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February 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. Mark Miravalle's sobering book, The Seven Sorrows of China, gives, in heart-wrenching detail, accounts of the brutality of the one-child policy and its effects on the Chinese people.Dr. Miravalle's account of his often intense experiences as he travels through modern China provides a disturbingly realistic picture of life outside of Beijing. The following is an excerpt from Part III of Dr. Miravalle's book, entitled The Third Sorrow: Abortion Without Conscience: The Indoctrination of a Nation: "The most alarming," he writes, "the most depressing, the most Copernican revelation of all that I have been...

LONDON: Craving for something sweet and sour at the same time? Don't think twice. Just have a bowl of spicy and creamy tomato soup to satisfy your desire. Yes, a bowl of hot tomato soup every day can boost fertility among men, according to scientists. Researchers at the UK-based University of Portsmouth have discovered that lycopene, which gives tomatoes their bright red colouring, can turn sperm into super-sperm, sources reported. The conclusion came after the researchers studied the effect of lycopene in the diet on a group of six healthy men, all in their early forties. They were asked to...

The inventor of instant noodles, Momofuku Ando, has died in Japan, aged 96, of a heart attack. Mr Ando was born in Taiwan in 1910 and moved to Japan in 1933, founding Nissin Food Products Co after World War II to provide cheap food for the masses. His most famous product, Cup Noodle, was released in 1971. Its taste and ease of preparation - adding hot water to dried noodles in a waterproof polystyrene container - have made it popular around the world. Mr Ando said the inspiration for his product came when he saw people lining up to...

ATLANTA - A father accused of poisoning his children’s soup in a scheme to sue the Campbell Soup Co. was indicted on tampering and fraud charges, authorities said. The children, a 3-year-old boy and his 18-month-old sister, were taken to hospital emergency rooms three times in January. According to investigators, their father fed them tainted soup each time. On the third occasion, authorities said, he used the prescription drugs Prozac and Amitriptyline — both used to treat depression — making his young daughter so ill she was flow by helicopter to an Atlanta hospital.

From London soup kitchen to a raft in Scandinavian sea By Amy Iggulden (Filed: 04/05/2006) Police are trying to solve the mystery of how a homeless man living rough in London ended up on a makeshift raft drifting in the sea off Scandinavia. The castaway, who claimed that he had been drifting for four days, was traced back to a soup kitchen in central London. George Williams was dehydrated and frostbitten when rescued The centre identified him as George Williams, 46, who had been living on the streets for several years. Staff said he was last seen there two months...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A woman and her adult son have been convicted of trying to extort money from the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain by claiming they found a dead mouse in a bowl of soup while celebrating Mother's Day in 2004. Jurors deliberated nearly four hours Friday before convicting Carla Patterson, 38, and Ricky Patterson, 22, of conspiracy to commit extortion.

Tue 17 Jan 2006 Far-right 'charity' that leaves Muslims hungry SUSAN BELLIN PARIS FAR-right groups in France are distributing ham sandwiches and pork soup to homeless people in an attempt to discriminate against Muslims and Jews, forbidden to eat pork products. Food hand-outs, which have already taken place in Paris, Nice and Nantes, and in Brussels and Charleroi in Belgium, have now spread to the eastern French city of Strasboug. At the weekend, Strasbourg's prefect banned the extreme right association Solidarité Alsacienne from distributing its soupe au cochon (pig soup) to poor and homeless people in the city centre....

Jenny's Flu Soup Here is my recipe for a great Anti-Viral Soup. It is chock full of garlic, nutrients, and all the ingredients needed to quickly nourish and cleanse the body if it becomes ravaged by a flu virus. Start with Two full bulbs of garlic...

Korean seaweed soup or miyeok-guk is gaining popularity as a post-childbirth food in the U.S. It is reportedly the most popular dish among new mothers at Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, where half of the 80-90 new mothers recovering there order the restorative soup. More and more general patients are ordering the soup as well, the hospital said. The phenomenon started after Korea's CHA Medical Group took over the medical center from Tenet Healthcare Corp. in February. "Seeing Korean mothers eating seaweed soup after childbirth, white, black, Latino and Armenian mothers as well as general patients...

Polish Borscht for Easter By Dina D'Amato / Recipe The recipe above was a traditional Easter morning meal served and enjoyed by most members of the Polish side of my family. I have very fond memories of Easter as a child. Following church, we would go with my Dad and Grandfather "house-hopping" to several of my relatives' homes. Mom would usually stay home for those who would be visiting our home. At each house, there was a large pot on the stove of fresh borscht and an abundance of sides, and plenty of everything to go around. I have tried...

Two veteran Minnesota doctors say the technique used for a common tuberculosis test — injecting the vaccine between layers of skin — could be used to stretch the current flu vaccine supply by a factor of 10.

Heinz is considering legal action after a woman claimed she found a dead mouse inside a can of soup. Therese Oulad, 49, claims the mouse was floating on top of her Cream of Tomato soup. She told the Sun: "I almost threw up - it was horrific. I thought I was hallucinating when I saw this black creature standing up in my lunch." The tin of soup was bought for her by a friend from a Safeway near her home in Northolt, West London. But Heinz spokesman Michael Mullen said: "This is a completely unsubstantiated allegation and we are shocked...

SHANGHAI, China -- The soup wasn't just good. It was downright addictive. Narcotics police in southwestern China shuttered 215 restaurants found to be mixing opium poppy into their soups and hot pot stews, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

AP) - A woman who claimed she found a mouse in her soup during an early Mother's Day lunch was accused with her son Tuesday of planting the mouse and attempting to extort money from a national restaurant chain.Carla Patterson, 36, and Ricky Patterson, 20, both of Hampton, were charged Tuesday with attempted extortion and conspiracy to commit a felony after they tried to get Cracker Barrel to give them money in the hoax, said Howard Gwynn, Newport News' commonwealth's attorney.May 8, the day before Mother's Day, Patterson claimed she had already eaten some of her vegetable soup at the...

N.J. Man Investigated About Possible Cannibalism After Eating Soup With Chicken Feet PARSIPPANY, N.J. March 20 — Victor Salazar went to the hospital with back pain and had an X-ray that raised questions about his diet, not his spine. When a doctor asked if he had eaten any bones, Salazar said no, forgetting about the soup he had the day before that included pieces of chicken feet. He left, but radiologists and the Morris County medical examiner wondered if the film showed bits of finger bones. A police investigation began. Newark homicide investigators went to Salazar's home in Newark on...

<p>A Dover man who bought chicken soup from an outdoor food vendor has a bone to pick with the man who dished it out.</p> <p>Samuel Gonzalez of Dover said he left his Union office on Nov. 30, 2001, and ordered chicken soup from Mahmoud Elmalah at a nearby food truck outdoors. After he had eaten a couple of bites, Gonzalez noticed a tiny skeleton floating in the container.</p>

Woman Sues Over Condom Found in Soup Irvine restaurant's lawyer says it's a mystery how the rolled-up item got into the chowder. By Jeff Gottlieb, Times Staff Writer An Orange County woman is suing an Irvine restaurant, saying she found a condom in her clam chowder. Laila Sultan, 48, said she was eating at McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant on Feb. 26, 2002, when something rubbery stuck to her tooth. "We said, 'Of course. You're chewing on a clam,' " said Paula Wild, one of three friends with her — all eating clam chowder, and all of whom have joined...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A woman who says she found a human tooth in a can of Campbell's soup has filed a lawsuit against the company. Tina Keeney, of West Jordan, had just heated up a can of chicken noodle soup and given some of it to her 13-month-old son. While she was cleaning up, she noticed the boy had a hard, white object in his hand. "It's gross enough as it is to find something in your food anyway, but to have it be a human tooth that was in someone else's mouth is just sickening," Keeney said....

Sept 11 pigeons crash From correspondents in Jersey City, New Jersey September 19, 2002 THINGS went wrong at a September 11 anniversary ceremony last week when dozens of white pigeons were released. Some of the birds got tangled in onlookers' hair or fell into the Hudson River. Several were injured when they crashed into office windows, and others were found dead. Instead of getting doves or white homing pigeons - the kind usually used at weddings and other formal events - organisers of the September 11 service bought their birds at a poultry shop in Newark. "That's reprehensible," said Ellen...

Radio emerges from the electronic soup 19:00 28 August 02 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition A self-organising electronic circuit has stunned engineers by turning itself into a radio receiver. What should have been an oscillator became a radio This accidental reinvention of the radio followed an experiment to see if an automated design process, that uses an evolutionary computer program, could be used to "breed" an electronic circuit called an oscillator. An oscillator produces a repetitive electronic signal, usually in the form of a sine wave. Paul Layzell and Jon Bird at the University of Sussex in Brighton applied...

Will Bridgeport Bite the Hand that Feeds its Poor? By Ken Von Kohorn, Chairman Family Institute of Connecticut The Bridgeport Rescue Mission is a faith-based charity that helps the poor in both body and spirit. Working out of the Fanny Crosby Memorial Home on Fairfield Avenue, the mission offers food, shelter, long-term drug rehabilitation, and recreational programs for youths that might otherwise have nowhere to go but the street. Importantly, the Rescue Mission also offers spiritual sustenance -- Bible Clubs, Sunday School, and chapel services. On Monday evenings the Rescue Mission’s Mobile Soup Kitchen travels to South Street to distribute...