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RETURNS FOR WALLET

By CAROLYN SALAZAR and JAMIE SCHRAM

HATE TO INTRUDE . . . Yaakov Kanelsky shows the window in his Brooklyn apartment where an alleged burglar begged for the wallet he'd dropped inside.

Last updated: 7:46 am
July 14, 2008
Posted: 3:43 am
July 14, 2008

A hapless burglar who swiped more than $200 from a Brooklyn apartment was back within moments begging to return the stolen cash - in exchange for the wallet he left behind.

Victor Marin, 20, broke into the 40th Street building in Borough Park last Thursday and made off with the money, but left his billfold - complete with his identification - on the victim's bed, according to police sources.

The bewildered victim, Yaakov Kanelsky, 49, arrived home from a shopping trip around 1:30 p.m. to see the accused thief at his first-floor kitchen window.

"There was someone knocking on my window, and I asked him, 'What do you want? Why are you here?' And he said, he told me, 'I left my wallet inside your house,' " Kanelsky told The Post.

"Why were you inside my house?" a perplexed Kanelsky asked.

"He told me he needed to use the bathroom."

When Kanelsky asked the next logical question - why the intruder needed to use a bathroom in someone else's home - Marin allegedly replied, "It doesn't matter. I need my wallet. I forgot my wallet. It's in your bedroom."

Kanelsky, a retired rabbi who is originally from Israel, called 911 while Marin allegedly ran from the kitchen window to the apartment's front door.

"If you give me my wal let, I'll give you back your money," the intruder hollered through the door.

"What money?" asked Kanelsky. "I didn't even know any money was missing."

The absent-minded burglar flashed a wad of bills through the peephole.

A quick check of the bedroom confirmed that Kanelsky's cash - $93 in singles and $125 in larger bills - was missing from his dresser.

Instead, the victim found a wallet filled with credit cards, photos and cash - and a pair of sunglasses.

So Kanelsky told the man on the other side of the door to return his cash, which he promptly did, sliding the $125 under the door.

But the $93 wad of singles was too bulky to push under the door, so Marin allegedly began stuffing the bills little by little through the small crack. That's when the cops showed up.

Marin was quickly picked up in a nearby yard and charged with burglary, petty larceny and possession of stolen property.

Kanelsky said he believed the thief had entered via the kitchen window - which he had habitually left open since he moved into the apartment seven years ago.

"I just thought this whole thing was crazy," said Kanelsky.

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George and Laura Bush to divorce after the presidential election

George and Laura Bush to divorce after the presidential election because of George's secret love affair with Condoleezza Rice. It's not news it's Pravda

George and Laura Bush to divorce after election because of Condi Rice?

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18.07.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru

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Many US tabloids have been flooded with rumors of George W. Bush’s family misfortunes recently. The latest gossip is about George and Laura Bush to divorce after November elections.

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Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper wrote with reference to The National Examiner tabloid that George and Laura Bush were planning a divorce after the presidential election in the USA.

According to the supermarket tabloid, George and Laura Bush hardly ever speak to each other. George feels very unhappy and does not want Laura to leave him. However, the newspaper wrote, Laura is tired of everything; she is determined to live her own life.

The couple still keeps their relationship alive just because they are contractually obliged to stay together during George W. Bush’s presidency; it is not a matter of feelings at all.

They are both certain that they have rendered a huge service to their country. They pretend that their marriage is still alive in spite of the fact that it was buried long ago. The divorce will be kept a secret until the president retires, the newspaper wrote.

The tabloid dwells upon the reasons which could lead to the possible divorce. The newspaper believes that George . W. Bush has been having an affair with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. A former employee of the presidential administration told The National Examiner that Laura Bush once spent her night in a hotel to stay away from the White House.

Laura Bush will reportedly be paid $20 million in case she divorces her husband.

It is worthy of note that it was not the first time, when US tabloids wrote about George W. Bush’s affair with Condoleezza Rice. Ms. Rice became the center of tabloid gossip in the USA two years ago in July. Many US newspapers wrote back then that Condi had a love affair with President Bush.

Wayne Madsen, a national security expert, wrote in 2006 that George W. Bush confessed during a session with his psychologist that he was attracted to other women. Bush reportedly named Condoleezza Rice as an object of his fantasies.

Laura Bush soon heard of the rumors. The first lady spent that night in Washington’s May Flower Hotel. Tabloids wrote that Laura Bush had escaped from the White House after an argument with President Bush which happened because of his supposed affair with Condoleezza Rice.

Evil tongues recalled the story of a Freudian slip which happened to Ms. Rice during an official meeting in Washington. Condoleezza Rice, who is always meticulous in the choice of her words, reportedly said the following: "As I was telling my husb—" before abruptly breaking off and correcting herself: "As I was telling President Bush."

Ms. Rice has earned the reputation of the Bushes’ family friend. She became close to President Bush mainly because of the fact that she is the only person who finds a common language with Bush to teach him wisdom of foreign politics.

Indeed, unlike her predecessor, Colin Powell, Ms. Rice is in a very close relationship with President Bush. She talks to him on the phone at least once a day.

Mark McKinnon, former media advisor for President Bush, said that it would not be hard for Condoleezza Rice to take a higher position because this woman has unlimited political potential.

“She's a superfecta: a Republican, a woman, an African American and secretary of state," he said. "I don't think there's a hotter star on the Republican political horizon than Condi Rice," McKinnon said.

Source: agencies

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A new skeleton exhibition tells the tale of London's past

Beneath our feet, stories of the past lie waiting to be told.

Over the last 30 years, the Museum of London has excavated, examined and archived 17,000 skeletons. Now, 26 of them are to go on display at the Wellcome Trust in London.

They each have a story to tell about life in the capital hundreds of years ago.

THE GREEN LADY

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Research osteologist Jelena Bekvalac reveals why this skeleton is green

This female skeleton was discovered at the Royal Mint, London, and dates to between 1350 and 1400.

The woman died between the ages of 26 and 35; but as her body lay buried, the copper waste produced from the coin manufacturer concreted her neck vertebrae together, and also stained her teeth and skull green.

THE SYPHILITIC CHILD

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Archaeological conservator Jill Bernard points out key features on the skull

This medieval skeleton of an 11-year-old child was removed from the old site of St Mary Spital in London. It dates to between 1400 and 1540.

The child was born with syphilis, passed on through the placenta from its mother; its bones are pitted and thick where the disease had eaten away at them.

The date that syphilis arrived in Britain is still a subject for debate. This skeleton may shed more light on the issue when the remains are subjected to radiocarbon testing.

THE ARTHRITIC MONK

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Jill Bernard explains how the monk's injuries would have affected his life

This individual was excavated from a Cluniac monastic burial site at Bermondsey Abbey, where he lived some 500 to 900 years ago.

He suffered a fracture to his right hip, which healed but did not knit back together properly. Despite the great pain this injury would have caused, the monk's leg bones do not appear wasted - suggesting that he continued to walk.

Examinations have also revealed that he had osteoarthritis in both shoulders.

Skeletons: London's Buried Bones runs at the Wellcome Collection at 183 Euston Road from 23 July to 28 September

Bug 'extermination' results in house fire

NEW HAVEN — A man who tried to play exterminator by “smoking out” ants and beetles from his yard wound up smoking himself out instead by causing a house fire that did a lot of damage to his own apartment at 586 Whalley and some to a neighboring unit, Fire Captain Anthony Gallicchio said.

He said the tenant lit a little fire outside in the corner near the cellar area to get rid of the bugs and thought he had put it out, but the fire ignited inside the wall and traveled. Once firefighters determined where the fire was, it was out quickly, Gallicchio said.

The building has many apartment units, but the would be exterminator is the only one who had to vacate because of damage.

Gallicchio said he would not recommend the smoking out technique for getting rid of bugs

Researchers Discover Remnant of an Ancient 'RNA World'

Researchers Discover Remnant of an Ancient 'RNA World'

Published on Jul 18, 2008 - 8:52:43 AM

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By: Yale University

Ronald Breaker and the chemical structure of cyclic di-GMP.

New Haven, Conn. July 17, 2008 - Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe Friday in the journal Science how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat - and in doing so provide a glimpse of what the earliest forms of life on Earth may have looked like.

To initiate many important functions, bacteria sometimes depend entirely upon ancient forms of RNA, once viewed simply as the chemical intermediary between DNA's instruction manual and the creation of proteins, said Ronald Breaker, the Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale and senior author of the study.

Proteins carry out almost all of life's cellular functions today, but many scientists like Breaker believe this was not always the case and have found many examples in which RNA plays a surprisingly large role in regulating cellular activity. The Science study illustrates that - in bacteria, at least - proteins are not always necessary to spur a host of fundamental cellular changes, a process Breaker believes was common on Earth some 4 billion years ago, well before DNA existed.

"How could RNA trigger changes in ancient cells without all the proteins present in modern cells? Well, in this case, no proteins, no problem," said Breaker, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Breaker's lab solved a decades-old mystery by describing how tiny circular RNA molecules called cyclic di-GMP are able to turn genes on and off. This process determines whether the bacterium swims or stays stationary, and whether it remains solitary or joins with other bacteria to form organic masses called biofilms. For example, in Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, cyclic di-GMP turns off production of a protein the bacterium needs to attach to human intestines.

The tiny RNA molecule, comprised of only two nucleotides, activates a larger RNA structure called a riboswitch. Breaker's lab discovered riboswitches in bacteria six years ago and has since shown that they can regulate a surprising amount of biological activity. Riboswitches, located within single strands of messenger RNA that transmit a copy of DNA's genetic instructions, can independently "decide'' which genes in the cell to activate, an ability once thought to rest exclusively with proteins.

Breaker had chemically created riboswitches in his own lab and - given their efficiency at regulating gene expressions - predicted such RNA structures would be found in nature. Since 2002, almost 20 classes of riboswitches, including the one described in today's paper, have been discovered, mostly hidden in non-gene-coding regions on DNA.

"We predicted that there would be an ancient 'RNA city' out there in the jungle, and we went out and found it,'' Breaker said.

Bacterial use of RNA to trigger major changes without the involvement of proteins resolves one of the questions about the origin of life: If proteins are needed to carry out life's functions and DNA is needed to make proteins, how did DNA arise?

The answer is what Breaker and other researchers call the RNA World. They believe that billions of years ago, single strands of nucleotides that comprise RNA were the first forms of life and carried out some of the complicated cellular functions now done by proteins. The riboswitches are highly conserved in bacteria, illustrating their importance and ancient ancestry, Breaker said.

Understanding how these RNA mechanisms work could lead to medical treatments as well, Breaker noted. For instance, a molecule that mimics cyclic di-GMP could be used to disable or disarm bacterial infections such as cholera, he said.

The National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute funded the work.

Other contributing authors are Narasimhan Sudarsan, Elaine R. Lee, Zasha Weinberg, Ryan H. Moy, Jane N. Kim, and Kristian Link. All are from Yale.

Citation: Science, July 18, 2008.

Police: Clerk Knocks Out Robber At Pizzeria

Police: Clerk Knocks Out Robber At Pizzeria

Parents Rob Restaurant Where Daughter Works, Police Say

DENTON, Texas - While a robbery at a pizza restaurant was in progress, a clerk discovered her father was the robber when another clerk struck the man, knocking him out and knocking off his wig and sunglasses on Friday night, Denton police said.

The Denton Record-Chronicle reported that Stephanie Martinez didn't know her parents and husband planned to rob the Pizza Patron where she works in the 100 block of East University Drive.

Police said they have no plans to file charges against Martinez.

Her father was apprehended after witnesses followed the getaway pickup.

Sgt. James Brett said Martinez's husband told them she didn't know about the robbery. He said she knew they were going to rob someplace but she thought it was going to be a convenience store.

Authorities charged Jose Miguel Martinez, 26, with aggravated robbery. He is free on $50,000 bail.

Clerk Prevents Parents From Robbing Pizzeria

Benjamin Ramirez, 41, and Sonia Palacios, 38, are both charged with aggravated robbery.

Bail was set at $50,000 each, but they are being held without bail on immigration violations.