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BBC NEWS Chinese hospitals used fake drips: Chinese investigators say nearly 60 hospitals and pharmacies in north-eastern China have been using fake blood protein in patients' drips. Albumin, or plasma protein, is used to treat patients suffering from shock and burns and during open-heart surgery. Experts suggest that the fake product could be life-threatening for those already in a serious condition. The scandal is the latest to expose weaknesses in China's regulation of food and drug standards. Big profit: The food and drug administration in the north-eastern state of Jilin found 18 hospitals and more than 30 pharmacies sold or...

Jet's Toilet Waste Crushes Woman's Car New Media Producer: Kerry Corum It came from the friendly skies, but caused quite a bit of damage. Frozen waste from a jet's toilet smashed onto a woman's car last week, crushing part of the roof and shattering the windshield. A Massachusetts woman says no one is willing to help her pay for the repairs, or take responsibility. Nina Gambone says federal aviation officials determined the chunk of frozen debris came from a jet's lavatory. But, a spokesman says they can't do anything unless it can identify the airline responsible. Gambone says she called...

Senator and Mrs. John Kerry are big fans of Rachel Carson, whose disingenuous book Silent Spring launched the radical anti-pesticide movement that Terersa Heinz Kerry bankrolls rather handsomely through her family philanthropies. THK applauds "important gains" like the "banning of DDT and other harmful pesticides" as vital to ending the "devastating triple whammy" that women get from "the chemical soup" they encounter every day from birth control pills, makeup and sunblock, and "daily games of golf" on courses that are "perfectly manicured, thanks to estrogenic pesticides." "Drift is something we cannot afford when it comes to human rights," she insists....