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New, Killer Strain of E. Coli Crops Up in Europe

Here’s a reason to postpone travel plans to Germany: A new kind of E. coli bacterium has been discovered and has already killed 18 people and infected more than 1,500, according to the BBC.

Posted on Jun 2, 2011 READ MORE  |  7 COMMENTS



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Thai Red Shirts Dump Their Own Blood on the Government

An estimated 50,000 red-shirted protesters donated their own blood to be poured onto government and ruling party headquarters in Bangkok on Tuesday. The supporters of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra demanded new elections. Their numbers crested at an estimated 100,000 but appear to be dwindling.

Posted on Mar 16, 2010 READ MORE  |  7 COMMENTS


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UK Science Squad Hoping to Make Blood

In a bid to create a vast reserve of universally acceptable O-negative blood, a team of Scottish scientists is heading up a research project that aims to produce synthetic blood from embryonic stem cells.

Posted on Mar 23, 2009 READ MORE  |  2 COMMENTS



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The ‘Blood Pipeline’ Test

Haaretz’s Gideon Levy recalls the mathematician whose dutiful students drew up plans for a “blood pipeline” without questioning why it should be built. With Gaza, he warns, Israel faces such a test and “when the time comes for reckoning, we will need to remember the damage this war did to Israel.”

Posted on Jan 4, 2009 READ MORE  |  16 COMMENTS


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Protester to Rice:  Iraqi Blood Is on Your Hands

Here’s footage from Wednesday’s dramatic confrontation on Capitol Hill between a Code Pink anti-war activist with faux blood on her hands and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose hands are stained, according to the protester, with the “blood of millions of Iraqis.”

Posted on Oct 24, 2007 READ MORE  |  27 COMMENTS


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Schwarzenegger Muses About ‘Hot’-Blooded Latina Lawmaker

A tape (not yet available) has surfaced in which Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about the “hot” and racially mixed blood of a legislator. But there’s no hay to be made here: The legislator says she embraces the label.

  • Above: screenshot from a promotional video that Schwarzenegger made about Rio’s Carnival in which he expressed an early interest in mixed-race women.

  • Posted on Sep 8, 2006 READ MORE  |  5 COMMENTS


    Artificial Sweeteners Speed Alcohol Into Blood

    Alcoholic drinks made with artificial sweeteners lead to a higher rate of alcohol absorption than drinks made with sugar-based mixers.
    Finally, some news you can use.

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    Condi Rice Heckled by Antiwar Protester

    A protester interrupts the secretary of state at a budget hearing: “The blood is on your hands and you cannot wash it away.”

    Posted on Mar 10, 2006 READ MORE  |  4 COMMENTS


    Mr. Fish - Liberal Phil

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    Liberal phil looking at a waterfall of blood and finally beginning to feel less crappy about his party losing the presidential election in 2004 recognizing at last that the vietnam war and the invasion of both grenada and [anama and the bombing of libya and the wars against nicaragua and the gulf war and the current war with iraq were all bipartisan decisions
    Posted on Jan 25, 2006 READ MORE  |  11 COMMENTS        


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