News Bits!
- The BBC mistakenly interviewed a cab driver instead of the computer expert they intended. Check out the video.
- South Texas is hot, but when you perspire tar, its time to get checked out. Morgellons Disease has many doctors and scientists stumped.
- In England, a court ruled that patients can get reimbursed for the cost of their surgery if they have to travel to a foreign country to get it done in a timely manner.
- Iran has rejected proposals of compromise regarding their nuclear development.
- MySpace.com isn't all bad. Soon you'll be able to buy episodes of 24 on the site.
- Richard Hatch, the first winner of Survivor, was incarcerated for failing to pay taxes on those winnings from the show. 51
daysmonths in the slammer; we think he'll make it. - Billionaire-extraordinaire Michael Dell and his wife Susan donated $50 million to UT for the Dell Pediatric Research Institute.
- Paul McCartney and wife Heather Mills are splitsville.
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