For Sunday, January 4, 2009

Israeli troops clash with Hamas

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7810270.stm

Israeli forces cut Gaza Strip in half

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28404637/

485 killed in Gaza, Palestinian sources say

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/04/israel.gaza/index.html

Israeli ground forces surround Gaza City

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/01/04/gaza.html

Invasion Deepens Gaza Humanitarian Crisis

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6573496&page=1

World Rallies Against, For Gaza Airstrikes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/03/world/main4696645.shtml

Gaza civilians left exposed in Israeli invasion

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_palestinians_civilians_exposed;_ylt=Ajw8ximthTQ5svFyLWadO2.s0NUE

Cheney: Israel not seek US OK before invasion

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_mideast;_ylt=AgHvf3rsDyc8t2MunqUJUxWs0NUE

U.S. Shoots Down U.N. Call For Ceasefire

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/04/world/main4697348.shtml

Analysis: Invasion offers risks to both sides

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28488241/

Newsweek: Is Mideast peace hopeless?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/177840

Strong earthquakes hit Indonesia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7810106.stm

Young woman dies in Greek earthquake

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28493197/

Wind chill warnings issued in Saskatchewan, Manitoba

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/04/prairie-cold.html

‘Whatever it takes’ to fix economy

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Wall Street: Bracing for bad news

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/03/markets/sunday_weekahead/index.htm?cnn=yes

California Faces $42 Billion Shortfall

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/03/eveningnews/main4696947.shtml

The Safeguard Madoff Victims Missed

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=6562472&page=1

360° Blog: Lost your shirt? Here's what to do

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/03/ok-you-lost-your-shirt-heres-what-you-have-to-do-now/

China factory output dips further

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7810414.stm

Currency counterfeiting may be on rise: report

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/03/counterfeiting.html

Tenn. sludge contains elevated levels of arsenic

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/02/tennessee.sludge/index.html

Can laser beams someday replace the sprinkler?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28448206/

Night Sky Highlights in 2009

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090102/sc_space/nightskyhighlightsin2009;_ylt=AoPamAeVhAomHxaZ6DP2bx4PLBIF

A prediction that's a safe bet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7808009.stm

5 Predictions for 2008 That (Thankfully) Failed

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081231/sc_livescience/5predictionsfor2008thatthankfullyfailed;_ylt=Akx1OtQ9iNwGLdllsDJ8pgIPLBIF

Contraceptive pill is polluting environment: Vatican newspaper

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/vaticanreligioncontraception;_ylt=ArrSdBbuBT6bHcw8rYKVKjUDW7oF

Mexican warlock predicts US troops on border

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090103/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_odd_mexico_warlock_s_prediction;_ylt=AhFR4SA9Yo2eTzwJxQTtYCvtiBIF

For Monday, December 8, 2008

Top 9/11 suspects to plead guilty

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7770856.stm

White House: Deal near on autos bailout

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28108346/

GM admits it 'disappointed' and 'betrayed' consumers

http://www.yahoo.com/s/998759

Stocks soar on Obama stimulus plan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/

Homeowners who modified loans are in trouble again

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown;_ylt=Aqvtlk1WaXbFtRbCoq9SahKs0NUE

Tribune Co. Weighing Bankruptcy Filing

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=6413876

Merrill Lynch CEO seeking $10 million bonus

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28112397/

1st Vietnamese-American elected to Congress

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28086325/

Ahn Joseph Cao

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



Vandals hit French Muslim graves

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7771491.stm

Blackwater guards indicted in US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7769435.stm

Shocking Charges, Secret Deal: Blackwater Guard to Testify

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6417440&page=1

Blackwater Indictment Alleges Grisly Tale

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/08/national/main4654088.shtml

Ex-Blackwater guards face manslaughter trial

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/08/iraq.blackwater.indictment/index.html

Ticker: Karl Rove vows to 'name names'

http://www.cnn.com/linkto/ticker.html

Dow Chemical to slash 5,000 jobs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7771660.stm

Greek cities hit by fresh rioting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7770887.stm

Secret is out: Wal-Mart to start selling iPhone

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28113513/

Walmart.com to offer 'thousands' of Wiis

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28098655/

Critics wary of laptop searches at border

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28113582/

Turning air into drinking water

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28003681/

Online network for solar research

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7770997.stm

China displays new robot technology

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7770953.stm

Robots attempt to play soccer in China

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China irks U.S. with computer security rules

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28112888/

Robotics Integrated With Human Body In Near Future? Technology Gulf Between 'Have' And 'Have Nots' Predicted By 2020

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081205100137.htm

Physicists Set New Record For Quantum Memory Storage And Retrieval

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081207133753.htm

An Old Dream Fulfilled: Zinc Oxide As Semiconductor

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081205095950.htm

Zinc Oxide

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

Toughest Ceramic Mimics Mother Of Pearl

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081205171011.htm

Biomimicry

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

'Intelligent' Materials To Revolutionize Surgical Implants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081203133813.htm

What Makes The Heart 'Tick-tock'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081202133220.htm

Death by Common Cold: One Boy's Story

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=6403481&page=1

The Key to Washing Flu Away

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6033400

We Scream for Vanilla Ice Cream: At Risk?

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6415470

Malaria vaccine shows promise in tests

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28112611/

Cold sores 'an Alzheimer's risk'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7770680.stm

California's Deep Sea Secrets: New Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081203184926.htm

Test reveals dogs' jealous side

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7771259.stm

Dog tries to rescue dog that was hit by car

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_hero_dog;_ylt=Ai6H6mxy8ceEWMm7et4j7YDtiBIF

Has climate change claimed first mammal extinction?

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/12/climate-change-claims-its-firs.html

Hemibelideus lemuroides

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

Nature's top 40: Puffins put on their eye make-up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7762652.stm

Fratercula

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

Amazon Butterflies: Evolution Favors Mutualism

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081201233452.htm

Spider Love: Little Guys Get Lots More

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208081008.htm


Living with threat of melting Himalayas in Nepal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7771933.stm

Lebanese finds 'heaviest' potato

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7771042.stm

Nanotechnology 'Culture War' Possible, Says Yale Study

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081207133749.htm

Religious 'shun nanotechnology'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7767192.stm

For Sunday, December 7, 2007

Nobel Winner: HIV Vaccine Within 5 Years

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/06/tech/main4652168.shtml

Obama warns economy to get worse

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28096219/

Financial Crisis May Worsen Food Crunch

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/ConsumerFinance/story?id=6370751&page=1

Obama plans vast public works projects

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28084078/

Academic elites fill Obama's roster

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28092935/

The brilliance of creative chaos

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7768021.stm

Fresh riots erupt in Greek cities

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7770086.stm

Can Pentagon's Stop-Loss Be Stopped?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/07/sunday/main4652633.shtml

Iraqi relatives want death for Blackwater guards

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b61f2-us-iraq-blackwater-victims/

Blackwater charges to be unsealed

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28084077/

Sources: Blackwater guards to turn selves in

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/06/iraq.blackwater.indictment/index.html

India denies Pakistan alert call

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7769815.stm

India unveils $4bn stimulus plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7770126.stm

China protest at EU-Dalai meeting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7769123.stm

UK: World must act on Zimbabwe cholera crisis

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/06/zimbabwe.main/index.html

Zimbabwe 'set for cholera jump'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7769642.stm

Voters oust indicted La. congressman

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28086325/

Job market is awful, but may get worse

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28071887/

White House: Auto bailout talks 'constructive'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28067839/

Senator calls for Chrysler merger, new CEO at GM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081207/ap_on_bi_ge/congress_autos;_ylt=Aj0dNM4dj6_K9Z5NviT0Q7kDW7oF

Energy Guru To Carmakers: Time To Bet Big

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/04/tech/cnettechnews/main4648218.shtml

China, Russia to send probes to Mars next year

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b40hr-us-china-mars/

Portable media players shrink in size, price

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28056841/

Big Brother in a Chip: Good for You?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=6404117&page=1

Scientist says ancient technique cuts greenhouse gas

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b45kb-us-climate-biochar/

Roman Empire Decline Driven By Climate Change?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081205171005.htm

Roman ‘factory town’ for oil lamps found

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28072109/


Toys Made Of Liquid Wood

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081202115326.htm

ARBOFORM ®

http://www.tecnaro.de/english/arboform.htm

Cell Phones Found To Affect Memory In Lab Rats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081205095956.htm

New Insights On Fusion Power

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081203185016.htm

Food body says 'avoid Irish pork'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7770164.stm

Ireland says tainted pork feed source contained

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b60q2-us-ireland-food-recall-sb/

Alcoholic 'cure' France abuzz over doctor who used drug to beat bottle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7768141.stm

Baclofen

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

FYI: Baclofen (Lioresal®)

http://www.oasas.state.ny.us/AdMed/FYI/fyibaclofen.cfm

Heart attack patients get 'big chill' treatment

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28072269/

Work really may be bad for health, survey says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28070699/

WHO sets strict limits on melamine

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28074270/

Montanans Have Right To Assisted Suicide

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/06/national/main4652125.shtml

Inner Workings Of The Immune System Filmed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081203185020.htm

Poor Children's Brains Like Stroke Victims'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081203092429.htm

Japan sells Icelandic whale meat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7767716.stm

Japan to arrest anti-whaling activists: report

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081206/ts_afp/environmentwhalingjapan;_ylt=AvJhFRYGHR0FKMpTbcfaIAwPLBIF

21 new species in danger of extinction: UN convention

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081205/sc_afp/unanimalsconservation;_ylt=Au8xRVP1_wfkrIPl6iEw2XAPLBIF



Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081125203143.htm

Ursus spelaeus

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

German zoo finds escaped red pandas

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28070856/

Glimmer of hope for rare monkey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7767360.stm

Crocodile fears What's behind deaths of S African crocs?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7767047.stm

Nature 'boost' for Welsh island

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7765183.stm

Skokholm

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

Carbon Dioxide Helped Ancient Earth Escape Deathly Deep Freeze

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081130164511.htm

EPA's Air Pollution Target: Flatulent Cows

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/05/tech/main4651448.shtml

Dead man stored in freezer in Florida

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28097534/

Sunny von Bulow dies after 28 years in coma

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28085151/

Sunny bon Bulow

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

Sci-fi’s grand old man Forrest J Ackerman dies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28073967/

Forrest J. Ackerman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_J._Ackerman

Amnesia victim who shed light on brain dies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28071749/

Henry Molaison

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

KIRO: Coroner matches 2 washed-up feet

http://www.kirotv.com/news/18219630/detail.html

Dog Freezes to Sidewalk

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6409707