For Saturday, December 20, 2008

6.5-magnitude quake strikes off Japan

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/20/japan.quake/index.html

NATO fuel tanker crew killed in Pakistan

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/20/pakistan.tanker.attack/index.html

U.S., Mexico to kick off $1.4 billion anti-drug plan

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/19/mexico.us.drug.war/index.html

US states braced for winter storm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7793288.stm

For UAW, sacrifice or surrender?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28323341/

The True Price Of Auto Labor Costs

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/19/business/main4677571.shtml

Detroit mayor: Deficit nears $300M, cuts ordered

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_re_us/detroit_deficit;_ylt=At_Vg_BjOBcAXe15mcM4HPCs0NUE

Schwarzenegger orders big payroll cuts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28325101/

Madoff whistleblower went unheeded for years

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28310980/

Madoff ordered to produce accounting

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28314815/

A leading philanthropy to shut down because of Madoff scheme

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1005063

Japan backs further aid package

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7793337.stm

Japan stumps up more cash to fight crisis as Belgian gov't falls

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1005061

'No recovery soon' in bank credit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7793035.stm

China offers Taiwan economic aid

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7793409.stm

Levi Johnston's mom arrested for drugs - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28313509/

Bristol Palin's Future Mom-In-Law Arrested

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/19/politics/main4679051.shtml

Officials: U.S. not ready for cyber attack

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28312755/

Russian Destroyers Pull In To Havana

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/19/world/main4679058.shtml

Radio 'could go digital in 2017'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7792083.stm

Penny web auctions under scrutiny

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7793054.stm

China blocks Internet access to New York Times

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bj0nl-us-china-media/

'Dirty War Index': New Tool Identifies Rates Of Prohibited Or Undesirable War Outcomes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081216104317.htm

Earth's Breathing Cycles Tied To Solar Wind

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215184317.htm

Swiss glaciers 'in full retreat'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7770472.stm

Obama picks climate specialist as science adviser

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bi5uz-us-usa-obama/

Humpback whale rescued from net

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7793211.stm

Researchers probe scat for clues to orca decline

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_sc/endangered_orcas;_ylt=Alew7UNzR2ILbRXVsTqOdIGs0NUE

Dugongs to go on show at aquarium

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7791207.stm

Dugong dugon

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

New York City Beaver Returns

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081218080817.htm

Early flu season cases are resisting Tamiflu

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28315023/

Oseltamivir

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

Gut Instinct: Salmonella Bacteria's Molecular Tactics To Cause Illness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217101539.htm

New Tooth Cavity Protection: Make Surface Too Slippery For Bacteria To Adhere

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081220085436.htm

Biofuel Development Shifting From Soil To Sea, Specifically To Marine Algae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081220084424.htm

Lawsuit seeks to halt gas and oil drilling in Utah

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/17/utah.land.lawsuit/index.html

New Model Explains Movements Of The Moon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217192747.htm

Narrow escape as buses hang off road

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7793109.stm

Worst films 2008: Awful is the new awesome

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28317061/

Michigan City Bans Being Annoying In Public

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/19/ap/strange/main4678936.shtml

Mice suspected in deadly cat fire

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7792475.stm

For Sunday, November 30, 2008

Potentially Universal Mechanism Of Aging Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081126122203.htm

Amazon deforestation accelerates

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7756241.stm

Timelapse footage of enormous iceberg breaking away from glacier

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7752650.stm

Clue to break-up of ice shelves

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7753228.stm

2008 Mumbai Terror Attacks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_Terrorist_Attack

Zakaria: Wake-up call to India government

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/11/30/gps.open.commentary.1130.cnn

Taj Mahal hotel owner: We had warning

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/india.hotel/index.html

India considers anti-terror body

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7757465.stm

India’s Home Minister Resigns

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27940231/

Newsweek analysis: Not just India’s problem

http://www.newsweek.com/id/171248


In pictures: Mumbai aftermath

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7757390.stm

Eyewitness: Mumbai survivors

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7756616.stm

How Mumbai attacks unfolded

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7757500.stm

Three days of terror in Mumbai

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27971837/

Police: Pakistan Group Behind Mumbai Siege

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/30/world/main4638707.shtml

Rescuers faced bullets, grenades, dark

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/mumbai.commandos.taj/index.html

Gunman smiled as he sprayed bullets

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/11/28/tsr.india.karim.taj.witness.cnn







Explosions wound 51 at Thailand protests

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27902801/

100,000 stranded at Thailand airports

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27970162/

Tension grows over Thai blockade

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7757088.stm

2008 Thai Political Crisis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Thai_political_crisis



Swiss approve prescription heroin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7757050.stm

Economy warning from China leader

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7757105.stm

Making Gases More Transportable: Methane Gas Converted To Powder Form

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081120073126.htm

Japan shrinks car of the future

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7752602.stm0

Shuttle astronaut invents zero-gravity cup

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4aq7a4-us-space-shuttle-drink/

Jupiter's Rocky Core Bigger And Icier, According To New Simulation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081125132520.htm

NASA Prepares For New Juno Mission To Jupiter

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081124164600.htm

Fragments Of 10-tonne Space Rock Located In Canada From Nov. 20 Fireball

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081128082939.htm

Source Of Geysers On Saturn's Moon Enceladus May Be Underground Water

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081126133405.htm




2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season Sets Records

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081129124902.htm

Sustainable Garden Roofs Developed As New Construction Material

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121151914.htm

New Environmental Threat In N. American Lakes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081127145141.htm

Pavement Sealcoat Linked To Urban Lake Contamination In The Central And Eastern United States

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081122075126.htm

Fast Food A Potential Risk Factor For Alzheimer’s

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081128082937.htm

Beached whales die in Australia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7757231.stm

New National Survey Says Public Reveres Bison

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118131857.htm

Ice Age Park - The truth about cloning mammoths

http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/events/1479/ice-age-park.html

Farming And Chemical Warfare: A Day In The Life Of An Ant

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117082048.htm

Rabies Barrier To Save World's Rarest Wolf

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119175533.htm

Charges Likely in Shoppers' Deadly Frenzy

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6356895

Death in store stampede preventable, union says

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/29/black.friday.death/index.html

Suspect arrested in TV anchor's slaying

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/27/tv.anchor.suspect/index.html

For Monday, September 8, 2008

Giant Buddha statue found at Afghan site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7604519.stm

Scientology 'faces French trial'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7604311.stm

Declaring love boosts sex appeal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7603530.stm

Frog find
Uncovering the rare red-eyed stream frog in Costa Rica

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7597865.stm

Next Stop: The Fourth Dimension, With Large Hadron Collider Experiments

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080903112026.htm

What’s a hadron? Tour the particle zoo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26320396/

Atomic Structure Of Fatty Acid Factory Solved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080905072124.htm

Fatal Protein Clue To Neurological Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080903204225.htm

Can Science Improve Man's Best Friend?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080904220139.htm

Oxygen Theory Of Mass Extinction Questioned By New Research Findings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908073751.htm

Comets Throw Light On Solar System's Beginnings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908073845.htm

Spiky Probe On NASA Mars Lander Raises Vapor Quandary

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908093032.htm

Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908092951.htm

'Smart Water' May Help Boost Production From Oil Wells By 60 Percent

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908102811.htm

Nanoscopic Golden Rods

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908101624.htm

Geologists Dig Up One Of The Largest Lakes In The World, Dammed By Ice During Last Ice Age

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908073744.htm

Microchips, batteries fuel Esquire magazine's electronic cover

http://www.yahoo.com/s/949705

Cell phone video shows dead Afghan children after U.S. raid

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_re_as/afghan_civilian_deaths;_ylt=Avopg.k5R2uNxVNf0Nr58yes0NUE

Deadline for disgraced mayor to leave mansion

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_re_us/detroit_mayor;_ylt=AtOGnj0kJQLuWv9DqlU1tRKs0NUE

Deadly floods leave multi-million clean-up bill

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080908/wl_uk_afp/britainweatherfloods;_ylt=ApY2.DS.Ye0qV4EiL1yh8l4PLBIF



Melting Swiss glacier yields Neolithic trove, climate secrets

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080908/sc_afp/switzerlandarchaeologyclimatewarming;_ylt=AueRP2a6EVsBxDrpijRLv48PLBIF