| Manhunt over for accused child killer
The manhunt is over for a father accused of killing his three young children in British Columbia.
Allan Dwayne Schoenborn, 40, was "almost dead" when a trapper found him Wednesday morning in the woods outside of Merritt, a small town in the province's Interior. .
Thomas Beatie, a married man who used to be a woman, is pregnant with a baby girl
A married man who used to be a woman says that he is pregnant and will give birth to a baby girl in July. "How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible," wrote Thomas Beatie, 34, from the Pacific North West of the United States, in the latest issue of the gay magazine The Advocate. "Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am." Mr Beatie was born female, named Tracy Lagondino, but had gender reassignment surgery and is now legally male and married to a woman. .
GHX Announces 2008 Best In Class Award Winners
GHX today announced the winners of the fifth annual Best In Class Awards, recognizing 29 medical-surgical manufacturers that have achieved significant market share positions for distributed products through the end of 2007. Awards were presented to companies that achieved the highest year-over-year market share growth in 35 different product categories and those that achieved the top share position in five specific markets. The awards were presented on Friday, April 18, 2008 during a recognition ceremony in Chicago at the 8th Annual GHX Supply Chain Summit, the largest forum in the U.S. focused on both the buy and sell side of the healthcare supply chain. .
Teams aim to grow ears, skin for war wounded
WASHINGTON: Teams of university scientists backed by US government funds hope to grow new skin, ears, muscles and other body tissue for troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Defence Department said on Thursday.
The $250mn effort aims to address the Pentagon's unprecedented challenge of caring for troops returning from the war zones with multiple traumatic injuries, many of which would have been fatal years ago.
“We've had just over 900 people, men, some women with amputations of some kind or another since the start of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq," said Ward Casscells, assistant secretary of defence for health affairs. Many have also suffered burns, spinal cord injuries and vision loss.
“Getting these people up to where they are functioning and reintegrated, employed, able to help their families and be fully participating members of society, this is our task," he said.
Adventures in lightweight Internet app development
I should be clear up front: I am no programmer. I dabble in JavaScript, and I learned Fortran and Basic (not the visual kind) in 1978 and haven't used either since 1986. My programming style (such as it is) is declarative, not object-oriented. But I'm handy with Dreamweaver. .
Salon shows off building's new style
The former Firestone Building at the southeast corner of 20th Street and Grand Boulevard is about to take on another life. The eight-story, 1915-era building sat empty for years before investors took it over in 1994. Then it became the Abdiana Building, a massive home furnishing complex. But now it is turning into office space and more, including home to a new "urban-chic" hair salon and boutique selling beauty and home products, jewelry and accessories. Skyline Downtown Salon has moved into the 7,600-square-foot fourth floor and plans to open in early May. "We are a destination and not a walk-in business," said Carmen Gramajo, partner in the salon with John Escalada. "It will be an experience from the moment you walk in until the moment you leave." If it's raining, the salon will escort clients to and from their car with an umbrella.
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