Category: Headlines

Charter loses $107 million

‘Cause if there’s not, and I do, I’m not telling anyone except my local Bugatti dealer.

Transformer fire may have tripped tornado sirens across St. Charles County

Bill Would Ban Human Cloning In Minnesota

But until a similar bill passes in Mississippi, we cannot be safe.

Apparently, very bad:

Park Hills district may swipe textbooks for e-readers

So bad schools have to resort to theft.

Highland organ company downsizing amid sour notes in market

St. Louis police ask for help in gas station robbery

And they probably will get away with it.

Headline: City sets terms for turning over old city hall

Instapundit and others link to a story on Huffington Post about a case where a stem cell transplant seems to have cured a man of HIV:

On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure.

Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,” received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing “strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved.”

This is hardly news; here’s a Wall Street Journal article about it from 2008:

The breakthrough appears to be that Dr. Hütter, a soft-spoken hematologist who isn’t an AIDS specialist, deliberately replaced the patient’s bone marrow cells with those from a donor who has a naturally occurring genetic mutation that renders his cells immune to almost all strains of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Strangely, none of the coverage I’ve seen today (which points back to the Huffington Post article that links to a recent medical journal article on the treatment) highlights this salient fact:

deliberately replaced the patient’s bone marrow cells with those from a donor

Those stem cells were adult stem cells, not embryonic stem cells.

Take a look at the comment sections where people are celebrating the publication of this old finding and are also doing their best to bash George W. Bush and other people who oppose funding for or who oppose actual embryonic stem cell research. We need to amplify and clarify the source of these stem cells and this treatment to educate the public about this efficacy of adult stem cell therapies.

Otherwise, parts of the public will remain ignorant and might be encouraged to pursue policies that their countrymen find morally abhorrent to fund research of unproven avenues of medicine.

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2 hurt changing tire

This poor tire started its life on the wrong path, but it came to an epiphany and was working hard to get off the drugs, get off the streets, and take responsibility for its little tires, when suddenly two men show up and hurt it.

Just another story from the gritty highways of St. Louis.

Planet found from outside Milky Way:

Now one has been discovered orbiting a star called HIP 13044, located about 2,000 light years away. While this star is now in the Milky Way, researchers report in Thursday’s online edition of the journal Science that it originated in a separate galaxy that was later cannibalized by ours.

That makes the new planet, which is about 20 percent larger than Jupiter, the first found to have originated in another galaxy.

Extragalactic planets, coming to the Milky Way to do the jobs that Milky Wayan planets won’t do.

I call upon the Attorney General to take action now and to sue Minnesota for this.

Headline: Obama urges china to respect international law

Maybe he is having some sort of breakdown if he’s addressing the kitchenware.

Police: Alley shooting hits man taking out trash

Alley shootings have rights, you know. Perhaps the headline writer should have thrown an “alleged” in there to make clear that the shooting might not have committed the assault as claimed, and it will have its day in court.

$6 billion planned for Afghan training

Sounds like a hook-ready project to me.

I’m just a caveman, your modern science of economics confuses me. Which is why I don’t understand the new law of supply and demand I infer from this AP article: Oil up to near $76 in Europe amid economic worries:

Oil prices edged up for the first time in five days Tuesday as rallying stock markets in Europe and a weaker dollar masked concerns of a slowing global economic recovery that could dent demand for fuel.

So demand is going down, and the price goes up, huh? That’s so weird.

However, those of us with a lick of economic sense (I got mine from my high school Economics class with Miss Hutson) can suss out the real reason. Let me try rewriting that:

Oil prices edged up for the first time in five days Tuesday as a weaker dollar meant that it takes more of them to buy a fixed commodity, such as a barrel of oil, in an international market.

Is it true? Hey, I don’t know what made the price fluctuate, but I think I have a better grasp than the AP reporter of basic economics.

Stone Temple Pilots coming to Family Arena

The only way that could get any more incongruous would be if the next part of it was To Open For Muppets on Ice.

Jobless exploited by worst long-term unemployment in 62 years?

To block this out for the theatrical release, put long-term unemployment over there, brandishing a whip over the jobless, compelling them to toil in its salt mines without enough food nor water.

No, scratch that, that’s work. Me, I’m stumped. Someone get that particular headline writer on the phone and ask him what that means, exactly.

Warm days, nights in 60s, NWS says

Dudes, that was forty or more years ago. Come, join us in the 21st century. Focus on our weather now.

St. Charles police officer shoots suicidal man.

His heirs are the proud owners of a single additional bullet.

Just snarking. The man survived, although he was the sort of suicidal who fails on the first shot, tries to draw the cops into killing him, and has to live even then.