For Tuesday December 16, 2008

Weather Spreads Misery Coast to Coast

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6469408

Reports Paint Grim U.S. Economic Picture

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/16/business/main4670974.shtml

WDIV: Detroit papers cut back to 3 days

http://www.clickondetroit.com/cnn-news/18288845/detail.html

"Pay To Play" Probe Hits New Mexico

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/16/politics/washingtonpost/main4671020.shtml

Goldman Sachs reports huge loss

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7785819.stm

SEC Under Scrutiny in Madoff Case

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStreet/story?id=6467870&page=1

Auto bailout could be announced by Wednesday

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b50cl-us-autos-bailout/

Majority opposes Detroit auto bailout

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28248202/

Big 3 woes don’t give Japan’s automakers joy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28241203/

Democrats prepare hurdle to bank bailout

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4be6ae-us-bailout-pelosi-foreclosure/

Consumer prices plunge at a record rate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28252040/

Housing starts drop by most in quarter-century

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28252314/

Pesticides In Fruit-based Drinks Outside U.S.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215151003.htm

China bans lye, boric acid as food additives

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28241158/

Explosives found in Paris store

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7785440.stm

11 missing after plane vanishes en route to N.Y.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28252151/

Shoe thrower 'beaten in custody'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7785338.stm

Iraq shoe-thrower in hospital with broken arm: brother

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4be28q-us-iraq-bush-shoes/

Iraqi Shoe Thrower Hates U.S. & Iran

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6469645

U.S. Doctors Perform Face Transplant

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/16/health/main4671039.shtml

What's Behind The Mystery Cancer Cluster?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/15/eveningnews/main4670728.shtml



FDA nixes proposed ‘prescription pistol’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28116693/

Natural-Born Healers? Top 10 Products

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=6467771&page=1

Coke Pushes Stevia Without FDA OK

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/wireStory?id=6466108

Stevia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia

Nixing Nausea When Flu Strikes

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6041191

Serious security flaw found in IE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm

China 'blocks BBC Chinese website'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7785248.stm

China: Blocking some Web sites is lawful

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28253208/

Guy makes big money off YouTube

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/12/16/intv.buckley.youtube.cnn

Australian lawyer serves legal papers via Facebook

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7785004.stm

Firemen free boy from safe

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7785378.stm

Goose Eggs May Help Polar Bears Weather Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215111303.htm

Fresh bird flu outbreak in India

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7784947.stm

Decline in Scotland's corncrakes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7784737.stm

Crex crex

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corncrake

Hawaii's Bird Family Tree Rearranged

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211121827.htm

Time: Mapping the rats in New York City

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1866594,00.html

Rare New Mexico fish to swim free in Texas

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/ap_on_sc/endangered_minnow_release;_ylt=Aoie_Q2j_NxI3jXFtUAEPxSs0NUE

Hybognathus amarus

http://fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6121

Ocean Fish Farming Harms Wild Fish, Study Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215091017.htm

Toxic Brown Recluse Spiders Pose Danger As They Look To Move In For The Winter

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215121557.htm

Loxosceles reclusa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider

Tiny Ecosystem May Shed Light On Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215121555.htm

The big melt: 2 trillion tons of ice gone since '03

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28249708/


Rise in CO2 'affects jumbo squid'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7783971.stm

Warming Signals Big Changes For Ski Areas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215121632.htm

Tour of Sellafield's futuristic nuclear lab

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7780725.stm

Sellafield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield

Experienced Pilots May Be At Risk Of DNA Damage From Ionizing Radiation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210205048.htm

Enceladus has 'spreading surface'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7784902.stm

Enceladus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus_(moon)

Solar Flare Surprise: Intact Hydrogen Atoms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215121609.htm

Phoenix probe sheds new light on Mars weather

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bf0aa-us-space-mars/

Ocean-bearing Planets: Looking For Extraterrestrial Life In All The Right Places

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215091011.htm

Boundary Between Earth's Upper Atmosphere And Space Has Moved To Extraordinarily Low Altitudes, NASA Instruments Document

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215121601.htm

Titan's Volcanoes Give NASA Spacecraft Chilly Reception

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215194108.htm

Titan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)

Space Spotlight: Meet the Sombrero Galaxy

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/12/16/space.spotlight/index.html

Sombrero Galaxy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombrero_Galaxy

Heavy snorers may 'burn up more calories'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7785118.stm

Why we yawn: To cool our brains

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28240615/