Doomsday Clock reset for an alarming world

Global warming, new nuclear perils shift symbolic hand
January 17, 2007
Olivia Ward
STAFF REPORTER

Be afraid. Be more afraid.

For the first time in five years, the elite board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving the minute hand on their Doomsday Clock closer to the fatal hour of midnight.

France proposed U.K. union, papers show

January 15, 2007
Associated Press

LONDON – Would France have been better off under the Queen?

The revelation that the French government proposed a union of Britain and France in 1956, even offering to accept the sovereignty of the British Queen, has left scholars on both sides of the Channel puzzled.

`Water intoxication’ kills radio contestant

Tried to consume as much as possible without urinating in bid for video game
January 15, 2007

SACRAMENTO, Calif.–A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.

Procrastination is a 4 letter word

The science of keeping up with yesterday
‘To actually not procrastinate takes planning, effort and will,’ expert says
DAWN WALTON

From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

CALGARY — Do not delay. Read this story now. Although I know some of you will likely never get to it, I understand. You have other things to do. Sleeping, watching television and checking e-mail.

But it’s not your fault.

Polish archbishop quits over spy scandal

January 08, 2007
Ryan Lucas
Associated Press

WARSAW–Worshippers filled the pews inside the red-brick walls of St. John’s Cathedral. Outside, faithful sheltered from the rain under umbrellas while huddling around portable radios, waiting expectantly for the formal installation of Warsaw’s new archbishop.

Then, in a blink yesterday, the festive mood transformed into disbelief. Cries of “No, no!” and “Stay with us!” rose from the crowds both inside and out.

Treatment keeps girl child-sized

From the Beeb:

Parents of a severely disabled girl in the US have revealed that they are keeping her child-sized in order to give her a better life.

The nine-year-old, named Ashley, has the mental ability of a three-month-old baby and cannot walk or talk.

Along with hormone doses to limit her growth, Ashley’s parents also opted for surgery to block breast growth and had her uterus and appendix removed.

Way to go, Schulich researchers!

Both women are faculty members at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario.

New Canadian technology tracks cancer’s spread

Updated Sat. Dec. 30 2006 10:47 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff

When it comes to cancer, it often isn’t the initial tumour that kills. It’s the cancer cells that migrate and spawn new tumours. Now scientists at the Robarts Research Centre in London, Ontario, have devised a new way of following cancer cells as they spread that may help them learn how to stop them.