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Horrified student finds strange "wrinkled brain" organ in KFC meal

Christine Hsu
Medical Daily
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:09 UTC
KFC Fried Brain
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A horrified student has said he'll never eat at Kentucky Fried Chicken again after finding what appeared to be a chicken brain in his fast food meal.

Despite being offered free food vouchers as an apology, Ibrahim Langoo from Britain has vowed that he'll never again eat at the fast food chain.

The 19-year-old was left in utter disgust after he noticed a "wrinkled brain" inside a piece of chicken while he was eating his Gladiator box meal.

Langoo had taken a photograph of the three-inch piece of organ, which was later determined to be a kidney by KFC officials, on his cell phone and complained to staff.

Langoo and his friend Laura Canning, 19, had gone into the Colchester, Essex KFC branch for lunch between classes.

Langoo and Canning had planned to share a Gladiator box meal. Canning decided to go for the filet burger and Langoo went for the two chicken pieces.

"The first piece was absolutely fine -I was hungry and polished it off," Langoo told the Daily Mail.
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Fear of food scarcity hits U.S. capital in Washington DC's outlying suburbs

Nick Barrickman
World Socialist Web Site
Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:49 UTC
white house homeless person
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In the outlying areas surrounding Washington DC, students qualifying for free or subsidized meals face a difficult period ahead while schools prepare for their springtime curriculums, according to a recent report by the Washington Post. The existence of widespread food scarcity in the outlying suburbs of the nation's capital, some of which reside within some of the wealthiest counties in the US, gives the lie to claims that the DC area is "recession-proof."

The report mentions that although school systems in the region generally institute food programs for children during the summer months, no such program exists during wintertime. "Our hearts are in the right place, but there's no provision," Marla Caplon, director of food and nutrition services at Montgomery County schools in Maryland, told the Post .
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Faith-healer sought medical care while recommending against same for teen

Bob Fowler
KNOX News Sentinel Co
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:00 UTC
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He was the "spiritual father" of a 15-year-old girl, terminally ill with cancer, who had convinced the girl's mother to rely on faith instead of medicine to try to heal her.

But when it came to his own cancer and pneumonia, Ariel Ben Sherman was treated in a hospital in South Carolina, records show.

"It's sad and ironic," Loudon County Deputy District Attorney General Frank Harvey said.

Harvey said Sherman and Jacqueline Crank, the mother of Jessica Crank, rejected medical treatment for the girl's rare cancer and turned to prayer instead. Jessica died in September 2002.

Sherman's death certificate showed he died at age 78 on Nov. 28 in a South Carolina hospital of respiratory arrest while being treated for small-cell cancer.

"He (Sherman) lived by a different standard," Harvey said.

Sherman's death ends one part of a convoluted legal case that has wound its way through the judicial system.
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Chinese bulk buying creates baby food shortage in Australia


Google
Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:43 UTC
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Australian supermarkets and pharmacies were running out of popular baby formula on Thursday after unprecedented sales reportedly due to Chinese customers trying to secure supplies.

Nutricia, supplier of top-selling formula brand Karicare, said there had been a sudden surge in demand for its products which had seen stocks plummet and left shelves empty.

Major supermarket Coles said it was trying to arrange extra shipments of infant formula. Some pharmacies were rationing sales across brands to a few cans per customer.
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After a half-decade, massive Wikipedia hoax finally exposed

Kevin Morris
The Daily Dot
Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:21 UTC
Bicholim Conflict
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Up until a week ago, here is something you could have learned from Wikipedia:

From 1640 to 1641 the might of colonial Portugal clashed with India's massive Maratha Empire in an undeclared war that would later be known as the Bicholim Conflict. Named after the northern Indian region where most of the fighting took place, the conflict ended with a peace treaty that would later help cement Goa as an independent Indian state.

Except none of this ever actually happened. The Bicholim Conflict is a figment of a creative Wikipedian's imagination. It's a huge, laborious, 4,500 word hoax. And it fooled Wikipedia editors for more than 5 years.

But even exposed and deleted, Wikipedia's influence over the Web is such that the Bicholim Conflict continues to persist, like a resilient parasite.
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France shaken by fresh scandal over weight-loss drug linked to deaths

Angelique Chrisafis
Guardian
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:18 UTC
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Mediator, which was prescribed as an appetite suppressant and is believed to have killed at least 500 people.
A weight-loss drug believed to have killed hundreds of people in France's biggest pharmaceutical scandal has sparked fresh controversy as victims complain of delays in state compensation and a leading drug-company boss has been placed under formal investigation for manslaughter.

The amphetamine derivative Mediator was marketed to overweight diabetics but often prescribed to healthy women as an appetite suppressant when they wanted to lose a few pounds.

According to the French health ministry, it has killed at least 500 people from heart-valve damage, but other studies put the death toll nearer to 2,000. Thousands more complain of cardiovascular complications that have limited their daily lives.

As many as 5 million people were given the drug between 1976 and November 2009, when it was withdrawn in France, years after being pulled in Spain and Italy. It was never authorised in the UK or US.

The scandal, which has prompted the resignation of the head of France's public health agency, sparked a furore about drugs regulation and the lobbying power of pharmaceutical companies in France, which has one of Europe's highest levels of consumption of prescription drugs.

Mediator is now at the centre of one of the most important medical legal battles of the year. Along with the prosecution over the French-made faulty PIP silicone breast implants, it has shaken the French medical world.
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Tulsa church moves to block rape victim's mother from claiming damages

Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:56 UTC
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A megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma has asked for the dismissal of a civil suit by the mother of a 13-year-old girl raped on church grounds, saying she is ineligible from claiming damages.

According to the Associated Press, the Victory Christian Center will argue in a hearing on Monday that the child's mother is not entitled to any monetary relief under the law. She is seeking more than $75,000 in damages.

The suit accuses employees at the center of not reporting the attack by Chris Denman, a former church janitor.

Denman was sentenced last month to 55 years in jail after pleading guilty to raping the girl and one more victim, a 15-year-old girl.
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Japanese police taunted by anonymous hacker find clue on cat's collar


Raw Story
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:53 UTC
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Police in Japan who have for months been taunted by an anonymous hacker have found a digital memory card attached to an animal's collar after solving a set of emailed riddles, reports said Monday.

The discovery was made after messages were sent to newspapers and broadcasters, with the sender claiming details of a computer virus were strapped to a cat living on an island near Tokyo.

The development is the latest in a bizarre investigation which has previously seen threats made against a number of venues - including a school and a kindergarten attended by grandchildren of Emperor Akihito - sent from computers around the country.

Japan's well-resourced National Police Agency (NPA) was embarrassed after it emerged officers had extracted "confessions" from four people who had nothing to do with the emails.

Police held one of the suspects for several weeks before a broadcaster and lawyer received another anonymous message containing information that investigators conceded could only have been known by the real culprit.
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Arizona man threatening suicide fatally shot by officers

Andrew Michalscheck
azfamily.com
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:29 UTC
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© Screengrab via KTVK
Surprise Police shot a man Saturday after he threatened to take his own life.

According to police, officers responded to a home in the 15000 block of West Aster Dr. just before 12 p.m. after receiving word that a man was threatening to kill himself.

Police arrived to find a 52-year-old man holding a rifle to his head.

Byne also made comments to police that he was going to get them to shoot him, according to police.
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Judge: Release unredacted California priest files


CBS Sacramento
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:23 UTC
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A judge on Monday ordered the release of thousands of pages of personnel files that would identify Roman Catholic priests accused of child molestation and their leaders in the church.

The ruling by Superior Court Judge Emilie Elias contradicts a previous order in 2010 by another judge that allowed the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to redact the names of church higher-ups.

Attorneys for the archdiocese previously said they planned to make the confidential files public by the middle of this month with the names of the church hierarchy blacked out.

It was unclear how long it would take to adhere to the new ruling. Church attorneys expressed concern about combing through 30,000 pages of documents.

Elias continued to meet with attorneys following the hearing.
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