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While Isabel caused destruction in many areas, it brought a gift to Primo D’Agata of Berlin, Connecticut. “I thought it was hail and I said to my wife, ‘Ginger, it’s hailing,'” he says. “I went back to reading my paper and then I saw the things were still there and were not melting. I went out and saw hundred of these white things.” They turned out to be eggs.

Robin Vinci writes in the New Britain Herald that the eggs are tiny?about the size of pearls. “They are white with what looks like eyes in the middle. They looked like salamanders or barley,” D’Agata says. “Ginger picked one up and it was slimy.”
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Medical marijuana users in Canada may go back to the illegal stuff, if the government can’t learn to grow it right. The Ministry of Health began distributing the drug to patients with serious illnesses last month. Canada has allowed the use of medical marijuana for over two years, but until a recent court order, people had to get it from street dealers. Now the government provides it, but a patients’ rights group says their pot is weak and nauseating.
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Is your doctor always talking to his office or to patients on his cell phone? According to Israeli investigators, physicians are actually spreading infections throughout hospitals as they talk on their phones.

Deborah Mitchell writes about a study in which Dr. Abraham Borer randomly screened 124 hospital personnel for the germ Acinetobacter baumannii, a common source of hospital infections. He found that 12% of doctors’ cell phones were contaminated with the bug.
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Researchers 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle are looking for signs of global warming, because they?ll show up here first. “?We’re just getting to the point of understanding what is normal,” says researcher John Hobbie. “Now we’re looking for changes due to climate change. Climate changes are going to happen here first. Up here they’re subtle, but they’re here all the same.”
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