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Katrina Help Wiki
Find volunteer opportunities, online charities, missing persons, government resources, temporary housing (offers and needed), amateur radio services, and much more on this member-contributed wiki devoted to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "Many of the people involved are members of the TsunamiHelp Blog and TsunamiHelp Wiki team."Updates available by RSS. May 4 Collection
Site of an archive devoted to the May 4, 1970 "student demonstration against the Vietnam War."Contains a FAQ about the day when "Ohio National Guardsmen left four students dead,"a description and subject guide to the May 4 Collection, a chronology of events, an annotated bibliography, and more. From the Department of Special Collections and Archives at Kent State University. Coffee And Tea Can Reduce The Risk Of Chronic Liver Disease
A study published today in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) journal Gastroenterology found that people at high risk for liver injury may be able to reduce their risk for developing chronic liver disease significantly by drinking more than two cups of coffee or tea daily. This is the first study to take a prospective look at the relationship between coffee and tea consumption and chronic liver disease in the general U.S. population. [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 supposedly delivered 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." Viruses, Trojans and Remote Snooping: Hackers Release Their Own iPhone
Apple announces an iPhone software developer's kit will be released in February. But hackers already have their own sophisticated SDK for getting code on the iPhone, including viruses, Trojans and the ability to snoop on audio and video. Drug Combination Shrinks Breast Cancer Metastases In Brain
A combination of a "targeted"therapy and chemotherapy shrank metastatic brain tumors by at least 50 percent in one-fifth of patients with aggressive HER2-positive breast cancer. Up to one-third of women with advanced, HER-2-positive breast cancer may develop metastases to the brain. Freedom Flight: Black South African Kid's Homemade Paraglider Leads to
South African Cyril Mazibuko is a professional paraglider, one of the few black practitioners of a predominantly white sport. After seeing gliders in the air as a kid, he makes a glider out of plastic bags and baling wire, catches the attention of the pros, and flies in the face of apartheid. Young Blood Revives Aging Muscles, Stanford Researchers Find
Any older person can attest that aging muscles don't heal like young ones. But it turns out that's not the muscle's fault. A study in the Feb. 17 issue of Nature shows that it's old blood that keeps the muscles down. Bird flu FAQ
Now is as good a time as any to remind readers of the Sciencebase bird flu faq.And, if you’re worried about good old-fashioned colds and flu as opposed to emerging viral infections, check out our tips page on how to avoid catching colds and flu.Tags: avian influenza, bird flu, H5N1, health NIST Rhode Island Nightclub Fire Investigation Team Calls For Improvem
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is calling on the organizations that develop building and fire safety codes, standards and practices--and the state and local agencies that adopt them--to make specific changes to improve the fire safety of nightclubs as a result of the agency's investigation of the Feb. 20, 2003, fire at The Station nightclub in W. Warwick, R.I.
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