10 Most Horrific Russian Torture Devices

Interesting article on Russian torture devices.  The handsaw torture technique seems especially barbaric…

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Torture devices don’t come more downright extreme than the Hand Saw, and the diagram leaves little to the imagination. The victim was hung upside down to supply the brain with oxygen and slow down the blood loss so that they didn’t lose consciousness and died a suitably slow and excruciating death.

10 Most Horrific Russian Torture Devices.

Women’s Health: “8 signs women over 40 shouldn’t ignore”

By Ginny Graves
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TODAY
updated 11:54 a.m. ET, Fri., March. 13, 2009

Most minor discomfort is a sign of … not much. Maybe you had a heavy meal, a stressful day, a hard workout — and by the next day you feel fine again. But a handful of trivial-sounding symptoms can sometimes be red flags for something more serious. Since it’s often hard to distinguish between the no big deal and the dire, most of us err on the side of ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away. “Women in midlife are often juggling 20 things at once, so they tend to neglect their own health,” says Nieca Goldberg, MD, author of “Dr. Nieca Goldberg’s Complete Guide to Women’s Health.”

“That’s why it’s especially important for them to be informed about what really needs medical attention.” Here, a guide to eight important symptoms: when you should see a doctor and when you can just keep cruising.

Live from New York, it’s “Sarah Palin”!

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gets the SNL treatment.

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Natural Hallucinogen

http://www.skytopia.com

Try this out, and experience natural hallucination. Stare at the center, keep your eyes still & look away when instructed. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of those lame “something pops up & scares you” videos.

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Inspecting YouTube’s ban on “drug abuse” videos

A lot of attention was paid this week to several categories of controversial YouTube videos. The New York Times reported on the trend of videos depicting users smoking Salvia divinorum, a highly potent natural hallucinogen. Web Scout took a look at the thriving online pot video culture, much of which lives on YouTube. And yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieb

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Thank God for Barbara Walters?

The veteran journalist and her co-hosts on The View vet the GOP ticket far more effectively than any mainstream journalist in recent memory–and that’s kind of embarrassing.

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Hurdles Keep Street Drugs Out of Medicine Chest

From cannabis to ecstasy, scientists fight to study illicit drugs’ medical properties. The DEA, FDA, other governmental bureaucracies, and other barriers also remain in the way of conducting medical research on these illegal drugs.

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Woman Crawled 8 Miles in Tunnels Collapses From Poison Gas

A woman found dead in a sewage tank may have become lost in a maze of tunnels before being overcome by poison gas.

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Wax Hitler Returns to German Museum After Being Beheaded

Madame Tussaud’s says it has returned a wax figure of Adolf Hitler to its newly opened Berlin branch weeks after the statue was beheaded by a 41-year-old German.

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MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless

blame it on Tom

An estimated 150 million people continued to be without social lives as a massive system failure at MySpace.com entered its third day. “I’ve just been wandering in and out of my cubicle in a daze, not knowing what to say and who to talk to,”

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Dutch ‘horror dentists’ go on trial

Just thinking about it is enough to rattle your teeth. The Dutch media are enthralled by the trials of two men dubbed the “horror dentists.” They were caught separately practicing without licenses – and, according to the allegations, without much skill, either.

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Are You Ready To Rock?

AC/DC fans everywhere are more excited than a cheerleader on speed right now as the band has just revealed the opening leg of the Black Ice World Tour.

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