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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Overpopulation Warning and Plan to Bankrupt GM and More for Wednesday, April 1, 2009

This could be our last posting – or one of our last postings. No, this is not an April Fool’s posting. Most all of the links posted below are believed to be on the up-and-up.

April Fool’s Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fool%27s_Day

The joke’s on you: Beware of Web hoaxes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29978402/

When did April Fool's Day begin?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29975985/

Strong earthquake hits Papua New Guinea coast

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090401/wl_asia_afp/pngindonesiaquake2ndlead;_ylt=AoNkXmvV17PEsOVHCd8auR0PLBIF

Papua New Guinea

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

Earth population 'exceeds limits'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7974995.stm

Nina Fedoroff

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

N. Korea Vows To Shoot Down Spy Planes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/world/main4909234.shtml

North Korea launch will violate U.N. resolutions: officials

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090401/wl_nm/us_korea_north;_ylt=AgqJZARhGpVCrCv0nYI2U_IPLBIF

New RFID Technology Tracks And Monitors Nuclear Materials

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324151951.htm

U.S. plans to ease GM into bankruptcy: report

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre530107-us-autos-report-sb/

U.S. plans key role in naming GM board

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29986112/

Airline grounds 60 jets for safety inspections

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/01/jets.grounded/index.html

CRJ200 planes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_CRJ200

Investors seek ouster of AIG compensation chief

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53016o-us-aig-compensation/

Police close off London financial district amid massive G20 protest

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/01/g20-protests-london034.html

'Death to Capitalism!' Frustration, Violence Boil Over at G-20 (…not an April Fool’s joke…)

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7226322&page=1

G20 call for action amid protests (…cries of “Abolish Money!” heard…a cry to anarchy?...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7975851.stm

Obama downplays G20 split on eve of summit

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l1932997-us-g20-obama/

Protesters attack London bank

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29987885/

Once-booming U.K. loses its swagger

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29960322/

Russia and US renew nuclear talks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7976875.stm

Obama seeks common fix to global problems

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29985932/

Obama nominee admits tax errors

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7976299.stm

Kathleen Sebelius

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

PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_tax_promise;_ylt=AjiPZsv2hSbv7BKwqzpl4Pis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlOWZnYzRtBHBvcwM3NARzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3BvbGl0aWNzBHNsawNwcm9taXNlc3Byb20-

Penn Jillette: Obama skidding or crashing?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/01/jillette.skid/index.html

GAO: Geithner Wrong, Only $32.6B in TARP

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/04/gao-says-geithn.html

Construction spending falls for 5th month

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29991120/

U.S. manufacturing activity shrank in March

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990970/

Honda Canada March sales slide 23%

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/04/01/auto-sales-march.html

Govt. Offers URL to Those Down and Out

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7222898&page=1

A Guide to Getting Through Tough Economic Times

http://www.samhsa.gov/economy/

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Sleep Problems May Have Suicide Link

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/wireStory?id=7223665


Israel FM rejects Palestinian deal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7977002.stm

Avigdor Lieberman

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

Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue (…was this an April Fools joke?...note the position of the er, ummm, ahhh, “exit wound”…)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7976883.stm

Lenin

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

Deadly 'US drone strike' in Pakistan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7975871.stm

Rio de Janeiro Plans to Wall in Slums

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7222727

Rio de Janeiro

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

Mass. charges Madoff ‘feeder fund’ with fraud

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29992021/

Madoff's Yacht Seized In Florida

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/cbsnews_investigates/main4910316.shtml

Stanford denies wrongdoing

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29989167/

Justice Department seeks to drop Stevens case

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29988577/

First Ever Video Of Dynamics Of Carbon Atoms

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

OnLive games service 'will work'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7976206.stm

OnLive

http://www.onlive.com/

Thin speaker offers 'crisp sound'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7976991.stm

FDA cracks down on unapproved painkillers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29978495/

Brush your teeth, it could prevent a heart attack

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990146/

Walgreens giving free care to jobless and uninsured

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/walgreen_clinics;_ylt=AlskHrHCEKLQdkP.mnP47ZsDW7oF

New Insights Into How Brain Responds To Viral Infection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133341.htm

Stem Cell Breakthrough: 'Switch' Created That Turns Stem Cells Into Muscle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330154806.htm

Amniotic Fluid May Provide New Source Of Stem Cells For Future Therapies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112645.htm

Mechanism That Regulates Movement Of Blood-forming Stem Cells In The Body Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325142509.htm

Stem cell

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

Amniotic fluid

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

Drug-resistant TB is a ‘time bomb,’ WHO says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990199/

Bill Gates, China Join Forces Against TB

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/health/main4909669.shtml

Discovery Of Tuberculosis Bacterium Enzyme Paves Way For New TB Drugs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327152401.htm

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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

How infection may spark leukemia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7973678.stm

Leukemia

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

Pregnancy With Male Fetus Riskier, Study Claims

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112729.htm

People who live in the tropics have more baby girls

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7972993.stm

Talking in color: imaging helps social skills

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53000z-us-computer-autism/

Salmonella Fear Prompts Mayonnaise Recall

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/health/main4909585.shtml

Raw pistachios may be the source of salmonella

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29978103/

Pistachio warning could signal food safety shift

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990231/

Ecologists Question Effects Of Climate Change On Infectious Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401112448.htm

Climate change 'fans Nepal fires'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7968745.stm

Nitrate Stimulates Greenhouse Gas Production In Small Streams

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330111259.htm

Can 'biochar' save the planet?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/30/biochar.warming.energy/index.html

Biochar

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

Predicting Mosquito Outbreaks For Disease Control

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101757.htm

Anopheles

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



Satellite Snow Maps Help Reindeer Herders Adapt To A Changing Arctic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401102938.htm

Arctic

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

Rangifer tarandus

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

Long-necked dinos never held their heads high

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29992795/

Sauropoda

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

Signs of hope for chimp attack victim

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'Supersize' lions roamed Britain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/7974948.stm

Panthera leo spelaea

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

Panthera leo fossilis

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

Judge orders feds to reconsider help for jaguar

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_re_us/jaguar_ruling;_ylt=Ai35qt29ThYexqSmivdSl0cPLBIF

Panthera onca

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

Saving Rare Venomous Mammal From Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133537.htm

Solenodon paradoxus

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

6,000 rare Irrawaddy dolphins found in waters of South Asia

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1051942

Orcaella brevirostris

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

Imperial Eagle Numbers Have Increased Six-fold In Spain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161225.htm

Aquila adalberti

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

Bird survives with arrow 'clean through it'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29992304/

Grus canadensis

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

Baby chicks do basic arithmetic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7975260.stm

Gallus gallus

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

Meet Florida's python catchers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7967587.stm

Pythonidae

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

37-year-old frog found in New Zealand

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/victorianews/ViewNews.aspx?id=2607&newslabel=hn

Leiopelma pakeka

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

Connectivity In Marine Fish Populations: Larvae Spawned In Marine Reserves Can Travel Long Distances

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132336.htm

Cause Of Mussel Poisoning Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324111558.htm

Mussel

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

Azaspiracid

http://www.curehunter.com/public/pubmed11330704.do

Azadinium spinosum

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/13057.php?from=133484

Atlantic Snails Increase Dramatically In Size

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171604.htm

DNA From Old Insects: No Need To Destroy The Specimen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331201522.htm

If you can't afford it, grow it

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/04/01/recession.garden/index.html?iref=t2test_livingwed

Palm Oil Development May Threaten Amazon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101755.htm

Palm oil

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

'First Economical Process' For Making Biodiesel Fuel From Algae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325222006.htm

Biodiesel

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

Dark matter: Physicists may have found telltale

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090401/sc_afp/sciencephysicsmatter;_ylt=AtAwLCYMHhAVreQ5OPOQ7YgPLBIF

Dark Matter

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

Matter

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

New X-ray Spectroscopic Tool For Probing The Interstellar Medium

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331101101.htm

Rocket Launches May Need Regulation To Prevent Ozone Depletion, Says Study

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331153014.htm

U.S. space programs need better oversight: group

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5300f9-us-space-spending/

U.S. space industry not yet seeing economic slowdown

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52u8n5-us-space-outlook/

How Does the Internet Rate You?


http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7222890&page=1

PersonRatings.com

http://www.personratings.com/

The dark side of vegetarianism

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090401/hl_hsn/thedarksideofvegetarianism;_ylt=Ap.hMc2Xwk.EVK34hfycShGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJ1cTRyMDQwBGFzc2V0A2hzbi8yMDA5MDQwMS90aGVkYXJrc2lkZW9mdmVnZXRhcmlhbmlzbQRjcG9zAzEwBHBvcwMyMARzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawN0aGVkYXJrc2lkZW8-

Vegetarianism

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

French museum posts Concorde hoax (April Fools!)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7975877.stm

Guantanamo 'fun' - Miss Universe (…this is an “April Fool’s Joke” right?...Isn’t it?...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7976207.stm

Dayana Mendoza

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

Dayana-medoza.com

http://www.dayana-mendoza.com/

Postal Service launching "Simpsons" stamps

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090401/en_nm/us_simpsons;_ylt=Amcc2j6a.de6j0cP_zwGkuys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhcG40M3QxBHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3Bvc3RhbHNlcnZpYw--

The Simpsons

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

Another sex scandal rocks Oprah's school

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2009/04/01/sbt.oprah.school.cnn

KHOU: Apology found next to hit-and-run victim

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou090331_tnt_hit-and-run.8ba2ee9e.html



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