LETTERS: AMERICA, DICTATORS AND ISLAMISTS
yahoo.com schreibt: CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt will hunt down exiled Muslim Brotherhood leaders and seek their arrest, a top official said Sunday, after Qatar ordered them to leave its territory despite initially hosting group members following the ouster of Egypt ...
MEDIPOST America clears Phase 1/2 IND for the U.S. clinical trial on stem cell drug for lung
MEDIPOST America Inc. (CEO:Dr. Antonio Lee) today announced the US FDA approval of Phase 1/2 clinical trial for PNEUMOSTEM ®. The Phase 1/2 trial will assess the safety and efficacy of PNEUMOSTEM ® on prematurely born infants who will be at high-risk of ...
America, Dictators and Islamists
Re “Islamists are not our friends” (Opinion, Sept. 12): It seems like Dennis Ross wants the United States to repeat its worst Cold War mistakes in the Middle East. Supporting authoritarian leaders just because they claim to be secularists is both bad ...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is my favorite superhero film (big shock, right?)
I know I talk about this film a lot but there's a reason: I'm one of the few people in the known universe who didn't like The Dark Knight when I saw it in the theaters in 2008. This bummed me out, not because so many people liked something I didn't (which ...
Miss America 2015: Live updates
Here it is — Miss America. Back at the Boardwalk for the second year running, the Atlantic City pageant starts at 8 p.m. with an hour pre-show on ABC. The final begins at 9 p.m. New this year: there will be a "hot dad" contest featuring pageant dads (and ...
MEDIPOST America clears Phase 1/2 IND for the U.S. clinical trial on stem cell drug for lung
(4-traders.com) Phase 1/2 trial on PNEUMOSTEM® for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) will commence in 2015. BPD is prevalent in premature infants and currently no effective treatment exists. PNEUMOSTEM® received orphan drug designation by FDA and Phase 2 trial is ongoing... http://www.4-traders.com/n ...
The Crotch-Grab Incident: Jonathan Papelbon Ejected For, Um, Adjusting His Cup
The umpires tossed Jonathan Papelbon today for grabbing his crotch while being booed. He claims he was just adjusting his cup. Your thoughts, America? This AP photo of Jonathan Papelbon from today’s “incident” is, umm, interesting. #Phillies pic.twitter.com/UHiUT13OBC — Joon Lee (@iamjoonlee) Septem ...
Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS Has Received its First Review Score
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS has received its first review score within the illustrious pages of Japans Weekly Famitsu. The magazines four-strong review writing team were rather taken aback by the riotous brawlers transition to portable play, individually awarding the game 9, 9, 9 and 10 leadi ...
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Colin Woodard Viking Penguin, 2011, 322 pp plus backmatter In 1991 Joel Garreau, then national news editor for the Washington Post, wrote The Nine Nations of North America. He was attempting to create a system that wo ...
Father, son……..HOOPS
Filed under: America, parenting, Random, Sports Tagged: basketball, father and son, hoops, random
I don't really know where else to put my thinky thoughts
This isn't meta. I haven't had enough time to work these things out for this to even be the rough draft of meta. It's just me thinking out loud because for most of my life I have had strong feelings about World War 2 and I have recently (that is to say in the past month or so) developed a lot of ver ...
Hiromi Comes “Alive”
Not the savior of jazz and doesn’t want to be. If jazz has become a niche market in the music industry (and it has), a contributing factor for its slide into cultural irrelevance is a failure to promote and support new artists. No matter what sub-genre of jazz you personally love, across the board t ...
Here’s What Probably Happened on 9/11……..
The 9/11 attacks were planned for decades before they actually happened starting largely when George Bush Sr announced the New World Order on 9/11/1991 during this State of the Union address. There were many reasons for 9/11 despite what most people think. Here are most of them: 1) Start a global ph ...
Long Sad Week/Weekend
I am not normally this sad, but this past week on into the weekend has been a huge mix of emotions. It started with my son's great grandmother passing away from pre-leukemia. For anyone wondering, this is a rare form of blood cancer that Robin Roberts of Good Morning America came down with and beat. ...
A Pair of Modern Crosses for Troubling Times
One of the great gifts of the Catholic tradition is that our communion in the Body of Christ is not cut off by death: in short, the communion of saints, of which the official canon is most likely the tip of the iceberg. We can seek spiritual companions from among this great cloud of witnesses for al ...
