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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Record Flooding and Cancer Breakthrough and More for Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Record floods feared as Red River rises

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29859118/

River rises 5 feet in day, record flood possible

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_us/flooding_fargo;_ylt=Avxk.haNu4_uIiGeoA1cubms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTI5OWJqanIxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwMzI0L2Zsb29kaW5nX2ZhcmdvBHBvcwMxMwRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNyaXZlcnJpc2VzNWY-

Red River

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

Magnitude-4.7 quake near Salton Sea in Calif

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_us/socal_quake;_ylt=ArVcasEQd3LXcgBmudBUjyKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTI2dGJydmpoBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwMzI0L3NvY2FsX3F1YWtlBHBvcwMxMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNtYWduaXR1ZGUtNDc-

Salton Sea

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

Alaska braces for ashfall after volcano erupts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_us/alaska_volcano;_ylt=AhSHd99wnEJp37CxfHXi.hKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFla3ZrZHNoBHBvcwMxMDcEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNhbGFza2FicmFjZXM-

Mount Redoubt

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

Top AIG bosses 'to repay bonuses'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7960459.stm

Fed chairman wanted to block AIG’s bonuses

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29849068/

Conn. Subpoenas AIG Bonus Recipients

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/24/link/main4888210.shtml

Mexico offers $2m for drug lords

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7960198.stm

White House unveils anti-cartel push for border

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29859803/

FBI breaks up $25 million 'car cloning' ring

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/24/cloned.cars/index.html

Recession changing U.S. jobs picture

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29640225/

Out of Work? Volunteer for Opportunities

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JobClub/story?id=7154262&page=1

EI, individual bankruptcies up in Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/24/ei-bankrupt-canada-january.html

UK key inflation measure hits zero

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7959564.stm

Obama calls for global action to end downturn

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n18386827-us-obama/

N Korea warns over rocket launch

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7960777.stm

American Journalists Accused Of Espionage

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/23/world/main4887388.shtml

Bernanke: AIG shows urgent need for new regulations

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/wbt010914-us-usa-fed-bernanke/

U.S. rehab centers see bankers driven to drink

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29848616/

Questions surround e-health record billions

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29839583/

World's airlines seen losing billions this year

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52n1lv-us-financial-airlines/

$75 million in Madoff assets found in Gilbraltar

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29854351/

Dalai Lama ban halts conference

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7960968.stm

Zimbabwe cholera 'past its peak'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7960674.stm

Relief worker shot dead in Darfur

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7961070.stm

China 'blocks YouTube video site'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7961069.stm

China suggests switch from dollar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7960620.stm

An ancient culture is bulldozed away in China

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29849133/

Uighur/Uyghur

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

France offers nuclear test money

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7960534.stm

Virgin eyes 150Mb broadband speed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7961135.stm

Slimmer, Stickier Nanorods Give Boost To 3-D Computer Chips

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317125232.htm

No joke in April Fool's Day computer worm

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/24/conficker.computer.worm/index.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7959183.stm

Cold Fusion: New Evidence For Energy Source

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110450.htm

Cold Fusion

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

Magnetic Properties Of Iron-based Superconductors Explored

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316133433.htm

Dancing 'Adatoms' Help Chemists Understand How Water Molecules Split

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316133442.htm

Vigilant Windows Know The Difference Between A Would-be Robber And A Neighborhood Cat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317095024.htm

Augmented Reality Under Water

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317095028.htm

Global warming endangers public, U.S. agency rules

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/23/tech-090323-epa-global-warming.html

USEPA

http://www.epa.gov/

Setback for climate technical fix

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7959570.stm

Less winter ice found on Great Lakes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29842552/

Less ice on Great Lakes leading to lower water levels

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/24/great-lakes-ice.html

The Great Lakes

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

Ocean experiments to stop climate change

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7960449.stm

Oil plagues Prince William Sound 20 years after spill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29838444/

Exxon Valdez

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

Prince William Sound

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

'Ice That Burns' May Yield Clean, Sustainable Bridge To Global Energy Future

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323143858.htm

Methane clathrate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323143856.htm

Malaria map shows where to target the disease

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52n03v-us-malaria-map-health/

Malaria

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

Brain waves 'foreshadow mistakes'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7955360.stm

The Human Brain Is On The Edge Of Chaos

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319224532.htm

Group says 5.3 million in U.S. have Alzheimer's

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52n3iy-us-alzheimers-usa/

Alzheimer’s disease

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s

Stroke Survivors Improve Balance With Tai Chi

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323110458.htm

Tai Chi Chuan

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

Gulf War Veterans Display Abnormal Brain Response To Specific Chemicals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323092800.htm

Persian Gulf War

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

Could Your Walls Be Harming Your Health?

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Consumer/story?id=7146929&page=1

Death link to too much red meat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7959128.stm

Red, Processed Meat Linked To Higher Death Risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161109.htm

Cold Sore Cure? New Way To Fight Herpes Virus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323112058.htm

Stem Cell Therapy: Treatment For Deafness?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323093129.htm

New DNA With 12 Chemical Letters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323122437.htm

Researchers find 4000 year old coral species

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29842632/

Stranded whales returned to sea off Australia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29837129/

Globicephala melas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-finned_Pilot_Whales

Seeing Eye Horse Shocks Store Patrons

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7157642

Australia's new-born orange monkey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7960611.stm

Trachypithecus francoisi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francois%27_Langur

Parrot gets award for warning about choking tot

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29858577/

Varanus komodensis

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


Evolution Of Fins And Limbs Linked With That Of Gills

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323212021.htm

Fish Health Claims May Cause More Environmental Harm Than Good, Researchers Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317142843.htm

'Delicious' New Grape Debuts

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090321103807.htm

Early Agriculture Left Traces In Animal Bones

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324081439.htm

Earliest Evidence Of Domesticated Maize Discovered: Dates Back 8,700 Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323212037.htm

Zea Mays

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

Triceratops Was A Social Animal, According To New Fossil Discovery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324081431.htm

Triceratops

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

Inside the hottest place on Earth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7950845.stm

Danakil Desert

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

What do you get if you divide science by God?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7955846.stm

Japanese man certified as double A-bomb victim

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_bomb_victim;_ylt=AoMw4IvcAIBPZEi8Btb7C7ys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFidGlzcG92BHBvcwM0NQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3dvcmxkBHNsawNqYXBhbmVzZW1hbmM-

Gay Bashing: Would You Try to Stop It?

http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/story?id=7152579&page=1


Greek fisherman nets 2,200-year-old statue


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29839770/

Boy rescued from window-ledge by Thai 'Spider-Man'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7961208.stm

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Sober and Severe Statements and More for Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Failure hits Nasa's 'CO2 hunter'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907570.stm

Orbiting Carbon Observatory at nasa.gov

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco/main/index.html

US carbon satellite fails

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907602.stm

North Korea 'plans rocket launch'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7907039.stm

No Sugarcoating: Obama Address Billed 'Sober Assessment'

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Business/story?id=6945577&page=1

Fed chief: U.S. faces ‘severe contraction’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29363747/

Bernanke Biography at whitehouse.gov

http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/bbernankebio.html

Consumer confidence drops to record low

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29366580/

Polls: Most support Obama's economic strategy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29358401/

AIG in talks with U.S. government, sees $60 billion loss: source

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51m6lt-us-aig/

American International Group Wiki Page

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

U.S. home prices drop at record pace in December: S&P

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51n2vv-us-usa-economy-homes-index/

How to Negotiate Out of Foreclosure... Free

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6942121&page=1

Job interview? Read this

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29241014/

Online relief for the recession-weary

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/24/recession.web.sites/index.html

Could the bad economy be good for your health?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/24/bad.economy.good.health/index.html

Bad economy? Do what you love

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/24/economy.career/index.html

Japan's PM first to visit Obama

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7906999.stm

Taro Aso

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

Reporters track the changes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7898977.stm

German firms in surveillance scandal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7907065.stm

US to donate '$900m in Gaza aid'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7907483.stm

Palestinian leader may be freed

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29362081/

Marwan Barghouti

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

Troops 'at last Tamil Tiger town'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7907282.stm

Smugglers send migrants overboard, U.N. says

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/24/yemen.refugees/index.html

Zimbabwe 'illegal gold sale bid'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7907177.stm

Joyce Mujuru

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

FAA Testing Radar To Avoid Bird Strikes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/23/eveningnews/main4822942.shtml

Superconductivity: The New High Critical Temperature Superconductors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216092835.htm

Most powerful ever quantum chip undergoing tests

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126965.600-most-powerful-ever-quantum-chip-undergoing-tests.html

'Quantum Data Buffering' Scheme Demonstrated; Potentially Useful For Quantum Computers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213115040.htm

Google users hit by mail blackout

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7907583.stm

Lord Carter defends digital plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7907529.stm

Stephen Carter, Baron Carter of Barnes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Carter,_Baron_Carter_of_Barnes

Digital Britain interim report

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/29_01_09digital_britain_interimreport.pdf

Microsoft on extra severance: Never mind

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29353191/

Take A Darwinian Approach To A Dangerous World: Ecologist Preaches 'Natural' Security For Homeland Defense

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213114158.htm

Health care costs to top $8,000 per person

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29355231/

Anger, stress may be linked to heart problems

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/24/anger.heart/index.html

Hypertension Treatment Shows Promise

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/health/main4824032.shtml

Report: Family Planning Saving U.S. Money

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/health/main4823681.shtml

2 plead guilty in NC tainted syringe case

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090224/ap_on_re_us/tainted_syringes;_ylt=Aia9I_WQ9AVZgKXnIltXh9Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlcHJxbzljBHBvcwM1NgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawMycGxlYWRndWlsdHk-

Who's minding your food? Surprise! It depends

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29364630/

Achoo! How to avoid the office bug

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26792478/

Brain Hub Links Music, Memory And Emotion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221230.htm

Gene could allow lab-grown teeth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7907192.stm

Working On A Vaccine for the Plague

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223121502.htm

Plague

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

First Step Towards A World Reclassification Of Viruses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213172047.htm

Technique Tricks Bacteria Into Generating Their Own Vaccine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221427.htm

Increased Research In Flu Transmission Needed To Prepare For Pandemic Flu Outbreak, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218114322.htm

Game consoles 'cause skin sores'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7907489.stm

Nano-hydrogels Capable Of Detecting Cancer Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217080012.htm

Periodontitis And Myocardial Infarction: A Shared Genetic Predisposition

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213115011.htm

Structure Of Bacteria That Causes Lyme Disease Detailed In 3D

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213115016.htm

Lyme disease

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

Patience Pays Off With Methanol For Uranium Bioremediation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223121411.htm

Uranium

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

Vital Climate Change Warnings Are Being Ignored, Says Expert

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141147.htm

Alp-sized peaks found entombed in Antarctic ice

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090224/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_antarctica_mountains;_ylt=AmwEu2hNuk.Xln85MlLXS.btiBIF

Aerosols May Have High Impact On Rainfall, Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212093653.htm

Foraging Behavior Of Key Antarctic Predators Unchanged After Storms That Alter Prey Distribution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213105052.htm

Humans turning Indonesian rainforest into a tinderbox

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16652-humans-turning-indonesian-rainforest-into-a-tinderbox.html

Rare cheetah captured on camera

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7905986.stm

Acinonyx jubatus hecki

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

Mole rats may hold secret to long life

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126966.600-mole-rats-may-hold-secret-to-long-life.html

Heterocephalus glaber

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

Lost world Getting to know the inhabitants of extinct volcano


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7861563.stm

Mount Bosavi

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

Tailless Lizards Turn Somersaults

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213070546.htm

Magpies reportedly build nest using scrap metal

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090224/ap_on_fe_st/odd_metal_nest;_ylt=AhGUrYmiHdkxUWIrTfAlvintiBIF

Pica pica

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

Strange fish has a see-through head

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29354875/

Macropinna microstoma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolide#Bolide

Quark star may hold secret to early universe

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126964.700-quark-star-may-hold-secret-to-early-universe.html

SN 1987A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A

Do gravity holes harbour planetary assassins?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126962.000-do-gravity-holes-harbour-planetary-assassins.html

Sprightly Explanation For UFO Sightings?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223131119.htm

Sprites (lightning)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprites_(lightning)

Rocket Aims For Cheaper Nudges In Space; Plasma Thruster Is Small, Runs On Inexpensive Gases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221524.htm

There Isn't A 'Right' Way To Cope With Tragedy, Says Researcher

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217125333.htm

Fish pedicures get the hook

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29364668/

Jagger ring wrangle goes to court

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7906642.stm

WATCH: Text the 'KGB'

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6943041





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