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[Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Hospitals Cater to Their 'Guests'
Perks like high-speed internet, interactive TV and room service are blooming in some hospitals, where patients are "guests." As the hospital-ity industry takes on new meaning, some predict the model will become the norm. MSI Enhanced Its Netbook, But Not Enough Where It Counts
MSI's Wind U110 Netbook isn't exactly an upgrade to the U100. Sure, the hard drive space is now up to 160 GB, and battery life can hit nine hours, but what about the added weight of that battery and the still so-so graphics?
 U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP)
This site describes how "bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions perform a number of important functions such as protecting ports and Navy assets from swimmer attack, locating and attaching recovery hardware to expensive exercise and training targets, and locating potentially dangerous sea mines."The site features a FAQ, photographs, a map of their deployment, information about marine mammal health care and training in San Diego, California, and more. From the U.S. Department of the Navy. When will children disobey parents? It depends on the rule
A study of 60 4- to 7-year-olds that considers the connections between control over issues within children's personal domain, identity, and emotional well-being has found that children make important distinctions between different kinds of rules. Using role-playing situations, the researchers learned how children would act and feel when a parent forbids them from engaging in a desired activity. The findings suggest that children make important distinctions between different kinds of rules when reasoning about decisions and emotions. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedlydelivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." The Mortgage Market: What Happened?
This April 2007 article provides an overview of how, as "nationwide real-estate boom of recent years goes bust, economists and regulators are questioning the role that mortgage lenders played in helping to create an overheated housing environment."Includes discussions of risky loans and types of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs), growth in subprime lending (loans to borrowers with poor credit), and unethical practices. From National Public Radio (NPR). Gadget Lab: Lukewarm Plasma TV
High def doesn't always mean quality, but a nifty portable speaker system delivers. In other news, real-live cats foil a robot kitty-litter dumper -- all in this week's Gadget Lab from Wired magazine. NASA's Space Eyes Focus On Deep Impact Target
On July 4, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will attempt an extraordinarily daring encounter with the far-flung comet Tempel 1, which is hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. As if that is not challenging enough, the comet's size, shape and other characteristics are not entirely known. Is Treating Parkinson's Possible With New Neurotrophic Factor?
Researchers have discovered a novel neurotrophic factor CDNF (Conserved Dopamine Neurotrophic Factor) that was shown to protect and even rescue damaged dopamine neurons in an experimental model of Parkinson's disease. More importantly, the function of the neurons was recovered after an experimental lesion of the dopamine neurons in Substantia Nigra.
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