Dardoz gets stuck in

I don’t watch TV very often, but earlier tonight I turned it on, flicked around until I hit Channel 4 and a show called ‘The smallest people in the world’. It was a documentary dealing with Primordial Dwarfism, a condition I had never even heard of until a couple of hours ago.

I don’t actually remember the last time something moved me as much as this program, and more specifically, the young people that the documentary was based on. It features Danny (3′6″ at 17),
Hannah (2′10″ at 10), Brianna (2′3″ at 16) and Bradley (3′2″ at 14). Brianna is actually smaller than her 20 month old cousin.
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Sixteen-year-old Matthew Bandy was a normal 16 year old, living in a small suburban town in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. At least that was until a couple of years ago loud knocking spelled the start of a titanic struggle against the charges laid against him. Charges which could lead to 90 years imprisonment.

The knocking was the police. Matthew Bandy was charged with possession of 9 exlicit pictures of a minor and placed under house arrest until his trial. He was fitted with an electronic tag around his ankle, not allowed to go anywhere where there may be children, and not allowed to even attend his local church without getting written consent from his parish priest.
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British scientists have developed a genetically modified chicken… Actually, scrap that, they have developed 5 GENERATIONS of them who’s eggs fight cancer. Now, I know you’ve got little pictures of an egg kind of like Pus’N'boots from Shrek in your head right now, with a cap and holding a sabre but it’s not quite that exciting.

The eggs in fact contain proteins that are essential for the body to fight cancer. Dr Helen Sang has poured 15 years or her life into perfecting these genetically modified birds to the point where she has bread 500 in the current crop.

The chickens lay the eggs, secreting the proteins into the egg whites, allowing them to be extracted and purified.