The Chinese government is cracking down on smoking--among one of its most heavily using populations: physicians. Yes, according to Reuters, more than 50% of China's male MDs smoke cigarettes. Now the government is asking them to set an example for......

Southern Illinois Man Seeks Stem Cell Cure in China. That's the headline. From KFVS12, Live from the Heartland. Meanwhile, Midwesterners are raffling off big ticket items to make it possible for Chuck Melton, sufferer of a spinal cord injury, to......

And we're back! Yes, at the end of February, but my life has been extraordinarly hectic lately so it's a good thing in that sense that this has taken a while to get put up. But we're going to try again, and see if we get any entries. Be warned though, that if I go through three-five challenges and I...

A few years ago a beloved mentor informed me that pork was a dirty, dirty meat. He said that it was full of worms and not worth eating. He also advised me to avoid meat in general unless I had killed it myself and to avoid anything refined. Unfortunately, his pork advice was the only advice that I f...

Customers frequently ask if Test Run could one day in the future support hierarchical test cases. It is a feature that is definitely on the roadmap, but its implementation would be pretty hairy, so I have honestly been putting it off. But it occurred to me that the feature may already exist in a lat...

Middle-aged man, khaki pants, khaki jacket, khaki socks, navy Crocs. He pulled a tissue from his pocket, causing a used one to fall to the ground. He kicked this toward the counter. The pretty cashier took the man's order and accepted the money from one grubby paw. Meanwhile, his other snotty hand s...

Two men responsible for the melamine contamination scandal in China, Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping, were given the death penalty by the Chinese government today and the company's chairwoman, Tian Wenhua, was given life in prison for being responsible for......

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Oud-topman Jean-Paul Votron van bankverzekeraar Fortis zou zelf om de forse bonus over 2007 hebben gevraagd. Dat blijkt uit een reconstructie van de val van de Belgische Nederlandse bankverzekeraar waarover NRC Handelsblad zaterdag publiceert. De oud-topman kreeg over dat jaar een ...

APELDOORN (ANP) - De hoofdredacteuren van de zeven regionale kranten van uitgeverij Wegener hebben dindagavond met de raad van bestuur gesproken over verdere bezuinigingen. Bezuinigingen zijn nodig door de fors tegenvallende advertentieinkomsten....

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De kosten van de gezondheidszorg zijn niet meer te betalen. Als er niets wordt gedaan aan de stijgende zorguitgaven, is er geen geld meer voor onderwijs, het integratiebeleid of het oplossen van de files....