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STEPHEN COLBERT gets California spider named after him (but not one of those liberal San Francisco spiders...
...breach the blood-brain barrier, and so far there is no evidence that exposure to aluminum increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's. Any aluminum that can be absorbed through the skin, says Bill Soller, who heads the Center for Consumer Self Care at the University of California, San Francisco, is minimal and probably safe. We ingest far more aluminum with our food, water and medications. "For the average person with healthy kidneys, using antiperspirants with aluminum does not represent a safety issue," he says...
...waged by the IRA and the Angry Brigade - a tiny gang that went on a bombing spree in the early '70s. Even the criminal classes seem to have a grudging respect for the Met. Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner since 2005, recalls a 1980s research trip to San Francisco when he joined his U.S. counterparts in an interrogation room as they prepared to question a suspected rapist: "I identified myself and the chap's reaction was, 'What on earth do you think I've done? I haven't done anything that serious to have Scotland Yard here...
...Terminal 5 - located directly behind the old landmarked Terminal 5 designed by Eero Saarinen for T.W.A. in 1962 - was created by the San Francisco-based architectural firm Gensler. It was a collaboration launched by chance when Art Gensler, the firm's chairman, missed his flight home and ended up on a JetBlue flight to California with the airline's founder, David Neeleman. (Neeleman is known for hopping random JetBlue flights and handing out peanuts to passengers). "Nothing is more nerve-wracking," says Gensler's Bill Hooper, chief architect of the Terminal 5 project, "than having your boss hand you [David...
NAKED COWBOY arrested in San Francisco. Seriously, what took so long...