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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Cyberspy Network Uncovered and Spain Investigates Bushies and More for Sunday, March 29, 2009


Anchorage Airport closed as volcanic ash falls

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/29/alaska.volcano/index.html

Mount Redoubt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Redoubt_(Alaska)

Geithner defends bank relief plan


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Timothy Franz Geithner

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

Want a Job? Ask a Billionaire

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7183692&page=1

US school swamped by flood river

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7970760.stm

2009 Red River Flood

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

Leaders stress need for G20 unity

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7970660.stm

EU warns Spain over development

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7965912.stm

Judge OKs investigation of Bush officials

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/29/gonzales.spain.gitmo/index.html

Ex-Official: Bush Panicked After 9/11

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/politics/main4897315.shtml?source=mostpop_story

Spanish court weighs U.S. torture case

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29933497/

Afghan leader 'can stay in power'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7970883.stm

Hamid Karzai

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

10 colonoscopy patients have hepatitis, VA says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29916792/

Hepatitis

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

College closes after virus sickens 100

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29933995/

Babson

http://www.babson.edu/

Norovirus

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

Film sheds light on shadowy world of germ warfare

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/f-tech-090327-anthrax-war.html

Anthrax War (documentary)

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/anthraxwar/

Biological Warfare

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

Structure Of Protein That Makes Cancer Cells Resistant To Chemotherapy Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141555.htm

Smokers face a hit as tobacco taxes spike

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_go_ot/tobacco_tax;_ylt=AkH.vdjT7r04CWbDD1305e2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhN2dlanA3BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3Ntb2tlcnNmYWNlYQ--

Insight Into The Way Nicotine Works In The Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161121.htm

Nicotine

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

Health Canada puts foot down on electronic cigarettes

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/27/electronic-smoking.html


Time (and PPAR-beta/delta) Heals All Wounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323092709.htm

Researchers Pump Up Artificial Muscles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163057.htm

Hollow Gold Nanospheres Show Promise For Biomedical And Other Applications

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090322154415.htm

New Device Helps Control Disease-causing Ticks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328152625.htm

Ixodes scapularis

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

Amblyomma americanum

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

U.S. to push for U.N. climate deal

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52q2ck-us-climate/

Solar Activity And Climate Change: New Sun-Watching Satellite To Monitor Sunlight Fluctuations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163643.htm

Glory satellite mission profile

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=GLORY

Atlantic Warming Mainly Due To Dust Reduction?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141553.htm

Airborne Acid May Help Soot Turn Into Cloud Seeds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325155535.htm

Climate Change Redraws the Map

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=7191533&page=1

Recruited to serve and sniff — again

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29941206/

Canis lupus familiaris

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

Weekend Window: Sandhill Crane Migration

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7189778&page=1

Grus canadensis

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

Zoo reports rare captive birth of Asian bird

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29917044/

Garrulax leucolophus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-crested_Laughingthrush

American Birds Sending Troubling Message About The Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323113103.htm

Study Assesses Impact Of Fish Stocking On Aquatic Insects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326162749.htm

Termites Can Reproduce Sexually And Asexually

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141549.htm

Isoptera

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

Nobel laureate Obama adviser on a new era for science in the US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7968205.stm

Harold E. Varmus

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

Keeping Golf Courses Green When Fresh Water Is Limited

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090321103813.htm

Wind powered car breaks record

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7968860.stm

Land Sailing

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

MTV and YouTube go head to head

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7967908.stm

Human flight to Mars experiment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7969169.stm

Russian spaceship docks despite engine failure

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52r11w-us-russia-iss-docking/

Virtual Flyover Of Saturn's Moon Titan

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163312.htm

Titan

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

Castle figure wins 'ghostly' competition (…even this one gave us the “creeps”…)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7967575.stm

Tantallon Castle

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

King James V of Scotland


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

Edinburgh International Science Festival

http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/About-Us

Hauntings: The Science of Ghosts

http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/Events/Preview-events/Hauntings-The-Science-of-Ghosts

Hauntings: The Science of Ghosts: Experiments.

http://www.richardwiseman.com/hauntings2/experiments

The Science of Ghosts: Project Website

http://scienceofghosts.wordpress.com/

NY Company To Launch Mexican-made Kosher Tequila

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/ap/strange/main4898792.shtml

'Dumb' thief picks police summit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7969934.stm


Economic crisis prompts Spanish vote to cancel bullfighting festival

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7969868.stm

Space smells funny, astronauts say

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29921131/


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Friday, March 27, 2009

The Coming War With North Korea? and Russia Militarizes the Arctic and More for Friday, March 27, 2009

U.S., Japan mobilize for N. Korean launch (Hoping that a nuclear holocaust doesn’t follow….)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/27/north.korea.us.ships/index.html

Japan OK's deployment of missile defence system

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/27/north-korea-missile-japan-military-mobilization.html

Japan to 'destroy' N Korea rocket

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7967202.stm

Japan readies defenses for North Korea rocket launch

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52o4oc-us-korea-north/

Israel: 'Iron Dome' rocket shield test a success (...speaking of N Korea...)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/27/israel.rocket.shield/index.html

New Wheat Disease Could Spread Faster Than Expected

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132147.htm

Puccinia striiformis var. striiformis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puccinia_striiformis_var._striiformis

Alarming New Data Shows TB-HIV Co-infection A Bigger Threat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131600.htm

CIA transnational health and economic activities

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

FAA Wants Bird Strike Records Confidential (….ummm, safety first guys?...Oh, and what was that thing President Obama said about transparency in government? We think he might have really meant that…)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/national/main4897075.shtml

Residents flee as Red River rises

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

N.D. River 22 Feet Higher Than Flood Level

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/Weather/story?id=7187050&page=1

Canadian military on standby to battle Manitoba flood

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/03/26/mb-flood-military.html

Deflation stalks Japan, resentment rises before G20

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52m16g-us-financial/

Obama's economic remedies may face pushback at G20

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52q0u3-us-obama-g20/

Obama to meet with bank CEOs on recovery

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29911655/

Key Senate panel backs Obama's budget plan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29892867/

Senate Budget Committee

http://budget.senate.gov/

Senate Budget Committee

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

Obama To Be On "Face The Nation"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/link/blog/main4895696.shtml

What Good News? Pink Slips Still Pour In (…we got our last paycheck months ago…oh, and no ui benefits, either…)

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7182496&page=1

More States See Double-Digit Unemployment

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/business/main4896889.shtml

Overcoming Being Over 55 When Job-Seeking

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/earlyshow/series/jobsquad/main4896796.shtml

Regulators (CA) investigating credit card industry

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/26/competition-credit.html

U.S. consumer spending rises 0.2 percent

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52q2xi-us-usa-economy-spending/

House price decline accelerates

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7967715.stm

Fed Reserve Ad Warns About Foreclosure Scams

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7188462

US plans to rein in Wall Street

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7966023.stm

Death Threats and the Other AIG Outrage

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7184097&page=1

Video: Lawmakers get cash from bailout firms

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Madoff’s U.K. outfit played big role in swindle

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29912610/

Madoff investment scandal

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

CAW, Chrysler fail to reach deal, face March 31 deadline for public cash

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/27/caw-chrysler-bargaining.html

Quebec orders police to turn in Tasers

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/03/27/mtl-quebec-taser-recall-0327.html

Obama's new Afghan plan to target al Qaeda havens

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52p7co-us-afghanistan/

Obama's Afghan goal: Dismantle al-Qaida

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29898698/

Al-Qaeda (Wikipedia Page Link)

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

4,000 new troops, more civilian experts for Afghanistan, says Obama

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/27/obama-afghanistan-plan-troops.html

Watchdog rejects government bid to delay Afghan detainee inquiry

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/26/mpcc-detainee-transfer.html

U.S. Official: Mexico Not Near Collapse

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/world/main4895934.shtml

Dennis C. Blair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_C._Blair

China ready to contribute to IMF

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7967706.stm

Hormone-mimics In Plastic Water Bottles Act As Functional Estrogens

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326100714.htm

Indonesia dam burst kills dozens

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7967205.stm

International torch relays banned

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/7967284.stm

Russian 'Arctic military' plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7967973.stm

How to Rescue a Choking Child

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7181390

China: Hand, foot and mouth virus kills 18 kids

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090327/ap_on_re_as/as_china_child_virus;_ylt=Aki9kAADA.brv2swjDOaJFms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkcnZ2aDJrBHBvcwMxMzkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA2NoaW5haGFuZGZvbw--

HFMD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease

When It Comes To Intelligence, Size Matters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132531.htm

Steaming hot tea linked to cancer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7965380.stm

Steaming-hot tea linked to throat cancer

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29912977/

Vets Get Disease Scare Over Colonoscopies (…it shouldn’t happen to a dog, wait a minute, couldn’t they train dogs to sniff out the filth?...)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4896815.shtml

Colonoscopy

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

Experimental Ebola Vaccine Used On Human

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4897190.shtml

Inadequate Vitamin D Levels Linked To High Use Of Narcotic Medication By Patients In Chronic Pain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320112114.htm

Charge laid in Ontario needles-in-meat case

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/27/guelph-meat.html

Is there danger lurking in your lunch?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29877087/

It smells OK, but is it safe to eat?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29364632/

10 ways to get a really good sleep

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7967968.stm

Drug Used To Treat Skin Conditions Is A Marine Pollutant

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101612.htm

Clotrimazole

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

Gorging on omega-3 fats lets birds get fit without exercise: study (…they didn’t have to lift a wing…)

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/tech-090327-omega-3-quail.html

Omega-3 fatty acid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3s

New theory blames cosmic rays for helping CFCs deplete ozone

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/23/tech-090323-ozone-hole-cosmic-rays.html

Feds fund 8 carbon capture projects in Western Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/26/cgy-carbon-capture-projects-funding.html

Nanoparticles In Cosmetics, Personal Care Products May Have Adverse Environmental Effects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326162747.htm

Awareness Of Darwin Not Evolving

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327072909.htm

Charles Darwin

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

...speaking of Darwin... Evolution’s backers hail Texas vote

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29902944/

Scientists find safer way to make human stem cells

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52p5wr-us-stemcells-safety/

Does Prebiotic Material Exist In Space?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326152507.htm

Why Animals Migrate: New Understandings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141543.htm

Dogs can find your cash or hunt whales (…Did you hear the one about the dog who was into astronomy? He sniffed out Uranus. Groannnnn….we know…that one was a stinker….groannnn….there you go again…)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/27/mf.dog.sniffing/index.html

Dogs (not chimps) most like humans

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29895614/

Canis lupus familiaris

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

Pan

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

Gorilla Gets MRI At Bronx Zoo

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326134018.htm

Gorilla gorilla gorilla

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

Bobby Murcer Mobile MRI Unit

http://waswatching.com/2008/11/16/the-bobby-murcer-mobile-mri-unit/

Bobby Ray Murcer

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

How Lizards Can Shed Their Tail When Attacked

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325170604.htm

Extermination day nears for toxic toads (...a toad offing is in the offing...)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29895745/

Bufo marinus

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

Crabs 'sense and remember pain' (...remember that next time you order the crab legs...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7966807.stm

Paguroidea

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

Blind Cavefish Inspire Next-generation Sensors (When we checked this article, we found that the blind cave fish referenced was Astyanax fasciatus – which FishBase.org reports as the “Banded Astyanax” Which does not appear to be a blind fish at all. We did further checking and found listed in FishBase the Australian Blind Cave Fish known as Astyanax jordani. See below. (We did email Science Daily).

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101745.htm

Astyanax fasciatus

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=8080&genusname=Astyanax&speciesname=fasciatus

Astyanax jordani

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6181

Millions of fish shoal in seconds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7966335.stm

Clupea

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

Why Certain Fishes Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326134020.htm

A flower on the moon?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/26/1867485.aspx

New Technique Used To Profile Anthrax Genome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320102134.htm

RNA-Seq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-Seq

The Top 7 Wonders of Google Earth

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=7173640&page=1

Pourable batteries could store green power

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29900981/

New Nanogenerator May Charge IPods And Cell Phones With A Wave Of The Hand

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326114403.htm

Flowing blood could power cell phones

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29900077/

New Listening Device Should Help Find Trapped Miners

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326084756.htm

AT&T to start sending copyright warnings

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29904298/

North West Tidal Barrages Could Provide 5% Of UK's Electricity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325092203.htm

Fuel efficiency standards hiked for 2011

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29903330/

Tesla unveils four-door electric sedan

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52p72y-us-tesla-models/

Tesla Motors

http://www.teslamotors.com/

Dewdrop-sized Motes Serve As Invisible Security Guards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326120839.htm

Zinc Oxide Gives Green Shine To New Photoconductors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318171158.htm

Zinc Oxide

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

Social sites dent privacy efforts


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7967648.stm

High-speed Signal Mixer Demonstrates Capabilities Of Transistor Laser

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319132925.htm

Why Is There More Matter Than Antimatter In The Natural World?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132855.htm

Slower spin 'made moon's bulge'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7965332.stm

Iapetus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(astronomy)

Asteroid Impact Helps Trace Meteorite Origins

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325142507.htm

Radio astronomy gets grant boost

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7965873.stm

Chinese 'find' radioactive ball (...was it red?...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7967285.stm

Italian dig uncovers "oldest" temple in Cyprus

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52q2sa-us-cyprus-antiquities/

Verdict due in Lucky Dube killing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7967406.stm

Federal government: Star of YouTube, Flickr?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29882992/

Neuronal Cause Of 'Money Illusion': Inflation Felt To Be Not So Bad As A Wage Cut (…I always thought money was an illusion…)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323211919.htm

Would You Trust a Condom Made in China? (…we’d rather use a balloon…)

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=7181080&page=1

Loch Ness Monster Obsession Lives On

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AroundTheWorld/story?id=7185124&page=1

Does Satan Exist? Debating the Devil (…just look at my ex-boss, for example…)

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=7170007&page=1

Hallucinating in Church

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7187766

speaking of that…N.Y. agrees to ease state's harsh Rockefeller drug laws

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1049778

and…Pot-related questions deluge W.H.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20526;_ylt=AiyHAtSlQPO74haAIJSbO_0DW7oF

'Missing' woman lay dead in home 7 years

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/03/27/ca.dead.home.years.kgo

KPTV: Sinkhole swallows girl playing ball

http://www.kptv.com/cnn-news/19024524/detail.html

New York gallery owner charged in $88M theft, fraud

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/03/27/art-gallery-theft-fraud-salander.html

Lawrence Salander (…please note the misspelling of “sued” in the Wiki article…)

Duct tape, zip-lock bags: Astronaut chef on space cooking
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