On Japan via Mainichi — Oct 14 Hisashi Moriguchi, a Japanese researcher who had said he implemented the world’s first clinical trial using a trailblazing stem cell technology, admitted Saturday most of what he claimed in an academic… Read More ›
Is there a savant inside all of us?
Savants have almost super-human abilities in art, music or memory – and not all are born that way. But is severe head trauma the only way to become a ‘sudden savant’? <!– remove the whitespace added by escenic before end… Read More ›
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: I was naive to think I could get away with orgies: “You’d be surprised who turned up to them”.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has broken his silence to admit he had been “naïve” to think he could get away with attending orgies, but added: “You’d be surprised who turned up to them”. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, formerly of the IMF Photo: REX <!–… Read More ›
European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve succesful in their plan to devalue the Dollar to protect the Euro
US Dollar takes a Hit Sunday, 30 September 2012 The Dollar Index fell by the most since the first quarter of 2011 after the European Central Bank pledged to protect the euro from unraveling and the Federal… Read More ›
Donor network ‘pressured medics to declare patients dead so organs can be harvested’
‘This kid is dead, you got that?’ Donor network ‘pressured medics to declare patients dead so organs can be harvested’ The New York Organ Donor Network accused of bullying doctors into declaring patients brain dead when they are still alive… Read More ›
Chinese citizen arrested over U.S military exports
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, September 26, 2012 18:06 EDT Topics: carbon fiber ♦ china ♦ Ming Suan Zhang NEW YORK — A Chinese citizen has been charged in New York with illegally attempting to export highly restricted material from the… Read More ›
AP IMPACT: Tragedy meant big money for NY minister
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and DAVID B. CARUSO Enlarge Photo Associated Press/Ryan Freeland – In this March 3, 2010 photo, the Rev. Carl Keyes speaks to an audience in Harrisonburg, Va., about his life experiences relating to his organization,… Read More ›
Distortion in Tax Code Makes Debt More Attractive to Banks
By JESSE EISINGER, ProPublica Luke Sharrett for The New York TimesPresident Obama’s tax proposals note the tax code’s favoring of debt over equity, but do not offer specific fixes. Thanks to a leaked video, we know that Mitt Romney divides… Read More ›
How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
By The Christian Science Monitor Sunday, September 16, 2012 13:38 EDT In Silicon Valley, Nikolas Janin rises for his 40-minute commute to work just like everyone else. The shop manager and fleet technician at Google gets dressed and heads out… Read More ›
Pain drug can kill resistant tuberculosis: Researchers claim may never be tested in TB clinical trials.
Public release date: 10-Sep-2012 [Print | E-mail| Share][ Close Window ] Contact: Lauren Woods law2014@med.cornell.edu 212-821-0560 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College Researchers find low cost drug wipes out drug resistant TB, but worry it may… Read More ›
Twitter surrenders Occupy protester’s tweets
By Joseph Ax NEW YORK | Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:41am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twitter handed over tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protester to a New York criminal judge on Friday after months of fighting a subpoena… Read More ›
Healthcare costs hit the elderly hard, diminish financial well being
New York, 4 September 2012 Study finds out-of-pocket spending on healthcare in old age puts significant strain on finances The protection of the savings of the elderly—one of the primary goals of Medicare—is under threat from a combination of spiraling… Read More ›
Pheromone from the summer cypress Killed Mosquitoes (West Nile virus) in trials Everytime
*Reposted at Request, data known since 1999…. The government will not justify the expense in regards to human life and the environment…Engineering Evil Contact: Claire Bowles claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk 44-171-331-2751 New Scientist A burning bush could smite New York’s mosquitoes An ornamental bush… Read More ›
Chipotle caught STEALING pennies from hapless customers nationwide in deceptive receipt rounding scandal
Chipotle restaurants routinely round up customer’s bills to a nickel Previously, did not warn customers at the register After public investigation, now they will only round down By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:17:33 EST, 29 August 2012| UPDATED:17:41 EST, 29 August… Read More ›
Sweetened drinks may be linked to premature births – “one sugary soda a day were up to 25% more likely to give birth prematurely”
By Natasja Sheriff | Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who drink a lot of sweet sodas during pregnancy may be more likely to give birth prematurely, a new study suggests. The study, of more than 60,000 pregnant… Read More ›
The Cancer “Breakthroughs” that Cost Too Much and Do Too Little
Author Laura Beil, Newsweek Aug 27, 2012 1:00 AM EDT ‘Death panels’ are a bad idea. But asking hard questions about health care is not. In his more than 35 years of practice, Dr. Lowell Schnipper has seen a lot… Read More ›
Site appeals against court request to hand over details of tweets relating to Occupy activist charged with disorderly conduct
By Dominic Rushe, The Guardian Monday, August 27, 2012 16:19 EDT Twitter has lodged an appeal against a New York judge’s decision that it must hand over detailed information related to an Occupy Wall Street protester charged with disorderly conduct…. Read More ›
Prenatal pesticide exposure tied to lower IQ in children
Contact: Sarah Yang scyang@berkeley.edu 510-643-7741 University of California – Berkeley Berkeley – In a new study suggesting pesticides may be associated with the health and development of children, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health have… Read More ›
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