NKorea Threats and Merill-Madoff Tie? and Whither GM? and More For Thursday, March 5, 2009

Nato to resume Russian contacts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7925944.stm

N Korea threatens civilian planes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7926149.stm

Lahore suspect sketches released

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7925501.stm

Newsweek: White House pushed for Rove, Miers deal

http://www.newsweek.com/id/187652

Rove, Miers to testify in prosecutor firings

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29516561/

Wal-Mart reports strong rise in sales

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29527453/

China 'faces most difficult year'



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7925193.stm



One in 8 U.S. households late paying or in foreclosure

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52442x-us-usa-housing-foreclosures/

Critics see understaffed, overwhelmed Treasury

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29518044/

Former Merrill execs invested in Madoff funds: report

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre524148-us-merrill-madoff/

China silent on extra stimulus, stands by growth aim

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5241s3-us-china-parliament/

'Substantial doubt' for GM future

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7926258.stm

Euro rates and growth outlook cut

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7925641.stm

Gamma Ray Burst Captured In Early Stages

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302120108.htm

Is Water And Life Under Olympus Mons, Mars?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304114246.htm

Olympus Mons

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



Space rock makes close approach

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7921279.stm

2009 DD45

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_DD45

First Virtual Reality Technology To Let You See, Hear, Smell, Taste And Touch

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304091227.htm

Quantum 'Spooky Action At A Distance' Observed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304091231.htm

Atomic Nucleus With Halo: Scientists Measure Size Of One-Neutron Halo With Lasers For First Time

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220075314.htm

Buckyballs Could Keep Water Systems Flowing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305080139.htm

Indoor Air Pollution? Samples From Couch Cushions And Drywall Reveal Chemicals Used In House

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303204545.htm

User info stolen from music site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7925455.stm

ToysRUs pays $5m for toys domain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7923433.stm

Power And The Illusion Of Control

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303171451.htm

Bionic eye gives blind man sight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7919645.stm

Anti-surveillance filmmaker plans eye-socket camera

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52441a-us-eyeborg/

Wyeth ruling may put spotlight on drug safety

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29515991/

Antibodies tackle severe asthma

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7922986.stm

Experts fret at stores' antibiotics giveaways

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29515330/

Two Food Additives Have Previously Unrecognized Estrogen-like Effects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302125924.htm

Simple Device Can Ensure Food Gets To The Store Bacteria Free

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302183323.htm

Is The Dead Sea Dying? Levels Dropping Fast

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304091514.htm

The Dead Sea

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

Lemurs: Secret Social Life Surprisingly Complex

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304091335.htm

Propithecus diadema

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

Oldest known wild jaguar in U.S. euthanized

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29529179/

Panthera onca

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

Pink dolphin appears in US lake

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html

Tursiops truncatus

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

Rare Java rhino captured on film

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7926184.stm

Rhinoceros sondaicus

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

Fossil of 10 million-year-old bird found in Peru

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29433376/


Life-saving Trend Discovered Among Seagulls

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220110914.htm

Tropical Lizards Can't Take The Heat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303193954.htm

Genetic Study Finds Treasure Trove Of New Lizards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303210053.htm

Frog's Immune System Is Key In Fight Against Killer Virus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090227122252.htm

Reverse 'Bad' Fish Evolution: Let Big Ones Go

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303193950.htm

Futuristic Seafood: Raising Delicious Cobia And Pompano Fish -- Inland

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220182248.htm

First Fossil Brain: Shark Relative That Lived 300 Million Years Ago Yields Very Rare Specimen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302183128.htm

Fish with human faces spotted in South Korea

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4929620/Fish-with-human-faces-spotted-in-South-Korea.html

Human Face Fish

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

Controversy Over World’s Oldest Traces Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216131450.htm

Highest Microbial Systems Fueled By Volcanoes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303112437.htm

Dancing black hole twins spotted

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7924414.stm

Newfound Moon: Source Of Outer Saturn Ring?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303125120.htm

Lower Atmosphere Of Pluto Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302133220.htm

Pluto

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

Archaeologists find statues of ancient Egypt king

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52429g-us-egypt-archaeology-discovery/

King Amenhotep III

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

2,500-year-old script puzzles experts


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29445240/

Pregnant for 60 years? Case of the stone baby

http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/04/1819649.aspx

Lithopedion

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

What The Romans Learned From Greek Mathematics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302090642.htm

Scientists Reconstruct An Ancient Greek Instrument, The Epigonion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305080734.htm

Epigonion

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

Brain Differences Found Between Believers In God And Non-believers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304160400.htm

Cricket 'was invented in Belgium'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7919429.stm