Sex change, Pirates, Butterflies in Space
Doctors say this is a record breaker.
That at the age of 77, Navy veteran, Richard Ramsey is likely the oldest person in the U.S. to undergo a sex-change operation.
He now goes by the name of Renee. He is one of about 700,000 people in the U.S. who would describe themselves as transgendered.
During his life as a man, he married twice, and is the father of four children.
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Thousands of gamers may have been cut off from Microsoft’s online gaming service Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games.
600,000 gamers may have been affected.
There are 20 million Xbox Live users worldwide.
Microsoft said that modifying an Xbox 360 console “violates” the service’s “terms of use” and would result in a player being disconnected.
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Something has happened to Celine Dion’s pregancy.
In August, her spokesman confirmed that Dion was expecting.
There were a number of reports claiming she was carrying an embryo that had been frozen in liquid nitrogen for several years.
A family source now says that while the singer and her husband are actively trying for another baby, she is not currently expecting.”
No other details about how exactly the pregnancy ended.
She is 41 years old.
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A wild scene down in Florida. A crash involving a pick up truck and the acquarium at Tampa International Airport. The 36 year old driver and the six year old child in her lap survived.
The tropical fish were not so lucky.
Police say the driver llost control of her truck and drove into the saltwater tank outside the American Airlines baggage claim in Tampa.
About 90 percent of the saltwater fish in the tank were killed.
The airport spent $200,000 on the exhibit.
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Butterflies in space?!
Students nationwide are getting a chance to see how butterflies develop in space, compared to here on earth.
A University of Colorado experiment will feature monarch and painted lady butterfly larvae aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle lifts off for the International Space Station on Monday.
About 100 elementary and middle schools nationwide are getting kits with butterfly habitats so they can compare them to those in the space station’s weightless environment. Photos of the butterflies in space will be taken every 15 minutes and be sent to earth to be uploaded to a Web site.
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Documentary maker Ken Burns is helping Michigan State University inaugurate its new film studies major. Burns lectures Dec. 2 at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts. While on the East Lansing campus, he’ll meet with students about documentary film making.
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Do you believe in alien life in the universe?
Dozens of scientists from around the world have attended a five-day Vatican conference on the possibility of alien life in the universe and its theological implications.
Some Christian scholars have wondered whether alien species might have resisted temptation and remained sinless — or if they sinned, how God might have offered them salvation. (!)
The director of the Vatican Observatory has said the discovery of intelligent extra-terrestrials wouldn’t contradict Christian faith because they would still be God’s creatures.
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A federal judge has ruled that South Carolina cannot issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window with the phrase “I Believe.”
Judge Cameron Currie said in her ruling that the license plate is unconstitutional because it “amounts to a state endorsement not only of religion in general, but of a specific sect in particular.”
Christian advocates tried to get the same license plate approved in Florida, but the bill did not pass its Legislature.
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