| Barry Humphries hospitalised
Humphries' illness interrupted his plans for festive season celebrations at his Sydney home. He arrived in Sydney from England in mid-December and is due to begin the Dame Edna Live and Intimate tour in the US later this month. His manager Harley Medcalf told The Daily Telegraph that the Melbourne-born comic was recovering well. "He saw a doctor on Saturday and was admitted on Sunday, before having the operation on the same day,'' he said. "I saw him today walking down the corridor. It was a wonderful sight.'' Humphries was in good spirits yesterday despite missing the New Year's Eve fireworks. "His attitude is very cheerful and he will be off to the US in a couple of weeks,'' Mr Medcalf said. "He's always working and touring and that hasn't been interrupted by this at all.'' Humphries shot to fame after moving to London in his early 20s.
Juliet's Facts For My Friends For Life
It's "FUNDANGO", an indoor 5k winter walk and family festival. You can put together a team and collect pledges, or come by yourself and have fun! It starts Saturday, March 3rd at 8:30 a.m. at the Ford Field house. It addition to the walk, there will be raffles, music, food and carnival games.
February 28, 2007 - In the not-too-distant future, we may have an over-the-counter breath analyzer to screen for breast cancer. Researchers at the University of Michigan are working on the device to detect breast cancer. The test would check for what are called metabolites. Metabolites are part of the body's metabolism and have to do with growth, reproduction and the development of normal cells. Researchers have known that body odor can be used to detect disease. Doctors hope to be able to take this to the next level by analyzing breath odor to detect not only breast cancer, but other types of cancer as well.
An orchestra with a grand piano and no conductor
When the hi-tech bubble burst, when deficits rose, when the Iraq war went sour, the shine on the American model dimmed. But, despite widespread dismay over U.S. foreign policy, few here used to question America's role as the world's unipolar power. What a difference a year makes. Davos 2008 has laid bare a world in which no superpower seems to be in charge. The unipolar American moment is deemed over, in part a casualty of Bush political and economic policies; in larger part the result of global economic changes that are shifting wealth elsewhere. Last week's economic crisis seemed like a coda. But we have not entered a multipolar world: China and India aren't ready to take the global lead, nor can Europe do so. The consensus at Davos seems to be that we now live in a ''nonpolar'' world, with America too strong to stand on the sidelines, but too weak to implement its agenda alone.
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