] An Egyptian baby born with two heads was
] in stable condition on Sunday after doctors at a
] provincial hospital removed one of the heads in a 13-hour
] operation

] Manar was born with a rare condition known as craniopagus
] parasiticus, which occurs when an embryo begins to split
] into identical twins but fails to complete the process.
] One of the conjoined twins fails to develop fully in the
] womb.

] As in the case of a girl who died after similar surgery
] in the Dominican Republic a year ago, the second twin had
] developed no body. The head that was removed from Manar
] had been capable of smiling and blinking but not
] independent life.

Wow.

Baby stable after second head removed

] Falling in love may be a great feeling but the next time you feel
] lovesick,missing your sweetheart, rush straight to a doctor as now
] the doctors have warned that the throes of passion should
] be seen as a potentially fatal medical disorder.

] Psychologists say that "lovesickness" is a genuine
] disease that needs more awareness and diagnosis and those
] little actions that are normally seen as symptoms of the
] first flush of love like, buying presents, waiting by the
] phone for a call or making a bit of an effort before a
] date, may actually be signs of deep-rooted problems to
] come.

] According to the Independent, in a report in The
] Psychologist magazine, Tallis has suggested that the
] effects of being lovesick could be described in the
] latest diagnostic terms with its symptoms including
] mania, such as an elevated mood and inflated self-esteem,
] or depression, revealing itself as tearfulness and
] insomnia.

] Aspects of obsessive compulsive disorder can also be
] found in those experiencing lovesickness, such as
] preoccupation and obsessively checking for text messages
] and e-mails.

] "The average clinical psychologist will not receive
] referral letters from GPs and psychiatrists mentioning
] lovesickness.However, careful examination of the
] sanitised language will reveal that lovesickness may well
] be the underlying problem. Many people are referred for
] help who cannot cope with the intensity of love, have
] been destabilised by falling in love, or who suffer on
] account of their love being unrequited," Tallis was
] quoted by the paper, as saying.

] And all this can lead a person to commit suicide, warns
] Tallis.

Now you can't say you didn't know that falling in love causes mental illness to occur.

Falling in love can kill you!

] North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on
] its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut.

] A campaign exhorting men to get a proper
] short-back-and-sides has been aired by state-run
] Pyongyang television.

] The series is entitled Let us trim our hair in accordance
] with Socialist lifestyle.

] It stressed the "negative effects" of long hair on "human
] intelligence development", noting that long hair
] "consumes a great deal of nutrition" and could thus rob
] the brain of energy.

] A second, and unprecedented, TV series this winter showed
] hidden-camera style video of "long-haired" men in various
] locations throughout Pyongyang.

] In a break with North Korean TV's usual approach, the
] programme gave their names and addresses, and challenged
] the fashion victims directly over their appearance.

] State radio programmes such as "Dressing in accordance
] with our people's emotion and taste" link clothes and
] appearance with the wearer's "ideological and mental
] state".

] Tidy attire "is important in repelling the enemies'
] manoeuvres to infiltrate corrupt capitalist ideas and
] lifestyle and establishing the socialist lifestyle of the
] military-first era," the radio says.

] "People who wear other's style of dress and live in
] other's style will become fools and that nation will come
] to ruin," it says.

Aparently many of those among us are killing their brain's ability with excessive amounts of hair. We will not even start on the "style of dress"

N Korea wages war on long hair

Everyone should be drinking green tea. It has various health benifits listed here. most exciting is it helps you lose weight.

green tea and health

] A medical device which allows a woman to sleep by
] switching off an implant in her brain has been stolen.
]
] Rita Carlisle, 53, from Knaphill, Surrey, suffers from a
] condition called essential tremor.
]
] The stolen remote control gadget sends out pulses to calm
] the condition and can be switched off so she can rest.

] Ms Carlisle, who now struggles to sleep, was carrying the device
] and £600 cash in a handbag which was stolen in Farnborough, Hants,
] on 23 December.

Thieves take brain remote control

] The Ontario government has proposed anti-tobacco legislation to
] ban smoking in workplaces and all indoor public areas.

] The legislation also proposes to make it illegal to have
] tobacco products on prominent display in stores where
] they are sold, in an effort to curb selling of tobacco to
] under-19s.

] It would ban all countertop displays at retail outlets and
] prohibit the promotion of tobacco products at entertainment
] venues.

Ontario has decided to become smoke free.

Ontario proposes strict new smoking laws

] The idea of hanging eyeglasses from a piercing or a
] combination of piercings or even transdermal implants is
] something that a lot of us have toyed with

This is a link to an interview with two guys who mounted a pair of glasses to a piercing in the bridge of his nose and now he never has to take them off. Check out the pictures. They are pretty interesting.

Pierced Eyeglasses

]The LifeGem is a certified, high quality diamond created from the
]carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique and
]wonderful life.

Hey why not. Now your deceased wife can be your new wife's engagement ring or you dead husband could now be your favorite earrings.

Welcome to the LifeGem

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]Chicago company that will turn your ashes into diamonds. Ocean
]lovers might prefer Eternal Reefs, a Decatur, Ga., company that
]mixes ashes into concrete to make artificial coral reefs that are
]dropped into the sea. Then there's Celebrate Life, of Lakeside,
]Calif., which will scatter your remains in a fireworks display.
]In fact, when it comes to innovative ways to use cremated
]remains, the sky is not the limit. Houston's Celestis has already
]blasted the remains of about 100 people into space, including
]Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.

What you can do with Cremation

] Psychological stress can take off several years from your
] life as it makes your cells age faster.

] It was found that Telomeres and telomerase, parts of the
] chromosomes responsible for aging, are affected by
] psychological stress which also takes it's toll on the
] molecules believed to play a key role in cellular aging
] and, possibly, disease development.

Stress can make your life 10 years shorter