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A German woman who was in a coma for six years woke up after her mother took her to a Bryan Adams concert. Christiane Kittel, who is now 24, went into a coma on June 12, 1997. Doctors think it was caused by a combination of hot weather, hemophilia and the side-effects of her birth control pill. For the past six years, she was attached to life-support machines in an intensive care unit, until she heard the music at the concert, when she began to move in her wheelchair and eventually came back to life.
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People with peanut allergies risk their lives getting on airplanes where snacks are passed out. Kids are in danger if they go to a friend’s house that has peanut butter in the cupboard. But this may all change soon, due to a new medicine which will allow them to eat almost 9 peanuts without an allergic reaction. Right now, people with severe allergies can only eat about half a peanut. The drug won’t allow them to eat as many as they want, but it will protect them if they unknowingly eat something containing them.
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When New York City comptroller William Thompson, who oversees the city’s pension funds, asked Halliburton, General Electric and ConocoPhillips for information about their dealings with Iran and Syria, he found that all three companies were involved. Halliburtion was using a Cayman Islands shell company to do business with Iran.

As Halliburton originally began trading with Iran while Dick Cheney was still on its board, he must have participated in making the decision to trade with Iran.
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An Israeli official says the U.S. military has been ordered to launch the war against Iraq on March 18. Michael Gurdus reported on Israeli TV that the order was relayed by U.S. Central Command to all American forces in the Persian Gulf and says he heard the order being relayed to U.S. fighter-jet pilots and others over U.S. military radio communications that he intercepted.

Gurdus is a leading reporter for Israel radio and television who has broken many hot stories because of his ability to intercept and understand foreign-language civilian and radio broadcasts and communications. He says the U.S. military, in its radio communications, refers to Iraq as “bad cows” and “kabob.”
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