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The Ice Age Cometh
By Thom Hartmann, Thomhartmann.com
February 1, 2004
While global warming is being officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al Gore's recent conference on the topic during one of the coldest days of recent years provided joke fodder for conservative talk show hosts, the citizens of Europe and the Pentagon are taking a new look at the greatest danger such climate change could produce for the northern hemisphere � a sudden shift into a new ice age. What they're finding is not at all comforting. "

Investigational Drug May Extend Stroke Treatment Window to Nine Hours
Selected patients with ischemic stroke of up to 9 hours in duration can benefit from desmoteplase, an investigational agent derived from the saliva of the vampire bat, according to a new study. The drug may not confer quite the same immortality attributed to the bat's bite, but it appears to result in cerebral reperfusion beyond the current 3-hour therapeutic window of tissue plasminogen activator (TPA).

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Background: Cataracts are a dime-a-dozen. They cause clouding of the lens of the eye. And it is hard to see through a cloud, even a light one. This is the voice of experience talking (as indicated below.)"