Archive for November, 2007

Evel Knievel Dies

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. via WJXX

Man Accused of Forcing Miscarriage

Friday, November 30th, 2007

"These allegations are devious, diabolical and disturbing"

Darshana Patel told authorities she was suspicious as she watched her boyfriend stir a smoothie at an ice cream store. When he offered it to her, she noticed powder on the cup's rim, and the pregnant woman feigned illness and didn't drink it.

According to a criminal complaint, the woman says she sent the powder to a laboratory and it turned out to be mifepristone, the abortion pill also known as RU-486.

The test results came too late: She had already suffered two miscarriages in less than a year. Read more

Landmark Heart Study Expands to Genetics

Friday, November 30th, 2007

"I'm very, very lucky to be part of this study, which is known all over the world"

Doctors didn't know cigarettes were bad and thought high blood pressure could sometimes be good when homemaker Helen Vaughn was lured by a 1948 newspaper ad to join one of history's most important medical studies.

At the time, Vaughn's main attraction to the Framingham Heart Study was its free medical exams. Sixty years later, Vaughn is nearing 91 and the landmark study has moved well past exposing the health risks of cigarettes and high blood pressure to ambitious new work to discover the genetic factors behind health and disease. Read more

Clinton Urges Sweeping Action on AIDS

Friday, November 30th, 2007

"I've been raised to understand the power and purpose of prayer"

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton used an appearance at one of the nation's largest evangelical churches Thursday to sketch a broad agenda to take on disease around the globe, calling it 'the right thing to do.'

The centerpiece of a speech laced with Biblical references and reflections on her own faith was a call to spend billions of dollars to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases at home and abroad. She said she would try to stamp out malaria deaths in Africa within eight years.

Money and government alone cannot solve the problems, she said. AIDS 'is a problem of our common humanity, and we are called to respond with love, with mercy and with urgency,' she said. Read more

Dedication And Focus Are Necessary To Achieve Successful Goals In Your Life!

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Successful GoalsBecoming successful in achieving your goals is not an easy task.

Dedication and focus are necessary to achieve goals in your life.

With out proper focus and dedication on that goal you cannot be able to achieve it.

Here are some advices which will be helpful for you to attain success in achieving your goals:

  • When you are working towards the goal you have to be proactive in that. Take proper preventive measure to avoid the problems which will get obtained while performing the goals. Sometimes you will find yourself depressed and overwhelmed about your progress. This situation will obtain to you, if you experience lots of problems in achieving your goal. [Problems in Goal Setting]
  • Remember one thing that is; don’t feel much on the mistakes which you will be making on the road of success. Nobody in the world will do their work with out mistakes. Keep this thing in mind and work hard to achieve your goal even though if you make some mistakes in it.
  • Before beginning the efforts to achieve the goal, have clear illustration regarding which method to be followed to beat it. Don’t obtain the feeling that you are good enough in your effort because this feeling will make you to stop there only. Even though you are good enough strive hard for greatness and don’t stop working hard until you reach your goal.
  • Don’t excuse yourself while making efforts to achieve the goal. In the same way don’t perform excruciatingly hard work to achieve the goal.  Try to put up the necessary hard work which is required to achieve the goal.
  • You have to manage the time more wisely when you are in track to reach your goal. Dedication is also as much important as hard work in making your goal successful. Certainly you can reach the goal if you dedication and time management with in you.
  • Set some milestones that can be achieved at various points in your plan. Reward yourself when you reach those milestones. This method will encourage you to reach the goal in the fixed time.
  • Make sure that you are using your days in the best way by observing each day individually. Don’t compromise in performing the things which are planned in particular days.

Maintain all these things perfectly to achieve the goal which was targeted by you.


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