Good News Or Bad News?

I am on the fence on whether or not the following article is good news:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101203/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_high_speed_rail

The train would certainly get you where you were going fast, almost as fast as airplanes. But a crash at the high of speed? Would their be survivors?

I'm also on the fence on whether or not the following is good or bad news:

http://www.aolhealth.com/2010/12/01/finger-length-could-point-to-prostate-cancer-risk/?icid=main%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk1%7C187781

My ring finger is longer than my index finger. Not by much but still bigger.

The following article I would classify as good news:

http://www.aolhealth.com/condition-center/arthritis/celebrex-skin-cancer-prevention/?icid=main%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk3%7C187781

Well maybeit isn't good news because a lot of people had to suffer from arthritis before the discovery was made.

Are the articles good news or bad news? Any other comments are also appreciated.

PS

Following the Who Are We is a picture of me in the previously mentioned Canali Suit. It isn't a very good picture. Trust me, I do have a neck. Mom can't stand long enough to take a picture so she took the picture while sitting down and I was looking down at the camera.


WHO ARE WE?

We began in late 1917 when General Pershing's appeal for bilingual telephone-switchboard operators was published in newspapers throughout the United States. It was called an "Emergency Appeal" and specifically requested that women who held the position of switchboard operators be sworn into the U.S. Army. These women were to be subject to all Army regulations, including Court-Martial, as well as another ten rules designed to assure their moral character. Married women were accepted if not married to anyone serving overseas. It was expected we be twenty-five years old. There were few among the 700 volunteers who spoke French. In selecting the first 300, the age requirement and even the switchboard training was waived, for two sisters who had moved from France to the United States, when their widowed mother had married an American. They were 18 and 20. A 19-year-old American of French-Canadian origin also volunteered, she had played piano for dance-bands throughout the Thumb District of Michigan, for six years, since the age of thirteen, and she knew all the World War One popular music. While sailing "Over There" on the S.S. Olympic, which had been placed in quarantine at Southampton, England for two weeks because of the Spanish Influenza pandemic, she entertained the troops. When she was asked by a Red Cross official to accept a position touring camps and hospitals to entertain, she replied that she was in the Army under orders for the duration of the War. When us girls returned to the United States and applied for our honorable discharges we were told they could not have been sworn into the Army, because U.S. Army regulations stated that "males" were sworn in, and said nothing about "persons," as the U.S. Navy regulations had. "Yeomanettes" who served in the United States during WWI, were therefore considered veterans, but not the U.S. Army Signal Corps women, who had served Over There. From 1930 to 1978 we introduced bills into Congress, which had actually given Citations for Bravery to ten of us, to give us our honorable discharges. The ten of us that had received Citations for Bravery were in a building that had caught fire from bombardment and we had been ordered to leave the switchboards. We believed the order for our safety to have been in consideration of our gender and continued to operate until the fire was so threatening that GHQ threatened Court Martial if we did not leave our posts. We were back in an hour after the fire was put out. A Seattle lawyer volunteered his services to help us get our honorable discharges. He and us received help from several Congresspersons, who introduced the bill that gave them recognition of our status, on the 60th anniversary of the Armistice. For the seventy of us still alive, there was nation-wide coverage in the newspapers, but our story has still not been told in the history books. Each of us remaining were visited by a General of the U. S. Army and handed our Honorable Discharge in a ceremony at her home. Who are we?