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Archive for May 15th, 2007

What If? - Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons co-founded the rock band Kiss in 1973. He runs a marketing and promotion partnership that concentrates on auto racing events.
What was your first job?
I delivered the Long Island Star Journal in Jackson Heights, Queens–known as the Long Island Press on Sundays. Later, I picked up a second route, since I could put those [...]

What if maggots could treat diabetic patients?

Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA and found all but one were cured within a mean period of three weeks, much quicker than the 28-week duration for the conventional treatment.
Professor Boulton, who published the results in the journal [...]

What if a stranger brought you back to life?

A Stoneham teen just home from the hospital says she owes her life to an off-duty Boston FBI agent who gave her CPR after she was struck by a car and left covered in blood as her traumatized friends stood frozen in fear.
Good Samaritan Pete Bickmore, 49, was on his way to get ice cream [...]

What if you met the abandoned baby you cared for 66 years later?

THE first time they met, she was an 18-year-old nurse and he was a two-day-old abandoned baby.
John Hilton, now 66, was left on a railway platform wrapped in a woollen shawl inside a cardboard box. Critically ill, he spent three years in hospital before being adopted.
John’s story, revealed in the M.E.N., caught the eye of [...]

What if? - History May 15

On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. (Go to article.)
1886 Poet Emily Dickinson died at age 55.
1911 The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1918 U.S. airmail began service [...]