alkhateeb. just 13 years old. he disappeared from an anti-government rally on the 29th of april. now look away if you need to. these next photos get very, very hard to take. this is what he looked like when his body came home. his kneecaps had been smashed. his head was swollen. his body covered in cigarette burns. he had been embassy claited. according to family accounts on arabic news channels, syrian government officials came to their home last wednesday asking them to sign a waiver accepting hamza s body but only if they wouldn t show the body or say anything about the circumstances of his death. they signed but were so horrified by the condition of his body they could not keep quiet. so they consented to a video of their son s body. it later turned up on al jazeera. almost all of it is so grisly we could only show you those two frames. that set off a weekend of outrage as activists raisen zeitouni put it to the washington post, torture is usual in syria. what was speci
taking on islamic militants who have overrun a coastal town. it s a case eerily similar to the one against former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn. an egyptian businessman could be arraigned in new york today, charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper. 74-year-old mahmoud abdel salam omar is accused of groping a maid at the pierre luxury hotel. she says she went to the room at omar s request to drop off tissues. call it a bin laden bounce. strong performances on national security and international relations are driving president obama s overall poll numbers even higher. a new cnn opinion research survey finds that 54% approve of the job he is doing. that is up six percentage points since early april. when are you planning to announce you ll run for president? what do you think the odds are you ll run? are you going to run? that is the question. there is no public schedule, but sarah palin s bus tour seems to be headed for philadelphia today. now palin v
study who use a cell phone for ten years or more had double the rate of a type of tumor. keep in mind cell phone use in the united states has only been popular for around 15 years. in 1996, there were 34 million cell phone users. today, nearly 300 million in use according to industry figures. environmental factors take decades to see their effect and not a few years. if it may take decades to get a clearer answer, what can we say about cell phone safety now? scientists here in san jose, california, are trying to answer that very question. one of the things we have to do first is literally put the brain inside the head. exactly. it s very light now. the fcc requires all cell phones emit 1.66 watts of radiation. they try to mimic the human rain with salt, sugar and water.
in companies embracing the cloud big clouds, small ones, public, private, even hybrid. your data and apps must move easily and securely to reach many clouds, not just one. that s why the network that connects, protects, and lets your data move fearlessly through the clouds means more than ever. we re back with a special sgmd talking about cell phone safety. there s been a lot of studies on this. the most recent study on cell phones is by researchers at the national institutes of health. they found something very interesting. the radiation emitted from your cell phone increased brain cell activity after 50 minutes of talk time. let me show you what i m talking
can penetrate deeper into the brain of children and young adults and their cells are dividing in a much faster rate so the impact of microradiation can be much larger. there have been no studies on children and cell phone safety. here s something else that might surprise you. the cell manufacturers themselves advise against putting the cell phone right next to your head or really anywhere on your body. look with the iphone 4. safety instructions say when using the iphone near your body for voice calls keep it 15 millimeters away from your body. blackberry users specifically have safety guide lines saying keep it .98 inches or 25 millimeters from your body meaning your head or your pocket. dr. keith black has been talking about this longer than many but the voices joining him are becoming louder and more prominent. the city of san francisco pushed for radiation warning labels on cell phones. the head of a prominent cancer research institute sent a memo to all employees urging them to