A rare tornado hit tiny Aumsville, Oregon at lunchtime on Tuesday, damaging or destroying half a dozen buildings, but initial reports say there were no injuries from the fluke twister.
The city Website for Aumsville, which is near Salem, the state capital, puts the population at 3,050 as of 2003.
Police say they’re trying to find a helmet-wearing gunman who robbed one of Las Vegas’ most recognizable casinos of $1.5 million in casino chips Tuesday morning — and may also have robbed a different casino last week.
With a helmet and visor hiding his face, the man rode to Bellagio casino on a motorcycle, walked inside and pulled a gun at a craps table where several people were gambling at about 3:50 a.m., said Lt. Clint Nichols of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
The gunman told everyone not to move, and then took the casino’s supply of chips “that were … [in] the box they keep on the craps table,” Nichols said.
A man with HIV living in Germany may have been cured of his infection by a bone marrow transplant, researchers claim.
In 2007, the man received a bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia. The transplant — which treats leukemia by essentially rebooting the body’s immune system and creating new white blood cells —also had the benefit of wiping out the HIV infection. Now, three and a half years later, the patient remains HIV-free, which suggests he is cured of the disease, the researchers said.
It looks like the layoff rumors were true, as many as 700 Yahoo employees are getting the axe for Christmas.
Employees could be notified of the job cuts as early as Tuesday, according to a person familiar with Yahoo’s plans. The person asked for anonymity because Yahoo hadn’t made a formal announcement. The planned cutbacks represent about 5 percent of Yahoo’s work force of 14,100 employees. It will mark Yahoo’s fourth mass layoff in the past three years.
You spend two months driving the street in front of your house, seven months having sex. You sleep for thirty years without opening your eyes. For five months straight you flip through magazines while sitting on a toilet.
You take all your pain at once, all twenty-seven intense hours of it. Bones break, cars crash, skin is cut, babies are born. Once you make it through, it’s agony-free for the rest of your afterlife.
But that doesn’t mean it’s always pleasant. You spend six days clipping your nails. Fifteen months looking for lost items. Eighteen months waiting in line. Two years of boredom: staring out a bus window, sitting in an airport terminal. One year reading books. Your eyes hurt, and you itch, because you can’t take a shower until it’s your time to take your marathon two-hundred-day shower.
Study subjects who imitated a foreign accent understood the speaker better than those who merely listened.
