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LE Magazine March 2004 Death by Medicine Something is wrong when regulatory agencies pretend that vitamins are dangerous, yet ignore published statistics showing that government-sanctioned medicine is the real hazard. Until now, Life Extension could cite only isolated statistics to make its case about the dangers of conventional medicine. No one had ever analyzed and combined ALL of the published literature dealing with injuries and deaths caused by government-protected medicine. That has now changed. A group of researchers meticulously reviewed the statistical evidence and their findings are absolutely shocking.4 These researchers have authored a paper titled “Death by Medicine” that...

Rich 'must pay to save nature' By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent Rich countries must pay much more to save endangered creatures and their homes from extinction, UK conservationists say. It's immoral and impractical to expect the poor to pay for conservation, and it isn't going to happen Alistair Gammell, RSPB Despite international agreement on conserving biodiversity, they argue, animals, birds and plants continue to vanish. They say the developed world has failed to live up to its promises to pay to slow the damage. And they damn it as immoral for leaving the poor countries to...

Christopher Hitchens           I have written a long review of Sidney Blumenthal’s book, “The Clinton Wars”, which will appear in the July issue of the Atlantic Monthly. It is a political review, and if you care enough you will just have to wait for it. I am not willing, and nor was I commissioned, to burden the readers of the Atlantic with a detailed rebuttal of everything in the book that concerns me personally. Even a brief accusation or suggestion against oneself, when made in print, often necessitates a long reply. And Blumenthal’s book is a protracted mood-swing between...

Just got done watching Jessica Lange on Charlie Rose. FR should take up a collection of unused Prozac to get to this unfortunate millionairess from the United States. The poor thing was almost unable to create a coherent sentence. Thankfully, Charlie was able to spoon-feed her some lines so she looked somewhat coherent. Of course, her main point was that she has feelings ...

Academic fortresses of repression George Jonas National Post Monday, February 10, 2003 A two-day conference on anti-Semitism begins today at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. Launched by former prime minister Brian Mulroney with an invitation-only speech last night, the conference has been prompted, at least partly, by two recent events. The first occurred last September at Montreal's Concordia University, when rioters cowed university authorities into cancelling a speech by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then last month, Toronto's York University came close to cancelling a speech by the Philadelphia-based scholar, Daniel Pipes. Under pressure from...

When Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Massachusetts announced last Sunday that it had successfully cloned a human embryo that grew to 6 cells before stopping, it caused no small amount of surprise and uproar around the world because of the implications and possibilities that such an accomplishment opened up. There was at least one person who wasn't surprised at all, though. It's old news to him-he claims that his researchers did the same thing a long time ago. Claude Vorilhon is a 54-year-old former sports writer now known as Rael, who founded a religious movement based on the premise that ...

Home - Yahoo! - Help  Home | Asia | World | Business | Technology | Sport | Entertainment | Newspapers  Yahoo! Asia - NewsWorld Thursday, October 4 1:32 PM SGT Taliban under mounting pressure Taliban under mounting pressure ISLAMABAD, Oct 4 (AFP) - Afghanistan's isolated Taliban regime was under mounting pressure Thursday with the United States poised to launch military strikes and moves to form a post-Taliban government gathering momentum.Deposed Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani said meanwhile that special forces from unidentified Western countries were already conducting operations in Taliban-controlled areas of the country.There was no immediate confirmation of Rabbani's claim and neither the United States nor Britain, the two countries most likely to have ...

Q. Why do you think these attacks happened?   A. To answer the question we must first identify the perpetrators of the crimes. It is generally assumed, plausibly, that their origin is the Middle East region, and that the attacks probably trace back to the Osama Bin Laden network, a widespread and complex organization, doubtless inspired by Bin Laden but not necessarily acting under his control. Let us assume that this is true. Then to answer your question a sensible person would try to ascertain Bin Laden's views, and the sentiments of the large reservoir of supporters he has ...