Study brings us one step closer to solving 1994 thallium poisoning case

The 1994 poisoning of Chinese student Zhu Ling left her permanently disabled.

Zhu Ling was a sophomore majoring in physical chemistry at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, when she mysteriously began losing hair, with accompanying stomach pain and muscle paralysis, sinking into a coma four months later.

Zhu survived, but with serious brain damage, loss of most of her eyesight, and ability to speak. She remains partially paralyzed, requiring 24-hour care. Worse, she had been deliberately poisoned. 

Conservative megadonor Robert Mercer cuts political spending

Mercer and his family spent $2.9 million on federal elections this year, less than a third of their outlay in either 2016, the last presidential election, or 2014, the year of the last midterms, according to data gathered through late December.

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I’m part of the mass Tumblr Exodus. Please mind my learning WordPress. I’ll play with the free customizations until I get a look I like. The free themes have limited customizations, of course. But I’ll find something that’s easy to navigate and read.

For me, starting a new blog is always slow, at first. Then it tends to become very quick and easy, while I plod through my work-day.

TYT: Doctor Admits Trump Bribed Him

For 50 years, the details of how the exemption came about, and who made the diagnosis, have remained a mystery, with Mr. Trump himself saying during the presidential campaign that he could not recall who had signed off on the medical documentation.

Now a possible explanation has emerged about the documentation. It involves a foot doctor in Queens who rented his office from Mr. Trump’s father, Fred C. Trump, and a suggestion that the diagnosis was granted as a courtesy to the elder Mr. Trump.”

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