Word: humanity
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Dreams may not be the secret window into the frustrated desires of the unconscious that Sigmund Freud first posited in 1899, but growing evidence suggests that dreams - and, more so, sleep - are powerfully connected to the processing of human emotions...
...Earth scientists have discovered a way to solve the planet's energy crisis: harvest an element called helium-3 from the Moon. Apparently this vast effort requires only one human: Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), who's nearing the end of a three-year contract working alone in a station on the lunar surface. All that time alone, with only a talking computer and some old TV shows as company, has made Sam edgy; he can't wait to be picked up and taken back to Earth, to his loving wife and child. His anxiety escalates to horror when he discovers...
...Here in the U.S., the Phase 6 declaration isn't going to change what we do day to day," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The Department of Health and Human Services has allocated $1 billion to the development, testing and production of an H1N1 vaccine, and five different companies, including GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis, currently have the seed virus from CDC that will form the core of the immunization. But a vaccine won't be ready until September at the earliest, and even then, it won't be clear...
...even some of those who support the overall effort aren't entirely sold on some of the particulars. Take the meeting that White House health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held earlier this week with leaders of groups that represent minorities, the disabled and the disadvantaged. While these are the very segments of society that stand to benefit the most from expanding health coverage to the 47 million or so Americans who currently lack it, they were nonetheless skeptical of some of the things that Obama is trying...
...This tiki [carving] can be dangerous," Tim warns. "My friend moved it to his house once, and his wife walked in and screamed. She said my friend's face looked like it was melting." I decided not to touch the tiki myself, or the heap of human bones and skulls lying nearby. "Trash piles from cannibals from a hundred years ago!" Tim laughs. Having read of the island's violent past, I absolutely believe...