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Trying to Cheat Death One Click at a Time
A total of 1,774,470 new cancer cases and 646,950 deaths from cancer are projected to occur in North America. Though rates have been declining because of increased research, education and better treatments there is still a long way to go before this disease is eradicated.Research holds the promise of better ways to diagnose and treat the disease. McGill University's Goodman Cancer[...]
Think of Laura By Christopher Cross
Laura Carter's father and step-mother were visiting their daughter who was attending Denison University outside of Columbus, Ohio. It was parents' weekend, April 17, 1982. Laura, an 18 year old freshman, was in the car with three of her friends after a lacrosse game, her parents were taking them all out to dinner to celebrate their win.A block away two rival gangs started a shoot out[...]
How Did the Horror of Death Become Art?
The depiction of decapitated heads in paintings, the photographs of severed limbs, the usage of ashes and blood in painting pallets are among the few trends in avant-garde art, sure art has been about pushing the boundaries of the norm and shocking its viewers to interpret a deeper (and possibly a spiritual) meaning, but the question begs, when did horror become art of the[...]
Theft of the Axman's Crypt
To quote Charlton Heston, "from my cold, dead hands" has now taken on a new meaning in recent news, particularly when the idiom is put to practice in a deliberate act of theft.For the last 40 years, Randall Jourdan long praised his Fender Telecaster guitar, and who wouldn't, that piece of musical equipment had a history behind it. First introduced in 1949 by Leo Fender, the Telecaster[...]
The Flying Tailor
Franz Reichelt was an Austrian-born French inventor and tailor who was to become a great parachuting pioneer. Reichelt had been obsessed with the idea of developing a suit that would itself convert into a parachute upon jumping and had been relentlessly testing mostly successful prototypes with dummies.At the time there was no parachute that had successfully been employed in a jump from[...]
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