Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Jupiter, Venus, moon getting together for groupe shot
Monday, November 24, 2008
Victim of 'kick a ginger day' head back to school
"I tried to explain to them that this wasn't right thing to do, that it couldn't be a joke because it involved violence. But they didn't listen to me," he said. "My opinion of the people (who participated in the kicking) changed. I didn't think they were capable of that before, but after Thursday I just viewed them in a different light. I didn't want to go back and see them again that day," he said. "Because really, it's like a hate crime directed against a group of people," he said.
"I like my red hair. I never thought it would be a cause for violence."
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Astronauts vow remaining tool bag won't drift away
During the two-week mission's first spacewalk Tuesday, the tool bad floated out of a larger bag as Stefanyshyn-Piper cleaned a leaking grease gun. Tied to the lost briefcase-sized bag were a pair of grease guns used to lubricate a stuck joint that controls the space station's rotating solar wing. The bag is one of the biggest objects ever lost by a spacewalking astronaut, and NASA guessed it cost about $100,000. "We're definitely not going to do it again. You're not going to see us lose another bag," lead spacewalker Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper said in an interview from the international space station
I find it stupid that someone would pay so little attention to a bag containing $100,000 dollars worth of tools. If I where her i would feel kind of embarassed as the bag slowly floated off into the cold darkness of outerspace.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Tampered Smarties found in Burlington
A Burlington mother opened a sealed box of Smarties from her daughter's Halloween treat bag Wednesday and discovered a Tylenol DM cold tablet inside.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Teen wins fight to refuse transplant
Hanna Jones was diagnosed with leukemia at age 4. Doctors later found a heart defect. In eight years, she has had chemotherapy and nearly a dozen operations. She denied a heart transplant that could save her life because she doesn't want to risk spending the rest of her life in the hospital.
If I where her I would accept the heart transplant in hope of living longer. But at the same time I can see where she is coming from in a sense that it would suck if you had to be in the hospital all the time you wouldn't have any freedom.