\”Nightmare bacteria\” that have become increasingly resistant to even the strongest antibiotics infected patients in 4 percent of U.S. hospitals in the first half of 2012 and in 18 percent of specialty hospitals, public health officials said on Tuesday.
It was a surprisingly sunny day Tuesday, ahead of an expected snowstorm, when the 12,000 or so AIPAC delegates concluded the three-day annual “policy conference” in Washington this week, ready to move on to Capitol Hill to lobby their representatives.
Secretary of State John Kerry said President Obama would prefer to avoid considering military action against Iran, but Iran\’s failure to seriously negotiate makes \”confrontation more possible.\”
A swarm of 1 million locusts crossed into Israel from Egypt.
The sequester is expected to cost Israel $155 million in defense assistance.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader\’s 14-year rule of the South American country, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech on Tuesday.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a New York hospital on Tuesday after a fall at his home and was expected to be released later in the day, New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center said in a statement.
When Cain killed Abel, the Bible recorded it as the first murder in history. But the rabbis commented, this is more than murder. Abel’s murder opened the jaws of genocide. For when Cain killed Abel, it wasn’t Abel alone that died.\n
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