BERLIN — Last Friday, a student gave CPR to a tiger cub who was chocking on a piece of meat reports Reuters. The German medical student jumped over the fence on the visit to the zoo to help the animal keeper. After removing the meat from the animal’s mouth, the animal still would not breath. […]
Earlier this week, the EU Court of Justice ruled that internet service providers should not share the identities of their customers when concerning civil lawsuits regarding illegal downloading. This serves as a major blow for the recording and movie industry as they lose virtually all chance of obtaining the identity of persons who are illegally […]
Microsoft sent a letter to Yahoo’s board of directors offering to buy the company for $44.2 billion. This highly inflated (62% above yesterday’s closing price) offer seems like a good deal to Yahoo who plans on firing 1,000 employees and spending $300 million in 2008 to revive the company. Both, Microsoft and Yahoo, have been […]
New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo is currently investigating Brown’s study-abroad program as well as those of many other schools. Claims are being made that schools choose study-abroad partners based on personal motivation on school officials, i.e. bribes, and not on how much the program will eventually cost a student or other benefits of the […]
Last week, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis sided with Washington University in a battle with Dr. Catalona. Catalona is one of the U.S.’s most prominent prostate cancer researchers and recently moved to Northwestern University. He and his patients requested the tissue samples from Washington University so that he can continue […]