Hurricane Ike Caused 3,800 Workers From a Hospital to Be Laid Off
Hurricane Ike Caused 3,800 Workers From a Hospital to Be Laid Off

The effects that Hurricane Ike had on Galveston can still be felt now. The University of Texas Medical Branch from Galveston was badly damaged by the strong winds and rain that Ike brought during this fall. Because the teaching hospital is running out of money, nearly 3,800 workers will be laid off. The next three months will be crucial for the hospital,...

Hurricane Ike Caused 3,800 Workers From a Hospital to Be Laid Off
 
 

Bridge Plan Abandoned
After praising to he world about a bridge project of 400 million dollars worth, connecting Ketchikan, population  7,500, and nearby Gravina Island, where the town’s airstrip is located, the State of Alaska has officially renounced the plan altogether. The bridge had been nicknamed as the “bridge to nowhere” because of its...

Bridge Plan Abandoned

MIT Student Busted After Walking Into Airport With Fake Bomb
Star Simpson, MIT student was arrested inside a terminal at Boston's Logan Airport where she was waiting for her boyfriend, after police noticed she was carrying a bomb-like device. The 19-year-old sophomore from Hawaii first aroused suspicions when she approached an airport worker inside the terminal. Her “home-made” device...

MIT Student Busted After Walking Into Airport With Fake Bomb

Syria Invited To International Conference
According to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, among the invitations President Bush has prepared for the November conference, members of the Arab League follow-up committee are also invited, including Syria. Although the invitations have not gone out yet, the rumors have started to steer-up other invitees but Condoleezza told...

Syria Invited To International Conference

NASA Probe Back Online
A NASA probe circling Mars is back at full strength as researchers ponder its past views of possible cave entrances on the red planet's surface. The holes may be openings, called skylights, in the ceilings of underground caves. The discovery is announced in a scientific paper published recently in Geophysical Research...

NASA Probe Back Online

Space Dock On The Moon
NASA is preparing for the next moon landing by developing plans for new and larger habitats for the astronauts. Transportation will also get un update to sporty new rovers capable of two-week treks. NASA officials said it would be easier to build a moon base by transporting up to three large habitats on fewer flights rather...

Space Dock On The Moon

Lethal Injection Banned In Tennessee
A judge in Tennessee has just passed a new law that deemed the state's method of executing prisoners by lethal injection as illegal because it is a cruel and unusual punishment. According to aleta trauger,f ederal judge the  inmates were not properly anesthetised before the injection was administered leading to a painthul...

Lethal Injection Banned In Tennessee

United States Elders Not Insured
According to a recent study conducted released on Thursday by Families USA, an advocacy insurance group more than one-third of the people in the United States under the age of 65 had no health insurance for some or all of 2006 and 2007 The numbers show 89.6 million individuals that have admitted not having insurance for at least a...

United States Elders Not Insured

Diver Hand Bit Off By Alligator
A man is in the emergency room at the Medical University of South Carolina after an alligator severed his arm off while he was diving. Bill Hedden, 59, of Summerville, was diving at Lake Moultrie near Short Stay Naval Recreational Park when all of a sudden an alligator attacked him. As the wounded diver, still wearing his diving...

Diver Hand Bit Off By Alligator

An Outburst Of Justice At University Of Florida
A student at the University of Florida was escorted out of an auditorium hall during a speech given by US senator John Kerry.  State law enforcement officials are investigating the case of Andrew Meyer, 21, who was tasered by campus police as he tried to question Sen. John Kerry during a forum. The incident was caught on video...

An Outburst Of Justice At University Of Florida

Mexican Drug Lord Pleads Guilty
Francisco Javier Arellano Felix, notorious Mexican drug lord and alleged family-run drug cartel boss will be facing imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole. The mob boss has testified to have been behind a number of murders both across the Mexican and The United States border. Javier pleaded guilty to running a...

Mexican Drug Lord Pleads Guilty
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It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as confronting the...

General Petraeus Set for Central Command
 
 
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 Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...

A culinary journey through Crete