| A sampling of comments from Davos participants about the U.S., world ...
Remarks about the U.S. economy and its possible effects on the world at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ___ "In this case the U.S. is going to have a protracted case of pneumonia." _ Nouriel Roubini, chairman of New York-based Roubini Global Economics, citing the maxim that if the U.S. economy sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. ___ "Europe is not going to get special dispensation from a global economic slowdown." _ Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley's Asia operations, said about sentiment that the European Union would avoid any economic injury. ___ "What we have now are the foreseeable consequences of bad economic management." _ Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize winner for economics.
Last: 'Tweens for Hillary
In even-less-serious news, it's a big day on the 'tween front. The Clinton campaign announced that America Ferrara and Amber Tamblyn have endorsed the senator from New York. Can you feel the excitement? Ferrara is the star of Ugly Betty. You might know Tamblyn from such TV shows as Joan of Arcadia. But I'll always think of her as the star of the as-yet-unreleased art film Normal Adolescent Behavior. Here's a thumbnail description of the film: Amber Tamblyn stars as Wendy, a smart girl who is a sort of lynchpin for a group of friends who have known each other since kindergarten. The six of them decided to skip the world of Friday night parties and hook-ups and spin the bottle so that they wouldn't get side-tracked. So every Saturday night, they get together as a group and have sex.
Remarkable life of truckie made good
They were announced as musician Lee Kernaghan was awarded another of the country's highest honours. He was named Australian of the Year at a ceremony in front of Parliament House in Canberra. The country music star said he was both proud and humbled. "In all my dreams, I could never have imagined that I'd receive anaward like this," said the 43-year-old Queenslander, who accepted the award yesterday from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Kernaghan, who wore his trademark black Akubra, black jeans and blue shirt, told the crowd of well-wishers the honour was the greatest of his life. But he reserved a special message for the bush audience he called family. "The message is you are a magnificent bunch and we know you're not through it all yet," Kernaghan said. "But we salute you for your resilience, your resourcefulness, and just being a great Australian.
Latest fan blog: Sorting through Grambling's addition by subtraction
We'll discuss all the key positions and give out some year-end awards, known now affectionately and copyrightedly as The Paul-nacs.QUARTERBACK: Paul-nac was hard on Landers this season. Statistically, Landers had a great year, but football people don't revel in statistics. Landers had the offensive scheme to protect his weakenesses but yet still managed to throw disastrous interceptions in games. Landers was good for two interceptions a game. Paul-nac and the rest of Tiger faithful knew this. Even saying this, Landers has a lot of heart and I know he will comeback next season better than ever Hopefully the coaching staff's playcalling will be better than ever too. At least, I hope so. By default, The Paul-nac goes to Landers.NOTE: NCAA guidelines, of course, prevent Paul-nac The Magnificent from actually giving awards to students.
A New Study Links High Volume Pain Pumps with the Devastating and ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of individuals across the country use high volume pain pumps to cope with the pain that often follows shoulder surgery. Now a new study suggests that the pumps may deliver too much medicine causing a loss of cartilage that can lead to lifelong pain and suffering. "All of a sudden we started seeing these patients come in with this mysterious and rare condition," says Dr. Charles Beck, an orthopedic surgeon and senior author of the study. "So, we decided to look back and see what they all had in common and what had changed. That's when we started looking closer at the pain pump and found that 63 percent of the patients who used one after surgery had all developed this horrible complication. Of course we stopped using them right away, but we felt obligated to do everything we could to help spread the word throughout the medical community." The article, published this week in the October 2007 issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM), demonstrates a strong association between the intra-articular use of high volume pain pumps following arthroscopic shoulder surgery and an otherwise unexplainable loss of hyaline cartilage in the shoulder joint.
Mortimer steps down as Republican Party chair
Aaron will lead monthly executive committee meetings and help organize any upcoming county Republican events. The Republican party's control of Clarion County row offices has grown from three out of 10 to eight out of 10 since 2000 while the number of district judge posts in the county occupied by Republicans has gone from none in 2000 to three out of four currently. The organization also now has an improved voter registration lead of nearly 2,700 voters over the Democrats and an expanded financial base, said Mortimer. State and national candidates (Bush in 2004 and Swann in 2006) received some of their biggest percentage wins in the western part of the state from Clarion County voters. .
Is Bush Stopped in His Tracks on Iran?
Bush and Cheney do not need a rational excuse for invading another country. Why are we in Iraq? Again, why are we in Iraq? More pertinent is: Will Halliburton and other private contractors make big money by invading Iran. Will invading Iran give the oil companies more control over Iranian oil or shipping routes? It's that simple. Blood for oil and money. Congress cannot stop Bush. No more than Hitler could have been stopped. The neo-cons and Israel (with its own little concentration camp of 1.4 million) are out of control. Ironic isn't it? .
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