Archive for November 7th, 2007

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

A Chip off the Old block.

Has anyone noticed that the big debate raging over childrens health care is over a program called S-Chip. Chip is of course what chisels do when engraving letters into stone walls on tombs and pyramids, etc — thus the expression “Chip off the old block” meaning a son looks just like his father; and […]

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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

This guy made sure that he will be immortalized!

Hey guys,
         I came across this story of a very cocky (pun completely intended) Bedouin man who had 8 wives and 67 children! He is currently looking for wife no. 9. While this is normal for his culture, I’m sure it made yalls jaws drop just as mine did.
Here is the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21336157/from/RS.3/
                Take Care,
                                Amy

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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Two Astounding Articles

While I was online poking around the news updates, I came across two articles that stunned me.
 The first is entitled “The Science of Growing Body Parts” and it talks about an InkJet printer that has been “jury-rigged” to “print” human organs.  Here’s the link to the full article: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1679115,00.html
The second article is called, astonishingly enough, […]

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