Russia Seizes Radioactive Metals From Tehran-Bound Passenger. (Updates with customs spokeswoman in second paragraph.) Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Russian customs officials at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport stopped an Iranian citizen who was trying to board a flight to Tehran with luggage containing a radioactive substance used for medical purposes. The young man was stopped at the airport in mid-November because his luggage was found to contain substances exceeding the natural background radiation level 20-fold, Ksenia Grebenkina, a spokeswoman for the airport’s customs office, said by telephone today. Further study found the substance was sodium-22 and a criminal case was opened, she said.
“At the time when he was checked, there was an elevated radiation level, but an analysis had to be conducted,” Grebenkina said. Russian leaders oppose new sanctions on the Persian Gulf state, which was seeking to develop atomic weapons until at least last year, according to the United Nations nuclear watchdog. ‘Raises Flags’ --Editors: Paul Abelsky, Andrew Atkinson. 2008 Major League Dreidel Tournament. Chanukah Videos on YouTube. Physicians who cash in on a woman’s desire to be beautiful. Linda Burke-Galloway, MD | Physician | October 24, 2011 Three young mothers under the age of 40 are dead because they wanted to be beautiful. Kellee Lee-Howard wanted a slimmer body.
Ditto Maria Shortall and Rohie Kah-Orukatan. Shortall worked as a housekeeper; Lee-Howard was the mother of six kids and Kah-Orukotan died at the same place where she received manicures. I knew this day was coming. Jayne O’Donnell recently published an expose about these doctors in USA Today entitled Lack of Training in Cosmetic Surgery Can Be Deadly. All three women died from complications of anesthesia. Linda Burke-Galloway is an obstetrician-gynecologist and author of The Smart Mother’s Guide to a Better Pregnancy. Submit a guest post and be heard on social media’s leading physician voice.
Tagged as: Malpractice, Patients, Surgery. Who Owns Your Identity on the Social Web? When I go to a bar, the bouncer usually stops me and asks for an ID. I show him my state-issued driver’s license and walk on by. This may be unusual, as I’m 36 (thanks, mom, for the good genes), but we’re all pretty accustomed to presenting our official identification when needed. We need IDs to vote in an election, and when we get pulled over for speeding. If identification is so commonplace in the physical world, why is it still such a hazy area on the Internet? In the old days of web publishing, almost every site required its users to register in order to access certain functionalities, like commenting.
However, each login was only useful to its corresponding website. Users had to remember a myriad of usernames and passwords just to read up on the morning news. With the rise of social networks and search platforms, a few large B2C companies evolved into large-scale consumer identity providers (a.k.a. For instance, we just launched our Mashable Awards 2011 microsite.