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The Olive Oil Cure for Depression. 'Are you home? I am just going to drop by!' Man launches kamikaze attack on his mother's house. 'It was like seeing a mini-rerun of 9/11'Swiss woman only survived because she was in the basement at the time By Allan Hall Updated: 23:18 GMT, 18 July 2011 A man flew his plane into his estranged mother’s home after telephoning her to say he was ‘dropping by’. Konrad Schmidt, 47, flew the rented light aircraft past the building three times before crashing into it at high speed. There was a huge explosion and fireball but, incredibly, his mother Rosemary, 68, survived because she was in the basement at the time of the suicide attack on Saturday afternoon. Devastated: Rosemary Schmidt's house was destroyed by her son's suicide attack Neighbours helped rescue her from the burning shell of her house in the Swiss village of Oberhallau, 50 miles north of Zurich.

Mrs Schmidt, who is being treated for shock, told police that shortly before the crash her son telephoned her from the cockpit to say: ‘Are you home? Witnesses said there was ‘no possibility’ that it had been an accident. 'I woke up in the wrong life' - Features, Health & Families. I didn't know it yet, but I was suffering from a condition that wiped all memory of my current life as a 34-year-old mother and catapulted me back into the mind of my 15-year-old self.

Cautiously, I walked out of the room into a hallway, hoping to move into a state of recognition. I called out, but the voice bouncing off the walls didn't sound like me. Troubled and disorientated, I opened a door into a bathroom. While the room was unfamiliar, what shocked me to my core was the face staring back at me from the mirror. It was me, but an old version of me, a version fast-forwarded in time. I was 15, yet I had an adult's face – laughter lines, crow's feet, dark circles under my eyes, which were now welling up with tears. Panic kick-started my legs into gear and I sped out of the room and down the stairs, bursting into room after room I didn't recognise. Amid the confusion, a name and telephone number popped into my head. Interview by Sophie Ellis Transient global amnesia. Surprise discovery allows scientists to block Alzheimer's - Science, News. Researchers said they were "thrilled" at the unexpected discovery that two antibodies – extensively studied in relation to CJD – may also have an affect on Alzheimer's disease.

Almost 500,000 people a year in the UK and 20 million worldwide suffer from Alzheimer's. The finding, published in Nature Communications, represents a "significant step forward in the battle to develop drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease," they say. The lead came from an American study by researchers at Yale University in 2009, which showed prion proteins causing CJD also play a role in Alzheimer's disease. The finding triggered a race by scientists to discover whether antibodies being developed as a treatment for CJD might also work against Alzheimer's. Over time, through its interaction with prion proteins, amyloid stops the nerve cells from communicating, causing memory loss, the distinctive symptom of Alzheimer's. The two antibodies, ICSM 18 and 35, target the prion protein that is implicated as a cause of CJD. Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind? Cops find man sawing off his own leg in grisly muder-suicide in Massachusetts.

Patriotledger.com Officials remove bodies from the house where a murder-suicide occurred. Cops stumbled upon a horrific murder-suicide when they arrived at a Massachusetts home to find a man cutting his own leg with a power saw. Police in Plymouth, Mass. had been called to the house late Monday by concerned relatives. When they opened the door, they witnessed Keith Lincoln pick up a circular saw and cut into one of his legs causing "serious injury," said District attorney Timothy Cruz. As they continued inside, they found a dead woman and two dead dogs, police said. Lincoln, 49, was rushed to a hospital, where he died from blood loss. It was not immediately clear how the woman died, but police are investigating it as a murder-suicide. Authorities said they would have to rely on dental records to confirm the woman's identity because of the condition of her body, The Boston Globe reported.

Officials did not know how the dogs died. With News Wire Services. How to tell when someone's lying: Psychologist helps law enforcement agencies tell truth from deception. When someone is acting suspiciously at an airport, subway station or other public space, how can law enforcement officers determine whether he's up to no good? The ability to effectively detect deception is crucial to public safety, particularly in the wake of renewed threats against the U.S. following the killing of Osama bin Laden. UCLA professor of psychology R. Edward Geiselman has been studying these questions for years and has taught investigative interviewing techniques to detectives and intelligence officers from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the Marines, the Los Angeles police and sheriff's departments, and numerous international agencies. He and three former UCLA undergraduates -- Sandra Elmgren, Chris Green and Ida Rystad -- analyzed some 60 studies on detecting deception and have conducted original research on the subject.

Geiselman and his colleagues have identified several indicators that a person is being deceptive. Morgellons: A hidden epidemic or mass hysteria? It all started in August 2007, on a family holiday in New England. Paul had been watching Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix with his wife and two sons, and he had started to itch. His legs, his arms, his torso – it was everywhere. It must be fleas in the seat, he decided. But the 55-year-old IT executive from Birmingham has been itching ever since, and the mystery of what is wrong with him has only deepened. When Paul rubbed his fingertips over the pimples that dotted his skin, he felt spines. Weird, alien things, like splinters.

Morgellons was named in 2001 by an American called Mary Leitao, whose son complained of sores around his mouth and the sensation of "bugs". So it's new, frightening and profoundly odd. I meet Paul in a pub in a Birmingham suburb. "Is it an excrement? " Paul absent-mindedly digs his nails into a lesion just below the hem of his shorts. He has seen an array of experts – GPs, allergy doctors, infectious diseases clinicians and dermatologists. Accused killer: I performed surgery on myself. While on the lam for 2½ years, a Japanese man wanted for the murder of a British woman says he scissored off his lower lip, dug two moles out of his cheek with a box cutter and gave himself a nose job in an attempt to obscure his identity.The disclosures come in a book released Wednesday and written from jail by Tatsuya Ichihashi, who will stand trial later this year in the murder and rape of his English teacher, Lindsay Ann Hawker.Hawker, 22, was found dead in a sand-filled bathtub on the balcony of Ichihashi’s apartment in Chiba, east of Tokyo, in March 2007.Ichihashi, arrested in 2009 after a lengthy nationwide manhunt, admits to taking Hawker’s life in the book, “Until the Arrest.”

The title and first part of the article are a bit misleading. If you read far enough you see that he had the nose job done at a clinic and this got him reported to the police. Police eventually stopped him on Nov. 10, 2009 at the ferry terminal in Osaka.