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You’d think that Florida would have plenty of roaches.  However, the many, many native roaches of Florida weren’t what Derek Alan Rader wanted, so he went online and placed an order.  As it turns out, the roaches Rader wanted required paperwork, so he did a little (or a lot) of forging and bought his roaches […]

One of the hardest diseases to treat in otherwise healthy people is diabetes.  Given fluctuations in food consumption, hormone level, and other body changes that are hard to track from day to day, treating diabetes is a nightmare.  Treating diabetes is even worse in pregnant women, whose bodies are haywire even without blood sugar problems. […]

Unless you’re really into jazz, you don’t know the name of John Barry.  However, if you’ve ever seen a James Bond film starring Sean Connery, you know John Barry’s work.  Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry passed away on Sunday after a heart attack.  He won Oscars for the soundtrack and title song for Born Free […]

Officially, Indonesia is a secular democracy, but in practice the world’s largest Muslim nation continues to find itself growing more and more conservative while also growing more and more Westernized.  There is no case that illustrates the divide between the conservative Muslim elements and the young, hip elements like the case of Nazril Irham.  Nazril […]

Mountain climbers are a brave breed, and Adam Potter is no different from the average climber.  Well, except for the fact that Adam Potter might be the luckiest mountain climber in history.  While scaling Sgurr Choinnich Mor near Ben Nevis, Scotland, mountain climber Adam Potter fell 1000 feet down a mountain and somehow survived unscathed. […]

The reign of Hosni Mubarak is in trouble, and no amount of creative photo manipulation can save his regime now.  This is either going to end in an Egyptian democracy or a brutal crackdown on dissent, and there’s not much in the way of a happy medium.  As the rioting and conflict increase and the […]

Just call it all-star weekend all around.  While the NFL was playing its annual all-star game in Hawaii, across the country the NHL was also hosting its annual gathering of the best and brightest, as well as a brand new format.  At the RBC Arena, home of the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, North Carolina, the […]

I think we’ve all stopped at the store to try those little free sample products they have out, like when they have the griddle out and they’re frying up little sausage bites or giving out little shots of lemonade or what-have-you.  Everyone loves those, right?  Well, a woman in Albuquerque, New Mexico isn’t loving her […]

A Dutch prisoner named Angelo MacD. is having a little problem.  Well, in his case, it’s a big problem related to his jail cell.  Angelo’s attorney agrees that his cell in Krimpen aan de IJssel, Netherlands, is fine for a standard prisoner, but Angelo MacD. is a giant who apparently cannot fit comfortably in his […]

Just call it Generation Stress.  Every year, the University of California-Los Angeles conducts a survey of incoming freshmen students.  Dubbed “American Freshman,” the report is a look into the circumstances and mindsets of a wide variety of college students enrolling at UCLA, and it’s one of the longest-running and most exhaustive surveys of student thoughts […]

With the country racked by anti-government protesters and pro-democracy rallies, the country of Egypt has gone to extremes in an attempt to silence dissent and make the lives of protesters that much more difficult.  Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has ordered the Cairo-based government to shut off Egypt’s Internet connection.  The 80-million-strong country of Egypt has completely disappeared off of […]

Those life-saving breast implants just might kill you.  According to a new study released by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, women with breast implants should be on the look out for a rare blood cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma, or ALCL.  The FDA said it has identified as many as 60 cases […]

New York City is not getting much of a break this winter.  The Big Apple and the rest of the eastern seaboard keep getting hit with snow, time and time again.  As of this morning, Central Park was under 15 inches of snow, and more is on the way in a full-fledged snow emergency.  If […]

NBC’s hit comedy The Office is in a state of transition.  After 7 seasons in charge of Dunder-Mifflin’s Scranton, Pennsylvania branch, Michael Scott, AKA Steve Carell, is stepping down at the end of this season.  Fortunately, he’ll have an old friend to celebrate his final four Office episodes with.  Will Ferrell is joining the cast […]