7/28/09

Why skilled immigrants fleeing the U.S.?

Lured by the prospect of climbing to the top of his field, New Delhi native Swaroop Ganguly came to the U.S. 10 years ago and earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005.

He became an expert in an emerging technology called spintronics, used to power semiconductors, and worked at several chip companies, including Freescale Semiconductor. But Ganguly, now 32, is moving back to India this summer.

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7/25/09

Kidneys for sale illegally

NEWARK, N.J. - Levy Izhak Rosenbaum called himself a "matchmaker," but his business wasn't romance. Instead, authorities say, he brokered the sale of black-market kidneys, buying organs from vulnerable people from Israel for $10,000 and selling them to desperate patients in the U.S. for as much as $160,000.
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How evil! How could Rosenbaum do this to his own people?

3/6/09

10 Worst Germ Hot Spots

Absolutely! I use paper towels and clean bathrooms and kitchen everyday.

3/5/09

Switzerland does not allow UBS to transfer data to the US

Switzerland does not consider tax evasion a crime, and Swiss law prohibits disclosure of client data or names unless the country's authorities believe the client has committed a serious crime such as money laundering or tax fraud. [more...]

GM Chapter 11 would be the best!

GM sux!
GM also disclosed Thursday that Chief Executive Rick Wagoner received a pay package worth $14.9 million in 2008, although $11.9 million of his compensation was in stock and options whose value plummeted to $682,000 as GM's share price sank.

2/15/09

Stimulus advancing health reform

Obama team sees stimulus advancing health reform
In the legislation passed late Friday, Congress approved spending about $19 billion over the coming years on electronic health records and an additional $1.1 billion on research comparing which treatments work best for a particular disease.

Also, the bill sets aside about $1 billion for a "prevention and wellness fund." About $300 million of that money would provide additional immunizations. Most of the rest of that money will go to state and communities to help them tackle smoking, obesity and various preventable health problems.

"This represents the beginning steps of the president's health reform vision," said Jenny Backus, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Department. "It's designed to get relief to people who need it most and to do everything we can to bring down the cost of health care, and improve access and quality." [readmore...


I can't wait for the progress of the stimulus package that was passed the other day, February 13, 2009.

You can now edit Google spreadsheets on your iPhone

I find it quite interesting! I hope it works well... ^_^

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Pictures of the week |Times Online

How beautiful and splendid pictures.
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An Ariane 5 rocket lifts off from Kourou, French Guiana, to put two communications satellites for European telecoms operators into space.

Salmonella Outbreak

Of course, I for one am always careful about the food that I eat.  Be careful and check your pantries ---get rid of any peanut butter mixed food. Your life is more precious than tainted peanuts! 

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2/11/09

Salmonella Outbreak hearing

What a shame! Aside from peanut butter, tomatoes, spinach outbreak, what else?

2/10/09

Israel Vote Results

President Obama's ambition to move quickly on Israeli-Palestinian peace suffered a significant setback yesterday with the rightward shift apparent in nearly complete Israeli election results, analysts said. [Read more]

President Obama Hottie Goes Into Facebook Hiding

Hide your ass or face the consequences. LOL!

http://gawker.com/5137697/obama-hottie-goes-into-facebook-hiding

2/7/09

McCartney To Open New Joint In Las Vegas

McCartney tickets go on sale Feb. 14 at noon at the Hard Rock, all Ticketmaster locations and Web site, and 800-745-3000.

2/5/09

Facebook 5th Birtday | Mark Zuckerberg

    I love the  twitter.com  a new social network.  How I wish FACEBOOK will upgrade their webpage. I find it too cheapy lookin' [imho]

2/4/09

Jorge "Papito" Serguera who banned the Beatles is 'DEAD'


HAVANA (Reuters) - The man who banned the Beatles from the communist-run island's radio and television stations has died, state television said on Tuesday.

Jorge "Papito" Serguera, who at the time was president of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, pulled Beatles music from the airwaves in the 1970s even though he later admitted he enjoyed listening to it in private.

Serguera, who was 76 when he died, said in a 2001 interview he was following orders from high government officials who viewed the British band's music as a threat to the revolution.

But he was viewed as an architect of a general cultural crackdown that dampened dissent and marginalized many for their beliefs or sexuality.[read more]

1/23/09

Is the White House in the technological dark ages? Hardly, say the people who just left it.

Former Bush administration staffers disputed the tone of a Washington Post story published Thursday that described a tech-savvy Obama team moving into a building equipped with creaky computers, out-of-date software, no e-mail service and dead phone lines.

Rather, the former staffers said, the White House has everything a modern corporate office would — Windows XP, BlackBerrys, Outlook e-mail, plenty of laptops and lots of flatscreen monitors and TVs.

"It's a shame if they're having problems moving in," said Theresa Payton, White House chief information officer from 2006 until this past November. "We began to prepare for the transition well ahead of the election cycle. Our aim was to leave it in better shape than we found it."[read more...]
foxnews.com/story

1/17/09

How about that hah?

Even though these stories are commonplace in Washington today, the argument can be made that this president has passed
  • major tax and education bills, 
  • pacified Afghanistan and removed Saddam Hussein from power, 
  • all while defeating recession. 
    So what if his administration looks dysfunctional?
     In basketball, it is called winning ugly. The trouble is that a team that wins ugly sometimes starts losing
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