FDA Pistachio Warning and N Korean Nukes and More for Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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FDA: Avoid pistachios

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1051345

Video: Salmonella scare hits pistachios

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Setton Farms Web Page

http://www.settonfarms.com/

Pistacia vera

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

U.S. military vows to track 800 satellites by October 1

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52u0mr-us-usa-satellites/

Eastern Congo volcanoes show eruption warning signs

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52t6za-us-congo-democratic-volcano/

Mount Nyiragongo

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

Mount Nyamuragira

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

Expert: N. Korea Has Several Nuke Warheads

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/31/world/main4906036.shtml

Home price drops set records in January

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29971932/

UK troops begin Iraqi withdrawal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7973403.stm

Lahore 'was Pakistan Taleban op'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7973540.stm

Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for Lahore raid

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/sp426339-us-pakistan-violence/

India Election 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/south_asia/2009/indian_election/default.stm

India general election, 2009 (Wiki page)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_general_election,_2009

Chicago Sun-Times parent files for bankruptcy

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52u3oz-us-suntimes/

Sun-Times Media Group

http://www.thesuntimesgroup.com/

Canadian economy contracted 0.7% in January

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/31/january-gdp.html

Big losers of Obama’s auto plan: workers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29962730/

Obama sets tight auto aid terms

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7972464.stm

Ford to cover car payments if buyer loses job

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29970641/

Merkel gives assurances on Opel

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7974129.stm

Adam Opel Gmbh

http://www.opel.com/

Small business forced to change, or die

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29918791/

The Truth About Credit Scores

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7188295&page=1

Here comes your stimulus bonus (…it may not be what you think…)

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/31/pf/taxes/making_work_pay_credit/index.htm?cnn=yes

World Bank offers trade boost, OECD casts G20 shadow

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52u1yy-us-worldbank-zoellick/

Government policies will avert economic collapse: OECD report

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/31/oedc-forecast.html

France threatens G20 walkout

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7974190.stm

Ghost towns Western Australia hit by global slowdown

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7973008.stm

Khmer Rouge leader admits crimes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7973463.stm

Khmer Rouge torturer accepts blame for 14,000 deaths

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bkk458269-us-cambodia-rouge-apology/

Emergency declared on Philippine island

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7973558.stm

Jolo island

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

'Green' Hair Bleach May Become Environmentally Friendly Consumer Product

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171420.htm

Cancer Genomics Browser Gives Cancer Researchers A Powerful New Tool

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330142425.htm

UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser Site

http://genome-cancer.ucsc.edu

Fauci: Why there is no AIDS vaccine

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29898087/

Philip Morris Appeal of $79.5M Award Ended

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/SCOTUS/wireStory?id=7217419

Superbug Risk To War Wounded

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205451.htm

Antibiotic resistance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205451.htm

Month Of Conception Linked To Birth Defects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330130235.htm

Polypill 'could become a reality'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7971456.stm

Polypill

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

Security experts eye worm attack

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7973131.stm

Q&A: Conficker protection

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7973841.stm

EA 'dumps DRM' for next Sims game

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7972677.stm

Digital Rights Management

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

Google to venture into start-ups

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7973783.stm

Skype on the iPhone

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7972613.stm

Skype

http://www.skype.com/

Facebook campaign to catch rapist

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7973889.stm

Giant laser experiment powers up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7972865.stm

US National Ignition Facility

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

How NIF Works

https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nif/how_nif_works/

National Ignition Facility homepage

https://lasers.llnl.gov/

Portable Energy Source Utilizes Microbes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330111257.htm

Methanogen

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

Green power from algae?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/30/1871113.aspx

'Alarming' Use Of Energy In Modern Manufacturing Methods

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327112547.htm


Island nears energy independence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7951286.stm

El Hierro

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

New Form Of Destructive Terrorist Material Unlikely, Chemists Report

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324200927.htm

U.S. unveils Orion spacecraft to take crew to Mars

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52t6xh-us-space-orion/

Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/index.html

Russia locks up six volunteers for 3-month Mars experiment

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1051411

Mysterious East Coast Boom Was Falling Russian Rocket

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090330/sc_space/mysteriouseastcoastboomwasfallingrussianrocket;_ylt=AghMP4TtMLfQ6ln3wFXV9YEPLBIF

The (Real) View: Stunning Space Station Vid

http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2009/03/the-view.html

NASA in Colbert conundrum over Space Station

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52t5tn-us-space-colbert/

Cold War-like stand-off over access to US space station toilet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7973747.stm

The Coming Nuclear War with North Korea? and Russia Militarizes the Arctic and More for Friday, March 27, 2009

Missile Silo image licensed under Creative Commons by TunnelBug

U.S., Japan mobilize for N. Korean launch (Hoping that a nuclear holocaust doesn’t follow….)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/27/north.korea.us.ships/index.html

Japan OK's deployment of missile defence system

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/27/north-korea-missile-japan-military-mobilization.html

Japan to 'destroy' N Korea rocket

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7967202.stm

Japan readies defenses for North Korea rocket launch

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52o4oc-us-korea-north/

Israel: 'Iron Dome' rocket shield test a success (...and speaking of North Korea...don't we need one of these?...)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/27/israel.rocket.shield/index.html

New Wheat Disease Could Spread Faster Than Expected (...like the first few articles don't give us enough to worry about...)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132147.htm

Puccinia striiformis var. striiformis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puccinia_striiformis_var._striiformis

Alarming New Data Shows TB-HIV Co-infection A Bigger Threat (...cancelling our trip to Sub-saharan Africa...)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131600.htm

CIA transnational health and economic activities

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

FAA Wants Bird Strike Records Confidential (….ummm, safety first guys?...Oh, and what was that thing President Obama said about transparency in government? We think he might have really meant that…)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/national/main4897075.shtml

Residents flee as Red River rises

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29873706/

N.D. River 22 Feet Higher Than Flood Level

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/Weather/story?id=7187050&page=1

Canadian military on standby to battle Manitoba flood

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/03/26/mb-flood-military.html

Deflation stalks Japan, resentment rises before G20

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52m16g-us-financial/

Obama's economic remedies may face pushback at G20

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52q0u3-us-obama-g20/

Obama to meet with bank CEOs on recovery

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29911655/

Key Senate panel backs Obama's budget plan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29892867/

Senate Budget Committee

http://budget.senate.gov/

Senate Budget Committee

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

Obama To Be On "Face The Nation"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/link/blog/main4895696.shtml

What Good News? Pink Slips Still Pour In (…we got our last paycheck months ago…oh, and no ui benefits, either…)

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7182496&page=1

More States See Double-Digit Unemployment

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/business/main4896889.shtml

Overcoming Being Over 55 When Job-Seeking

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/earlyshow/series/jobsquad/main4896796.shtml

Regulators (CA) investigating credit card industry

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/26/competition-credit.html

U.S. consumer spending rises 0.2 percent

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52q2xi-us-usa-economy-spending/

House price decline accelerates

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7967715.stm

Fed Reserve Ad Warns About Foreclosure Scams

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7188462

US plans to rein in Wall Street

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7966023.stm

Death Threats and the Other AIG Outrage

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7184097&page=1

Video: Lawmakers get cash from bailout firms

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Madoff’s U.K. outfit played big role in swindle

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29912610/

Madoff investment scandal

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

CAW, Chrysler fail to reach deal, face March 31 deadline for public cash

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/27/caw-chrysler-bargaining.html

Quebec orders police to turn in Tasers

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/03/27/mtl-quebec-taser-recall-0327.html

Obama's new Afghan plan to target al Qaeda havens

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52p7co-us-afghanistan/

Obama's Afghan goal: Dismantle al-Qaida

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29898698/

Al-Qaeda (Wikipedia Page Link)

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

4,000 new troops, more civilian experts for Afghanistan, says Obama

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/27/obama-afghanistan-plan-troops.html

Watchdog rejects government bid to delay Afghan detainee inquiry

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/26/mpcc-detainee-transfer.html

U.S. Official: Mexico Not Near Collapse

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/26/world/main4895934.shtml

Dennis C. Blair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_C._Blair

China ready to contribute to IMF

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7967706.stm

Hormone-mimics In Plastic Water Bottles Act As Functional Estrogens (...is this why I have moobs?...)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326100714.htm

Indonesia dam burst kills dozens

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7967205.stm

International torch relays banned

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/7967284.stm

Russian 'Arctic military' plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7967973.stm

China: Hand, foot and mouth virus kills 18 kids

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090327/ap_on_re_as/as_china_child_virus;_ylt=Aki9kAADA.brv2swjDOaJFms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkcnZ2aDJrBHBvcwMxMzkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA2NoaW5haGFuZGZvbw--

HFMD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease

Vets Get Disease Scare Over Colonoscopies (…it shouldn’t happen to a dog, wait a minute, couldn’t they train dogs to sniff out the filth?...)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4896815.shtml

Colonoscopy

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

Experimental Ebola Vaccine Used On Human

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/health/main4897190.shtml

Charge laid in Ontario needles-in-meat case

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/27/guelph-meat.html

Is there danger lurking in your lunch?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29877087/

It smells OK, but is it safe to eat?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29364632/

Drug Used To Treat Skin Conditions Is A Marine Pollutant

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101612.htm

Clotrimazole

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

New theory blames cosmic rays for helping CFCs deplete ozone

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/23/tech-090323-ozone-hole-cosmic-rays.html

Feds fund 8 carbon capture projects in Western Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/26/cgy-carbon-capture-projects-funding.html

Nanoparticles In Cosmetics, Personal Care Products May Have Adverse Environmental Effects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326162747.htm

Evolution’s backers hail Texas vote

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29902944/

Scientists find safer way to make human stem cells

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52p5wr-us-stemcells-safety/

A flower on the moon?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/26/1867485.aspx

New Technique Used To Profile Anthrax Genome

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090320102134.htm

RNA-Seq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-Seq

Pourable batteries could store green power

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29900981/

New Nanogenerator May Charge IPods And Cell Phones With A Wave Of The Hand

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326114403.htm

Flowing blood could power cell phones

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29900077/

New Listening Device Should Help Find Trapped Miners

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326084756.htm

AT&T to start sending copyright warnings

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29904298/

North West Tidal Barrages Could Provide 5% Of UK's Electricity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325092203.htm

Fuel efficiency standards hiked for 2011

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29903330/

Tesla unveils four-door electric sedan

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52p72y-us-tesla-models/

Tesla Motors

http://www.teslamotors.com/

Dewdrop-sized Motes Serve As Invisible Security Guards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326120839.htm

Social sites dent privacy efforts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7967648.stm

Radio astronomy gets grant boost

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7965873.stm

Chinese 'find' radioactive ball (...was it red?...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7967285.stm

Federal government: Star of YouTube, Flickr?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29882992/

Neuronal Cause Of 'Money Illusion': Inflation Felt To Be Not So Bad As A Wage Cut (…I always thought money was an illusion…)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323211919.htm

Would You Trust a Condom Made in China? (…we’d rather use a balloon…)

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=7181080&page=1

Hallucinating in Church

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7187766

speaking of that…N.Y. agrees to ease state's harsh Rockefeller drug laws

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1049778

and…Pot-related questions deluge W.H.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20526;_ylt=AiyHAtSlQPO74haAIJSbO_0DW7oF

New York gallery owner charged in $88M theft, fraud

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/03/27/art-gallery-theft-fraud-salander.html

Lawrence Salander (…please note the misspelling of “sued” in the Wiki article…)

Severe and Sober Statements and NKorea Rocket Launch and More for Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Failure hits Nasa's 'CO2 hunter'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907570.stm

Orbiting Carbon Observatory at nasa.gov

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/oco/main/index.html

US carbon satellite fails

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907602.stm

North Korea 'plans rocket launch'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7907039.stm

No Sugarcoating: Obama Address Billed 'Sober Assessment'

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Business/story?id=6945577&page=1

Fed chief: U.S. faces ‘severe contraction’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29363747/

Bernanke Biography at whitehouse.gov

http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/bbernankebio.html

Consumer confidence drops to record low

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29366580/

Polls: Most support Obama's economic strategy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29358401/

AIG in talks with U.S. government, sees $60 billion loss: source

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51m6lt-us-aig/

American International Group Wiki Page

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

U.S. home prices drop at record pace in December: S&P

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51n2vv-us-usa-economy-homes-index/

How to Negotiate Out of Foreclosure... Free

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6942121&page=1

Job interview? Read this

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29241014/

Online relief for the recession-weary

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/24/recession.web.sites/index.html

Could the bad economy be good for your health?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/24/bad.economy.good.health/index.html

Bad economy? Do what you love

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/02/24/economy.career/index.html

Japan's PM first to visit Obama

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7906999.stm

Taro Aso

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

Reporters track the changes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7898977.stm

German firms in surveillance scandal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7907065.stm

US to donate '$900m in Gaza aid'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7907483.stm

Palestinian leader may be freed

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29362081/

Marwan Barghouti

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

Troops 'at last Tamil Tiger town'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7907282.stm

Smugglers send migrants overboard, U.N. says

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/24/yemen.refugees/index.html

Zimbabwe 'illegal gold sale bid'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7907177.stm

Joyce Mujuru

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

FAA Testing Radar To Avoid Bird Strikes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/23/eveningnews/main4822942.shtml

Google users hit by mail blackout

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7907583.stm

Lord Carter defends digital plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7907529.stm

Stephen Carter, Baron Carter of Barnes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Carter,_Baron_Carter_of_Barnes

Digital Britain interim report

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/29_01_09digital_britain_interimreport.pdf

Microsoft on extra severance: Never mind

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29353191/

Take A Darwinian Approach To A Dangerous World: Ecologist Preaches 'Natural' Security For Homeland Defense

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213114158.htm

Health care costs to top $8,000 per person

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29355231/

Anger, stress may be linked to heart problems

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/24/anger.heart/index.html

Hypertension Treatment Shows Promise

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/health/main4824032.shtml

Report: Family Planning Saving U.S. Money

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/health/main4823681.shtml

2 plead guilty in NC tainted syringe case

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090224/ap_on_re_us/tainted_syringes;_ylt=Aia9I_WQ9AVZgKXnIltXh9Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlcHJxbzljBHBvcwM1NgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawMycGxlYWRndWlsdHk-

Who's minding your food? Surprise! It depends

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29364630/

Achoo! How to avoid the office bug

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26792478/

Working On A Vaccine for the Plague

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223121502.htm

Plague

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

Increased Research In Flu Transmission Needed To Prepare For Pandemic Flu Outbreak, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218114322.htm

Game consoles 'cause skin sores'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7907489.stm

Vital Climate Change Warnings Are Being Ignored, Says Expert

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141147.htm

Alp-sized peaks found entombed in Antarctic ice

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090224/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_antarctica_mountains;_ylt=AmwEu2hNuk.Xln85MlLXS.btiBIF

Aerosols May Have High Impact On Rainfall, Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212093653.htm

Humans turning Indonesian rainforest into a tinderbox

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16652-humans-turning-indonesian-rainforest-into-a-tinderbox.html