Monthly Archives: September, 2008
Dad chases girl’s boyfriend naked..
An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter’s boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter’s room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn’t even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year.
When he heard noises coming from [...]
Mom uses daughter’s id for her dream in cheerleading..
Source : Yahoo
GREEN BAY, Wis. – A 33-year-old woman is accused of stealing her daughter’s identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad
Wendy Brown is charged with felony identity theft after enrolling in a Wisconsin high school as her daughter.
The criminal complaint says Brown admitted to telling school officials she was 15 [...]
Rat droppings kill Utah Man
A young man in Duchesne County has died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, possibly caused while he was cleaning up rodent droppings.
The man, who was healthy and between the ages of 19 and 29, fell ill and went to a hospital Sept. 2, the Utah Department of Health said. He died the [...]
AIDS : White males get it in their 30’s and Black males get it in their teens
Source NYT
An unusually detailed study of people newly infected with H.I.V. in the United States has confirmed that the majority of new cases occur among gay and bisexual men and that blacks are most at risk. But the data show that whites and blacks tend to be infected at different times in their lives with [...]
Google launches Chrome
Google has launched its Chrome browser in beta.
You can download the same here
http://www.google.com/chrome
Nepal officials drown Bihar villages to save their own
Twelve days after the Kosi breached its embankment here on August 18, Nepal police cut a 15-metre chasm across a highway to send the floodwaters surging southwards into Bihar.
People and police here blame the dyke breach on “inaction” by India, which owns the Kosi barrage and embankment, and say they were forced to dig up [...]
Kids born to Olden fathers suffer bipolar disorder
Children born to fathers older than 30 are more likely to develop bipolar disorder, a common condition sometimes known as manic depression, researchers reported on Monday.
The paternal risk also grows with the age of a father, rising to 37 percent by the time a man is 55 years, said Emma Frans, an epidemiologist at the [...]
Ancient Urban Communities Discovered in the Amazon
Anthropologists from Brazil and the US have uncovered Amazonian settlements in Brazil dating from about 1250 to 1650, before European colonists came in. The findings, reported in the journal Science, show that these towns were more developed than previously thought, making up actual networks of walled towns and smaller villages, each organized around a central [...]
Google Earth to get better with new Satellite tieup
Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of New Mexico in one day. What does that mean? Well, you could get high resolution pan-sharpened imagery for the entire country in around [...]
Google to launch web browser ‘Chrome’ tomorrow
Google is ready to launch its browser chrome in Beta mode on Tuesday.(09/02/2008)
This has come as a pleasant surprise and wonder how secretive Google has been about this development. Chrome will have traits from both firefox and safari.
–It has a tab-centric interface, with a default home page that shows snapshots of your favorite sites and [...]
Mother who killed child in Microwave oven found guilty
A mother was convicted Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense attorney’s claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.
China Arnold, 28, showed no reaction when the jury’s verdict was announced and then lowered her head, looking down at the defense table. Relatives [...]
