Asteroid Followed to Earth Impact and More for Thursday, March 26, 2009

Asteroid tracked from space to Earth for 1st time

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/25/asteroid-meteorite.html

2008 TC3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_TC3

Flood fears rise as water levels surge in Fargo

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/26/fargo-flood.html

Fargo, N.D., officials plead for more sandbaggers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29873706/

All Hands on Deck: Racing Against the River in North Dakota

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=7177299&page=1

Miss. tornado wreaks 'widespread damage'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29892965/

Jobless claims tally rises to a new record

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29893383/

Jobs disappearing faster than Tory stimulus can create: budget officer

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/25/page-stimulus-deficits.html

China fury at US military report

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7965084.stm

Congress launches battle on Obama budget

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n25428312-us-obama-budget/

Congress budget outlines close to Obama plan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29866429/

US economy sees quicker decline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7965791.stm

U.S. economy posts worst quarterly performance since 1982

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/26/us-gdp-q4-economy.html

Paying Back Billions: Is It Bad for Economy?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7173568&page=1

Autos task force to hand out more money

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29892438/

Credit-Crushed Consumers Decry Bailouts

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Economy/story?id=7160752&page=1

Schwarzenegger to Shutter 'Tent City'

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=7170967

France set to ban bank bonuses

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7965566.stm

Record decline hits Irish economy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7965664.stm

New gold rush: Party like it's 1849

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090326/sc_livescience/newgoldrushpartylikeits1849;_ylt=AjpsZIhbFkgLZDM9SPUtl1Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM3YzRqaGQ5BGFzc2V0A2xpdmVzY2llbmNlLzIwMDkwMzI2L25ld2dvbGRydXNocGFydHlsaWtlaXRzMTg0OQRjcG9zAzEwBHBvcwMxOARzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b


IBM to cut 5,000 jobs in U.S.: sources

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52o6bv-us-ibm-jobs/

IBM

http://www.ibm.com/

France, Canada poised for battle over Atlantic seabed rights

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/03/26/stpierre-france-canada.html

Iran accepts US Afghan invitation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7965529.stm

Protesters surround Thai govt. headquarters

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/26/thailand.protests/index.html

Clinton admits US blame on drugs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7963292.stm

Drug cartel stand-off in Mexico

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7965118.stm

Judge upholds most of award in flesh-eating case

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090325/ap_on_re_us/flesh_eating_bacteria_lawsuit;_ylt=AhgLb6kHa3LY.iWfKRzbJySs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkcDhkMGhhBHBvcwMxNDAEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA2p1ZGdldXBob2xkcw--

New Drug Kills Tumor Cells 200 Times Better

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132458.htm

Licorice Compound Offers New Cancer Prevention Strategy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324081433.htm

Fast Magnetic Fix For Sepsis? Micromagnetic-microfluidic Device Could Quickly Pull Pathogens From The Bloodstream

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325162621.htm

The Cough That Could Be Deadly

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=7165175&page=1

Esophageal cancer

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

'Crunch year' for world's forests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7963489.stm

Poland reverses to spare wetland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7962918.stm

U.S. funded nets killing whales, turtles off Africa

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29890406/

USAID

http://www.usaid.gov/

Raising The Alarm About Chimpanzee Massacre In The Democratic Republic Of Congo

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324111818.htm

Pan

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

2 rare clouded leopard cubs born at zoo in

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23679187/

Neofelis nebulosa

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


China puts rampant desert gerbils "on the pill"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7963836.stm

Gerbillinae

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

90 years of birdwatchers' notes going online

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/26/pp.bird.usgs/index.html

Biologists worry over increased turtle harvest

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090326/ap_on_bi_ge/turtle_harvest;_ylt=AqzhvPs0CNiYjT9FJofxNmgPLBIF

32 Komodo dragons hatch at Indonesian zoo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29876165/

Varanus komodoensis

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

Australia's Most Endangered Snake Might Need More Bush Burning

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324091207.htm

Hoplocephalus bungaroides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-Headed_Snake

Flesh-eating fish could pose threat

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/03/26/ldt.flesh.eating.fish.ped.cnn

Wild Bees Can Be Effective Pollinators

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131550.htm

Bid to aid daddy longlegs numbers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7963088.stm

Tilupidae

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

Giant Sea Worm Unmasked as Coral Killer

http://www.bluereefaquarium.co.uk/news-from-newquay/coral-worm.htm


Gene Exchange Among Sex-manipulating Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132450.htm

How Salmonella Survives In Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323101817.htm

New Possibilities For Hydrogen-producing Algae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171556.htm

Massive corporate farm venture planned for Western Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/03/26/corporate-farm.html

Windows Touch coming to a PC soon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7965513.stm

Ontario judge orders website to reveal identity data on anonymous posters

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/25/tech-090325-anonymous-posters.html

Radar tech takes aim at fruit frost

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29879240/

'Super grid' power cables readied for NYC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29880237/

Chemists Create More Efficient Palladium Fuel Cell Catalysts

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319102321.htm

Palladium

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

Fuel Cell

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

Periodic Table's Blank Spaces Filled In By Solving A Subatomic Shell Game

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323143912.htm

Cloud Computing Helps Scientists Run High Energy Physics Experiments

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131552.htm

Cloud Computing (Wikipage)

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

E-waste Reduced By Fees At Time Of Purchase, According To Study

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325162638.htm



Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

http://www.informs.org/

E-waste (Wikipage)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-waste

New Family Of Molecules For Self-assembly: The Carboranes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132504.htm

Carborane

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

Erratic Black Hole Regulates Itself

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325150617.htm

Cracking the Crusts of Neutron Stars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325185506.htm

The man who survived both atomic bombings

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7963581.stm

Braille silver dollar goes on sale

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/26/braille.coin/index.html

You Pay, Computer Prays For You

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090326/sc_livescience/youpaycomputerpraysforyou;_ylt=AknB1C2PkdwFjA_j84hAU84PLBIF

Victorian 'ghost' picked up by Google Street View

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/5051309/Victorian-ghost-picked-up-by-Google-Street-View.html

Twitter the Next? Pandemic, Global Crisis, and/or Global Melt? and More for Thursday, March 19, 2009

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7951838.stm

Prof John Beddington

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

Big melt seen in Antarctic past, and maybe future

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_sc/sci_antarctica_melt

Predicting The Next Pandemic Via Twitter?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/tech/cnettechnews/main4874828.shtml

World economy 'to shrink in 2009'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7952377.stm

New Mexico Abolishes Death Penalty

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/national/main4874296.shtml

Poll: Americans fear losing their quality of life

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/19/poll.standard.of.living/index.html

Number Of U.S. Births Breaks Record

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/national/main4873969.shtml

Official: US to release data unless harm foreseen

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/obama_freedom_of_information

Fed launches $1.2 trillion bid to revive economy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29707055/

Food industry safety inspections challenged

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_co/salmonella_outbreak

Some AIG bonuses already repaid, says CEO ahead of Congress vote

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/18/aig-tax-back.html

The Cost of AIG 'Hysteria'

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/03/the-cost-of-aig.html

How Fed failed to tell Obama of bonuses

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29767653/

Dodd: Administration sought bonus changes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29771223/

13 firms receiving bailouts owe back taxes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29773472/

Scientists grow diabetes drug in tobacco plants

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i047-us-tobacco-medicine/

Interleukin-10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin-10

Nicotiana

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

GE sees finance unit profitable in 2009

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i46a-us-ge-capital/

Dollar slides after US Fed plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7952319.stm

From Hedge Funds to Pizza: One Man's Fall


http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7111098&page=1

Online game gets real-world banking license

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29760522/

Entropia Universe

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

Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority

http://www.fi.se/Default____3.aspx

EU to debate extra stimulus calls

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7952557.stm

U.S. workers on jobless benefits at record high

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i3qc-us-usa-economy-jobless/

Weekly jobless claims fall more than expected

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29771904/

Oil: Low prices are behind us

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/markets/oil_prices/index.htm?cnn=yes

Foreclosure hunters go in for the kill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29744491/

What's hot at the pawnshop

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29762007/

FedEx profit tumbles on global slump

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i3c8-us-fedex/

Big jump in online banking fraud

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7952598.stm

DNA test advances bring more to justice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7951652.stm

Israel troops admit Gaza abuses

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7952603.stm

Political voice against Taliban killed in Afghan bombing

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/19/afghanistan-wrap.html

Dad Mohammad Khan

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

North Korea 'holds US reporters'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7951982.stm

New nationwide strike hits France

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7951949.stm

Thousands in Argentina protest crime

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/19/argentina.crime/index.html

Iranian satellite completes mission: state TV

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i34p-us-iran-satellite/

Moral dilemma A US Iraq veteran seeks asylum in Germany

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7951403.stm

Army suicides blamed on long deployments

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29762957/

Particle Oddball Surprises Physicists

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318140618.htm

Physicists Offer New Theory For Iron Compounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312165208.htm

Iron-based superconductor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron-based_superconductor


Interaction Between Supersonic Fuel Spray And Its Shock Wave Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312134641.htm

Carbon Nanomaterials In Hydrogen Storage: Nano-sized But Big As Catalyst

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312093702.htm

Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/19/google-reader.html

Microsoft launches latest browser

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7952505.stm

Safety call after E.coli inquiry

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7950574.stm

CFIA adds 3 products to needle-recall list

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/19/cfia-guelph.html

Risk-free virtual anaesthetics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7948300.stm

How 'minor' head injuries turn serious

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/18/brain.injury/index.html

More Evidence For Inherited Intelligence

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317142841.htm

Wildlife center heals survivors of Australia fires

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29769243/

Sexy Beasts: Apes Make Love, Not War

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=7114519&page=1

Pan paniscus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
Is The Hippopotamus The Closest Living Relative To The Whale?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318153803.htm

Hippopotamidae

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

Indohyus

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

Badgers to be given anti-TB jabs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7952282.stm

Melinae

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

Mycobacterium bovis

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

Bat's fate after shuttle launch appears grim

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29754578/

Tadarida brasiliensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Free-tailed_Bat

Rare reptile hatchling found on NZ mainland

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_re_au_an/as_new_zealand_rare_reptile;_ylt=Ao5BuTb7J1m6.ORMBiWUxfGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhMDFtNmxwBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3JhcmVyZXB0aWxlaA--

Sphenondon

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

Dinosaurs may have been fuzzy, not scaly, a fossil find suggests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7950871.stm

Behind the scenes at The Walking with Dinosaurs live show

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7951777.stm

Killing Young Fish: Population Growth Paradox

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317143155.htm

Mont. Man Ties State Record By Catching Tiny Fish

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/19/ap/strange/main4875591.shtml

Dying bees 'were not a priority'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7951009.stm

Microscope Reveals How Soil Bacteria 'Breathe' Toxic Metals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316151031.htm

Missing Piece Of Plant Clock Found

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312150729.htm

Food supplies reach Arctic team

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7952165.stm

Topple Somali leader - Bin Laden

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7952310.stm

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

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

Milder Atlantic hurricane season predicted

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/03/18/hurricane.forecast/index.html

Lessons From Hurricane Rita Not Practiced During Hurricane Ike

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090313110752.htm

Hurricane Rita

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

Hurricane Ike

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

Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients For Atlanta's Perfect Storm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311111013.htm

2008 Atlanta Tornado Outbreak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Atlanta_tornado_outbreak

Ozone: New Simulation Shows Consequences Of A World Without Earth's Natural Sunscreen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319090754.htm

Ozone layer

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

Ozone depletion

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

Montreal Protocol

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

Underwater volcano erupts off Tonga

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7952030.stm

Earth's Crust Melts Easier Than Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318140520.htm

Cosmic Log: A new cosmos on the Web

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/18/1841864.aspx

Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

Surprising Changes In Black Hole-powered 'Blazar' Galaxy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318162624.htm

PKS 2155-304

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKS_2155-304

Key To Happiness Is Gratitude, And Men May Be Locked Out

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090313145939.htm

Monk's feet leave lasting impression

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7951993.stm

'Prophet Muhammad carpet' set for auction

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7952003.stm

Where's Ecuador? Not on new Brazilian school map

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090317/K031702AU.html

Pope to Muslims: Religion rejects violence

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29768210/