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Researchers on Brink of Creating Beer that Fights Cancer Heart Disease

Arnaud — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:41:07 +0000

Life could soon be as good as it gets! A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at Rice, said the team is using genetic engineering to create a beer that includes resveratrol, the disease-fighting chemical that’s been found in red wine.

Albert Hofmann, the Father of LSD, Dies at 102

Arnaud — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:56:33 +0000

Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was...

Olympic Torch extinguished

Arnaud — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:07:40 +0000

Security officials were forced to cut short the Olympic torch relay in Paris after heavy anti-Chinese protests along the route. Police extinguished the torch three times in a bid to evade...

Technician Suspended After Porn is Broadcast on National TV

Arnaud — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:10:42 +0000

A technician at a French Polynesian television station has been suspended from work after accidentally screening a porn movie he thought he was watching alone. The incident on March 3 sparked about a dozen angry calls to the Tahiti Nui television...