"North 24 Pargana (WB), Aug 10: Scores of people suffering with the crippling fever, Chikungunya, have been reported from West Bengal's North 24 Pargana District. Twenty-one of the 36 samples that were earlier sent to the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) have tested positive...."

"BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- A deadly new strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB (for extreme drug resistant tuberculosis) has been discovered in South Africa, according to media reports Thursday. The super bug is likely to have spread beyond the rural area in South Africa where 52 of the 53 people diagnosed with it have died, said Dr. Tony Moll who discovered XDR-TB. The extent of the outbreak in the Kwazulu-Natal region of eastern South Africa is unknown because tests are expensive and specialize..."

""Now that you've brought up the subject of smoking habits, I am wondering if you'd comment more on that. A part of myself enjoys smoking marijuana, and another part of myself feels very opposed. I am constantly waging little internal battles with myself about smoking marijuana. Is it wrong?" "Many aeons ago, we made a drink from dates. I believe you would call it an alcohol. We had other names for it. It was a terrible thing to taste, and yet we drank it, for it gave us a pleasure. All things have their own leve..."