Wednesday, March 31, 2004

WEIRD NEWS!!!



Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing Heroin in 1898.

Man Convicted for Decapitating Mother with Sword

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - A German man who decapitated his mother with a Samurai sword after she told him to move out was convicted of murder Tuesday and sentenced to life in jail.

The man, identified only as Axel T., 22, called police after killing his mother last June, a spokesman for the Munich state court said. The man told authorities his father had committed the crime.



According to prosecutors the man attacked his mother with a 17-inch blade after his parents told him to move out. He chopped off her head in the kitchen of their flat while she was reading a newspaper, the prosecutor said. They added he first planned to kill his father.

Rs 3650 for a pitcher of water!



By Bibhuti Mishra in Orissa

Tuesday, 30 March , 2004, 11:09



A pitcher of water costing Rs 3650! Unbelievable but true. Not just any water but the water drawn from a holy well called 'Marichi Kunda' on the eve of Ashokasthami of Lord Lingaraj.

Legend has it that Lord Shiva had killed a demon at the spot and the demon's wife had asked the Lord how she could be a mother without her husband.



The Lord took pity on her and granted her a boon. She bathed in the water of the well and was blessed with motherhood.



So, many childless women throng the place every year on the eve of Ashokastahami and a small quantity of the well water is auctioned.



The highest bidder this time paid Rs 3,650 while the second and third pitchers of water went for Rs 2,450 and Rs 1,600 respectively. The total income earned was Rs 16,130.



'Exploding Head Syndrome' Harmless

Alarming symptoms baffle doctors





Imagine drifting off to sleep only to be roused into a sudden panic by a cataclysmic noise erupting inside your head.

The condition is known as "exploding head syndrome," and people who have been affected by it describe the sound as a violent explosion or an enormous roar "so loud it could kill me." Dr. Joel Saper described the unusual condition last year in a column in the Detroit Free Press.



Don't expect your personal physician to have heard about this phenomenon. It was only reported for the first time by a British physician in 1988. Since then, only a handful of papers have appeared in the medical literature, most of them small collections of case reports.



There's some evidence, however, that exploding head syndrome is far more common than the scanty printed reports suggest. For example, after his column appeared, Dr. Saper reports that he received "numerous letters from readers who have experienced one or more of these episodes and who have been living in fear." A follow-up report shares some of the personal comments from those with the condition.



The medical evidence to date suggests that exploding head syndrome occurs most often when falling asleep. Flashes of light or difficulty breathing often accompany attacks, which occur sporadically and at any age. Stress may contribute to the episodes, which usually disappear without any treatment.



Although alarming, the explosions don't appear to be symptoms of a stroke or other life-threatening conditions. Electroencephalographic recordings of actual attacks show unusual activity in some sufferers but not in others. However, the brain recordings show that attacks are not a form of epileptic seizure.









31-JAN-2001

Monday, March 29, 2004

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