A woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of a man whom she and her boyfriend chopped up and fed through a domestic mincer.
Karen Morris, 23, of Selly Park, Birmingham, was found guilty on Monday. Steve Parton, 40, of Perry Barr, admitted the murder at a previous hearing and has been given 18 years. Nelvaughan Brade was hit on the head with an axe and stabbed last November - his body was found on a Norfolk landfill site. |
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Which is stronger—nature or nurture? The latest science says genes and your experience interact for your whole life - By MATT RIDLEY
One perennial debate about nature and nurture—which is the more potent shaper of the human essence?—is constantly rekindled. It flared up again in the London Observer of Feb. 11, 2001. revealed: the secret of human behavior, read the banner headline. environment, not genes, key to our acts. The source of the story was Craig Venter, the self-made man of genes who had built a private company to read the full sequence of the human genome in competition with an international consortium funded by taxes and charities. That sequence—a string of 3 billion letters, composed in a four-letter alphabet, containing the complete recipe for building and running a human body—was to be published the very next day (the competition ended in an arranged tie). The first analysis of it had revealed that there were just 30,000 genes in it, not the 100,000 that many had been estimating until a few months before. |
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SCOTT KILLED BY JUNK DIET
SCOTT Martin's distraught mum Margaret told how she desperately tried to wean her son off his fatal diet of chips, toast and baked beans.
The 56-year-old said he even defied medical experts to keep up his love of junk food. The bizarre diet led to his death at 20 from liver disease and bleeding caused by malnutrition. |
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Satirist Craig Brown salutes the antithesis of the modern sportsman: the toothless darts champ who didn't run out of puff - even when his sponsors were giving him 200 fags a day - Craig Brown - Sunday May 7, 2006 - Observer Sport Monthly
I have never liked sports that involve running out of breath. I was going to add 'or getting your knees muddy' but I don't want to sound sissy. But there are one or two sports that can be played without fear of getting a stitch. Croquet, boules, snooker and fishing can and so too can cricket, as long as you remember to keep a healthy distance from the action.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329470607-103977,00.html |
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Young wrestler Dzhambulat Khotokhov, a 4-year-old Russian weighing 56 kilograms - 123 pounds - with a height of 118 centimeters (3 feet 11 inches) flexes his muscles before wrestling against Georgy Bibilauri, a Georgian, who turned 5 on Wednesday, 120 centimeters (4 feet) tall and weighs 51 kilograms (112 pounds), in Tbilisi, Wednesday, July 9, 2003. Wrestlers Georgy Bibilauri and Dzhambulat Khotokhov had both hoped for victory, but they settled for ice cream instead. After the boys tied on the mat, theywent off to celebrate Bibilauri's birthday with ice cream and chocolate. |
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