Albany nurses and other health professionals are planning to stage a rally next week to protest a state regulation that mandates they will lose their jobs if they refuse to take the swine flu shot, as fears grow about the vaccine’s dangerous ingredients and government plans to forcibly inoculate whole populations with the H1N1 jab.
Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O) tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans.
One sunspot is not enough to end the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century, but you've got to start somewhere. "Finally, a new sunspot!" says Paul Maxson who sends this picture from his observatory in Surprise, Arizona:
The Tobin Tax is named after the US economist James Tobin, who first suggested it in the 1970s.
While it was originally supposed to be used for aid for developing countries, it could now be used to fund some of the bailouts in the financial industry or the multi-billion dollar stimulus packages under way to kick-start economies around the world.
First for "developing countries' interest (loan) (hypocrisy) and now the NEW tax is for ... ehm ... taxing money transactions to give it to ... ??!!
Gary Nesbit, left, and Randy Joubert worked together in a furniture store for weeks before they discovered they are actually brothers. The men had been adopted by different families at birth. Joubert said he first got suspicious after customers repeatedly remarked on how much they looked alike.