Hyperactivity-disorder drug, Dexedrine, has health risks..

GlaxoSmithKline, volunteered to add a line to Dexedrine's label saying, "misuse of amphetamines may cause sudden death and serious cardiovascular adverse events."

The recommendation stems from an FDA investigation into possible heart risks of ADHD drugs after Adderall XR, another ADHD drug made by Shire Pharmaceuticals, was temporarily pulled from the Canadian market last year following reports of numerous deaths.

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Osama bin Laden had a crush on Whitney Houston..

According to Osama bin Laden sex slave, Kola Boof , Osama bin Laden had a crush on Whitney Houston and wanted to make her his wife after killing her husband Bobby Brown.

“He told me Whitney Houston was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. He would say how beautiful she is……….what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and by her husband - Bobby Brown”, she writes.

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Fishermen lost at sea for a year Found

After nearly a year drifting in the Pacific, three Mexican fishermen were found 5,500 miles from San Blas, Mexico, from where they departed last October. A tuna trawler found the men about a week ago near the Marshall Islands. From The Independent:

After having engine problems soon after they left their home port, it seems the men were steadily pushed west across the ocean and were lost for 11 months. They apparently survived on a diet of rainwater, raw fish and seabirds. "We fished, and we ate the fish raw ... because there was no fire to cook with," Jesus Vidana, 27, told Mexico's Televisa news network...Reports said that two other crew members had jumped overboard and presumably perished soon after they encountered engine problems.

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Princeton Number 1 in College Rankings

Princeton takes the top spot in the latest U.S. News & World Report college rankings. The ranking formula includes graduation and retention rates, faculty and financial resources, and the percentage of alumni donating money to their alma mater...

The top national universities were:

1. Princeton University

2. Harvard University

3. Yale University

4. California Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stanford University (tie)

7. University of Pennsylvania

8. Duke University

9. Columbia University

Dartmouth University

University of Chicago (tie)

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Hybrid mutant killed by car

Michelle O'Donnell of Turner spotted the animal near her yard about a week before it was killed. She called it a "hybrid mutant of something."
"It was evil, evil looking. And it had a horrible stench I will never forget," she told the Sun Journal of Lewiston. "We locked eyes for a few seconds and then it took off. I've lived in Maine my whole life and I've never seen anything like it."
For the past 15 years, residents across Androscoggin County have reported seeing and hearing a mysterious animal with chilling monstrous cries and eyes that glow in the night.

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Food Wrappers can kill you!

A third of food wrappers could contain latex which can trigger potentially fatal reactions among those with allergies, according to the first official study into the problem.
Research funded by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) found that in some cases, the latex had passed into the food in quantities large enough to cause a reaction in those allergic to the chemical.

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Participate at your Own Risk

A man, who took part in a drug trial developed early signs of cancer. He is seeking compensation from Parexel, the makers of the experimental drug. The drug trial made six healthy volunteers become seriously ill in March 2006, two of them almost died.

The experimental drug was aimed at treating chronic inflammatory conditions and leukaemia. During the trial the neck of one of the volunteers had swollen to three times its normal size. A girlfriend of one of the trial participants, said her boyfriend 'looks like Elephant Man'. According to her, his head had become wider than his waist.

The only question I have to these participants: haven't you guys known that there are many risks involved by being a "Guinea Pigs" in drug trials?

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Mad Mel 1

Apparently, Mel Gibson had had more then one ocasion of going nuts..

It was in 1990 in a California bar he revealed a rather embarrassing shoe fetish. Gibson began the evening quietly in the lounge of his hotel, the Red Lion Inn, in Modesto, California. But he later accompanied two waitresses to a restaurant where the real fun started. 'Mel leered at a girl saying, “Darling I just love your shoes”,' an eyewitness claimed.

'When the girl politely thanked him, Mel replied, “No you don't understand. I really love your shoes. I have what you would call a foot fetish.” The next thing you know, Mel got down on his knees and removed the girl's shoe. He then held it up to his nose and moaned, “Ahh, the scent of it”.'

But "Mel’s no racist", claims his friend Patrick Swayze, , who has had his own problems with alcohol.

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Windows Vista gets hacked

Despite being touted as the most secure version of the Windows operating series, Microsoft's upcoming Vista has already been hacked at a hackers' conference last week. Microsoft invited hackers to take their best shot at hacking Vista. The company hoped to convince the industry that their latest operating system will be the most secure and malware-proof system on the market.

Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska demonstrating that the security systems in Vista can be sidestepped by using a piece of malicious software that she named "Blue Pill", according to CNET News.com. Microsoft investigates.

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Condom artist Adriana Bertini

Adriana Bertini, an artist living in São Paulo, Brazil, transforms expired or defective condoms into raw material to be used to make pieces of art.

These frames, sculptures, and brightly coloured women's dresses are intended to raise awareness and inspire reflection about condom use.

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Another Crazy Idea - World Jump Day

World Jump Day was an event scheduled for July 20, 2006 at 11:39.13, at which time the organization claimed to have 600 million people from the western hemisphere jump simultaneously.

They claimed this would move the Earth out of its orbit, and into a new one, one that would not cause global warming. The site was a hoax, an art installation by Torsten Lauschmann (claiming to be a Professor Hans Peter Niesward from the Institute for Gravitational Physics in Munich), and in no way serious.
The German student association Lambda-Omega-Lambda provides the computer sciences for this project (programming, as well as server hosting).

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AOL is Free Now... but at a Cost

As a part of it restructuring, AOL will cut as many as 5,000 jobs. AOL also announced other new features to draw users - starting in early September, anyone with an AOL or AIM screenname will be eligible for 5G of free storage via AOL's Xdrive. The same storage space for non-users runs $10 a month. The storage space will be accessible from PC or mobile, can be shared, has automatic backup, and can be used to store any files including photos, music and video. Users can upgrade to premium accounts for 50G.

Switching process is not easy (As usually with AOL): New users can sign up for free AOL accounts online but current subscribers can't switch without calling a toll-free number that could be a lot easier to find. The switch by phone also comes with pitches for pay services.

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