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Embryo in her stomach? A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, according to doctors .
Doctors examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more than two inches) long. Cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births.
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A Girl Scout with a Business Future. A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of cookies this year. It is not known if she set a national record. Troop 813 raised about $21,000 in cookie sales, paying for its 10-day trip to Europe this winter.
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Gay Gov can't Pay his Ex. The nation's first openly gay governor tried to convince the judge in his divorce case that he's too poor to pay alimony. Former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey says he's been financially crippled by his resignation and marital troubles.
He and his wife, have been separated since he left office in November 2004, three months after he said he had an affair with a male staffer and planned to resign. The staffer denies he had an affair with McGreevey and accused him of sexual harassment.
The couple have agreed on custody of their only child, 6-year-old and are fighting over alimony, child support, and how to divide their assets and liabilities.
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Put at risk by global warming, the polar bear is getting a life line as the government officially has declared it a threatened species in need of increased protection.
AP Photo: In this Nov. 7, 2007 file photo, a polar bear mother and her two cubs...
The Interior Department put the bear under the protective umbrella of the Endangered Species Act. It's just what what biologists have been saying for years: the bear is on the way to extinction because of the rapid disappearance of the Arctic sea ice upon which it depends.
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that General Electric Co. is getting out of the aplliance business. They have plans to auction off its appliances business and has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to run an auction for the appliance division, according to the newspaper . The sale could yield between $5 billion and $8 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported.
1 comments:
The US Department of Interior is kind of a joke as far as protecting the environment goes. At least they've finally owned up to the polar bear threat... took 'em long enough!
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