"and slap stiff penalties on producers who don't cooperate."
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China Airlines erases logo from wreckage
They covered the logo up with paint. Link.
You can see video of people evacuating the plan before it explodes Hollywood-style here:
An absolutely bizarre internet love triangle resulting in murder
There are some sad, sad people out there.
"China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission"
In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."
Newsweek link (although it certainly sounds like something from The Onion). Via BoingBoing.
Defense lawyer repeatedly uses stun gun on client to test out case
Proceedings have been delayed in a California misdemeanor case in which the defense is claiming that police brutalized their client with a stun gun during his arrest at a shopping mall last year. That's because the defense team is now being criminally investigated for allegedly violating human experimentation laws by repeatedly using a stun gun on their client themselves during an evidence-gathering effort in a law office.
Read more. Via Above the Law.
How did tainted blood from Arkansas prisoners enter the UK?
Last April, at the Abbey Garden on Great College Street in London, a British widow vented her frustration over a now-defunct state program in Arkansas that may have killed her husband.
She addressed Lord Archer of Sandwell, a former solicitor general, who is leading an independent inquiry into how 4,500 hemophilia patients in the UK were exposed to lethal viruses in blood products in the 1970s and '80s. Two thousand have since died of either Hepatitis C or HIV, in what has been called the worst disaster in the history of the nation's health service.
The widow, 47-year-old Carol Grayson, spoke calmly of the death of her husband, Peter Longstaff, two years ago. She explained that he was one of the patients who were treated with Factor 8, a blood-clotting product manufactured from human plasma.
Grayson and Longstaff had believed that his medicine was safe; that it had been derived from plasma collected in the U.K. from donors who were not paid.
They learned too late that it had been manufactured, not from plasma collected in their own country, but from persons in other parts of the world and that some of those sellers were, in fact, Arkansas prison inmates.
Read on. Via MeFi.
"A MOVIE about the life of MICHAEL HUTCHENCE will feature his "ghost" talking to his young daughter about his drug and sex fuelled life"
"In the film Slide Away, Hutchence leads 11-year-old TIGER LILY on a "magical tour" of his rock-n-roll life."
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Rawlings surprised no one wants to buy a $400 "luxury" baseball glove
Read about the glove no one wants here.
"U.S. military practices genetic discrimination in denying benefits"
Eric Miller's career as an Army Ranger wasn't ended by a battlefield wound, but his DNA.
Lurking in his genes was a mutation that made him vulnerable to uncontrolled tumor growth. After suffering back pain during a tour in Afghanistan, he underwent three surgeries to remove tumors from his brain and spine that left him with numbness throughout the left side of his body.
So began his journey into a dreaded scenario of the genetic age.
Because he was born with the mutation, the Army argued it bore no responsibility for his illness and medically discharged him in 2005 without the disability benefits or health insurance he needed to fight his disease.
Read on.
Police officer who had on the job sex aquitted of misconduct since he kept his earpiece in the whole time
A senior police officer who met an internet date for sex while on duty was acquitted of wilful misconduct yesterday after explaining that he had worn his radio earpiece throughout the encounter.
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Mr Khan, who was in charge of a team of 20 officers, had claimed that he was ready to respond to any emergency because he was wearing his radio earpiece while he had sex.
Link.
Natalie Portman said "I'm not black, but I know what it feels like."
Not sure how recently that happened. Her apology's pretty funny.
Maybe Philip Pullman was on to something in The Golden Compass
"An international team has discovered that, under the right conditions, particles of inorganic dust can become organized into helical structures. These structures can interact with one another in ways that are usually associated with organic compounds and with life. Not only do these helical strands interact in a counterintuitive way in which like can attract like, but they also undergo changes that are normally associated with biological molecules, such as DNA and proteins, say the researchers. For example, they can divide to form two copies of the original structure. These new structures can also interact to induce changes in their neighbors. And they can even evolve into yet more structures as less stable ones break down, leaving behind only the fittest structures in the plasma. 'These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter,' said the lead researcher. 'They are autonomous, they reproduce and they evolve.'"
Link.
Link.
Was Disney wise to pass on the Harry Potter theme park project?
Rowling's vision supposedly was that each person would enter through the Leaky Cauldron, tap on a brick, gain access to Diagon Alley, then proceed to a platform in a version of King's Cross station and take a train to Hogwarts. Disney figured it would have had to build multiple Leaky Cauldron entrances to cycle in small groups every two minutes. Admission to the attraction envisioned by Rowling would have run north of $800 per person.
Read more here and here.
*Buy Harry Potter posters at eBay.
Two things that used to be much more interesting: practicing law, and the Los Angeles Times
This is courtesy of the LA Times Daily Mirror Blog, which "reflects on L.A.'s crime and cops from 50 years ago":
Read on for the rest of the story and to see a photo of the "buxom newspaperwoman" Lee Belser.
Actress Maureen O'Hara's alleged love scene with a Latin in three rear seats of Grauman's Chinese Theater was re-enacted before a spellbound audience here yesterday at the Confidential libel trial.
A witness and a buxom newspaperwoman, who volunteered her services, entwined themselves in three courtroom seats while judge, jury and spectators watched in fascination.
Opposing counsel hovered beside the players, giving conflicting directions.
"Her feet are on the floor!" protested one.
"We never said her feet were off the floor!" exclaimed the other.
Read on for the rest of the story and to see a photo of the "buxom newspaperwoman" Lee Belser.
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