Asbestos Compensation Fund Legislation passed by Senate Judiciary Committee

March 12th, 2005 From our childhood I have been to several places with asbestos roofing. It is extremely common in sheds or garages and in many cases as roofing of the house.

August 10th, 2006 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Wednesday it was giving $500 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, by far its biggest grant to the fund, which says it sorely lacks cash. The money, to be given over five years, is the largest private donation to the fund, founded nearly five years ago to serve as the primary financing vehicle for efforts to fight the HIV pandemic, tuberculosis and malaria.

August 24th, 2005 A human fetus is unlikely to feel pain before the third trimester, when consciousness begins to form, researchers from UCSF said on Tuesday in a report that could fuel debate over proposed U.S. abortion legislation.

June 26th, 2006 A World Health Organization probe revealed that the bird flu virus mutated within an Indonesian family. An Indonesian man who died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu almost certainly caught the disease from his 10-year-old son.

May 1st, 2009 Neb. commission loses appeal on Internet call feesOMAHA, Neb. — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling exempting Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp.

February 26th, 2005 Sen. Matt Bartle, a Lee's Summit Republican has sponsored a bill in the Mossouri legislature banning stem cell growth procedure. Economically that would mean Stowers Institute would be forced to look elsewhere for an estimated $250-300 million expansion, backed by Stowers' $2 billion endowment fund.

August 24th, 2005 With stem cell research legislation still making its way through Capitol Hill, U.S. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, toured local research facilities yesterday to highlight advances already made as well as the need for further federal funding.

November 5th, 2006 Batman has grown old, very old. Most of his crime-fighting colleagues have passed on years ago.

January 26th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Founder and former chairman of Satyam Computer Services B. Ramalinga Raju has denied that he fudged number of employees in the company or diverted its funds.

February 27th, 2005 They walk with canes, their bodies victim to degenerative diseases with no known cure. For 50-year-old John Kellermann, it's Parkinson's, a ruthless disease that seizes his body and sometimes his speech, leaving him so vulnerable that he has to crawl to the bathroom at night.

June 7th, 2007 Today's newspaper reported a heart-warming story in a village in West Bengal who has adopted a widow with AIDS. She is allowed to freely mix with the families and even cuddle their children.

February 16th, 2007 An Arizona woman, 23-year-old Tiffany Sutton, is currently under arrest, accused of tying up her 43 year old lover on Valentine's Day in order to drink his blood! She allegedly tricked her 43-year-old victim with an offer of interesting experience, euphemistically speaking. After tying him up (add "allegedly" as required) she pulled out a knife and cut his leg.

September 16th, 2007 The SCO Group filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. SCO's subsidiary, SCO Operations, Inc., has also filed a petition for reorganization.

April 20th, 2005 Report from the 4th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications, organised by the World Health Organization and others.

February 13th, 2009 Microsoft and Dell have joined hand in hand for a project called PRODUCT RED in order to help Africa fight AIDS. Such a noble venture needs your contribution as well.