No more truce?

Taliban commander, Mullah Nazir, was killed by American missiles Wednesday, December 2nd in South Waziristan. Officials are saying that this ally could turn even worse than it already is because Nazir was looking to make a truce with Islamabad. Because of the peace treaty between Pakistan and Islamabad, they were going to focus on mainly attacking Afghanistan, but hte U.S. who is allied with Islamabad, nearly destroyed that. "They will be furious. This shows they are no longer on the same page with the Americans," says Saifullah Khan Mehsud, an executive director for Fata. (Federally Administered Tribal Areas)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9778839/Senior-Taliban-commander-killed-in-US-drone-strike-despite-truce-with-Pakistani-military.html

What's going to happen in 2013?

I don't think the world is going to end on December 21, 2012 so in 2013, there is going to be a baby boom. I think that technology will continue to advance and there will be newer versions of the iPhone and everyone will have one. Though technology on the rise may be a good thing, I believe that fast food will also be on the rise and people will become more lazy and fat than they already are. People are going to be spending less time working and spending time exercising or being outside and spend more time using technology like watching movies, going on facebook, or using their cell phones.

Christmas shopping gone bad

Many people who were christmas shopping on December 11th wouldn't have thought anything could go wrong, but near Portland, Oregon Kristina Shevchenko, along with two others, were shot in a shopping mall. The shooter also shot himself and Kristina is the only one that lived. Her brother wrote a facebook status about his 15 year old sister the night of the shooting: "As of now she is stable and sleeping....she will need two more operations." The bullet did not hit her ribs but bruised a lung. The shooter didn't know any of the victims but just wanted to shoot people. There have been previous shootings at and near the mall so police were ready to go and got there within 20 minutes of the shootings.

Alzheimer's Cure?

If money can be provided, workers and scientist are coming up with a medicine that could slow or even stop completely Alzheimer's disease. It's a disease that attacks the brain and causes memory loss for short or long periods of time. The medicine will hopefully be ready in three to five years. Next year will begin the studies of trying to put a stop to the disease. Although the process of making vaccines and medicines is very expensive, scientists and lab workers are confident that the medicine can work. By 2050, Alzheimer's disease is antisipating to grow greatly. Right now, 5.4 million people are suffering from Alzheimer's disease and by 2050, it will be up to 16 million.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/03/alzheimers-drug-studies/1742679/

Bounce houses becoming dangerous

Injuries from bounce houses have grown 1500% from 1995 to 2010. Bounce houses are very popular for picnics, parties, and more, but the injuries are growing rapidly. On average, 31 children were being brought to hospitals around the United States each day for bounce house related injuries in 2010. More than 1/3 of the children brought in were under the age of five. Safety warnings and cautions are posted on the bounce house websites and on the bounce houses themselves, but that doesn't stop kids from bouncing or parents from letting their kids bounce. Most injuries are arm or leg injuries, but hte younger the kid, the worse the injuries could be. Some are as bad as neck or head injuries.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/26/health/bounce-house-injuries/

New Homecoming King

Hakam Daley is a senior at St. Lucie West Centennial High School in Port St. Lucie, Florida. He was nominated to be on homecoming court for his school, but it wasn't something he was expecting to happen. Hakam has cerebral palsy, which caused him to go to many different foster homes. Most people would think a boy with cerebral palsy wouldn't have many friends but that's the exact opposite for Daley. A cheerleader who is a close friend of is, asked many seniors to vote for Daley to be on court and when he won king, he did something that never happened before, he walked in public to get his crown with the help of some people.
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/12/teen-with-cerebral-palsy-crowned-homecoming-king/?hpt=us_t2

Rare whales found on beach

In 2010, a mother and a whale calf were washed up on shore in New Zealand. Scientists didn't think it was anything at the time, but during further DNA testing, dicovered the whales were a very rare species. The spade-toothed beaked whale has never fully been seen by a person until then. There have been skulls of spade-toothed beaked whales found in New Zealand and Chile, but have never been seen alive. They supposadly have similar behavior to other whales and dive deep down for their food, like squid and other fish. Scientists buried them in the sand in 2010 after they collected DNA but after the tests were performed, they were dug back up for further research.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/11/worlds-rarest-whale-found-on-new-zealand-beach/