For Wednesday, July 30, 2008

7-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_sc/canada_arctic_ice_shelf

Ward Hunt Ice Shelf

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

Bison advocates aim to seed West with new herds

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_re_us/return_of_the_buffalo;_ylt=AjIbN_wScLODhBwHDaDVGNms0NUE

Man, 66, records 2 holes-in-one in same round

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_fe_st/odd_two_holes_in_one;_ylt=Aijl1C_KXNgMadkCvsMK.M7tiBIF

Police hunt stolen rare shark

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080729/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_shark;_ylt=AgTolg0abP2GGM8ySXZJFiLtiBIF

Atelomycterus macleayi

http://wap.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=791



Portrait of Woman Revealed Beneath Van Gogh Painting

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080730/sc_livescience/portraitofwomanrevealedbeneathvangoghpainting;_ylt=AldfQk2H49a0MG0hsZEY3GwPLBIF

Monkey from Mars: A Ga. crime lab's museum oddity

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_mars_monkey;_ylt=Aj31qloRVQRI7senoHYoOj8DW7oF

Deficit nears a half trillion

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/deficitnearsahalftrillion;_ylt=AkNF.u5eFLeQ4ZWgVmvpWkEDW7oF

Chinese man held for quake photos

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7532813.stm

Record fine over BBC's phone-ins

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7497168.stm

New rainforest species revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7531537.stm



Thai school offers transsexual toilet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7529227.stm

Did Dinosaur Soft Tissues Still Survive? New Research Challenges Notion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080729234140.htm

Lost An Appendage? Grow Another

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728221236.htm

Ciona intestinalis

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

Electrical Activity On Saturn's Moon Titan Confirmed By Spanish Scientists

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080729075117.htm

Unexpected Key To Flowering Plants' Diversity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728192946.htm

Protein Plays Jekyll And Hyde Role In Lou Gehrig's Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728215336.htm

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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

Could Metals Help Treat Cancer?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080727225418.htm

Polyoxometalate

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

New Species Of Predatory Bagworm From Panama's Tropical Forest

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080729133614.htm

Psychidae

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

Bioengineers Develop 'Microscope On A Chip'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728192813.htm

Delta says body found in plane's restroom

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25928867/

Cheech and Chong feud goes up in smoke

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25930766/

Cheech and Chong

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

Mexico's drug cartels target bystanders

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25925296/

White House gives details on deficit borrowing

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25931893/

U.N.: Millions at risk in N.K. food crisis

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/30/nk.un.food/index.html

White House reverses; housing rescue is law

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/30/news/economy/housing_bill_Bush/index.htm?cnn=yes

Rescuers build bridge to reach 70 stranded

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/07/30/newmexico.flooding.ap/index.html

Will pond scum become the new oil?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/30/roadtrips.algae.fuel/index.html

House panel votes to cite Karl Rove for contempt of Congress

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_go_co/lame_duck_oversight

For Friday, May 2, 2008

China opens one of world's largest bridges: report - Yahoo! News


BBC NEWS World Europe LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies


Scientists to capture DNA of trees worldwide for database - Yahoo! News


Dalai Lama envoys travel to China for talks - Yahoo! News


Food crisis leaves many Afghans desperate - Yahoo! News


Families sue undertakers in body parts scandal - Yahoo! News


Web sites promote "hypermiling" to save on fuel - Yahoo! News



Cloud Rat Rediscovered after 112 Years LiveScience



Carpomys melanurus

Carpomys melanurus (Zipcode zoo)


Where am I? Chemical compass helps bird brains - Yahoo! News

Colossal squid « Te Papa’s Blog



SPACE.com -- What Mars Fossils Might Look Like





Scientist rediscovers rare plant unseen since 1985 - Yahoo! News

Conopholis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



10-Things-Your-Airline-Won't-Tell-You: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance



BBC NEWS Science/Nature 'Sex pest' seal attacks penguin



Arctocephalus gazella



Aptenodytes patagonicus



BBC NEWS World Europe Hitler plot survivor dies aged 90



Philipp von Boeselager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



BBC NEWS Science/Nature Study sheds light on spider sex



Phintella vittata (No common name)



BBC NEWS World Africa Fears over Congo elephant killing



BBC NEWS Science/Nature 'Decade to save Asian vultures'



Oriental White-backed Vulture (Gyps benegalensis) and Long-billed Vulture (Gyps indicus)




BBC NEWS Technology Electronics' 'missing link' found


Memristor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



BBC NEWS UK Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'



A bad germ gets worse - Health care- msnbc.com


Clostridium difficile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



'D.C. Madam' dead in Florida - Crime & courts- msnbc.com



Deborah Jeane Palfrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Touchscreens added to digital frames - Digital Home- msnbc.com



Nutcracker Man strangely preferred fruits - LiveScience- msnbc.com



Paranthropus boisei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Bats can put on the loudest rock concert — ever - LiveScience- msnbc.com



Parachuting dog helped win WWII - LiveScience- msnbc.com



Real Trekkie tricorder detects ailments - LiveScience- msnbc.com

PLoS ONE: A New Concept for Medical Imaging Centered on Cellular Phone Technology



Ling Ling, Japan's oldest giant panda, dies - Science- msnbc.com


Ailuropoda melanoleuca



Canada probes deaths of hundreds of ducks - CNN.com



Anas platyrhynchos

New Ocean Current Discovered


Suspected Carcinogenic Chemicals Used To Make Teflon, Scotchgard, Found In Human Milk

Global Warming Linked To Caribou-calf Mortality



Rangifer tarandus tarandus (Caribou, Eurasian Tundra Reindeer)

Life-Probing Instrument Preparing For Mission To Mars

NASA - Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector

Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coinciding With Mass Life Extinctions



Sol