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PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

"PETA's request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," the statement says.

Three humans skulls being sent to Britain were seized at Indonesia's international airport,

sponge-wrapped skulls were packed in separate boxes and labeled as handicrafts

Two were intricately carved

federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.

helped create a false-identity MySpace account to contact Megan Meier, who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans.

hanged herself at home in October 2006 after receiving cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.

The latest trend in medicine - virtual reality

Doctors are now using the technology to treat many disorders, from phobias to addictions

Although virtual reality (VR), or computer-simulated environments, sound like a premise that would excite only computer geeks and Star Trek fans, doctors and scientists are increasingly using it to treat a range of disorders, from fear of public speaking and flying, to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers returning from Iraq.

Call for junk food ad clampdown

Junk food advertising makes it difficult to feed children a healthy diet, a consumer survey suggests.

Which? found 83% of those polled believed irresponsible marketing was making it harder to encourage children to eat well.

In the eyes of Iraqi justice, Yahya Ali Humadi is a free man.

To the U.S. military, he's another of the detainees in yellow jumpsuits held at the sprawling Camp Bucca in southern Iraq.

ordered released nine months ago after an Iraqi judge dropped all charges

Consumers and farmers will soon be on their own when it comes to finding out which pesticides are being sprayed on everything from corn to apples.

U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it plans to do away with publishing its national survey tracking pesticide use

despite opposition from prominent scientists

2 officers have been fired as a result of the incident, in which residents said they were threatened and suffered damage.

Seventeen current or former residents of the Franklin County town of Gerald have filed suits alleging that that their arrests were illegal because a fake federal agent helped make them.

36-year-old man accused of duping Gerald officials into believing that he was a federal agent on loan from the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The Value of a Human Life: $129,000

That's the international standard most private and government-run health insurance plans worldwide use to determine whether to cover a new medical procedure. More simply, insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it must guarantee one year of "quality life" for $50,000 or less.

New research, however, would argue that that figure is far too low.

As gas goes up, driving goes down

At a time when gas prices are at an all-time high, Americans have curtailed their driving at a historic rate.

The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded.

This is Your Brain on God

Debate has long raged between atheists and the faithful about whether God is all in our heads, and the discovery of a so-called “God module” in the brain has only fanned the flames.

While a group of neuroscientists at the University of San Diego were studying the brain patterns of epileptics, they stumbled across something they weren’t expecting: that epileptics who suffer a certain kind of seizure are often intensely religious, reporting an unusual number of visions, communications with God and even paranormal experiences. Further tests revealed that there’s a specific place in the temporal lobe (the aforementioned “module”) which flares up when faithful subjects are asked questions about their faith, and that this spot was a common focal point for electrical discharges during epileptic seizures.

letter being auctioned in London

written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish."

expected to fetch between $12,000 and $16,000.

Epilepsy Site Hacked With Seizure Images

Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims.

But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.

Circuit City Gives Up the Fight

The electronics chain puts out the "For Sale" sign, hiring Goldman Sachs to assist on a deal, most likely with Blockbuster

Circuit City is finally throwing in the towel. Confronted with weak sales, impatient shareholders, and a U.S. consumer pummeled by recession, the electronics chain capitulated on May 9 and retained Goldman Sachs to help negotiate a deal.

Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term "lesbian". The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally. The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians. Is it gay women, or the 100,000 people living on Greece's third biggest island - plus another 250,000 expatriates who originate from Lesbos? The man spearheading the case, publisher Dimitris Lambrou, claims that international dominance of the word in its sexual context violates the human rights of the islanders, and disgraces them around the world. He says it causes daily problems to the social life of Lesbos's inhabitants.

In court papers, the plaintiffs allege that the Greek government is so embarrassed by the term Lesbian that it has been forced to rename the island after its capital, Mytilini.

The term lesbian originated from the poet Sappho, who was a native of Lesbos.

Spam - the scourge of every e-mail inbox - celebrates its 30th anniversary this weekend. The first recognisable e-mail marketing message was sent on 3 May, 1978 to 400 people on behalf of DEC - a now-defunct computer-maker. The message was sent via Arpanet - the internet's forerunner - and won its sender much criticism from recipients.

Statistics suggest that more than 80%-85% of all e-mail is spam or junk and more than 100 billion spam messages are sent every day.

The sender of the first junk e-mail message was Gary Thuerk and it was sent to advertise new additions to DEC's family of System-20 minicomputers. It invited the recipients, all of whom were on Arpanet and lived on the west coast of the US, to go to one of two presentations showing off the capabilities of the System-20. Reaction to the message was swift, with complaints reportedly coming from the US Defense Communications Agency, which oversaw Arpanet, and took Mr Thuerk's boss to task about it.

Microsoft UK is developing a "senior PC", which will have a simple interface and be aimed at older users. The PC will come with software that allows users to manage prescriptions as well as simplified tools for everyday use, such as managing photos.

In the UK alone, some 17 million citizens are described as "digitally excluded". In the United States, Microsoft already offers a number of so-called senior PCs, in conjunction with HP computers.

CCTV boom has not cut crime, says police chief

Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer piloting a new database.

Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville said it was a “fiasco” that only 3 per cent of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV.

It now costs more than a penny to make a penny

cost of a nickel is more than 7½ cents.

Copper and nickel prices have tripled since 2003 and the price of zinc has quadrupled

Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world

the problem is the dirt they're planted in.

much of the world's soil is getting worse