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Coma Man Conscious after 23 years
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A man injured in a car crash lay paralysed in a hospital bed for 23 years diagnosed as being in a coma, but was conscious of his ordeal the whole time. Rom Houben was paralysed as a result of his accident and had no way of alerting doctors that he was aware of his surroundings and able to hear every word they were saying. Doctors in Zolder in Belgium carried out a number of tests on Houben, and decided that his consciousness was 'extinct' and he was in a persistent vegetative state. On every occasion, he was diagnosed incorrectly and Mr Houben was left to suffer in silence for over two decades. Now 46, Houben said 'I dreamed myself away,' adding that 'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear'. 'I became a witness to my own suffering as doctors and nurses tried to speak with me until they gave up all hope.' The arrival of new high-tech scanners found that Houben's brain was functioning normally, and therapy has since allowed him to tap out messages o
Close Encounters
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Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning By Claire Bates Last updated at 10:01 AM on 11th November 2009 Comments (128) Add to My Stories Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday. The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach. Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1226672/Asteroid-scrapes-past-Earth-just-8-700miles-away--15-hours-warning.html#ixzz0WY6sf3It
Living in a secular world
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http://acatholicmumclimbingthepillars.blogspot.com/ reports: "The Vatican expressed "astonishment" and "regret" at Tuesday's decision from the European Court of Human Rights that crucifixes in public school classrooms are a violation of freedom. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, gave a brief statement today to Vatican Radio in response to the decision." The crucifix has always been a sign of God's offer of love, of union and of welcome for the whole of humanity," the spokesman said. "It is to be regretted that it has come to be considered as a sign of division, of exclusion and of limitation of liberty. It is not this, and it is not so in the common feeling of our people.""
Vatican searches for ET
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"As an astronomer I continue to believe that God is the creator of the universe," Funes told the Vatican mouthpiece, the Osservatore Romano. The possibility raises a difficult theological question concerning redemption from the original sin, which by Christian tradition occurred in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit of a particular tree. Funes told the Osservatore Romano: "If other intelligent beings exist, it's not certain that they need redemption." Read the full article here: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091110/tsc-vatican-searches-for-extra-terrestri-c2ff8aa.html