Link Collection

Professor of medicine in Italy was determined to solve the mystery of MS when his wife was struck by the disease. His research suggests that MS is not an autoimmune condition, but instead a vascular disease! Using ultrasounds to examine the vessels leading in and out of the brain, he found that 90% of people with MS has malformed or blocked veins draining blood from the brain and the veins were normal in people without MS! Using a simple angioplasty-like operation he appears to have cured his wife and this procedure could cure and even prevent MS in others...I hope that the researchers studying this technique verify its effectiveness:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/researchers-labour-of-love-leads-to-ms-breakthrough/article1372414/

The Chinese Government has set ambitious battery production goals, looking to dominate another growth market:
http://green.autoblog.com/2009/11/26/chinese-government-sets-ambitious-battery-production-goals/

New system could protect US armored trucks against rocket-propelled grenades--they blast the rockets before they can hit the vehicle:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/new-bomb-resistant-trucks-will-blast-rpgs-before-they-hit/

Women in Britain get a 39-week paid Maternity leave for each child, and now 74% of women in Britain favor having employers being forced to give their female employees a 6+ month leave even if they do not have a child! I cannot see how this policy would be able to be implemented without devastating employers in the UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6243019/Women-without-children-should-be-allowed-maternity-leave-survey-says.html

Study found that the way that people flip coins makes it more likely to land facing the same side on which it started. The probability ranged from 51% to 60% depending on the way the person flipped the coin, but it was always more likely to land on the same side that it started:
http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers-headlines/ci_13579962?nclick_check=1

Golf course opened in the Australian Outback that is over 848 miles long, stretching from South Australia to Western Australia! The par-72 course takes 3 or 4 days to complete a round:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1199605/Nullabor-Links-Teeing-record-breaking-golf-course-good-driver-essential-850-miles-long.html

Dallas police officers have issued at least 38 tickets for drivers not speaking English well enough despite how no such law actually exists:
http://news.aol.com/article/dallas-police-cite-drivers-who-dont/735298

In order to fight against hunters illegally shooting at elk, Oregon is using a robotic elk to catch hunters that shoot illegally such as when it is not hunting season. Oregon has used a lot of deer, elk, antelope, bear and turkey decoys to try to catch hunters, but hunters have learned to make sure that something is moving before shooting...so, the new robotic elk move:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/12569286277050.xml&coll=6