Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not […]

Closing A Homeloan Ashish Gupta

More On This Topic: Deposit Power Closing a homeloan Ashish Gupta by Abhinav kumar You always have the option of closing a home loan. This is done at the end of the tenure, or before the specified tenure if you have an alternate source of funds. One may have excess funds or may be selling […]

Asbestos controversy aboard Scientology ship Freewinds

Friday, May 16, 2008 Controversy has arisen over the reported presence of blue asbestos on the MV Freewinds, a cruise ship owned by the Church of Scientology. According to the Saint Martin newspaper The Daily Herald and the shipping news journal Lloyd’s List, the Freewinds was sealed in April and local public health officials on […]

Jack Diesing Sr., former chairman of the College World Series, dies age 92

Friday, April 2, 2010 Jack Diesing Sr., former chairman of the College World Series has died at the age of 92. His son announced the cause of death as complications from Parkinson’s disease. Diesing was chairman of the series from 1963 until 2002. Diesing helped the tournament become one of the most successful college events […]

CBC’s new show The One sparked some controversy over simulcast

Thursday, July 20, 2006 The One: Making a Music Star is a new reality show hosted by CBC personality George Stroumboulopoulos. The show airs on ABC and on CBC. It premiered yesterday and has sparked some controversy over the simulcast, which according to ABC’s schedule means displacing CBC’s The National for a U.S. program. Over […]

History Of Construction In The United States

More On This Topic: Buy Pneumatic Hammer History of Construction in the United States by Jim Knight Restoration of commercial building is the process in which the basics or composition of the building is improved and refurbished. This process involves several subordinate steps. It includes jobs like cleaning the outer and the inner sections of […]

Death sentences in 2008 Chinese tainted milk scandal

Monday, January 26, 2009 On Thursday, the municipal intermediate people’s court in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China pronounced sentences for 21 defendants implicated in the 2008 Chinese milk scandal which killed at least six infants and sickened nearly 300,000 others. In the local court’s decision, 17 accused were indicted for the crimes of “producing, adding melamine-laced […]

What Do In Home Nursing Facilities Offer?

More On This Topic: Cna Classes Van Nuys Ca Professional care for convalescents and palliative care for the aged is a genuine concern for most of us. Busy work and life schedules do not leave us the time to take care of our dependent and aging relatives or those convalescing from some illness, injury or […]

Senate committee investigating six televangelists

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 United States Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked for the financial records of six prominent televangelist ministries for possible financial misconduct, CBS News reported. The six groups were led by Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland and Benny […]

McCain and Obama face off in U.S. presidential candidate debate

Sunday, September 28, 2008 The two major party presidential candidates in the US, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, faced each other yesterday in the first TV debate. Despite that McCain had asked to postpone the debate, both were present at the University of Mississippi. The debate, which was moderated by PBS‘ Jim Lehrer, […]