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Science in Society RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Earthquake Model Shakedown | A New Dawn | Tunneling Through with a Light Touch | By the Numbers | Mayan Astronomy | Osteoarthritis and Kartogenin | The Right Move | Dissecting DNA Repair | Find Your Partner | Reaction-Diffusion Patterning | Colorectal Cancer Signature | Exponential Growth Effects | Silence, Please...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Genetics: The Evolution of X and Y | Biomedicine: Mediating Metabolism | Hydrology: Groundwater Maps for Africa | Biochemistry: A (PEP)py Response | Education: All in Our Heads? | Applied Physics: Optical Origami | Climate Science: The Climate of the Apes... Findings - Infants' Flexible Heads Go Back Millions of Years | Late-Stage Grad Students Want Nonacademic Careers | The Fluid Mechanics of Walking With Coffee... [Editorial] Tackling Human Fungal Infections - Authors: Gordon D. Brown, David W. Denning, Stuart M. Levitz... [News of the Week] Around the World - In science news around the world this week, attorneys sought to prevent 9000-year-old bones from being handed over to American Indians; a senior U.S. health official disputed charges that the government tried to prearrange an advisory panel's recommendation to publish two studies that describe how to make the H5N1 avian influenza virus transmissible in mammals; the Philippines National Academy of Science and Technology blasted Greenpeace for trying to stop field trials of a genetically modified eggplant; a pilot project will share abandoned drugs with academic researchers so that they can look for new uses; a new study of the links between atmospheric chemistry and climate change kicked off; the British government has enlisted the help of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to figure out how to make research information more easily accessible; and a tobacco research project nominated for a prestigious Chinese science prize has been withdrawn from further consideration.... [News of the Week] Random Sample - Students from five schools in rural Montana won a $15,000 prize in the America's Home Education Energy Challenge. Deep inside a mountain cave in Dachstein, Austria, an international team of researchers showed off a new suit that simulates the challenges that await human visitors to Mars. And this week's numbers quantify signatures protesting the Discovery Channel's self-censorship of climate change issues, the percentage of current Earth-observing capacity that the United States will have by 2020, and the rate of premature births in the United States.... [News of the Week] Newsmakers - This week's Newsmakers are German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan, who is facing allegations that she plagiarized parts of her dissertation, and Franco-Algerian particle physicist Adlène Hicheur, who received a 5-year prison sentence on terrorism charges.... [News & Analysis] Space Science: Europe Picks Jupiter Probe; Runners-Up Vow to Press On - Last week, the European Space Agency announced that it had chosen a ?1 billion satellite to study three icy moons of Jupiter as its next major science mission, scheduled to be launched in 2022.Author: Edwin Cartlidge... [News & Analysis] Lab Exposure: Death of California Researcher Spurs Investigation - Local and federal health agencies are investigating the death of Richard Din, a 25-year-old research associate at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, California.Author: Greg Miller... [News & Analysis] Astronomy: Venus's Rare Sun Crossing May Aid Search for Exoplanets - Early next month, skywatchers will get their second?and final?chance this century to observe a rare mini-eclipse in which Venus crosses in front of the sun.Author: Ron Cowen... [News & Analysis] Condensed-Matter Physics: Reprise of First Experiment Casts Doubt on Supersolid Helium - A second pair of physicists has found further evidence that solid helium doesn't flow?ironically, by tweaking the experiment that started the controversy in the first place.Author: Adrian Cho... [News Focus] Paleobotany: Primeval Land Rises From the Ashes - A "vegetational Pompeii" buried in a coal deposit is shedding light on ecosystem structure and climate during the Permian period.Author: Mara Hvistendahl... [News Focus] Invasive Species: Researchers Set Course To Blockade Ballast Invaders - As U.S. regulations loom, scientists are working to test new devices that can remove potentially invasive organisms from ships' ballast water.Author: Daniel Strain... [News Focus] Invasive Species: A Foul Problem - From mussels to barnacles to algae, studies suggest that "hull-fouling" organisms could pose an invasion threat that is as great as if not greater than that from ballast creatures, researchers say.Author: Daniel Strain... [News Focus] Chagas Disease: With Novel Paint, Chemist Aims To Vanquish the Vinchuca - Spanish chemist Pilar Mateo invented a clever way to package insect-control agents in paint; after a decade of trying, she's persuaded Bolivia to give it a test.Author: Jean Friedman-Rudovsky... [Letter] Conservation Concerns in the Deep - Authors: Aaron C. Hartmann, Lisa A. Levin... [Letter] Presumed Guilt in the Anthrax Case - Author: Jeanne Guillemin... [Letter] Presumed Guilt in the Anthrax Case?Response - Author: David A. Relman... [Book Review] Neuroscience: Recalling Space and Time - In a narrative format that combines experimental results, theory, and personal experience, Hasselmo discusses his quantitative model of the brain mechanisms for encoding and remembering our experiences.Author: Laura Lee Colgin... [Book Review] Energy: The Wind at Our Backs - Building on his interviews with people involved in the development of wind energy, Warburg chronicles the industry's growth and challenges.Author: Dan Reicher... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 04 May 2012.... [Policy Forum] Research Priorities: ELSI 2.0 for Genomics and Society - We need an international infrastructure for the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic research.Authors: Jane Kaye, Eric M. Meslin, Bartha M. Knoppers, Eric T. Juengst, Mylène Deschênes, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Donald Chalmers, Jantina De Vries, Kelly Edwards, Nils Hoppe, Alastair Kent, Clement Adebamowo, Patricia Marshall, Kazuto Kato... [Perspective] Cell Biology: FGF21 Takes a Fat Bite - A growth factor's varied effects on adipose tissue and thermogenesis may be attributable to its local and systemic actions.Authors: Carles Cantó, Johan Auwerx... [Perspective] Geophysics: Understanding Earthquakes - Sophisticated numerical models can reproduce a wide range of seismic activity at the Parkfield segment of the San Andreas Fault.Author: Paul Segall... [Perspective] Structural Biology: PARP-1 Activation?Bringing the Pieces Together - A model structure sheds light on how the PARP-1 protein is activated in DNA repair.Authors: Jean-Philippe Gagné, Michèle Rouleau, Guy G. Poirier... [Perspective] Physics: Intertwining Electron Tunneling with Light - The tunneling of electrons through barriers can be controlled when photons are coupled to excited states of electrons trapped in quantum wells.Author: Marzena H. Szyma?ska... [Perspective] Molecular Biology: RNA Plays Meiotic Matchmaker - RNA plays a role in homologous chromosome pairing during meiosis.Author: Abby F. Dernburg... [Perspective] Climate Change: The Ice Age Carbon Puzzle - A carbon isotope record helps to explain why carbon dioxide concentrations change during ice age cycles.Author: Edward Brook... [Report] Dawn at Vesta: Testing the Protoplanetary Paradigm - Spacecraft data provide a detailed characterization of the second most massive asteroid in the solar system.Authors: C. T. Russell, C. A. Raymond, A. Coradini, H. Y. McSween, M. T. Zuber, A. Nathues, M. C. De Sanctis, R. Jaumann, A. S. Konopliv, F. Preusker, S. W. Asmar, R. S. Park, R. Gaskell, H. U. Keller, S. Mottola, T. Roatsch, J. E. C. Scully, D. E. Smith, P. Tricarico, M. J. Toplis, U. R. Christensen, W. C. Feldman, D. J. Lawrence, T. J. McCoy, T. H. Prettyman, R. C. Reedy, M. E. Sykes, T. N. Titus... [Report] Vesta?s Shape and Morphology - Spacecraft data provide a detailed characterization of the second most massive asteroid in the solar system.Authors: R. Jaumann, D. A. Williams, D. L. Buczkowski, R. A. Yingst, F. Preusker, H. Hiesinger, N. Schmedemann, T. Kneissl, J. B. Vincent, D. T. Blewett, B. J. Buratti, U. Carsenty, B. W. Denevi, M. C. De Sanctis, W. B. Garry, H. U. Keller, E. Kersten, K. Krohn, J.-Y. Li, S. Marchi, K. D. Matz, T. B. McCord, H. Y. McSween, S. C. Mest, D. W. Mittlefehldt, S. Mottola, A. Nathues, G. Neukum, D. P. O?Brien, C. M. Pieters, T. H. Prettyman, C. A. Raymond, T. Roatsch, C. T. Russell, P. Schenk, B. E. Schmidt, F. Scholten, K. Stephan, M. V. Sykes, P. Tricarico, R. Wagner, M. T. Zuber, H. Sierks... [Report] The Violent Collisional History of Asteroid 4 Vesta - Spacecraft data provide a detailed characterization of the second most massive asteroid in the solar system.Authors: S. Marchi, H. Y. McSween, D. P. O?Brien, P. Schenk, M. C. De Sanctis, R. Gaskell, R. Jaumann, S. Mottola, F. Preusker, C. A. Raymond, T. Roatsch, C. T. Russell... [Report] The Geologically Recent Giant Impact Basins at Vesta?s South Pole - Spacecraft data provide a detailed characterization of the second most massive asteroid in the solar system.Authors: Paul Schenk, David P. O?Brien, Simone Marchi, Robert Gaskell, Frank Preusker, Thomas Roatsch, Ralf Jaumann, Debra Buczkowski, Thomas McCord, Harry Y. McSween, David Williams, Aileen Yingst, Carol Raymond, Chris Russell... [Report] Spectroscopic Characterization of Mineralogy and Its Diversity Across Vesta - Spacecraft data provide a detailed characterization of the second most massive asteroid in the solar system.Authors: M. C. De Sanctis, E. Ammannito, M. T. Capria, F. Tosi, F. Capaccioni, F. Zambon, F. Carraro, S. Fonte, A. Frigeri, R. Jaumann, G. Magni, S. Marchi, T. B. McCord, L. A. McFadden, H. Y. McSween, D. W. Mittlefehldt, A. Nathues, E. Palomba, C. M. Pieters, C. A. Raymond, C. T. Russell, M. J. Toplis, D. Turrini... [Report] Color and Albedo Heterogeneity of Vesta from Dawn - Spacecraft data provide a detailed characterization of the second most massive asteroid in the solar system.Authors: Vishnu Reddy, Andreas Nathues, Lucille Le Corre, Holger Sierks, Jian-Yang Li, Robert Gaskell, Timothy McCoy, Andrew W. Beck, Stefan E. Schröder, Carle M. Pieters, Kris J. Becker, Bonnie J. Buratti, Brett Denevi, David T. Blewett, Ulrich Christensen, Michael J. Gaffey, Pablo Gutierrez-Marques, Michael Hicks, Horst Uwe Keller, Thorsten Maue, Stefano Mottola, Lucy A. McFadden, Harry Y. McSween, David Mittlefehldt, David P. O?Brien, Carol Raymond, Christopher Russell... [Report] Coupling Quantum Tunneling with Cavity Photons - Optical coupling is used to control the tunneling of electrons between a pair of quantum wells.Authors: Peter Cristofolini, Gabriel Christmann, Simeon I. Tsintzos, George Deligeorgis, George Konstantinidis, Zacharias Hatzopoulos, Pavlos G. Savvidis, Jeremy J. Baumberg... [Report] Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine: Toward Predictive Modeling of the Seismic Cycle - Computational models predict the long-term recurrence of earthquakes along a segment of the San Andreas Fault.Authors: Sylvain Barbot, Nadia Lapusta, Jean-Philippe Avouac... [Report] Carbon Isotope Constraints on the Deglacial CO2 Rise from Ice Cores - The stable isotopic composition of the carbon in carbon dioxide over the last 24,000 years illuminates past carbon cycle behavior.Authors: Jochen Schmitt, Robert Schneider, Joachim Elsig, Daiana Leuenberger, Anna Lourantou, Jérôme Chappellaz, Peter Köhler, Fortunat Joos, Thomas F. Stocker, Markus Leuenberger, Hubertus Fischer... [Report] Ancient Maya Astronomical Tables from Xultun, Guatemala - Wall paintings in a Mayan temple dating to the 9th century C.E. show calculations of Moon and, perhaps, planetary motion.Authors: William A. Saturno, David Stuart, Anthony F. Aveni, Franco Rossi... [Report] A Stem Cell?Based Approach to Cartilage Repair - A chemical screen using mesenchymal stem cells identifies a small molecule, kartogenin, that can promote chondrogenesis.Authors: Kristen Johnson, Shoutian Zhu, Matthew S. Tremblay, Joshua N. Payette, Jianing Wang, Laure C. Bouchez, Shelly Meeusen, Alana Althage, Charles Y. Cho, Xu Wu, Peter G. Schultz... [Report] Differential Diffusivity of Nodal and Lefty Underlies a Reaction-Diffusion Patterning System - The inhibitor Lefty diffuses more widely than the activator Nodal.Authors: Patrick Müller, Katherine W. Rogers, Ben M. Jordan, Joon S. Lee, Drew Robson, Sharad Ramanathan, Alexander F. Schier... [Report] Mechanical Control of Morphogenesis by Fat/Dachsous/Four-Jointed Planar Cell Polarity Pathway - Polarized proto-cadherin and myosin induce an anisotropic tension at cell junctions and thereby shape epithelial tissue.Authors: Floris Bosveld, Isabelle Bonnet, Boris Guirao, Sham Tlili, Zhimin Wang, Ambre Petitalot, Raphaël Marchand, Pierre-Luc Bardet, Philippe Marcq, François Graner, Yohanns Bellaïche... [Report] Structural Basis for DNA Damage?Dependent Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation by Human PARP-1 - An enzyme that binds to damaged DNA undergoes a structural reorganization that enhances its catalytic activity.Authors: Marie-France Langelier, Jamie L. Planck, Swati Roy, John M. Pascal... [Report] Meiosis-Specific Noncoding RNA Mediates Robust Pairing of Homologous Chromosomes in Meiosis - An RNA transcript helps to bring together homologous chromosomes during cell division.Authors: Da-Qiao Ding, Kasumi Okamasa, Miho Yamane, Chihiro Tsutsumi, Tokuko Haraguchi, Masayuki Yamamoto, Yasushi Hiraoka... [Report] Epigenomic Enhancer Profiling Defines a Signature of Colon Cancer - Methylation tags at long-distance gene regulatory elements provide a signature specific to cancer cells.Authors: Batool Akhtar-Zaidi, Richard Cowper-Sal·lari, Olivia Corradin, Alina Saiakhova, Cynthia F. Bartels, Dheepa Balasubramanian, Lois Myeroff, James Lutterbaugh, Awad Jarrar, Matthew F. Kalady, Joseph Willis, Jason H. Moore, Paul J. Tesar, Thomas Laframboise, Sanford Markowitz, Mathieu Lupien, Peter C. Scacheri... [Report] Recent Explosive Human Population Growth Has Resulted in an Excess of Rare Genetic Variants - Genetic models that incorporate recent human population growth can better identify mutations in large samples.Authors: Alon Keinan, Andrew G. Clark... [Report] Transcription-Independent Function of Polycomb Group Protein PSC in Cell Cycle Control - A Polycomb group protein regulates the cell cycle by promoting cyclin B ubiquitylation and degradation.Authors: Adone Mohd-Sarip, Anna Lagarou, Cecile M. Doyen, Jan A. van der Knaap, Ülkü Aslan, Karel Bezstarosti, Yasmin Yassin, Hugh W. Brock, Jeroen A. A. Demmers, C. Peter Verrijzer... [Business Office Feature] Business Office Feature: LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES: Spot-On Protein Microarrays: An Old Proteomics Tool - Author: Jeffrey M. Perkel... New Products - A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.... [Podcast] Science Podcast - The show includes Mayan astronomical tables from the 9th century, cosmic insights from Vesta, a fossilized forest in China, and more.... Comcast Skype on Xfinity $9.95/month - Lame or Cool? - Comcast today unveiled their Skype video calling service, Skype on Xfinity which directly integrates into your HDTV. The beauty of the system is you can make and receive Skype video and audio calls from your TV. Users can send instant messages via Skype, while watching TV at the same time.The only problem is Skype on Xfinity costs $9.95 a month extra. We saw what happened to the $599 Cisco Umi, which Rich Tehrani and I rightly predicted would fai... Plixer Scrutinizer Network Traffic Analyzer Preview - I've been testing Plixer Scrutinizer, a network traffic analyzer product for several weeks now. It's a great product that supports NetFlow used by popular routers and switches, including the popular Cisco ASA series of firewall/security routers, Checkpoint, Adtran, Riverbed, and more. It also supports Juniper Jflow and Juniper IPFIX, SonicWALL NetFlow and SonicWALL IPFIX and Citrix AppFlow. It also supports sFlow.Having insights into your network... Netflix Temporarily Offline? On Movie Night? Ahhhh! - Oh joy - was checking my Netflix DVD queue to see if any interesting movies to stream as well as which ones arrived in the mail and I got this lovely error message:
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Our shipping centers are continuing to send and receive DVDs, so your movies will be processed as usual... Telefonica Launches Skype Competitor Tu Me - Telefónica today launched a new mobile app called Tu Me, which essentially takes the approach if you can't beat Skype, join em'. Tu Me features texts, voice calls, messages, and location and photo sharing - all free of charge, with the caveat that it uses your data plan more, so it isn't technically "free" unless you are on an unlimited data plan or you use free Wi-Fi hotspots most of the time.The app is currently only available on iOS ho... Viber Announces BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta - Viber today announced the availability of Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta.Both Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Viber for Windows Phone 7 Beta initially offer Viber Messaging, allowing users to exchange text and high-quality photo messages and share locations with other Viber users. The beta does not yet include their HD VoIP calling. Some may call this a bit premature beta since Viber is a known as a mobile VoIP app not a st... Nokia City Lens Augmented Reality Launches on Lumia Phones - Nokia today released its City Lens app for Windows Phone, an app that is an augmented reality browser. Users open the app, and depending on the phone's angle (landscape [facing away from you], 45 degrees, or parallel to ground) it automatically changes modes - augmented reality, list of locations, and map mode respectively.The coolest mode is obviously augmented reality where you hold the phone up and scan the horizon with the camera and it... Ooma Telo Review - Back in 2007 I wrote an article "Ooma goes Booma" because Ooma's claim-to-fame feature was that it worked by 'sharing' your PSTN analog phone line with other Ooma users. I was right that this PSTN sharing feature and business model wouldn't work, so certainly that did go "Booma". However, 5 years later after dropping the PSTN sharing and moving to a VoIP-centric business model Ooma has redeemed themselves with some really cool features. Ooma is a... Skype Aware of IP Security Flaw Back in 2010 - Some more interesting information has come to light regarding the IP revealing security flaw in Skype. Researchers from Inria, a research institute in France, and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University discovered the flaw. Stevens Le Blond, one of the team's researchers who discovered the exploit told the Wall Street Journal that the team first discovered the flaw in November 2010. They were actually able to track the city-level locat... Skype Responds to IP Address Privacy Vulnerability - Yesterday it was reported that a simple script could expose any Skype user's IP address. A Microsoft representative saw my article and gave me this official response, which they also provided to other media outlets:
“We are investigating reports of a new tool that captures a Skype user’s last known IP address. This is an ongoing, industry-wide issue f... Does HTML5 Rock Your Mobile World? - We've heard the hype surrounding HTML5, but does it live up to its promise? If TMC's recently completed DevCon5 show in Santa Clara, California is any indication, HTML5 will soon rock your mobile world!At DevCon5, an international community of HTML5 developers and designers gathered to focus on Mobile Apps, Consistent UI Development, and more. Gaming was a huge draw featuring a large, enthusiastic group.With breakout sessions led by experts from ... New Skype for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch Sports Ability to Move Video Preview - Some new features in the latest release of Skype for Apple iOS, including the ability to move your own video preview, app auto-restart if it crashes, improved accessibility, improved stability, some UI improvements and more. See full release notes in screenshot.
In related news, today gHacks revealed that Skype reveals remote and local IP Address of all online Skype users using a script. Yikes! Privacy zealots have at em'!
Tags: apple, ipa... Ooma Telo installed - Ooo Look, Shiny Bright Blue LEDs! - I received the latest version of the Ooma Telo along with the Wi-Fi dongle for a product review. I'll have to ask Ooma for the Bluetooth dongle to test since that seems like a cool mobile integration feature. Ooma competes with magicJack and netTALK offering low-cost phone service leveraging VoIP.
I hooked up the Ooma Telo in front of my Cisco Wi-Fi router and in addition to having an eerily similar size, shape, and color they both sport bright b... Skype@Home Telephone Products Coming? - Today, Rich Tehrani wrote about Microsoft "working on Skype Everywhere Initiative" based on another Microsoft-careers.com job listing. Just a few days ago I wrote about a Microsoft job listing was pointing toward Microsoft and Skype building a HTML5 Web version of Skype.Rich believes there are some good syner... RingCentral Cloud Touch Platform - Configure Phone System from iPad, iPhone, or Android - Imagine being able to record prompts, configure IVR/auto-attendant, and remove a disgruntled employee's access to your phone system all while sitting on a beach - simply using your tablet or mobile device. That's exactly what RingCentral's Cloud Touch Platform does and they proudly claim this touch-enabled phone system configuration platform "Reimagines Business Phone Systems". They may just be right.Founded in 2003, RingCentral (>1000 employe... Google's Chrome Team Reveals WebRTC Roadmap - Google's Chrome team stated in their recent WebRTC roadmap that the main components of WebRTC are now stable and they will be releasing it to the 200M+ Chrome users later this year. However, they want developers to get a sneak preview of what will be in the first WebRTC release. I should mention that two days ago I discussed how Skype and Microsoft were working on a HTML5 web-version of Skype. I felt that HTML5 would be inadequate and any Skype w... Police: Boy, 13, Tortured And Abused In Front Of Bible Study Group - A California pastor's assault on a 13-year-old boy took place during a Bible study session as a circle of men watched, newly released court records say. The pastor has other legal problems as well.... Religion News Briefing: Widow of first televangelist dies - In today's issue: The widow of Rex Humbard, the world's first televangelist, dies. An Agape Ministries cult member gets his ammunition back. A court orders gated communities in Puerto Rico to provide access to Jehovah's Witnesses. Plus a short, but though-provoking documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church -- a hate group that masquerades as a Christian church.... Faith-healing parents acquitted of murder charge - Gregory and Garnet JaLea Swezey have been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of their 17-year-old son. They had been accused of relying on faith healing instead of getting their son proper medical attention... Court affirms rejection of insanity defense in ?exorcism? murder - The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a jury's rejection of an insanity defense in the case of a woman who suffocated her 3-year-old son by forcing him to drink oil and vinegar because he was possessed by a demon. In June 2011 Latisha Lawson was sentenced to 62 years in prison.... Church sues ex-members for defamation over blog criticizing church?s practices - Pastor Charles O'Neal of Beaverton Grace Bible Church in Oregon is trying to silence critics by filing lawsuits against them -- even though the Bible teaches that Christians should not file lawsuits against other Christians. The family being sued says it was shunned after leaving the church a few years ago.... ?Holy Ghost? cult leader sentenced to six years to life in rape of daughter - A religious cult leader has been sentenced to six years to life for raping his daughter and allowing his friend to rape her as well. Terrill Dalton, who called himself the 'Holy Ghost,' promised the girl "great blessings" if she had sex with him.... ?This was not a faith healing death,? lawyer tells jury - Gregory and Garnet Swezey of Carlton, Washington are on trial on charges of second-degree murder in the death of their 17-year-old son. Their lawyer: if you ask the Swezeys what they would have done if they knew it was a ruptured appendix, and that their son was dying, ?They both say, they don?t know."... Conviction upheld in FLDS sexual assault case - In his appeal, Abram Harker Jeffs claimed that the state had insufficient evidence to prove that a sexual relationship had occurred between him and his wife, whom he married when she was 14 years old. He was one of 12 men indicted after a 2008 law enforcement raid on the sect's Texas-based ranch.... Faith Healing trial begins for Church of the First Born members - The second-degree murder trial of a faith healing couple whose teenage son died of a burst appendix is underway. 17-year-old Zachary Swezey died of a burst appendix while his parents and other members of the Church of the First Born prayed for his recovery, and failed to call a doctor or ambulance.... Colonia Dignidad cult victims seek escape from nightmare past - A little over two years ago former Nazi Paul Schaefer, who founded a secretive German cult in Southern Chile in the 1960s and was later convicted of sexually abusing children, died of heart failure in a prison hospital. But today, ten years after Chilean police raided Colonia Dignidad's properties, many of his victims are still seeking closure from the human rights abuses the... Copyright © 2012, Residual Income Home Business Opportunity. All Rights Reserved. |
