"Stern" Warning and More for Sunday, February 22, 2009

Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090221/ap_on_sc/af_climate_stranded;_ylt=Aps.e97U4MGCWoUwaYX8rS4PLBIF

Lord Nicholas Stern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern,_Baron_Stern_of_Brentford

5 Things to Know About Stimulus Jobs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20090220/ts_usnews/5thingstoknowaboutstimulusjobs;_ylt=Apc0MjPaNGnSzmj_q1w3eFqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhb25zNTZ0BHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrAzV0aGluZ3N0b2tubw--

Obama hails 'fastest' US tax cut

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7903632.stm

Obama aims to halve deficit by 2013

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51g5x7-us-obama/

Obama faces balancing act on federal budget

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29330451/

FTN: HUD Chief Defends Obama Housing Plan

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/22/link/main4818582.shtml

Does Obama Seek To Kill Bush E-Mail Case?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/21/national/main4817851.shtml

Arnold to GOP: Put Aside Ideology

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/02/schwarzenegger.html

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Official Website

http://www.schwarzenegger.com/en/index.asp

America's Top 15 Emptiest Cities

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6914381&page=1

Amid Drought, Feds Cut Off Water To Farms

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/20/national/main4816548.shtml

Pakistan to arm village militias to fight terror

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29331573/

EU heads back financial clampdown

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7904300.stm3

EU Commission hails enlargement

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7902579.stm

UK may get cash injection 'soon'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7904628.stm

100,000 stage protest over Irish economy

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/21/ireland-protest.html

Company is actually hiring 4,100

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/02/22/levs.good.news.cnn

How to Claim Your Unemployment Benefits

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=6931877&page=1

Unemployed Wrongfully Denied Benefits

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=6928837&page=1

Journal Register files for bankruptcy protection

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29324251/

Journal Register Wiki Link

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

Clinton wraps up first Asian trip

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7904162.stm

Clinton to China: Don't stop investing in us

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29324392/

Toll climbs in China mine blast

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7904122.stm

Vietnam opens first oil refinery

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/22/vietnam-oil.html

Dung Quat refinery

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

Abu Ghraib now humane prison, Iraq officials say

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.abughraib/index.html

Iran to begin operation of nuclear power plant

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29329396/

Colombia police in wiretap probe

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7904096.stm

Simply Hoping That Humanity Will Save The Environment May Do More Harm Than Good, Experts Argue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220110906.htm

Glaciers In China And Tibet Fading Fast

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220185537.htm

Intrepid Explorers And The Search For The Origin Of Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212161817.htm

Poachers put Balkan lynx on brink of extinction

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1033859

Lynx lynx

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

Roman Ruins a Haven for Cats

http://abcnews.go.com/International/AroundTheWorld/story?id=6924425&page=1


Smoking Prevention Campaign Saving Billions In Smoking-related Care

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212132313.htm

Warning over child ear infections

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7902302.stm

China's Chery Auto unveils electric car: company

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090220/sc_afp/chinaautoenvironmentcompany;_ylt=AlKgeeibT.QuhV5jOsdwfuUPLBIF

Chery Automobile

http://www.cheryglobal.com/

Taking The Stress Out Of Magnetic Field Detection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211120937.htm

Nanoscale Materials Grow With The Flow

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212132322.htm

Octuplet mom, doctor benefited from alliance

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29331080/

Dying British reality TV star marries

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7903784.stm

Jade Goody

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

Bulgarian challenges chess record

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7904072.stm

Kiril Georgiev

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

Cave house up for sale

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1033334

Mega-Quake Warning & More For Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Mega-earthquake Risk For West Coast, US And Canada? Seismic Slip Linked To Tremor, With Implications For Subduction Zone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129140843.htm

Residents panic as small quake hits N.J.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28992418/

Will volcano blow? Expert waits, watches

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/02/02/alaska.volcano/index.html

Mount Redoubt

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

Pending home sales rise 6.3 percent

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5123tx-us-usa-economy-housing/

Foreclosures dominate home sales

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/03/real_estate/foreclosures_dominate_housing_market/index.htm?cnn=yes

Citigroup commits to lending $36.5 billion

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28984246/

Could We Collapse Just Like Iceland?

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6784835&page=1

Wheeler-Dealer in Chief: Obama Asks for Compromise on Bailout

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Business/story?id=6793019&page=1

Banks blame government for lack of lending

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28985294/

Feds may limit pay at banks that get aid

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28992308/

Democrats promise boost for road building

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28963701/

SAS reducing its workforce by 40%

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7866754.stm

SAS

http://www.flysas.com/

Europe's economic woes deepen

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50s0tl-us-financial/

Auto sales seen extending slide

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5116bk-us-autos-sales/

EU attacks 'Buy American' clause

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7866900.stm

Warning on Iceland bank's fitness

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7866729.stm

Fresh talks in foreign worker row

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7866614.stm

Big jump in Spanish unemployment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7866882.stm

How to Bounce Back After Being Laid Off

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6786722&page=1

From $100,000 a year to unemployed

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/03/unemployment.hope/index.html

Water - another global 'crisis'?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7865603.stm

Snowstorm could cost Britain's economy $4.3 billion

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1025087

Ice storm a challenge for Obama's FEMA

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28931648/

FEMA

http://www.fema.gov/

More snow expected for ice-bound Kentucky

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/02/03/winter.weather/index.html

Yes, you can make that plastic fantastic

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/02/maybe-two-years.html

Video: How to cut those 'gotcha' fees

javascript:vPlayer('28919643','eeaae13d-4851-4857-82bf-126d1e2a0bac')

Obama nominee quits due to tax problems

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28994296/

Nancy Killefer

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

NYT: Obama ethics reform faces test

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28989982/

Russia, U.S. pledge closer cooperation under Obama

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre512277-us-russia-usa/

China breaks silence over shoe attack on PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28990442/



Iran launches first homegrown satellite

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7866357.stm

N Korea 'preparing missile test'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7866705.stm

Gaza rocket hits city of Ashkelon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7866426.stm

Israel restrictions on al-Jazeera

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7867167.stm

Britain faces more snow disruption

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7866294.stm

Boat people rescued off Indonesia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7866374.stm

S Lanka hospital 'attacked again'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7866342.stm

Pushing for the death penalty in Mexico

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/7866270.stm

Australia sentences terror leader

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28988808/

How Vision Sends Its Message To The Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129155418.htm

Dutch report 3rd death from mad cow

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28992988/

BSE

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

Shedding light on vitamin D deficiency ‘crisis’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28894095/

20 million hits so far to FDA's peanut recall site

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28981756/

Alzheimer's 'is brain diabetes'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7866022.stm

Alzheimer’s disease

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

Scientists Develop 'Crystal Ball' For Personalized Cancer Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202174936.htm

Hormone may predict 'baby blues'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7861203.stm

Common antidepressants cut adult suicide risk: study

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5115yf-us-depression/

Teen Media Exposure Associated With Depression Symptoms In Young Adulthood

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202174816.htm

Fracture Putty Being Developed For Traumatic Leg Injuries

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127212101.htm

Surprising Discoveries Contribute To Memory Research

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128122819.htm

Fur flies as English and Scottish animal charities clash

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7865965.stm

Cell-building: Less Need For Animal Research?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202175327.htm

Google Earth dives under the sea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7865407.stm

Animal-human clones don't work: study

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5120c7-us-cloning-hybrids/

Biodiversity Hotspot Helped Neanderthals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202140046.htm

Early Humans Had 'Jaws Of Steel'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203093125.htm

Mammals That Hibernate Or Burrow Less Likely To Go Extinct

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128160935.htm

Hibernation

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

Older is better for whale moms: study

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5120b9-us-whales-menopause/

Small Male Chimps Use Politics, Not Aggression

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202174958.htm

Orphan Chimpanzees Cleverer Than Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202140437.htm

Tiger cubs see first snow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7865416.stm

10 New Amphibian Species Found In Colombia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202175052.htm

Dozen New Tree Frogs Discovered In Rapidly Vanishing Habitat In India

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202183805.htm

9 links in the dino-to-bird transition

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28985201


Device turns cell phone into mobile medical lab

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/03/medical.imaging.device/index.html

Mobiles connect across the waves

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7867091.stm

How 3-D television works

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/02/02/1777799.aspx

New Speed Record For Reliable Reading Of Optical Data With Compact Ultra-fast Component May Help Improve Circuit Design

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202121038.htm

Electronics Industry: Supercharged Metal-ion Generator

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129102336.htm

Mathematical Distribution Links Open Source Software And Literature

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127215432.htm

New school to study ways to harness tech's power

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28993976/

Novel Approach To Create High-density Magnetic Data Storage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129090000.htm

Cellulosic Ethanol May Benefit Human Health And Help Slow Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202174934.htm

Electricity From Straw And Other Waste Materials

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203081613.htm

Who Cares About The Fourth Dimension?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203081609.htm

NASA And Google Launch Virtual Exploration Of Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202164352.htm

Supermassive Black Holes Linked To Big Galaxies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202175320.htm

Questions over mammoth comet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7854348.stm

Report: Tests link Clemens to blood in syringes

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/28941320/

Roger Clemens Foundation

http://www.rogerclemensonline.com/index2.htm

US skydiver lands dead instructor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7867378.stm

For Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Democrats seek criminal probe of Bush 'abuses'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_go_pr_wh/democrats_bush;_ylt=AlIbpwCGdnMhQVGhCrFbNsoDW7oF

Israel pursues its Gaza offensive

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7827919.stm

Gaza's water shortage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7802295.stm

Israeli Targets Gaza's Hidden Tunnels

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/13/eveningnews/main4719864.shtml

U.N. chief: 'No time to lose' in Mideast

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/14/israel.gaza/index.html

Guantanamo agents 'used torture'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7828126.stm

Detainee was tortured, U.S. official says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28649218/

Bush declares 'emergency' for inauguration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28650363/

Science, law will rule at EPA, Obama pick says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28653445/

Lisa P. Jackson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_P._Jackson

Veterans given wrong drug doses due to glitch

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28655104/

Stork Craft recalls 535,000 baby cribs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28643081/


EU warns of legal action over gas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7827829.st

Newsweek: Why spendy stimulus isn't working

http://www.newsweek.com/id/179337

U.S. retail sales slump for 6th month in a row

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28653868/

Sharp decline in US retail sales

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7828718.stm

Ill. gov. to preside in Senate that will try him

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28653514/

Bitter cold front targets Northeast

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28653187/

Extreme cold grips much of Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/14/cold-weather.html

Yahoo names new chief executive

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7827518.stm

Deutsche Bank warns of big losses

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7828370.stm

U.S. arrests wealth manager accused of faking death

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50d123-us-usa-pilot/

Madoff to be in court as U.S. again seeks to jail him

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50d3kt-us-madoff/

Mozambique in food crisis warning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7827935.stm

Challenge to plant methane link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7827106.stm

World 'needs radical cuts' on CO2

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7826994.stm

China protest forces factory move

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7828003.stm

US 'fake death businessman' found

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7827787.stm

New soil map for African farmers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7826275.stm

Flexible Photodetectors To Help Sharpen Photos

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113155847.htm

Making Supersolids With Ultracold Gas Atoms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113174617.htm

Supersolid

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

Nearly A Century Later, New Findings Support Warburg Theory Of Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112093334.htm

Of Mice And Peanuts: A New Mouse Model For Peanut Allergy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201218.htm

Peanut allergy

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

Study Of Disease Risk Suggests Ways To Avoid Slaughter Of Yellowstone Bison

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201017.htm

Possible mammoth tusk found on Calif. island

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28651028/

Santa Cruz Island

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

Might Migrating Birds Have Infected The Svalbard Arctic Fox With Parasites?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081222113524.htm

Vulpes lagopus

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

High-tech Imaging Of Inner Ear Sheds Light On Hearing, Behavior Of Oldest Fossil Bird

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113201350.htm

Archaeopteryx

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

Contamination fears over two-headed Australian fish

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090114/sc_afp/environmentaustraliafish;_ylt=AhOP9ScVUc0wNGwFZIOisncPLBIF

Black abalone latest endangered species in Pacific

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_re_us/black_abalone;_ylt=AjNjz3_Q1ACIvFIaW0LiOrwPLBIF

Haliotis cracherodii

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

Voracious Sponges In Caves Save Reefs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113100111.htm

XMM-Newton Measures Speedy Spin Of Rare Celestial Object

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113101120.htm

SGR 1627-41

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR_1627-41

Entrepreneur quiz: Do you have what it takes?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/01/07/entrepreneur.quiz/index.html

Archaeologist Uncovers Evidence Of Ancient Chemical Warfare

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114075921.htm


No Bird, No Plane, but a Flying Car?

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6639370

Bug Bite Leads to Amputation

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6639934

Here's looking at Europe - Czech art causes continent-wide anger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7827738.stm

Court OKs sex between teachers, 18-year-olds

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28654219/

Hallucinations more common in people who drink lots of coffee

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7827761.stm


Demand for "best job in the world" crashes website

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090114/lf_nm_life/us_job_dream_website;_ylt=AttlqZinwR6Sod3HXhRl34qs0NUE

China's population of Web users hits 298 million

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_internet_boom;_ylt=AgeZatSXNT5P6Q.DCaVAMfas0NUE