Scottish Courage, the big U.K. brewer, last week began selling to British consumers ice cream that tastes like Newcastle Brown Ale, one of the company's flagship brands. The product is made via a joint venture with Doddington Dairies, which, like the beermaker, is located in Northeast England.
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The ice cream's taste is said to reflect the nutty, caramel flavors of the namesake ale.

Beer flavored ice cream

] Matthew's Angels
] Teen Cancer Survivor Takes Five Nurses to Senior Prom
]
] May 27— When Matthew Stasik walked into his high school
] prom, he had three dates on one arm, and two on the other.

Goes to prom dressed like a pimp with five hot dates, way to go!

ABCNEWS.com : Teen Beats Cancer, Takes Nurses to Prom

May 6, 2003 -- Exactly how a person’s eyes respond to low levels of light is even more crucial than doctors have thought in deciding who is and who isn’t a good candidate to have laser vision correction surgery, according to results announced today at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in Ft. Lauderdale. The findings should help doctors choose patients who are likely to fare well with the surgery, and to forego recommending treatment for others.

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I'm glad I read this. I have been considering getting this done for a while now.

ScienceDaily News Release: Doctors Focus On Pupil Size For Safety Of Laser Vision Correction:

] Three men charged with terrorism for hijacking a
] passenger ferry April 2 were executed Friday after
] summary trials, the government reported.

Sighs. I am rarely for capital punishment, and this definitely is not one of them.

Cuba swiftly executes three hijackers

] An expert on the health effects of cannabis says that
] there is growing evidence that the drug is responsible
] for mental health problems.
]
] Professor John Henry, a consultant in toxicology from St
] Mary's Hospital in London, told the BBC that studies from
] Sweden and elsewhere pointed to an increase in
] schizophrenia among regular cannabis smokers.

Cannabis 'damages mental health'

Don Gorske is already in the Guinness Book of World Records for eating Big Macs ? but it's not about the fame anymore.

Gorske, who downed his 19,000th Big Mac Tuesday, said he wouldn't know what else to eat if it weren't for Big Macs.

"I'd be clueless," he said, adding that he ate a piece of pizza recently, but it "just wasn't the same."

"It wasn't my first choice," he said.

Gorske, 49, of Fond du Lac, eats two Big Macs per day and drinks little else beside Coke. He also keeps track of everything he eats in a notebook.

Wis. Man Eats His 19,000th Big Mac

Ebola is tiny, and we still have NO IDEA where it actually comes from or how it survives.

Ebola outbreak caused by dumbass eating dead infected gorilla meat

] ''One afternoon while he was napping on the couch as I
] read a book, he played out a scene more awful than
] anything I had ever seen or heard. He rolled off the
] couch and hit the floor. Normally, a fall to the floor
] would have awakened him. But instead he began roaring
] like a wounded wild animal. I sat in my chair frozen with
] fear as I watched the unbelievable scene unfold. He
] roared, he crouched, he pounced and finally crawled into
] a space between the couch and the wall, as if in a den or
] lair. When I was able to speak I shouted to awaken him.
] He could not believe my description of what had just
] happened, even though he was surprised to find himself on
] the floor.''

This was a very interesting read about sleep disorders. Some of them are really amazing to say the least.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Deer

Not only does alcohol help to ward off a heart attack, a regular daily drink is probably a good idea, researchers have found.

They have found that frequent consumption of alcohol is linked to a lower risk of heart attack in men.

However, experts have warned that alcohol can damage health in other ways.

BBC NEWS | Health | Frequent tipple cuts heart risk