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..."Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women. "On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls. "In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens''...

A man playing golf at a Lemont, Ill., country club claims he received a concussion from a ball hit by a prominent personal-injury lawyer. Edigio "Gino" Berni claims in a lawsuit filed against Chicago attorney Michael Goldberg he was struck in the temple by a ball hit by the lawyer in August, the Chicago Daily Southtown reported Friday. Berni's attorney, Mario Palermo, said his client saw Goldberg hit the ball, which the suit claims bore the name of the attorney's law firm, Goldberg, Weisman and Cairo. "(Goldberg) has a reputation for helping people like Gino," Palermo said. "He hasn't taken...

Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite usually found in cats that can also infect humans, has been getting more than its fair share of the limelight lately. Fresh on the heels of speculation about T. gondii manipulating human behavior on a massive scale to advance its own survival, comes news that the parasite also appears to be exerting a very strong gender selection function in human pregnancies. Infection by T. gondii is usually facilitated through the consumption of raw or undercooked meat, or, food or water contaminated with soil containing cat feces. Infection results in toxoplasmosis, which can lie dormant and go...

Jose Hernandez was good with a machete. So he was the top choice when his boss needed someone to chop down young trees that were choking parts of Florida's Everglades. On one trip to the swamps, the workers flew in by helicopter and quickly cut a stand of sprouting trees. But when they took off again, something went wrong: The chopper lurched left, then plunged into murky water. A broken rotor blade slashed through Hernandez's left thigh. Doctors saved his life but couldn't save his leg. To pay for his costly medical care, Hernandez filed a workers' compensation claim, which...

Bono Avoids Taxes, Joins with Forbes Breaking from NewsMax.com U2 and its lead singer Bono have been pushing the U.S. and EU countries to fork over more money for Third World nations to relieve debt and fight AIDS. But when it comes to paying their fair share of taxes to help those efforts, U2 wants a free ride. That's the word from Ireland, where the group has been based since it was founded in the early 1980s. The Irish Examiner reports that U2 and Bono are furious that Ireland is doing away with its law exempting artists and authors from...

Parasite that makes cat-lovers neurotic By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 02/08/2006) Cat-lovers may be more neurotic than other people as a result of a feline parasite that could ultimately also be responsible for international cultural differences, according to a radical theory published today. More than a quarter of the world's population - ranging from about seven per cent of the UK population to almost 70 per cent in Brazil - is infected with Toxoplasma -gondii, a relative of the malaria bug, which also infects rats, giving them a suicidal attraction to cats. "Some of us have a parasite in...

s access to graduate education in America exclusively for the upper class? As a first-year graduate student struggling to make ends meet, I believe the answer is yes. In my experience, searching for funding to pay the extensive costs of my higher education has been an upward climb leading only to dead ends. I am a single mother who qualifies for the maximum amount in federal aid for graduate students. But this amount barely covers my tuition; paying for housing, books and living expenses is up to me.

OLDSMAR, Fla. -- A Tampa lawyer is suing a sandwich shop for sending daily specials by fax. Attorney William Ebsary said he just got tired of unsolicited faxes of the eatery's menu and decided to do something about it. Ebsary has squared off in small claims court against Twins Luncheon restaurant in Oldsmar, about 20 miles northwest of Tampa. He said the restaurant sent faxes to his office even after a certified letter asked that they stop. Ebsary sued the restaurant in February using a law designed to punish those who engage in "fax blasting." He is seeking between $5,000...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans and Democrats engaged in their own scuffle -- but just a rhetorical one -- Thursday, a day after Rep. Cynthia McKinney had a dustup with a Capitol Police officer. The incident erupted after an officer did not recognize McKinney as she was entering a House office building and asked her to stop. According to one account, McKinney then struck the officer. Capitol Police were considering Thursday whether to ask the U.S. attorney's office to file charges against McKinney, a Democrat who represents Atlanta suburbs that make up one of Georgia's two black-majority districts. Democratic leader...

Love It Or Hate It -- It's your ChoiceOver the past ten years the federal government created about 30,000 new laws and regulations. That's just at the federal level of government."If only there were one law that ruled the world," one person recently quipped.There's several dozen if not a hundred issues where government has overstepped the power granted to it by the people. A person could write a hundred articles, one article per issue, that exposes each government abuse of power and abuse of citizens.What if there was one article that could do the job of one hundred separate articles?...

China Gears Up to Avenge Korean Food Safety Warnings After revelations that freshwater fish imported from China was tainted with the carcinogenic dye malachite green and Chinese-produced kimchi contained parasites and unusually high levels of lead, Beijing appears to be getting ready to avenge its tainted honor. "Inspections have shown that Korean products contain malachite green as well, but the Korean government without notifying the Chinese government, and without a seeking consensus on the issue, simply made an announcement in the press as if Chinese products were the only products with such problems," a Chinese government official said. "If there...

Friday October 21, 06:34 PM S.Korean Watchdog Orders Destruction Of Tainted Chinese Kimchi SEOUL, Oct 21 Asia Pulse - South Korea's food safety watchdog ordered the recall and destruction of nine Chinese kimchi products on Friday after detecting parasite eggs in them. The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said the Chinese imports were found to contain the eggs of three parasites -- roundworm, hookworm and trichostrongylus orientalis. But domestic kimchi brands were found not to contain parasite eggs, the watchdog said, announcing the outcome of a test of 16 kimchi products from China and 18 domestic brands that were...

Complaint Against Kerry, CBS Dismissed By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer 7 minutes ago Election officials have thrown out a complaint against John Kerry's presidential campaign and CBS over a now-discredited story that questioned President Bush's National Guard service. The Federal Election Commission, in a 6-0 ruling, said there was no reason to believe the allegations raised by the Center for Individual Freedom over the story that aired on CBS' "60 Minutes Wednesday" in September. The politically conservative group contended the report amounted to an illegal election-time advertisement against Bush that was financed with corporate money; that CBS improperly coordinated...

John Kerry on Roberts Nomination FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: David Wade or April Boyd July 19, 2005 Statement by John Kerry on the Nomination of John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court "Americans deserve a Supreme Court that is fair, independent, ethical and served by justices committed to our constitutional freedoms rather than an ideological agenda. Justice O'Connor refused to use her position as a means to advance a political agenda. In replacing her, we must be confident Judge Roberts will do the same. "We know Judge Roberts is no Sandra Day O'Connor, and the White House has sent a...

FAIRFIELD, N.J., April 28 - "Do you want to see a ghost town?" Joe Linelho asked. He pulled the lid off one of his beehives and worked one of the honey frames loose with a small blade. Not a bee responded to the intrusion. The hundreds of little hexagonal cells, where young bees should be incubating, were empty, and at the center hung a cluster of bees, all dead. Mr. Linelho, a bee hobbyist, began the winter with 40 hives, each with a queen and 50,000 to 70,000 honeybees. In the spring, when fruit growers rent hives to pollinate their...

$400 million stock loss by California government retirement funds and the mask of our parasitic courts The California Public Employee Retirement System (Cal-PERS) seeks to recover a $400 million stock loss by suing AIG for alleged accounting "improprieties." Suing the private sector for losses sustained on bad investments or during price bubbles and using the redistributionist courts to demonize and shake down the private sector for their losses has become an all-too-frequent tactic of government. The legalized leaching of the private sector by our court system masks as cases of fraud, white collar crime, tort claims, etc. The ancient Greek...

Source: Variety November 11, 2004 Michael Moore tells Variety he met with Harvey Weinstein and they plan to start working now on Fahrenheit 9/11½. "We want to get cameras rolling now and have it ready in two-three years," Moore told columnist Army Archerd. "We want to document and commercialize it," added Moore, "Fifty-one percent of the American people lacked information (in this election) and we want to educate and enlighten them. They weren't told the truth. We're communicators and it's up to us to start doing it now. The official mourning period is over today and there is a silver...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A verdict will be announced Monday in the trial of a man charged with intentionally exposing 17 women to HIV, a Thurston County Superior Court judge says. "Sex machine," "Russian roulette" and "sex addiction" were among the phrases lawyers used Thursday in 2 1/2 hours of closing arguments in the case of Anthony E. Whitfield, 32, of Lacey. Whitfield, formerly of Oklahoma City, is charged with 17 counts of first-degree assault with sexual motivation, witness tampering and violating a court protection order. He could be sentenced to 137 to 182 years in prison if convicted on all...

Reflecting On The Legacy Of The Rainbow Coalition Written by Ron Daniels User Rating: / 1 Thursday, 26 February 2004 Twenty years after his electrifying campaign for President in 1984, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson convened something of a family reunion for the Rainbow Coalition at Harvard University recently to assess the impact and legacy of this extraordinary vision/concept. Hosted by famed legal scholar and activist Professor Charles Ogletree, the gathering drew scores of former staff members and supporters from the 1984 and 1988 campaigns along with leaders and activists from the National Rainbow Coalition. By Ron Daniels Haiti Support...

I thought I would create a harmless post and ask if any of you watch Justice League on the Cartoon Channel? I usually watch it with my grandsons. Last nights episode dealt with the villians using mind control to manipulate the heros feelings towards one another, causing the JL to break up. As usual, as the end, the heroes unite and kick arse. I like a couple things about the episode. At the end, one of the villians goes to punch Batman when Superman appears and stops him. After Batman ties up the villian he begins to say that he...