Oh great. This just happened to my friends upstairs. If anyone notices me shrinking away from water in the future, drive a steak through my heart asap.

Quoted: In fact, Ingham County leads the entire state for positive cases, which means the community could be at risk. "The one that we're really concerned with is if they wake up, and it's in a bedroom," Barry-Eaton District Health Department's Steve Tackitt explains. "So they have no idea if they've been bitten or not, because, a bat bite, they have very small teeth."

That's no good.

Quoted: Tests on sushi bought in Manhattan revealed mercury levels that exceed accepted safety standards.

Quoted: Although the samples were gathered in New York City, experts believe similar results would be observed elsewhere.

Quoted: Sushi from 5 of the 20 places had mercury levels so high that the Food and Drug Administration could take legal action to remove the fish from the market.

I think there might be a collectibility problem with suing drug dealers, but it is certainly interesting. See comments section for scathing reactions to the news.

Quoted: A Saskatchewan woman who overdosed on crystal methamphetamine has successfully won a precedent-setting civil lawsuit against the drug dealer who sold her the highly addictive drug.

Now walking fast is a "symptom of [our] modern life"? Yeah, that's right, the sky is falling. Technology is turning us into animitrons (speedy ones).

We can only hope this "symptom" spreads in the U.S. Yeesh.

Quoted: A study of cities across the world shows pedestrians are upping their pace at an alarming rate as they scurry from place to place, determined to cram as much as possible into each day.

Wonkette's title to the link: "Iraq War driving State Department crazy." I didn't know it was meant literally.

Quoted: U.S. diplomats are returning from Iraq with the same debilitating, stress-related symptoms that have afflicted many U.S. troops, prompting the State Department to order a mental health survey of 1,400 employees who have completed assignments there.

Interesting debate. Looked at first glance to me like bad science for a good cause, but maybe not.

Quoted: "The overarching message is that the built environment is an enabler or a disabler of active transportation—of walking," Frank says.

Quoted: "a lot of people out there don't like urban sprawl, and those people are trying to hijack the obesity epidemic to further the smart-growth agenda [and] change how cities look."