In the health field a new way to grow stem cells, from frozen blood, an ABC report, gets my vote. "Frozen Blood a Source of Stem Cells, Study Finds... Previously, only cells from skin was used. This is indeed a hopeful new advance in growing new tissue from a person's own cells.
And speaking environmentally, Alex, the hurricane thrashing around in the Gulf Coast area, has subsided. This making clean up of the oil spills from the ruptured oil rig, to begin again. "With Alex fading, Gulf crews set sights on oil cleanup efforts"
These two headlines create hope. Nothing laughable about these topics but they offer a glimmer of light upon darkened waters. And even a glimmer of hope is better than all news being bad news.
On the home front, West Virginia to be more specific, faithful citizens are saying goodby to Robert Byrd, a senator from West Virginia since 1952. He will be back in the Washington area sometime today. Yesterday he was flown in to Charleston and at the Capitol his body was viewed by his numerous friends. Bon Voyage, faithful servant of West Virgina and the US.
One long time supporter of his shared his music album with me yesterday. It came out in 1979 and is on an old 78rpm record. He fiddled and sang and it is right in line with what old time country fiddle playing was all about. He's quite good. I do hope they will redo this album for his many supporters. I believe he would want this to happen. Whatever, I thank Mabel Arbaugh for her generosity.
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