Scientists believe a little girl who was born with HIV 2.5 years ago is cured, according to NPR. Few details are known about the child due to privacy concerns, but she was born in Mississippi and is now a healthy toddler.
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A Tampa, Florida man was swallowed up by a sinkhole when his bedroom collapsed on the last day of February 2013. The hole is 30 feet wide and 20 feet deep. Sound and video equipment lowered into the hole detected no signs of life. The man in the sinkhole, Jeffrey Bush, is presumed dead. Unfortunately, rescuers can't retrieve him because of the possibility that the hole is still spreading, possibly ready to collapse at any time. But, what is a sinkhole? Why do they appear?
There are exactly ZERO offshore wind turbines off the miles of coastline in the United States. Do you know why? I doubt anyone you ask on the street is going to have much to say about that question. It's a strange truth in this time of environmental energy upgrading. It's safe, clean and proven to work. And there's tons of wind off the U.S. shores. We drill for oil- why don't we build for wind?
The Federalist party sprung up out of those who agreed with the Federalist Papers, largely written by the first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Federalism became one of the first two major political parties in the United States, standing in stark opposition to the Democratic-Republicans. In the most general terms, the Federalists were those inside of Washington's administration who argued that the national government should have power over the state governments.
It’s interesting being a traveler in your own city. While Melbourne is not my home, I've been blessed with having dual citizenship between the United States and Australia from birth. While my mom was born in the states, my father was born in Melbourne, Australia before coming to the states as a wide-eyed 20-year-old. Many family vacations have definitely been spent in the capital of the Victorian state, but my first solo trip to my father’s home has definitely opened my eyes. Melbourne is a big city with a small town feel.
Until fairly recently, horse slaughter was common in America. Although at the time, the horsemeat trade was limited mainly to pet food manufacture, since Americans (unlike people in most other countries) have never really taken to eating horsemeat.
I used to love to read the bad-to-the-bone Rouge Warrior series by Richard Marcinko. Spinoffs of his bestselling autobiography of the same name, Marcinko cast himself as the lead hero. In a deft, no-holds barred first-person narrative, he took readers on adventures from the continental United States to Ireland.
We sat on rocks enjoying the cool summer air outside the Park Service cabin. It was remote and more than 50 miles north of Sitka. Earlier that afternoon, our rented float plane landed on a small lake behind the White Sulphur Hot Springs site. Soon a pile of supplies sat between ferns and rock. We carried our week's rations and a fold-boat kayak along a short forest trail and into a rough-hewn cabin that could sleep eight. It was more than enough room for the two of us.
