One city in the States reveals that there are up to 56 pharmaceuticals and their derivatives in tap water.
Traces that would affect no one till you start to think of homoeopathy for which you will need a glass of water to handle your anxiety.
The drugs for managing depression might just cause more depression when we realise that we are being given pills that could well be placebos to make us feel better for a huge price.
When Pakistan banned access to YouTube to avoid access to content that might be offensive to Islam the blocked global access to the site.
I fear for how the protection of religion ridicules religion even more.
Wikileaks is a site under threat for the reason that it gives succour to the whistleblower to post documents that expose practices/activities that normally would not be revealed.
The site supports the compelling concept of the right to know.
Being spared the detail of food processing can be merciful as we learn that 64.9 kilograms of beef have to be recalled in the States - some of that beef could be two years old.
A new hospital in Maiduguri completed in June 2006 had stayed closed because the state governor was waiting to get the President to cut the tape.
It has now been razed and the governor laments the loss of his reputation, he has more to lose.
Cloned food might be virtually indistinguishable from conventional produce but it does not give the FDA the right to not require cloned foods be specifically labelled.
This is like life imitating cartoons from Courage the Cowardly Dog to Coward the Courageous Man who landed a distressed airplane safely just before the runway at London Heathrow Airport last Thursday.
The boats, the threats and the videotapes from both the United States and Iran about a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz show that someone is up to no good - but who?
It took a stinging rebuke from Kevin Conrad of Papua New Guinea to the United States on the latter of leadership a consensus to emerge at the climate change summit.
Since hotels I stay in gave up the simple television technology for Quadriga's digital revolution my patience has been tested with menu-hopping and channel seeking without getting a picture for minutes on end.
The Child Benefit data loss scandal in the UK has ramifications further down the line where the immutability of some data-sets can be used decades from now.
Nigeria is suing international cigarette companies on their complicity in allowing their cigarettes to fall into the hands of children.
They do have a cause, but maybe not a case.
A church teaching against blood transfusion leaves newly born twins bereft of their mother all in service to some religious belief based on the interpretation of other mere men.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 goes to worthy recipients for their work to stirring us to consider the consequences of man-made climate change. The science would continually be under review, it is left to us to research those opinions.
The spectre of drugs in sport is disturbing, but the anti-doping regime is not winning this battle - Marion Jones was never caught, rather she confessed because of other extenuate circumstances.