Ocular Syphilis with $5M Contamination case and Dunking Donuts Will Stop Titanium Dioxide



 Ireland is rushing to pass legislation to re-criminalize Ecstasy, crystal meth, "shrooms," and ketamine, in the wake of a court ruling striking down the 1977 law that originally made them illegal.
From 3.5 million cases of Guinea worm infection in 1986 to just 126 last year: Here's how it was done. (Slate)
How did that Utah baby survive 14 hours trapped in a car half-submerged in an icy river?
CNN's (and our own) Sanjay Gupta tells the story of the network's former science reporter, Miles O'Brien, whose arm had to be amputated after an on-the-job accident.
 Dunkin' Donuts announced that it will discontinue use of titanium dioxide to brighten the appearance of powdered sugar in its doughnuts. The consumer watchdog group As You Sow has argued that TiO2 can cause DNA and chromosomal changes.
At Comedy Central's Night of Too Many StarsGilbert Gottfried connected with an autistic young man named Owen by reenacting scenes from the movie "Aladdin" together. Growing up, Owen's parents noticed that he was able to communicate through a puppet of the character Gottfried played in the film when all other forms of communication were too difficult.
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