Monday, January 02, 2006

Snippets:

Costello has promised not to cut funding for fertility treatment in 2006.

Medicare continues to subsidise IVF treatment, even for women aged in their forties.

This is despite the added complications involved in pregnancies for those over thirty-five, including a greater chance a baby will develop down syndrome, and a 25% chance of a miscarriage for those over 40.


Sir. Winston Churchill wanted to see Hitler fry (perhaps; “on lend-lease”), had the Brits captured him.

Official documents declassified at the turn of the year reveal that Churchill was opposed to Allied plans for war crimes trials and wanted to summarily execute leading Nazi figures including Hitler, whom he regarded as "the mainspring of evil" and a "gangster".


Jawad Anani examines the future of the Middle East for the next fives years.

A mostly predictable 1103 word-article:

In short, the dollar is now on the rise, which enables the US economy to partly regain its international hegemony despite the successive upheavals that have shaken Bush Jr. administration. [sic]

[…] countries in North Africa including Egypt are increasingly emerging at the international scene.

If the current trends remain unreversed, the United States will certainly succeed, in the next five years, in re-dominating the world.

Such a ‘re-domination’ of the world, according to Anani, will come despite competition from China, the European Union, and India emerging as economic powers.


Those animal liberators at PETA have recognised Dr. Nigel Binns for his work in developing a ‘more humane mousetrap,’ and preventing unnecessary mouse deaths. Are biologist's running out of work, or something?

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