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Kids around the country are getting high on the internet, thanks to MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy. And it could be a gateway drug leading teens to real-world narcotics.

At least, that’s what Kansas News 9 is reporting about a phenomenon called “i-dosing,” which involves finding an online dealer who can hook you up with “digital drugs” that get you high through your headphones.

And officials are taking it seriously.

“Kids are going to flock to these sites just to see what it is about and it can lead them to other places,” Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs spokesman Mark Woodward told News 9.

Those who want to get addicted to the “drugs” can purchase tracks that will purportedly bring about the same effects of marijuana, cocaine, opium and peyote. While street drugs rarely come with instruction manuals, potential digital drug users are advised to buy a 40-page guide so that they learn how to properly get high on MP3s.

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Tearing down bridges

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the tea party movement may be two of the most misunderstood entities in the United States, and their clash this week only serves to create more confusion and discord around each of them.

For its part, the NAACP has done more good for America even in the recent days of its proud 100-year history than tea party groups may ever accomplish, but the historic group is wrong to pick an unnecessary fight with this loosely affiliated group of conservative activists.

At its annual convention on Tuesday, the NAACP adopted a resolution that "calls on the tea party and all people of good will to repudiate the racist element and activities within the tea party," according to an association spokeswoman. While the NAACP is indisputably correct that racism anywhere ought to be condemned, the insinuation that bigotry has a prominent place within the tea party is false and harmful to any national discourse.

We can only have reasonable discussions when we are not calling one another names. But the thumb-biting NAACP resolution inevitably provokes equally senseless responses from the tea party: "I am disinclined to take lectures on racial sensitivity from a group that insists on calling black people, 'colored,'" the spokesman for one tea party group told CNN this week, childishly ignoring the sad fact that for much of the NAACP's history, the antiquated term "colored" was among the nicer terms some white Americans would use for black people.

Supporters of the NAACP split hairs when they point out that their resolution does not call the tea partiers racist, but only calls on them to repudiate their racist supporters. The fact is, as even some NAACP defenders acknowledge, leaders of various tea party groups have done so time and time again. There is no central "Tea Party National Committee," so the NAACP request seems either redundant or in bad faith, akin to calling on opponents of the Iraq war to repudiate anarchy because some of the war's more foolish protesters committed acts of vandalism.

The NAACP's instigation of this rhetorical one-upmanship not only hardens the opinions of tea party sympathizers, but more tragically, it alienates the center, those of us who would gladly work with the NAACP on more important issues such as the governmental policy toward urban areas or the official display of the Confederate flag.

Look at the extremes of talk radio or the Internet today. Liberal pundits are agog over a Northern Iowa Tea Party billboard comparing Obama with Hitler, a stupid and wrong comparison that was also made of President George W. Bush with appalling frequency. Their conservative counterparts are meanwhile talking themselves into a lather trying to link a hate group called the New Black Panther Party to the Obama administration.

Both sides are caught in the vicious cycle of concentrating on their opponents' worst actors, rather than looking for solutions with its best. The NAACP ought to be ending such nonsense, rather than instigating it.

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Mel/Oksana Tapes -- Evidence of Editing

Sources tell TMZ ... Mel Gibson's lawyers claim to have hard evidence the tapes Oksana Grigorieva secretly recorded have been tampered with and edited, which, if true, would make them inadmissible in a court of law.

Oksana's attorneys tell TMZ, "We are not aware of any presentation Gibson's lawyers are making, but we are not surprised they would make such unfounded claims."

TMZ broke the story ... Oksana's lawyers will be in court this morning asking a family law judge to strip Mel of custody of their daughter, using the tapes as evidence Mel is a danger to the child. The authenticity of the tapes will almost certainly be raised by Mel's attorneys.

A judge will admit tapes into evidence only if someone can authenticate that the tapes are true and correct copies of what was actually recorded.

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Norma Kang Muico, who is based in Seoul and is the author of the report, was told by several witnesses about surgeries performed without anaesthesia.

"We had one who had surgery for an appendix to be removed, another an amputation and they were all done without the aid of anaesthesia," she said.

"Some people even told me that when they had surgery with anaesthesia it wasn't enough to actually control the pain, so they were still in a lot of pain.

"[The hospitals] are very rundown, they're dilapidated. There's no electricity - if there is it's very sporadic.

"There's no heat in the winter time, there's no running water. The supplies are in short supply so if you've got say for example syringes, it's being re-used, sometimes with very little regard for hygiene. And sheets are not washed regularly and a lot of the cleaning responsibility falls on the patients' families."

When Australian National University (ANU) researcher Danielle Chubb visited North Korea on a study tour in 2007, government officials were keen to show her group the Pyong Yang maternity hospital.

"It was clearly something that they were very proud of and we were only shown into very certain parts of the hospital, even those parts seemed to a non-specialist in medical care, seemed very basic and there didn't seem to be a lot of medicines or a lot of equipment around," she said.

Malnourishment

In the early 1990s up to a million North Koreans died of famine out of a population of 22 million.

North Korea remains at risk of serious malnourishment and the long-term food insecurity is a major factor in serious chronic health problems for millions of North Koreans.

A UNICEF report between 2003 and 2008 reported that 45 per cent of North Korean children under five were stunted.

Ms Muico says the health situation in the country is directly related to a lack of food.

National uprising

Last year the regime tried to wipe out the black market activities which it saw as a conduit for capitalist ideas by revaluing the currency.

Dr Chubb says it had a dramatic impact on the population.

According to Dr Chubb, with no clear successor there is a power struggle between various factions within the regime to secure power after Kim Jong Il's death.

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Iranian Nuclear Scientist Welcomed Home

An Iranian nuclear scientist who American officials say defected to the United States and then had second thoughts was given a hero’s welcome when he returned to Tehran early Thursday morning.

The scientist, Shahram Amiri, 32, added details to his claims that he had been abducted by the C.I.A. and Saudi intelligence. A wreath of flowers was placed around his neck as he was greeted at Imam Khomeini International Airport by family members, including his 7-year old son, red-eyed from crying, and a grinning foreign Ministry official.

At a news press conference immediately upon his arrival, Mr. Amiri said he had no connection with Iran’s nuclear program and that he was the victim of an American conspiracy to wage "psychological warfare" against Iran. United States officials have said that Mr. Amiri arrived in the country of his own free will and was free to leave whenever he wished.

Mr. Amiri told gathered reporters that he had been offered $10 million to say on CNN that he had arrived in the United States on his own accord in order to seek asylum and, just before his departure for Iran, $50 million and the chance for a new life in a European country of his choosing if he decided to stay.

Lawmakers Consider Taxing Airlines' Fees

U.S. House Democrats criticized airlines Wednesday for increasingly charging for checked baggage, seat selection and other services, and indicated they are considering legislation to tax the revenue collected from the fees.

Airlines are increasingly relying on ticket surcharges to offset spikes in fuel prices and overcome weak demand. Airlines collected $1.3 billion from fees for checked baggage and reservation changes in the first three months of this year, a 13% increase over the same period in 2009, government data show.

House Transportation Committee Chairman James Oberstar (D., Minn.) called the fees a "backdoor price increase" in airfares, with consumers now paying for many items that until three years ago were included in the price of a ticket. He and Rep. Jerry Costello (D., Ill.) held the hearing to determine whether legislation should be proposed to rein in the fees and ensure the government gets a cut of the revenue.

"You can impose these taxes with impunity by calling it a fee," Rep. Oberstar said. "Passengers are paying for meals, for pillows, for blankets, for headphones, for beverages, to check the luggage."

Currently the government collects a 7.5% excise tax on passenger fares but not on ancillary fees. Applying the excise tax to baggage fees, which provided about $2.5 billion in revenue for airlines last year, would have led to an additional $186 million in federal excise taxes, congressional investigators said.

Rep. Costello said he's concerned that by reducing the portion of revenue taxed by the government, the fee model is diverting money from a fund used to finance airport renovations and construction. The fund is increasingly short on revenue.

Spirit Airlines Inc. President Ben Baldanza defended the "a la carte" fee model, saying it gives passengers a choice of what services to pay for.

Taxing the fee revenue would hurt industry and consumers, he said. "Such taxes would surely harm competition, raise costs and slow the industry's recovery from a decade of losses," he said.

He added the ancillary fees shouldn't be taxed because such services "do not use the infrastructure that the tax is intended to pay for."

David Ridley, senior vice president of marketing and revenue management Southwest Airlines Co., which has resisted extra fees, criticized the model but said airlines should be able to choose whether to employ it.

He said he supported proposed rules by the Transportation Department requiring greater disclosure of the fees on airline and travel websites.

The Transportation Department recently proposed rules requiring greater transparency of fees. The rules would require that ticket prices include fuel surcharges and greater prominence of other ancillary fees on websites. The rules would also require that passengers be reimbursed when their luggage is late or lost.

Consumer advocates praised the proposed rules, saying they would help consumers compare prices more easily.

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Apple to hold iPhone 4 press conference Friday about [fill in the blank]

Apple has been inviting journalists to a press conference on its Cupertino, Calif., campus at 10 a.m. Pacific time Friday, the subject being the iPhone 4. But what about the iPhone 4 would require the company to summon the press on such short notice? Could Apple be introducing a new case for its smartphone? Will the company make it in colors besides black and white? Is Apple on the verge of finally granting some techies' fondest wish by introducing a push-to-talk iPhone for Nextel?

No, it has to be the same Topic A as yesterday, the day before and the week before: the possibility that the iPhone 4 has a design defect that causes it to lose or drop AT&T's signal when held with a hand covering a gap between two antennas on its lower left side.

Why do you all care?

I'm not trying to be snarky or insulting. I am simply puzzled to see every story we post on the iPhone draw the sort of Web traffic normally associated with naked pictures of celebrities (or, perhaps, pictures of celebrities wearing nothing but iPhone armbands). What gives?

First, the iPhone 4 constitutes a tiny minority of the smartphone market today, and all iPhones combined still represent a minority of the business. I doubt that every reader clicks on these posts because they're on the fence about buying an iPhone 4. Some certainly are -- but still, why act as if this possible reception issue represents a tragic fall from grace? Were you expecting this phone to depart from the prior history of manufactured products by shipping in a perfected state?

Second, the sight of Apple possibly screwing up, then trying to blame somebody else, should not amount to a shocking development. It hasn't been that long since journalistic shorthand labeled the company "Beleaguered Apple Computer, Inc." and some Mac user groups functioned more like support groups. Apple may have just scored an own goal, but that's nothing compared to the damage it repeatedly inflicted on itself in the '90s.

Then again ... drawing more Web traffic has become a career-enhancing move around here. So maybe I should pursue a different line of inquiry: Was this post as irresistible as other iPhone stories we've run? Are you not entertained?

Health lobbyists focus on a once-obscure group

For years, an obscure federal task force sifted through medical literature on colonoscopies, prostate-cancer screening and fluoride treatments, ferreting out the best evidence for doctors to use in caring for their patients. But now its recommendations have financial implications, raising the stakes for patients, doctors and others in the health-care industry.

Under the new health-care overhaul law, health insurers will be required to pay fully for services that get an A or B recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a volunteer group made up of primary care and public health experts.

That's good news for patients, who will no longer face cost sharing for these services, but it puts the group in the cross hairs of lobbyists and disease advocates eager to see their top priorities -- routine screening for Alzheimer's disease, diabetes or HIV, for example -- become covered services.

"It's a wide-open door for lobbying," says Robert Laszewski, a health insurance industry consultant.

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Circle lenses were available before the Gaga explosion, and in fact their popularity originated in Japan, Singapore and South Korea where many young women wear them to accentuate their eyes to resemble Japanese anime characters. The decorative contact lenses come in a variety of colors and give the wearer a doe-eyed, childlike appearance.

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What Everyone’s Saying About the Meaningful Use Requirements

Here’s a roundup of some of the reaction to the new rules, which loosened the requirements somewhat from the draft version:

Association of American Medical Colleges: While the AAMC praises relaxation of some of the requirements, it “remains concerned” that “it may be unrealistic for some teaching hospitals and faculty physicians” to meet the requirements in two years. In a statement, the group also says it had hoped that eligibility would be determined by hospital systems, not individual hospitals. (Each hospital in a multi-hospital system must qualify on its own to receive incentives.)

American Hospital Association: The group also says even the looser requirements may make it tough for hospitals to qualify. It criticizes the individual hospital requirement, and says that “the rule requires hospitals to immediately use Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE),” which it calls complicated, costly and time-consuming.

Allscripts, a health IT company: Leigh Burchell, the company’s director of government relations, tells the Health Blog that the shift from a mandated list of at least 23 requirements to a more flexible approach is “the most momentous” change from the draft version. She also says reporting requirements for things not captured in an electronic health record have eased, making things “much more user friendly” for providers. The role of ER personnel in meeting the requirements has also been clarified, for the better, she says.

Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, Calif.: CEO Paul Hensler tells the Health Blog he’s “pleasantly surprised” by the more flexible approach. “It really lets each hospital customize its approach according to its needs and abilities,” he says. This will likely help hospitals with the capital to invest to focus on and implement a smaller set of requirements in order to qualify for incentives.

Deloitte Consulting: Mitch Morris, national leader of health IT, notes in an e-mail that he was surprised that there’s no word yet on when the third stage of requirements will be announced. (The next wave of stage 2 requirements will be announced in late 2011.)

NextGen, a medical software company: Charlie Jarvis, vice president of healthcare services and government relations, says the looser requirements will “help the provider community adapt more quickly,” but that some levels of compliance were still kept pretty high, at the 80% level. (Get 78% of patients and you don’t meet the requirement.) In addition, he says it may be tough for some clients to be ready to go for the next set of requirements if they aren’t released until late next year.

Reid Conant, emergency physician, Tri-City Medical Center, Oceanside, Calif.: Conant, chief medical informatics officer for his med center’s emergency group, wishes there had been a requirement that detailed physician notes be part of a patient’s electronic medical records. Without such a physician narrative requirement, he fears the records will “be reduced to point-and-click documents” that don’t distinguish between patients.

Tension high as BP tests new well cap in Gulf of Mexico

FROM WIRE REPORTS The Washington Post, The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS – BP engineers took the first steps toward choking off the gulf oil well Wednesday night in a white-knuckle "integrity test" that could put a permanent stop to the flow of the gusher – or make the situation worse.

Federal officials greenlighted the test Wednesday afternoon after a 24-hour delay in which government scientists and outside experts demanded more information from BP about possible hazards created by the operation. They are concerned that a spike in pressure as the flow is clamped could blow oil and gas out the casing of the well and into the geological formations.

"What we didn't want to do is compound that problem by making an irreversible mistake," said Thad Allen, the national incident commander.

As of Wednesday, the 85th day of the disaster, between 92 million and 182 million gallons of oil had spewed into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by BP exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.

Late Wednesday afternoon, BP engineers closed the main chimney on the new "capping stack" installed atop the well Monday night. That left oil and gas surging from two other ports, known as the kill line and choke line. The protocol developed by BP and approved by federal authorities called for closing the kill line quickly, then very gradually reducing the flow from the choke line until the well flows no more.

The procedure hit a snag, however, when BP discovered a leak in the choke line. A statement by the company on Wednesday night said the leak "has been isolated and will be repaired prior to starting the test."

No oil and gas is being collected by surface ships, which suspended their containment operations Wednesday afternoon.

Federal officials and BP engineers are anxiously observing what happens to pressures in the well. A steady increase in pressure as the flow is reduced would be a strong sign that the so-called Macondo well, drilled by the now-sunken Deepwater Horizon, is physically intact, and that oil and gas are not leaking into the surrounding mud and rock formations below the gulf floor.

Watching the seafloor

Robotic submersibles are scrutinizing the muddy gulf floor and the base of the blowout preventer for signs of oil or gas rising from below. Scientists are also using seismic and sonar instruments to monitor any possible movement of hydrocarbons in the rock formations surrounding the well.

If the well can handle the high pressures, BP could leave the well shut in, and it would not further pollute the gulf.

If the pressure readings are too low, BP will abandon the test. The well will be reopened and gush anew. BP would then resume trying to capture as much leaking oil as possible, using lines to surface ships and a new "top hat" on the gusher, while continuing to drill a relief well that could kill Macondo with mud and cement.

With the test imminent, BP paused Wednesday in its effort to drill the first relief well, which is only four feet away, laterally, from the Macondo well. The decision to halt work on the relief well was a precautionary move to ensure that hydrocarbons don't surge into the new hole from the Macondo well during the integrity test, BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells said Wednesday. Work on the relief well will resume when the test ends, he said. The drilling of a second relief well had already been suspended, pending results of the first relief well.

Awkward relationship

The final run-up to the integrity test highlighted the awkward relationship between BP and the federal government. The government has authority for all major decisions in the spill response, but BP has the technological expertise for the deep-water engineering. BP had planned to proceed with the test Tuesday, but federal scientists called timeout, asking for more assurances that the oil company had thought through what might go wrong.

The decision to postpone the test for 24 hours was made Tuesday afternoon, but that decision was not announced until Allen and BP put out news releases late Tuesday – continuing a pattern in which officials have waited many hours to inform the public of what is happening in the gulf. In late May, for example, officials waited almost a day to reveal that they had suspended the "top-kill" effort to clog the well with heavy drilling mud.

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In birds, these proteins have been coopted to regulate egg shell formation. They bind calcium and can seed the crystallization of calcium carbonate, and also control the rate of crystal formation. Chickens have ovocleidin, but geese have an ortholog, ansocalcin, and ostriches have struthiocleidin. There seems to be a lot of lability in what particular calcium-binding protein is used in shell formation, and it's probably the case that most of the sequence is free to mutate without affecting the nucleating function.

You simply can't make the conclusion the reporter was making here. The species ancestral to Gallus gallus laid eggs, the last common ancestor of all birds laid eggs, the reptiles that preceded the birds laid eggs…the appearance of egg laying was not coincident with the evolution of ovocleidin. The first chicken that acquired the protein we call ovocleidin now by mutation of a prior protein also hatched from an egg.

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Shahram Amiri, Iran Nuclear Scientist, Headed Home After CIA Kidnapping Claim

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian nuclear scientist claimed Thursday that he suffered extreme mental and physical torture at the hands of U.S. interrogators after disappearing last year, adding to Tehran's allegations he was abducted by American agents.

The U.S. says he was a willing defector who changed his mind and decided to board a plane home from Washington.

Shahram Amiri was embraced by his family – including his tearful 7-year-old son – after arriving in Tehran in the latest spectacle of a puzzling series of events that left Iran and Washington with starkly different accounts. Amiri flashed a V-for-victory sign as he stepped into the terminal.

Iran has portrayed the return of Amiri as a blow to American intelligence services that were desperate for inside information on Iran's nuclear program. Iran has sought maximum propaganda value – allowing journalists to cover Amiri's return and having a top envoy from Iran's Foreign Ministry on hand to greet him.

Washington described the 32-year-old Amiri as someone who reached out to U.S. officials, but have offered few other details.

Speaking to journalists after a flight via Qatar, Amiri repeated his earlier claims that he was snatched while on a pilgrimage last year in the Saudi holy city of Medina and carried off to the United States.

He claimed he was under intense pressures during the first few months after his alleged kidnapping.

"I was under the harshest mental and physical torture," he said at Tehran's international airport, with his young son sitting on his lap.

He also alleged that Israeli agents were present during the interrogations and that CIA officers offered him $50 million to remain in America. He gave no further details to back up the claims or shed any new light on his time in the United States, but promised to reveal more later.

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Levi and Bristol -- Engaged, Not Having Sex

America's favorite unwed, single teenage mother -- Bristol Palin -- is engaged to get married ... and the man she's tying the knot with is the most unlikely candidate ever ... her baby daddy Levi Johnston.

Levi and Bristol's story is a tale of classic romance ... he knocks her up when she's 17, she has a kid (Tripp), they break up, they attack each other in the media, he poses for Playgirl, they attack each other in the media again ... and then they reconnect during custody negotiations about three months ago.

But the best part: The couple claims they didn't tell Bristol's mom -- Sarah Palin -- about the engagement first. Instead, they told Us Weekly ... and hoped that it was one of the "variety of sources" she reads.

Levi and Bristol claim they hope to get married in the next six weeks -- and due to Bristol's abstinence pledge, they won't be having sex again until after they say "I do."

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