A British hospital is set to give the go-ahead for four British patients to undergo face transplants in what will prove a major landmark in surgery. The ethical committee of the Royal Free Hospital in north London is expected to announce on Wednesday that it will approve the first operations for a full-face transplant. The recipients have not yet been selected but several potential candidates have already been seen by doctors. The move marks the final hurdle for the team of plastic surgeons and specialists at the hospital who have spent the past 12 years investigating the possibility of face transplants. They have carried out studies that they say show a transplant is not only physically possible but would have huge psychological benefits for people left disfigured by accidents or burns. Simon Weston, a veteran who suffered terrible burns in the Falklands war, will accompany a team of doctors to the committee meeting this week to explain why he feels the medical community must allow face transplants in Britain. He was initially against the move but has looked at their work and come down in favour of it. The world’s first face transplant took place last […]
WASHINGTON — Americans paying $3 per gallon at the pump have it relatively cheap when compared with prices globally, say oil and gas company executives who defend their record profits as essential to maintaining supplies. In parts of Europe and elsewhere in the West, gasoline prices are more like $5 per gallon to $7 per gallon, said the chairman of ConocoPhillips (COP) Co., James J. Mulva. ‘This is a global business, and it’s not only that we need to add to supply, but we need to reduce demand,’ Mulva said. ‘In the United States alone, we have about 2 percent of world oil reserves, 5 percent of the population and yet we use about 25 percent of the world’s consumption of oil.’ Mulva and two other executives who appeared on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ said they are optimistic about keeping a lid on domestic prices, unless their fears come true about the potential for damage to U.S. energy production from the hurricane season that began June 1. ‘I do understand why consumers are concerned. The thing that concerns all of us, I think, is that we’re heading into hurricane season again,’ said the chairman of Chevron […]
This SR edition is focused on what I and many others feel is the central geopolitical fulcrum point of the age.
Every seat in the auditorium at the University of Houston was taken, and the crowd was standing in the back and spilling out into the lobby, straining to hear. The two men onstage began to speak to the crowd in Arabic, with such flawless accents and rarefied Koranic grammar that some audience members gaped when they heard the Arabic equivalent of the king’s English coming from the mouths of two Americans. Sheik Hamza Yusuf, in a groomed goatee and sports jacket, looked more like a hip white college professor than a Middle Eastern sheik. Imam Zaid Shakir, a lanky African-American in a long brown tunic, looked as if he would fit in just fine on the streets of Damascus. Both men are converts to Islam who spent years in the Middle East and North Africa being mentored by formidable Muslim scholars. They have since become leading intellectual lights for a new generation of American Muslims looking for homegrown leaders who can help them learn how to live their faith without succumbing to American materialism or Islamic extremism. ‘This is the wealthiest Muslim community on earth,’ Mr. Shakir told the crowd, quickly adding that ‘the wealth here has […]
Abu Mazen Calls to Stop the Firing of Missiles Into Israel In his speech on ‘Nakba Day’ on May 15, 2006, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) called to stop the firing of missiles into Israel. Other senior Palestinian officials made similar statements, and condemned suicide attacks because they harm the Palestinian cause. The following are excerpts: Abu Mazen: The Tel Aviv Bus Station Attack was ‘One of the Base Attacks That Harm the Palestinian People’ In his May 15, 2006 speech commemorating the nakba, Abu Mazen said: ‘The futile firing of missiles needs to be stopped, [as they] mostly just give Israel a pretext to escalate its aggression against our citizens in the Gaza Strip.’ [1] The bombing of the old central bus station in Tel Aviv evoked a particularly harsh condemnation on the part of Abu Mazen: ‘We released an official PA announcement in which we condemned [the attack] in the strongest possible terms, and we considered it to be one of the base attacks that harms the Palestinian people¦ The PA, the government, and the security services need to prevent such attacks.’ [2] ‘Traditional Warfare Against Israel is a Severe Policy […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
