VANCOUVER, British Columbia – An abandoned mine in northern Canada may lose its role as the country’s only government-sanctioned marijuana farm.
Archive for July, 2009
Canadian Marijuana Mine Looks to Expand
Posted: 25th July 2009 by Veritas in Lifestyle, PoliticsTags: canada, Health, marijuana, Pot, vancouver
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Naked Girls Work in Fields to Bring Rain
Posted: 25th July 2009 by Veritas in Oddly EnoughTags: daughter, farm, India, indian, married, rain, weather
PATNA, India – Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
3 Prisoners Escape in Hijacked Helicopter in Bruges
Posted: 25th July 2009 by Veritas in CrimeTags: belgium, criminal, escape, helicopter, jail, prisoner, rob
BRUSSELS – Three prisoners escaped from a jail outside the Belgian city of Bruges in a hijacked helicopter Thursday, authorities said.
Octomom Cashes in on Her Kids with Reality Show
Posted: 25th July 2009 by Veritas in Entertainment, LifestyleTags: mom, octuplets, reality, show, suleman, tv
LOS ANGELES – Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman has signed agreements for each of her 14 children to earn $250 a day to star in a reality television show.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy The white police officer who was criticized by President Barack Obama for arresting a black Harvard professor outside his home has fired back at the president and other critics, refusing to apologize for his actions.
Plane Lands, Takes Off Again on Fla. Highway
Posted: 24th July 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly EnoughTags: airplane, Florida, plane
A small plane made an emergency landing on a Florida interstate and later took off again from the same stretch of road.
Roger Federer and His Wife Have Twins!
Posted: 24th July 2009 by Sus Scrofa in SportsTags: Roger Federer, twins
The 27-year-old Swiss world tennis number one has named the girls Myla Rose and Charlene Riva and hailed their birth as the best day of his life.
Chinese Scientists Reprogram Cells to Create Mice
Posted: 24th July 2009 by The Dude in Science | TechnologyTags: chinese, clones, disease, embryonic, fetus, medically, mice, offspring, reprogrammed skin cells, Science, scientists, Tiny
Two teams of Chinese researchers working separately have reprogrammed mature skin cells of mice to an embryonic-like state and used the resulting cells to create live mouse offspring. The reprogramming may bring scientists one step closer to creating medically useful stem-cell lines for treating human disease without having to resort to controversial laboratory techniques. However, [...]
U.S. Image Abroad Surges Under Obama
Posted: 24th July 2009 by The Dude in PoliticsTags: America, Bush, France, Germany, image, Israel, Muslims, Obama, poll, popularity, U.S., United States
The King of Ireland is a Goat
Posted: 23rd July 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Mother Nature, Oddly Enough, PoliticsTags: goat, Ireland
The crowning of a goat as King of Ireland looks to be back on track, after organizers of the country’s oldest fairs had expressed concerns that the heir to the throne may be stopped from traveling to the festival.
North Korea ‘has no friends left’
Posted: 23rd July 2009 by The Dude in PoliticsTags: denuclearisation, friends, Hillary Clinton, international efforts, North Korea, nuclear programme, peace, regime, Secretary of State, U.S.
North Korea has no friends to protect it from international efforts to end its nuclear programme, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said. At an Asian regional forum in Thailand she said there was widespread agreement that North Korea could not be allowed to maintain nuclear weapons. North Korea’s envoy at the meeting said [...]