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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Cyberspy Network Uncovered and Spain Investigates Bushies and More for Sunday, March 29, 2009


Anchorage Airport closed as volcanic ash falls

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/29/alaska.volcano/index.html

Mount Redoubt

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

Geithner defends bank relief plan


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Timothy Franz Geithner

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

Want a Job? Ask a Billionaire

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7183692&page=1

US school swamped by flood river

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7970760.stm

2009 Red River Flood

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

Leaders stress need for G20 unity

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7970660.stm

EU warns Spain over development

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7965912.stm

Judge OKs investigation of Bush officials

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/29/gonzales.spain.gitmo/index.html

Ex-Official: Bush Panicked After 9/11

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/politics/main4897315.shtml?source=mostpop_story

Spanish court weighs U.S. torture case

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29933497/

Afghan leader 'can stay in power'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7970883.stm

Hamid Karzai

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

10 colonoscopy patients have hepatitis, VA says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29916792/

Hepatitis

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

College closes after virus sickens 100

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29933995/

Babson

http://www.babson.edu/

Norovirus

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

Film sheds light on shadowy world of germ warfare

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/f-tech-090327-anthrax-war.html

Anthrax War (documentary)

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/anthraxwar/

Biological Warfare

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

Structure Of Protein That Makes Cancer Cells Resistant To Chemotherapy Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141555.htm

Smokers face a hit as tobacco taxes spike

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_go_ot/tobacco_tax;_ylt=AkH.vdjT7r04CWbDD1305e2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhN2dlanA3BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3Ntb2tlcnNmYWNlYQ--

Insight Into The Way Nicotine Works In The Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161121.htm

Nicotine

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

Health Canada puts foot down on electronic cigarettes

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/27/electronic-smoking.html


Time (and PPAR-beta/delta) Heals All Wounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323092709.htm

Researchers Pump Up Artificial Muscles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163057.htm

Hollow Gold Nanospheres Show Promise For Biomedical And Other Applications

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090322154415.htm

New Device Helps Control Disease-causing Ticks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328152625.htm

Ixodes scapularis

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

Amblyomma americanum

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

U.S. to push for U.N. climate deal

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52q2ck-us-climate/

Solar Activity And Climate Change: New Sun-Watching Satellite To Monitor Sunlight Fluctuations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163643.htm

Glory satellite mission profile

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=GLORY

Atlantic Warming Mainly Due To Dust Reduction?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141553.htm

Airborne Acid May Help Soot Turn Into Cloud Seeds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325155535.htm

Climate Change Redraws the Map

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=7191533&page=1

Recruited to serve and sniff — again

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29941206/

Canis lupus familiaris

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

Weekend Window: Sandhill Crane Migration

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7189778&page=1

Grus canadensis

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

Zoo reports rare captive birth of Asian bird

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29917044/

Garrulax leucolophus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-crested_Laughingthrush

American Birds Sending Troubling Message About The Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323113103.htm

Study Assesses Impact Of Fish Stocking On Aquatic Insects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326162749.htm

Termites Can Reproduce Sexually And Asexually

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141549.htm

Isoptera

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

Nobel laureate Obama adviser on a new era for science in the US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7968205.stm

Harold E. Varmus

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

Keeping Golf Courses Green When Fresh Water Is Limited

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090321103813.htm

Wind powered car breaks record

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7968860.stm

Land Sailing

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

MTV and YouTube go head to head

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7967908.stm

Human flight to Mars experiment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7969169.stm

Russian spaceship docks despite engine failure

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52r11w-us-russia-iss-docking/

Virtual Flyover Of Saturn's Moon Titan

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163312.htm

Titan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(astronomy)

Castle figure wins 'ghostly' competition (…even this one gave us the “creeps”…)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7967575.stm

Tantallon Castle

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

King James V of Scotland


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

Edinburgh International Science Festival

http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/About-Us

Hauntings: The Science of Ghosts

http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/Events/Preview-events/Hauntings-The-Science-of-Ghosts

Hauntings: The Science of Ghosts: Experiments.

http://www.richardwiseman.com/hauntings2/experiments

The Science of Ghosts: Project Website

http://scienceofghosts.wordpress.com/

NY Company To Launch Mexican-made Kosher Tequila

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/ap/strange/main4898792.shtml

'Dumb' thief picks police summit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7969934.stm


Economic crisis prompts Spanish vote to cancel bullfighting festival

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7969868.stm

Space smells funny, astronauts say

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29921131/


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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Twitter the Next? Pandemic, Global Crisis, and/or Global Melt? and More for Thursday, March 19, 2009

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7951838.stm

Prof John Beddington

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

Big melt seen in Antarctic past, and maybe future

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_sc/sci_antarctica_melt

Predicting The Next Pandemic Via Twitter?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/tech/cnettechnews/main4874828.shtml

World economy 'to shrink in 2009'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7952377.stm

New Mexico Abolishes Death Penalty

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/national/main4874296.shtml

Poll: Americans fear losing their quality of life

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/19/poll.standard.of.living/index.html

Number Of U.S. Births Breaks Record

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/national/main4873969.shtml

Official: US to release data unless harm foreseen

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/obama_freedom_of_information

Fed launches $1.2 trillion bid to revive economy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29707055/

Food industry safety inspections challenged

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_co/salmonella_outbreak

Some AIG bonuses already repaid, says CEO ahead of Congress vote

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/18/aig-tax-back.html

The Cost of AIG 'Hysteria'

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/03/the-cost-of-aig.html

How Fed failed to tell Obama of bonuses

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29767653/

Dodd: Administration sought bonus changes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29771223/

13 firms receiving bailouts owe back taxes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29773472/

Scientists grow diabetes drug in tobacco plants

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i047-us-tobacco-medicine/

Interleukin-10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin-10

Nicotiana

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

GE sees finance unit profitable in 2009

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i46a-us-ge-capital/

Dollar slides after US Fed plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7952319.stm

From Hedge Funds to Pizza: One Man's Fall


http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7111098&page=1

Online game gets real-world banking license

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29760522/

Entropia Universe

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

Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority

http://www.fi.se/Default____3.aspx

EU to debate extra stimulus calls

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7952557.stm

U.S. workers on jobless benefits at record high

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i3qc-us-usa-economy-jobless/

Weekly jobless claims fall more than expected

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29771904/

Oil: Low prices are behind us

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/markets/oil_prices/index.htm?cnn=yes

Foreclosure hunters go in for the kill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29744491/

What's hot at the pawnshop

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29762007/

FedEx profit tumbles on global slump

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i3c8-us-fedex/

Big jump in online banking fraud

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7952598.stm

DNA test advances bring more to justice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7951652.stm

Israel troops admit Gaza abuses

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7952603.stm

Political voice against Taliban killed in Afghan bombing

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/19/afghanistan-wrap.html

Dad Mohammad Khan

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

North Korea 'holds US reporters'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7951982.stm

New nationwide strike hits France

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7951949.stm

Thousands in Argentina protest crime

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/19/argentina.crime/index.html

Iranian satellite completes mission: state TV

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i34p-us-iran-satellite/

Moral dilemma A US Iraq veteran seeks asylum in Germany

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7951403.stm

Army suicides blamed on long deployments

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29762957/

Particle Oddball Surprises Physicists

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318140618.htm

Physicists Offer New Theory For Iron Compounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312165208.htm

Iron-based superconductor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron-based_superconductor


Interaction Between Supersonic Fuel Spray And Its Shock Wave Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312134641.htm

Carbon Nanomaterials In Hydrogen Storage: Nano-sized But Big As Catalyst

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312093702.htm

Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/19/google-reader.html

Microsoft launches latest browser

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7952505.stm

Safety call after E.coli inquiry

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7950574.stm

CFIA adds 3 products to needle-recall list

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/19/cfia-guelph.html

Risk-free virtual anaesthetics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7948300.stm

How 'minor' head injuries turn serious

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/18/brain.injury/index.html

More Evidence For Inherited Intelligence

Pan paniscus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
Is The Hippopotamus The Closest Living Relative To The Whale?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318153803.htm

Hippopotamidae

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

Indohyus

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

Badgers to be given anti-TB jabs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7952282.stm

Melinae

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

Mycobacterium bovis

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

Bat's fate after shuttle launch appears grim

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29754578/

Tadarida brasiliensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Free-tailed_Bat

Rare reptile hatchling found on NZ mainland

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_re_au_an/as_new_zealand_rare_reptile;_ylt=Ao5BuTb7J1m6.ORMBiWUxfGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhMDFtNmxwBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3JhcmVyZXB0aWxlaA--

Sphenondon

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

Dinosaurs may have been fuzzy, not scaly, a fossil find suggests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7950871.stm

Behind the scenes at The Walking with Dinosaurs live show

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7951777.stm

Killing Young Fish: Population Growth Paradox

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317143155.htm

Mont. Man Ties State Record By Catching Tiny Fish

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/19/ap/strange/main4875591.shtml

Dying bees 'were not a priority'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7951009.stm

Microscope Reveals How Soil Bacteria 'Breathe' Toxic Metals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316151031.htm

Missing Piece Of Plant Clock Found

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312150729.htm

Food supplies reach Arctic team

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7952165.stm

Topple Somali leader - Bin Laden

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7952310.stm

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

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

Milder Atlantic hurricane season predicted

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/03/18/hurricane.forecast/index.html

Lessons From Hurricane Rita Not Practiced During Hurricane Ike

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090313110752.htm

Hurricane Rita

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

Hurricane Ike

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

Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients For Atlanta's Perfect Storm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311111013.htm

2008 Atlanta Tornado Outbreak

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

Ozone: New Simulation Shows Consequences Of A World Without Earth's Natural Sunscreen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319090754.htm

Ozone layer

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

Ozone depletion

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

Montreal Protocol

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

Underwater volcano erupts off Tonga

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7952030.stm

Earth's Crust Melts Easier Than Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318140520.htm

Cosmic Log: A new cosmos on the Web

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/18/1841864.aspx

Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

Surprising Changes In Black Hole-powered 'Blazar' Galaxy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318162624.htm

PKS 2155-304

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKS_2155-304

Key To Happiness Is Gratitude, And Men May Be Locked Out

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090313145939.htm

Monk's feet leave lasting impression

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7951993.stm

'Prophet Muhammad carpet' set for auction

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7952003.stm

Where's Ecuador? Not on new Brazilian school map

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090317/K031702AU.html

Pope to Muslims: Religion rejects violence

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29768210/
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Monday, November 24, 2008

For Monday, November 24, 2008


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7746345.stm

Modern-Day Pirates 101: How They Operate

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6316385&page=1

How Global Warming May Affect U.S. Coastline

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081122083051.htm

Bee Swarms Follow High-speed 'Streaker' Bees To Find A New Nest

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081003081637.htm

Skye's dinosaur connection to US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7740343.stm

'Gray's Paradox' Solved: Researchers Discover Secret Of Speedy Dolphins

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081124131334.htm


Soluble Fiber, Antispasmodics And Peppermint Oil Should Be Used To Treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Study Suggests


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081114081010.htm

Scientists shed light on causes of epilepsy

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4an341-us-epilepsy/

21st Century Plague? Rat Fleas Spread Heart-damaging Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081123222844.htm

Ancient And Modern Plagues Show Common Features

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121132928.htm

New smokeless tobacco alarms health officials

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27888789/

Dolphin Population Stunted By Fishing Activities, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081124131336.htm

Rescued pilot whales join larger pod

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27866186/

How dolphins outdo Olympic swimmers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27889197/

Watch the Tail! Dolphins Have Quite the Kick

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=6319503

New Mechanism For Superconductivity?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121132930.htm

'Firefly' to scout earth's puzzling gamma blasts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27892343/

Online fraudsters 'steal £3.3bn'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7742455.stm

European online library crashes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7742390.stm

The Network Of Everything: Personal Networks Will Have To Cope With At Least A Thousand Devices

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117082425.htm

'Fish Technology' Draws Renewable Energy From Slow Water Currents

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121125604.htm

How to launch a tech company in a weekend

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/11/24/startup.weekend/index.html

The Case of the Mysterious Piano

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6322065&page=1

Sword-Wielder Killed At Scientology Center

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/24/national/main4629173.shtml


Boy George 'chained male escort'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7746202.stm

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