A german doctor has managed to use HIV-immune bone marrow to cure an HIV positive man; who has now been clean of the virus for two years. The post on Slashdot goes something like the following –
“HIV is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Until now, HIV has no cure and has [...]

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A Sarah Palin effigy, depicting her hanging from a noose from a the roof of a West Hollywood house, has been covered up by white sheets.  Although this is a case of free speech being suppressed, no one at the house has made a complaint with the police, and the sheets are still hiding the [...]

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The US Federal Reserve bank has cut its interest for the second time this month, bringing it down another 0.5% to it’s lowest level seen since June 2004, 1%.  This has been done in order to spur economic activity among largely stagnant consumers.  The rate is used for a number of key measures, including what [...]

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Barack Obama’s $4.5m, 30 minute television ad is to run tonight at 8pm ET.  This is evidence enough of the Obama campaign’s cash-flush situation.  They have raised much more than the McCain campaign, and seem to be putting it to good use to strech their lead in the polls.  Early voting results indicate that Obama [...]

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While keeping up with all the developments in the of the US’ large corporations that are going through some tough times, it’s nice to find a focused site as opposed to one that attempts to cover all the news out there.  In this regard, I stumbled across Gannet Blog recently.  it’s written by Jim Hopkins [...]

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The name here is somewhat misleading.  It is a daily newspaper published by a church, and is in my experience very good.  What it is very interesting is that it uses it’s own journalists, so in general you are getting fresh news since they do not rely on the likes of Reuters or AP.  The [...]

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The ‘Skinheads’ have been getting a lot of press lately, with two of their alleged members being arrested for planning an assassination attempts on presidential hopeful Barack Obama.  The two also planned to go on a killing spree at their local predominantly black high school.  However, the SWA is claiming that the two were no [...]

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The US consumer index has plummeted to an all time low of 38.0, having begun based at 100 in 1985.  This reflects the hard times that have fallen upon the US consumer quite clearly, with the subprime mortgage crisis playing a large role.  A number of large corporations have also had rounds of layoffs.  Jobs [...]

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The past few weeks have seen the crude oil price drop from a peak of just over $140 a barrel to the current price of just over $60 a barrel.  This has happened as global stock prices have also been dropping drastically, with the DOW below the 8700 level today.  Hopefully with will bring some [...]

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