17,000 Sober Hours

17,000 Sober HoursNot one of those hours was spent wasted drinking at a bar, being drunk, or hung over. I didn't make any trips to the emergency room. I didn't spend any nights in jail. I didn't waste one hour in court. I haven't wasted an entire day sleeping it off and feeling miserable because of drinking the night before.

Obama says he will get to the bottom of Veterans mess

U.S. President Obama makes a statement to the press after meeting with Veteran Affairs Secretary Shinseki at the White House in WashingtonBy Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to get to the bottom of allegations that veterans suffered long delays in getting healthcare and made clear Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki's job may be on the line, as he scrambled to contain a spreading controversy. "If these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it, period," an angry Obama said. The president appeared in the White House press briefing room moments after meeting Shinseki and Rob Nabors, the top Obama aide who is leading a review into allegations that long wait times for veterans seeking medical treatment could have led to some deaths. He said he expects to get the preliminary results of a review about the scope of the problem at the Veterans Administration next week, and that anyone found to have manipulated or falsified records at the VA must be held accountable.

Four killed, 20 hurt in California bus crash

A Los Angeles-bound passenger bus veered off a Southern California highway on Wednesday and flipped onto its side, killing four people on board and injuring 20 more, California Highway Patrol officials said. As the bus was traveling through the town of Blythe, it encountered pipes on the road that had scattered when a semi-tractor truck hit the center median only minutes earlier, California Highway Patrol spokesman Jason Girard said. The bus driver “saw some debris and veered to the right,” Girard said. The crash comes a little more than a month after a fiery collision between a passenger bus and a semi-tractor trailer in Orland, California, killed 10 people, including five Los Angeles-area high school students.

Brains of simple sea animals could help cure neural disorders

A comb jelly is pictured in this undated handout photo courtesy of Whitney laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of FloridaBy Barbara Liston ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida scientist studying simple sea animals called comb jellies has found the road map to a new form of brain development that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. "There is more than one way to make a brain," University of Florida researcher Leonid Moroz, who led an international research team, told Reuters. Moroz said his research, published on Wednesday in a report in the magazine Nature, also places comb jelly-like creatures on the first branch of the animal kingdom's "tree of life," replacing and bumping up sponge-like species from the bottom rung of evolutionary progression.

1 35 36 37 38 39 109