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Appalling it may look, but it is true. A case of a 14-year-old girl having been exhorted by her wicked mother to become pregnant by using syringes of donor sperm has come to light. Despite miscarriage, the teenager was repeatedly forced by her mother to take several attempts with donor sperms until she finally gave birth to baby boy, when she turned 17. The behaviour of the mother, who is serving a five-year jail term for “child cruelty”, was termed  “wicked and selfish”, defying belief, by High Court Judge Peter Jackson in his ruling on Monday.

The judge said, the mother, an American divorcee living in Britian with three adopted children, hatched the devilish plan to get her daughter pregnant when she was prevented to adopt a fourth. She bought the syringes of sperm online over the internet form a Denmark-based company, Cryos International, Jackson said. The daughter, who is identified as A to guard her privacy, said, she became pregnant by donor sperm bought by her mother to provide her mother a fourth child. Though the daughter was initially shocked at her mother’s suggestion, she finally gave in to be able to gain “more love” for herself, she
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Drug dealers from the future look a lot friendlier

Scoring drugs is one of life’s great pains in the ass. Either a friend knows some guy who lives in some dodgy neighborhood full of people sharpening their dog's teeth on park swings. Or you get them off some random in a club whose entire body is an event horizon for his giant pupils.

But don’t worry, it won’t always be this way. Scientists are working on a solution. That solution is 3D printed drugs. Instead of having to go and get drugs from the scary outside world you’ll be able to print custom drugs adapted to whatever your needs are, right there at home, in your bedroom. Surrounded by empty takeaway containers and a cat that will be stoned forever because everyone knows that cats can't release THC.

And you won’t buy drugs either, you’ll download apps. These apps will give you access to the blueprints that will give you what you need. And you won’t even need to worry about the legality of drugs any more, because there won’t be any drug laws, because drugs will be so tailored it’ll be impossible for the state to keep up without resorting to selling them itself.

The current drug economy where wars are waged and billions exchanged illegally will be a thing of the past. With with 3D printed drugs, we could enter a brave new world where taking any drug is as legal as drinking a cup of coffee. But even more customized. Which is fine, as long as we don’t all end up addicted to something that makes us want to eat each other’s faces off, because the tandem effects make us feel like the sun.

But mostly, 3D printed drugs will be about being able to give people the medicine they need, customized just for them, to combat diseases that are currently incurable. From a family that's predisposed to some horrible, life-crippling disease? Then you’ll be taking combative drugs from birth. Hayfever sufferer? Then why not take this bespoke drug synthesized from local honey, you pussy. Plus we'll be able to wave goodbye to the corrupt big drug companies that are in cahoots with chemists, because as long as they're regulated, anyone who has a breakthrough will be able to market the drugs directly to the consumer.

I Skyped with Professor Lee Cronin—a scientist behind the technology at Glasgow University—to find out a bit more about this insane-sounding drug-printer.

VICE: Hi Lee. So firstly, can you briefly describe how the 3D printing of a drug works. You don't just print out a little pill, do you?
Lee Cronin: OK, I will try. Imagine the following: 1) you go to an online drug store; 2) you decide what you need (with a prescription); 3) you buy both the blueprint and the ink; 4) the "ink" comes pre-sealed in a safe cartridge; 5) you print the drug with the special ink and the software; 6) you take the drug.

And what are the main benefits of this approach? 
Well it's nice, because it allows you to deploy the drug more widely and now the software is the value, not the chemical. It removes the problem of counterfeit drugs, for example, and also opens up the way for personal medicine.

Lee Cronin in his lab.

How would personal medicine work, then?
Not telling I'm afraid, but watch this space.

*sad face*
OK, I can give just a wee hint. Imagine I had a new drug discovery platform that combined the features above. Imagine I had your genome, etc. The 3D printers and the chemistry kit would need to be widely available first, rather like smartphones today, but it is going to happen, there is going to be a revolution...

I agree, we will all soon have 3D printers in the home.
And the key is personal chemistry...

So people would have bespoke medicine based on their DNA?
Nope, not just that. I have a way of combining nature and nurture.

Can you elaborate a little?
Let’s just say I'm creating a biological time machine to work out what disease you are going to get as a function of nature plus nurture—and then create the drug to cure it.

So you'll look at their biological makeup and the life they've been born into and assess the likelihood of them developing certain diseases?
Sort of, yeah.

Could you see humanity living forever with these sorts of advances?
Not beyond any limit, I’m not into that stuff. My aim is to keep people healthy as long as possible.

And I guess this could have positive implications for poorer countries, too? Making drugs cheaper and more accessible?
Yes, indeed.

Could you foresee a kind of "maker industry" building up around pharmaceuticals, like we've seen in other areas of 3D printing? Amateur chemists experimenting with designer and prescription drugs?
Yes, it is like ARM technologies. In the future, we will not sell drugs, but blueprints or apps. These apps would be tested or validated in the lab before being deployed.

So how would you stop people abusing the technology, like drug dealers looking to manufacture drugs to sell on the street? Or even just curious chemists making recreational drugs for their friends to try?
Well, that would be limited I guess and how to do that is a debate that needs to be had. But it could work like with Apple securing the iPhone from unauthorized apps.

People can jailbreak an iPhone though, you'll always have people who can hack the technology.
But people can break into chemical labs and make their own stuff.

Sure, people illegally manufacture drugs now, but would it make it easier, more accessible, because you no longer need a lab?
No, that’s not right, since you just link the ink production and software and encrypt them. What you’re talking about is immensely complex in terms of ethics, regulation, and personal freedom. But we could make sure the ink is so simple that any attempt to split it open and do things would not work. The amount made and the way it would be deployed would be on such a small scale that it would not be usable for other things.

How long do you think it will be before we get this technology in our homes? A few years? Decades?
Maybe ten to 15 years? Who knows? Maybe five to ten.

I can take or leave the colour pink. Mostly before 2009 I ignored it. Red- yes; pink - no.

I have had dark hair from the day I was born and pink is just not flattering to me. I would much rather wear and surround myself with dark fuchsia which is a black-pink or violet which is a red-purple. There was very little pink in my life until 2009 when I was diagnosed with DCIS and suddenly kilos of Breast cancer pink was all around me.

I was in a panic state. This pink was bringing out all sorts of emotions in me and it was smothering me or so it felt to me. I could not escape it even when we went to New York for a holiday after my radiation treatment finished. We arrived there in the middle of their Breast Cancer awareness week. It just was not going to leave me alone until I had dealt with what pink meant to me; what I was afraid of about pink and what pink is here to teach me.

Over the last four years, pink and I are getting along a whole lot better. I do not have any pink clothing but I have one pink necklace that I am comfortable wearing. There are a few more pink items in my home where before there were none.

When the latest Breast Cancer magazine arrived, I finally sat down to write how I now feel about Breast cancer pink.

This pink colour speaks to me about being alive and proud to be me. It is not about being soft and invisible but me celebrating being a woman. It is a colour of balance - not too pale and not too dark. To feel comfortable with this pink in my life, I have had to throw out the urgent and add only what is really important to me. It is not a passive subdued pink. It is a lively pink.

This pink is also challenging. Breast cancer pink is pink en masse. Welcome to the sisterhood of women. It speaks community and letting others help me and this has been a real challenge for me. I am not alone. I had to embrace other women and let them help me rather than always being the responsible one that everyone else leaned on.

Finally, breasts are a team. In the beginning before my operation, I drew on the inspiration from another woman and named my breasts. One needed the help and the other was there to support her and me through it all. Breast cancer pink to me is now the colour of team women.

I am part of that team and maybe in the future I will feel comfortable enough to walk into a room full of pink. I am building up to it step by small step.

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After you have been diagnosed, you will need to work with your physicians to come up with a breast cancer treatment plan that is right for you. The plan that will be put to use will be based upon the pathology report regarding your disease. The plan will consist of one or more specific options that are focused on zeroing in on cancerous cells in numerous ways. The therapy option will also minimize the risk that the disease will return.

The breast cancer treatment that is most fitting for you will be based upon your specific medical situation. The doctor will take into consideration your overall state of health and the decisions that you need to make. As you go through the process from your diagnosis to the various steps of the procedure, you may have to periodically re-evaluate the decisions that you are making or still need to make. Look for guidance from the medical team that is taking care of your health needs.

A successful breast cancer treatment is one that involves the removal of the disease or maintaining adequate control over it for an extended span of time, which is known as remission. Since this condition develops in the chest, it can be composed of a range of different types of cells, so getting rid of all of the cells will require not just one therapy plan but a variety of them.

The breast cancer treatment plan that the doctor feels is right for you may include a combination of means by which you can get better. Surgery may be performed as well as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and anti-estrogen therapy. The physician may also feel that it is in your best interests to use a targeted therapy such as Avastin, Herceptin, or Tykerb.

A great deal of thought must go into the design of a personal therapy strategy. The ideal plan is one that effectively fights against what caused the disease to develop, spread, and grow, affecting other healthy cells and tissues in the body.

What you need to be aware of, as a patient is that no disease is exactly the same. Everyone is different and unique in his or her own way. Also, different cells that are cancerous require different types of therapies. These are all things that you can discuss with your oncologist.

You physician or team of doctors will most likely recommend a specific sequence for treatment. The most common pathway that is taken generally starts with the surgical removal of the tumor or the entire chest and reconstruction. If chemotherapy is to be undertaken, it will follow the surgical procedure. After that, radiation therapy will be done. You may then be given a hormonal therapy, such as an aromatase inhibitor or tamoxifen. This will be prescribed for you if your disease is deemed to be hormone-receptor positive.

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Each year, a college football rivalry game between Yale University and Harvard University takes place. For the game in 2004, approximately twenty Yale students disguised themselves as the fictitious “Harvard Pep Squad” and handed out signs to Harvard fans. At a coordinated time, the organizers behind the prank instructed the Harvard fans to display the cards in unison, which they claimed spelled out “GO HARVARD” but in fact spelled “WE SUCK”. The result of the prank was that the Harvard fans then displayed a message saying “WE SUCK”, visible to the entire stadium and eventually garnering large coverage in national media.

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SkiFree is a computer game created by Chris Pirih, a Microsoft programmer, that was released in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack software bundle. A relatively simple skiing game, it is best remembered for the “Abominable Snowman” that appears after the player has completed the course. The yeti-like creature attempts to chase down and then eat the skier. Pirih had originally created the game for his own personal use, but a manager at Microsoft saw him playing it and requested that Microsoft be able to release the game commercially. In recent years, Pirih has developed an updated version of the game compatible with 32 bit operating systems.

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The Principle of Evil Marksmanship is the theory that the “bad guys” in films will invariably be very poor marksmen, almost always missing when attempting to shoot the main characters, or “good guys”. The term, sometimes called the “Stormtrooper Effect” due to the claim that the Imperial Stormtroopers in Star Wars were superior marksmen but in actuality seemed quite the opposite, was first mentioned by film critic Roger Ebert in 1980. Ebert also mentions another, similar rule: the “One-at-a-time Attack Rule”, in which a group of enemies far outnumbers a protagonist, but will attack individually instead of together.

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The SS Baychimo is a famous ghost ship that was abandoned in 1931 but continued to be sighted along the Alaskan coastline through 1969. It was originally a ship that served on trade routes for the Germans in World War I but was given to the United Kingdom as war reparations. On a voyage in 1931, the ship became trapped in pack ice and the crew disembarked. A few days later, it was sighted 45 miles away. Eventually, the ship was abandoned entirely, and was seen 300 miles away a few months later. It was never able to be completely salvaged, and these sightings continued over the years until it’s last confirmed sighting in 1969.

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The Texas City Disaster was the explosion of 2300 tons of ammonium nitrate and small arms ammunition on board the French ship SS Grandcamp in the port of Texas City, Texas, on April 16, 1947. Another ship that was nearby, the SS High Flyer, was carrying an additional hold of nearly 1000 tons of ammonium nitrate, and it exploded approximately fifteen hours later. The incident is regarded as the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States, and killed nearly 600 people. Damage from the blast, felt up to 250 miles away, was estimated at $100 million.

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Mock execution is a method of torture where victims are made to believe they are about to executed in order to get them to confess. It has been used on multiple occasions by governments and military organizations as a form of capital punishment inflicted on suspected criminals in the hopes of traumatizing the person to the point that he will “spill it”. Mock execution has also been dramatized many times in literature and film, such as the written works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the novel and film Fight Club.

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In 1995, Norway and the United States launched a rocket with equipment to study the Aurora Borealis. The rocket reached over 900 miles in altitude and was detected by Russian radar operators — who had not received the information of the planned and announced scientific study — and interpreted as a missile launched from a submarine. The Russian government immediately activated its nuclear protocol and alerted President Boris Yeltsin, who had ten minutes to decide whether or not to launch a counter-attack. The military determined that the rocket was heading away from Russia and was therefore not an incoming attack.

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The Grinning Man refers to a mysterious figure that has been sighted during periods of UFO encounters. It is unknown if the Grinning Man is a human or an extraterrestrial. He has been described as tall and imposing in stature, dressed in a green outfit that reflected light and glistened, with a dark and tanned complexion and overall unsettling appearance. A common attribute is that he is seen by witnesses simply grinning, thus his name. He was cited during the period of the Mothman sightings in West Virginia.

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The iron harvest is the phrase given to the annual practice of farmers removing unexploded ordinance, munitions, and other military artifacts dating from World War I. These still very dangerous items are often found in fields throughout Belgium and France, and hundreds of people have died from handling them. It is estimated that one shell out of every four that was used in World War I did not detonate.

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On May 10-11, 1996, freak weather conditions and a bottleneck of climbers led to what has been called the 1996 Everest disaster, when eight people died on Mt. Everest while attempting to reach the summit. The principle parties involved in the disaster were two different climbing expeditions. Continued delays meant that many climbers were not beginning their descent until well after 2:00 PM, considered the time that climbers must begin heading back to camp to reach safety before nightfall. A blizzard ravaged the mountain, reducing visibility and obscuring trails. Furthermore, an analysis of weather conditions on the day of the tragedy found that oxygen levels — already very low at such extreme altitudes — dropped an additional 14% during the storm.

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The Canadian caper is the nickname for the rescue of six Americans who had been able to avoid capture during the Iran Hostage Crisis. The diplomats were not caught during the initial invasion of the United States Embassy in Tehran, and through a joint effort between the governments of the United States and Canada, were smuggled out of the country and to safety. A cover story was concocted by the CIA where the six diplomats were given fake Canadian passports and posed as filmmakers scouting locations for a fictitious science fiction movie named “Argo”.

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On May 10-11, 1996, freak weather conditions and a bottleneck of climbers led to what has been called the 1996 Everest disaster, when eight people died on Mt. Everest while attempting to reach the summit. The principle parties involved in the disaster were two different climbing expeditions. Continued delays meant that many climbers were not beginning their descent until well after 2:00 PM, considered the time that climbers must begin heading back to camp to reach safety before nightfall. A blizzard ravaged the mountain, reducing visibility and obscuring trails. Furthermore, an analysis of weather conditions on the day of the tragedy found that oxygen levels — already very low at such extreme altitudes — dropped an additional 14% during the storm.
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