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• Baby's Smile May Be Misleading
  A spoonful of sugar may not help the medicine go down after all. The theory that a dose of sucrose wards off pain for babies during medical procedures is being challenged by new research from a team of British doctors, who found that the infants still manifested a pain response... […]
• Getting High on Ecstasy May Help Soldiers' PTSD
  The federal government has given its blessing to the practice of letting US soldiers get high on ecstasy, all in the name of finding a way to cope with post traumatic stress disorder. One catch: It has to be taken while in therapy sessions. Two researchers—with OKs from the... […]
• Military Bases Won't Get Game With Taliban Players
  If US soldiers want to face down the Taliban, they'll have to do so in the real world, not a virtual one. Mega-retailer GameStop says it won't stock EA's Medal of Honor at its stores on military bases because it allows gamers to be Taliban fighters. It's "out of respect... […]
• Men Mutilate Beached Whale —for a Tasty Snack
  Two Florida men are in trouble after they spotted a dead whale on the beach and approached it with one thought in mind: Hey, free lunch. "The thing was deader than a doornail," said one of the men picked up for questioning by state conservation officers. He told the South... […]
• Fracking Isn't Just a Battlestar Galactica Curse
  Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing, a process used to extract natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation found beneath parts of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. It involves forcing water, sand, and some not so nice chemicals under high pressure into the ground. Problem is that some... […]
• Judge Removes Juror Over Facebook Post
  A young juror who leaked a guilty verdict on Facebook will have to pay a $250 fine and write an essay on the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror, 20-year-old Hadley Jons, had written in a Facebook status update that it was "gonna be fun to tell the... […]
• Chicago Trib to Publish Sunday Paper With No Ads
  Here's one way to solve the dearth of advertising for newspapers—just get rid of that pesky stuff altogether and charge readers an extra $5 an issue. This is what the Chicago Tribune may be planning, according to a story in the Chicago Reader , which got its hands on an... […]
• Oil Sheen Spotted at Platform Explosion—Or Not
  Confusion reigns in the aftermath of today's oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. This much good news stands: All 13 crew members were rescued from the water. Everything else is changing quickly. The Coast Guard spoke of a mile-long oil slick at the site but now says it... […]
• Sarah Palin Slams 'Impotent, Limp, Gutless' Reporters
  Here's a quote from Sarah Palin you're likely to hear replayed more than a few times. It's on press coverage of her: “I don't read some of it because I know that those who are impotent and limp and gutless, and then they go on, they're anonymous, they're sources that... […]