More than 67 million people watched the first presidential debate of this election cycle — nearly 15 million more people than watched the first presidential debate four years ago.
That 67 million, however, falls very short of the Mother of All Presidential Debates: the Oct. 28, 1980 smackdown between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, which had drawn a whopping 81 million viewers.
About 12 million of the 67 mil who watched President Obama square off with GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at the University of Denver were aged 18-34 years. Nearly 31 million of them were 55 years or older, Nielsen reported Thursday.
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Some couples want a baby boy badly. So badly they're willing to fly halfway around the world to get one. Destination? The United States.
Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, director of The Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles and New York City, has for several years offered a fertility procedure allowing affluent couples to choose their baby's gender. Sex selection, outlawed in many countries, is legal in the United States: Steinberg's clinics have treated "thousands" of couples from India, China, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and 142 other nations.
They sometimes pay $45,000 or more for one of Steinberg's package deals that includes treatment, plane tickets, and a hotel. The doctor opened his New York clinic in 2008 to cater to British and European patients, who are perhaps less than an eight-hour flight away. Sex selection is illegal within the United Kingdom, but Steinberg boasted that "leading British politicians" fly to his New York office for that very purpose.
Steinberg admitted his clinics have recently seen a "huge growth" of Chinese clients. Almost all of them—98 percent—ask for a boy. So do most Indian couples. Both countries ban sex selection, but it's practiced illegally because of cultural preferences for boys.
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According to a new study, drinking more than three cups of coffee per day has been shown to correlate with an increased risk of developing glaucoma, which can lead to vision loss or blindness.
"While caffeinated coffee has several health benefits," lead researcher Jae Hee Kang told Health magazine , "drinking three or more cups of caffeinated coffee was found to be associated with increased risk of developing exfoliation glaucoma, particularly among those with a family history of glaucoma."
While coffee has for some time been known to be problematic for glaucoma sufferers due to the fact that it can increase pressure within the eyeball, Kang asserts that the hot brown drug can be linked to a specific type of the vision-destroying malady: exfoliation glaucoma. This syndrome occurs when material is rubbed off both the eye's iris and lens, which then clogs up the eyeball's fluid-draining system, leading to heightened inter-ocular pressure , which increases the risk of glaucoma.
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Doesn't it just tick you off when the stripper at your bachelor party slides down the pole and ruptures your bladder?
A man claims that a stripper fell on him with such force that she tore his bladder during his bachelor party, according to a lawsuit.
Patrick Gallagher was celebrating his pending nuptials with friends during a fun-filled night at The Penthouse Club in Port Richmond, Pennsylvania.
As the guest-of-honor, Mr Gallagher was pulled up on to the stage and give the full attention of the gyrating exotic dancers.
Disaster struck when a stripper 'shimmied up the pole, and from a great height, launched herself down onto his abdomen', The exotic dancer has not been identified.
The groom was in so much pain, the group had to leave the club, according to the lawyer. The next morning, he was admitted to hospital with a ruptured bladder which required surgery.
Mr Gallagher is suing the club for at least $50,000 for his medical costs, humiliation and mental anguish.
