Alia Sabur - 19 - has become the youngest full-time college professor in all of history according to the Guinness Book of World Records. This does not surprise us at all when we took a look into what she has accomplished throughout her life.
Both Costco and Sam’s Club chains will be limiting the amount of rice that consumers will be able to purchase due to “recent supply and demand trends.” Sam’s Club has stated that they will be limiting the customers to only four bags of the 20 pound bags of the basmati, jasmine, and long-grain wild rice.
We were all impressed with the grizzly bear that wrestled with Will Ferrell in his new movie “Semi-Pro”. The fact that he could follow directions so well was amazing. That is why we were all surprised to hear that he killed his trainer after biting him in the neck. Three different trainers were working with the bear this week when Stephan Miller - 39 - was attacked. Stephan Miller is the cousin of training center owner Randy Miller, she said.
Gen. David Petraeus has been nominated for head of the United States Central Command. For the past year he has been commanding the U.S. troops in Iraq - but if he is given this new position he will be overseeing the military operations all across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Robert Gates - who announced the news this week - stated to the public that both him and President Bush agreed that Petraeus was the right man for the job.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency Iran will be clearing things up on the matter of whether or not they have tried to create any nuclear weapons. The IAEA has stated that the agreement Iran signed is a good sign.
Benny the Bull - mascot for the Chicago Bulls - is being sued by Dr. Don Kalan Sr. for a high-five gone bad. Kalan - a dentist from Illinois - stated in the lawsuit that while he was sitting courtside at the game on February 12th he raised his arm to get a high five from the Barry Anderson - the man behind the mascot.
An unsuspected 5.2 earthquake hit the Midwest this Friday that was felt from Kansas and than all the way to Georgia. Geophysicists beleive that the aftershocks of the earthquake will be felt for a few months and that there may just be another big one coming in its wake.
The quake occurred on a northern extension of the New Madrid fault, about 6 miles north of Mt. Carmel, Ill. The New Madrid fault was responsible for devastating quakes in the Mississippi Valley in 1811 and 1812. So the Friday quake and its aftershocks likely are raising the blood pressure of some residents and scientists.
Robert Gates - the Defense Secretary - stated this week that he believes the Air Force is not doing its part to help against the war effort between Afghanistan and Iraq. He stated that a few of the military leaders are ”stuck in old ways of doing business.” While making a speech at the Air Univeristy at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama he stated that trying to ask the Air Force to send over more reconnaissance aircraft and surveillance is ”like pulling teeth.”
When Dr. Phil started off his television career back in 1998 he became popular over night. People loved the straight forward way that he talked to people. It was not full of psychobabble that no one could understand and it seemed to help dozens of people that passed through his office. It seems that his popularity is running thin and his ‘magic’ is losing its touch.
Study shows that one in every five U.S. troops who have miraculously survived bombs and other life threatening dangers in Afghanistan and Iraq will suffer from post traumatic stress or major depression. Close to 300,000 soldiers are affected. Only half of these soldiers who suffer from mental health problems will seek out treatment.