A Japanese doctor has come under fire for his unique way of calming a patient down. While in surgery, an elderly female patient at a hospital in central Japan was administered local anasthesia early last month, and began jerking around on the operation table, yelling at the doctor to stop.

A Japanese doctor has come under fire for his unique way of calming a patient down. While in surgery, an elderly female patient at a hospital in central Japan was administered local anasthesia early last month, and began jerking around on the operation table, yelling at the doctor to stop.

A japanese doctor has come under fire for his unique way of calming a patient down. While in surgery, an elderly female patient at a hospital in central Japan was administered local anasthesia early last month, and began jerking around on the operation table, yelling at the doctor to stop.

A California graphic artist decides to catalog the colorful and unusual rantings of the official North Korean News Agency, KCNA. Reuters reports KCNA is the only regular source of the views of the secretive government of Kim Jong-il available to diplomats, journalists and scholars. But, there was no way for them to search the archives of KCNA until Geoff Davis, fighting boredom during a rainy San Francisco spring, decided to hone his Web design skills on a topic he followed in news reports on the North Korean nuclear crisis.

A researcher says that Native American tales describing a "Thunderbird" and a "Whale" point to "at least two massive quakes and tsunamis" that have hit the area in the last 1,100 years. Ruth Ludwin, a University of Washington researcher, has been working with seismologists, to look into the U. S. West Coast's "geomythology. "