Source: Monsters and Critics.com (Original Article)
South Asia News
Man arrested for stealing frozen sperm in India
Apr 22, 2008, 6:27 GMT
New Delhi - Police in India have arrested a man for stealing
more than 100 sperm samples from a laboratory in the western state of
Maharashtra, a news report said Tuesday.
Police told the Times of India daily that Anil Punjaba Mohite had
stolen 101 sperm samples from Cryobank, a sperm bank in central
Aurangabad city last week and had offered to sell them for 25,000
rupees (626 dollars).
Mohite, a relative of a worker in the laboratory, was arrested on
Monday following a tip-off from some doctors in Mumbai who had
received the samples.
The incident surprised police as well as doctors who said it was
not easy to ‘rob’ samples from a sperm bank.
‘We are caught in a very difficult situation, as we do not know
how many samples have been smuggled out of the laboratory,’ Cyrobank
official Suryakan...
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Ellsbury on the fast trackPost Date: 2008-03-03 11:25:52
Source: Boston Globe (Original Article)
Dan Shaughnessy
Ellsbury on the fast track
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JUPITER, Fla. - He is the next one, the can’t-miss kid of Boston sports, the player fans didn’t want the Red Sox to trade - even when Johan Santana was on the block.He is Jacoby Ellsbury, mayb...
Domestic violence and animal abuse linkedPost Date: 2008-03-07 12:15:53
Source: The Age (Original Article)
A PET cockatiel was beheaded because it had been “singing too
much”, a cat was hung by a leash, another cat was put in a
microwave and other pets were shot, stabbed, kicked and thrown.
As horrific as these stories are, what is worse is the fact that
the men who abused animals like this were also harming their own
loved ones.
And the fear that pets will be harmed means one in three women
delay leaving an abusive relationship.
In more than ha...
New Harris Survey Finds That Most Baby Boomers Underestimate …Post Date: 2008-03-06 11:31:14
Source: PR Newswire (press release) (Original Article)
WASHINGTON, March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Most Baby Boomers
underestimate their risk of suffering a disability that would cause them to
miss work for an extended period of time, according to a new survey
conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of America’s Health Insurance
Plans (AHIP). The survey also found that Baby Boomers are unaware of the
most common causes of disability and are not too concer...
