NKorea Threats and Merill-Madoff Tie? and Whither GM? and More For Thursday, March 5, 2009

Nato to resume Russian contacts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7925944.stm

N Korea threatens civilian planes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7926149.stm

Lahore suspect sketches released

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7925501.stm

Newsweek: White House pushed for Rove, Miers deal

http://www.newsweek.com/id/187652

Rove, Miers to testify in prosecutor firings

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29516561/

Wal-Mart reports strong rise in sales

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29527453/

China 'faces most difficult year'



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7925193.stm



One in 8 U.S. households late paying or in foreclosure

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52442x-us-usa-housing-foreclosures/

Critics see understaffed, overwhelmed Treasury

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29518044/

Former Merrill execs invested in Madoff funds: report

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre524148-us-merrill-madoff/

China silent on extra stimulus, stands by growth aim

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5241s3-us-china-parliament/

'Substantial doubt' for GM future

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7926258.stm

Euro rates and growth outlook cut

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7925641.stm

Gamma Ray Burst Captured In Early Stages

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302120108.htm

Is Water And Life Under Olympus Mons, Mars?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304114246.htm

Olympus Mons

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



Space rock makes close approach

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7921279.stm

2009 DD45

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_DD45

First Virtual Reality Technology To Let You See, Hear, Smell, Taste And Touch

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304091227.htm

Quantum 'Spooky Action At A Distance' Observed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304091231.htm

Atomic Nucleus With Halo: Scientists Measure Size Of One-Neutron Halo With Lasers For First Time

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220075314.htm

Buckyballs Could Keep Water Systems Flowing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305080139.htm

Indoor Air Pollution? Samples From Couch Cushions And Drywall Reveal Chemicals Used In House

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303204545.htm

User info stolen from music site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7925455.stm

ToysRUs pays $5m for toys domain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7923433.stm

Power And The Illusion Of Control

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303171451.htm

Bionic eye gives blind man sight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7919645.stm

Anti-surveillance filmmaker plans eye-socket camera

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52441a-us-eyeborg/

Wyeth ruling may put spotlight on drug safety

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29515991/

Antibodies tackle severe asthma

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7922986.stm

Experts fret at stores' antibiotics giveaways

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29515330/

Two Food Additives Have Previously Unrecognized Estrogen-like Effects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302125924.htm

Simple Device Can Ensure Food Gets To The Store Bacteria Free

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302183323.htm

Is The Dead Sea Dying? Levels Dropping Fast

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304091514.htm

The Dead Sea

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

Lemurs: Secret Social Life Surprisingly Complex

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304091335.htm

Propithecus diadema

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

Oldest known wild jaguar in U.S. euthanized

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29529179/

Panthera onca

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

Pink dolphin appears in US lake

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html

Tursiops truncatus

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

Rare Java rhino captured on film

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7926184.stm

Rhinoceros sondaicus

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

Fossil of 10 million-year-old bird found in Peru

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29433376/


Life-saving Trend Discovered Among Seagulls

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220110914.htm

Tropical Lizards Can't Take The Heat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303193954.htm

Genetic Study Finds Treasure Trove Of New Lizards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303210053.htm

Frog's Immune System Is Key In Fight Against Killer Virus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090227122252.htm

Reverse 'Bad' Fish Evolution: Let Big Ones Go

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303193950.htm

Futuristic Seafood: Raising Delicious Cobia And Pompano Fish -- Inland

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090220182248.htm

First Fossil Brain: Shark Relative That Lived 300 Million Years Ago Yields Very Rare Specimen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302183128.htm

Fish with human faces spotted in South Korea

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4929620/Fish-with-human-faces-spotted-in-South-Korea.html

Human Face Fish

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

Controversy Over World’s Oldest Traces Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216131450.htm

Highest Microbial Systems Fueled By Volcanoes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303112437.htm

Dancing black hole twins spotted

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7924414.stm

Newfound Moon: Source Of Outer Saturn Ring?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090303125120.htm

Lower Atmosphere Of Pluto Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302133220.htm

Pluto

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

Archaeologists find statues of ancient Egypt king

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52429g-us-egypt-archaeology-discovery/

King Amenhotep III

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

2,500-year-old script puzzles experts


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29445240/

Pregnant for 60 years? Case of the stone baby

http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/04/1819649.aspx

Lithopedion

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

What The Romans Learned From Greek Mathematics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302090642.htm

Scientists Reconstruct An Ancient Greek Instrument, The Epigonion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305080734.htm

Epigonion

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

Brain Differences Found Between Believers In God And Non-believers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304160400.htm

Cricket 'was invented in Belgium'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7919429.stm

Bin Laden's Hide-Out? and More for Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Bin Laden's Hide-out? Geographers Urge US To Search Three Structures In Pakistan For Bin Laden

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217141536.htm

Pressure on NATO allies after Obama's Afghan boost

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51h24i-us-nato-afghan/

Listeria warnings for egg salad products, smoked salmon

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/18/cfia-warnings.html

Listeria

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

Cruise ship grounded off Antarctica

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/18/antarctica.cruise.ship/index.html

Obama: Troops alone cannot win in Afghanistan

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/18/obama.afghanistan.canada/index.html

US car giants seek $21bn funding

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7893574.stm

Obama mortgage plan to aid up to 9 million families

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

Mortgage aid plan is bigger than expected

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29256639/

In Housing Bailout, Look At The Fine Print

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/18/link/blog/main4809320.shtml

Homeowners' rallying cry: Produce the note

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090217/ap_on_re_us/produce_the_note;_ylt=AjP42jy61TkydiV6VHz5LnEDW7oF

Largest banks that received aid cut lending

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29244014/

GM, Chrysler seek nearly $22 billion more U.S. loans

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/lh623622-us-autos/

GM, Chrysler to cut 50,000 jobs

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/17/carbailout.html

Goodyear cutting nearly 5,000 jobs after 4Q loss

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_goodyear;_ylt=Avro6pmOUUYOY22PpCRQ1iOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFpOGw2YjM2BHBvcwMyNwRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDZ29vZHllYXJjdXR0

"Truth" Panel Could Spark Partisan Furor

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/18/politics/main4809264.shtml

Ruling Bringing Detainees To U.S. Reversed

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/18/national/main4809328.shtml

Steep downturn spins across globe

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29252158/

Industrial production tumbles in Jan.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29256455/

Obama to reassure Canada on free trade pact

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29254566/

Calif. on brink as GOP ousts leader

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29229462/

Sen. Dave Cogdill

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

Los Angeles nears water rationing

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_water_california;_ylt=AssKtU_6YZ1FR2Nb9BJ7pTIDW7oF

Insights on Economic Choices From Game Theory and Cognitive Psychology

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151809.htm

U.S. charges Allen Stanford with "massive" fraud

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n17374295-us-stanford/

Madoff the Sequel? CEO Accused of $8B Scam Goes Missing

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStreet/story?id=6903014&page=1

R. Allen Stanford

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

Germany drafts bank takeover law

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7896476.stm



Captive deal 'key to Gaza truce'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7896506.stm

Syria urges better ties with US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7896522.stm

Iran says it has built unmanned aircraft

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_unmanned_aircraft;_ylt=AvP0_ldE4sh2FkFfuGNNqHWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTJrb2FyMHBmBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwMjE4L21sX2lyYW5fdW5tYW5uZWRfYWlyY3JhZnQEcG9zAzE0BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA2lyYW5zYXlzaXRoYQ--

Khmer Rouge genocide trial opens in Cambodia

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/18/cambodia.html

Khmer Rouge

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

India: 70,000 trapped in Sri Lanka war zone

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/18/srilanka.india.warzone/index.html

Marchers block Mexico-US border

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7896094.stm

Guadeloupe protests turn deadly

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7896598.stm

'Tibetans held' in China protest


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7896556.stm

Zimbabwe pays wages in US dollar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7897048.stm

Abu Qatada deportation backed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7896457.stm

Abu Qatada

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

Utilities: Protecting Electrical Equipment Against Lightning Damage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205183620.htm

Semantic Web Promises A Smarter Electricity Grid

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210134817.htm

Accidental Wireless: Wireless-based Sensor System Could SAVE Lives

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209163319.htm

Facebook data changes 'withdrawn'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7896309.stm

Wiki article Facebook

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

'Mega-fast' mobile internet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7896867.stm

The End of Anonymity? Meet the *67 Killer

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=6899472&page=1

TrapCall

http://www.trapcall.com/

Universal charger for phones plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7894763.stm

Nanotechnology: Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Better Performance With New Electrode Material

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209122554.htm

Nanotube's 'Tapestry' Controls Its Growth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205113740.htm

Report: FDA scaled back enforcement at labs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_go_ot/fda_lab_quality;_ylt=ArlDajD8_U5A5g516H6UA_us0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkYjFxcjk4BHBvcwMxNDAEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA3JlcG9ydGZkYXNjYQ--

Tiny 'Lab-on-a-chip' Detects Pollutants, Disease And Biological Weapons

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217125732.htm

Secrets Of Potential Bioterror Virus Uncovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217102149.htm

Rift Valley fever virus

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

AIDS becomes top infectious disease in China

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29240222/

Hospitals see big drop in staph superbugs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29241041/

Engineers Create Intelligent Molecules That Seek And Destroy Diseased Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213114323.htm

Fetal stem cells trigger tumors in ill boy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29243132/

Engineer Develops Method To Combat Congenital Heart Disease In Children

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209152418.htm

Man's family finds kidney donor on Craigslist

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/18/kidney.donor.craigslist/index.html

Gene Linked To Aggressive Progression Of Liver Cancer Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216175114.htm

Smoker's widow seeks $130 million US in damages

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/18/cigarette-lawsuit.html

Fibromyalgia Pain Linked To Central Nervous System Dysfunction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217123124.htm

Statistical Analysis Could Yield New Drug Target For Multiple Sclerosis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213103053.htm

Working Toward Artificial Corneas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213172052.htm

Does An Apple A Day Keeps Breast Cancer Away?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217125742.htm

Robots Sense Emotions Of Children With Autism

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217141544.htm

Loneliness Affects How The Brain Operates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151800.htm

Multiracial Identity Associated With Better Social And Personal Well-being

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210110045.htm

Multilingualism Brings Communities Closer Together

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210092721.htm

Environmental Impact Of Building Construction Can Now Be Predicted

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204140815.htm

Climate curbs need 'people power'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7892992.stm

Cancer-causing Toxins Linked To Unexploded Munitions In Oceans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218091930.htm

Video: 'I had to' stab my pet

javascript:vPlayer('29254992','ce746e28-4260-4cb3-848b-e8f279545897')

Owner describes chimp’s horrific rampage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29255129/

Pan

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

Grizzly bears reveal their fancy footwork secrets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7879581.stm

Ursus arctos horribilis

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

If You're Aggressive, Your Dog Will Be Too

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217141540.htm

How to train your cat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7895280.stm?lss

Mutant Rats Resist Warfarin

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205214433.htm

Warfarin

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

Vast Cache Of Ice-age Fossils Uncovered At La Brea Tar Pits In Los Angeles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218090539.htm

LaBrea Tar Pits

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

Air-filled Bones Extended Lung Capacity And Helped Prehistoric Reptiles Take First Flight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217212305.htm

'Middle Class' Coral Reef Fish Feel The Economic Squeeze

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209122546.htm

Growing Peppers: Does Hotter Mean Healthier?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203142519.htm

Sweet Potato Takes A Ride On Space Shuttle Columbia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217125730.htm

Ipomoea batatas

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

Dinner dispute raises alarm at truffle body

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090217/od_nm/us_truffle_dispute_odd;_ylt=AvKeWuu7o5LvSUj4INUky9qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmazJka2ZlBHBvcwMxOTQEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDZGlubmVyZGlzcHV0

Adaptations Key To Extreme Microbe's Survival

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210125435.htm

New Way That Bacteria Evolve Into Something That Can Make You Sick

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216175124.htm

Researchers unveil new model of early universe

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29243806/

Intricate Structures Of Carina Nebula Captured

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212093858.htm

NGC 3372

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3372

Details emerge on possible Mars hot springs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29183141/


Easter Island’s Controversial Collapse: More To The Story Than Deforestation?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218095435.htm

Rapa Nui

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

Drug gangs terrorize Mexican town

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29243909/

Villa Ahumada

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

Bones of 6 bodies found in N.M. desert

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29247408/

Opinion: Rodriguez takes us out for a spin

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/29249407/

KPRC: Homeless man tries Web panhandling

http://www.click2houston.com/news/18738534/detail.html

Boy marries dog in India to ward off tiger attacks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090218/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_india_dog_marriage;_ylt=App6W9DBC.GtiWyccla9klLtiBIF

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