For Sunday, February 15, 2009

Space Debris image licensed under Creative Commons by Mappi 1332

Climate Change Likely To Be More Devastating

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090214162648.htm

Obama to sign stimulus bill Tuesday

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51d2en-us-obama-signing/

Obama hails bail-out 'milestone'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7890218.stm

US Congress passes stimulus plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7889897.stm

Krugman: ‘It’s still not big enough’

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Paul Krugman

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

Ruined financiers committing desperate acts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29195955/

Investor in Madoff scheme kills himself

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29194547/

William Foxton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foxton#William_Foxton

Clarke attacks 'failed' bank plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7890138.stm

G7 pledges to avoid protectionism

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7889222.stm

GM, UAW talks break off and Chrysler talks stall

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n14261464-us-gm/

Deadline looms for Detroit

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/13/news/companies/automakers_deadline/index.htm?cnn=yes

California lawmakers vote on $41 billion budget plan

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51e0bs-us-california-budget/

Top Eight Reasons Why We Overspend

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6872318&page=1

WATCH: Man Takes His Home Hostage?!?

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6854494


No relief: Red Cross hit with tough times

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29199112/

'Ice build-up' on crashed plane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7889764.stm

Delays Saved Man From Doomed Flight

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=6879539&page=1

Plane landed flat on home facing away from airport: investigators

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/14/buffalocrash.html

Buffalo Crash Reignites Deicing Debate

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/14/national/main4803217.shtml

Flight 3407

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_3407

Exposure To Ash From TVA Spill Could Have 'Severe Health Implications'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203090859.htm

Particulate Matter From California Wildfires Is More Toxic Than Particulate Matter In Ambient Air

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213111441.htm

New Web site helps wounded veterans

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/13/veterans.help.web.site/index.html

USAtogether.org

http://www.usatogether.org/

The rise and fall of a peanut empire


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29208643/

Peanut plant boss now a recluse after outbreak

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29182981/

Flu outbreak sweeps country

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US army 'wants more immigrants'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7891222.stm

Israel's Olmert confirms Pope to visit in May

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51e10r-us-pope-israel/

Clinton makes first visit to Asia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7891511.stm

US 'keen to strengthen Asia ties'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7889657.stm

Israel puts terms on Gaza truce

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7890294.stm

Gaza population 'rising rapidly'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7891434.stm

Major reshuffle in Saudi Arabia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7890211.stm

Fire tears through Russian hostel

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7891409.stm

'US strike' kills 27 in Pakistan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7889950.stm

Venezuelans vote on term limits

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7891010.stm

Zimbabwe 'treason case dropped'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7891079.stm

Tanzanian teacher whipping move

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7890177.stm

Obama to lift ban on stem cell research soon: aide

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51e122-us-usa-obama-stemcells/

Pollution link to asthma in womb

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7888735.stm

Smokers Putting Their Loved Ones At Risk Of Heart Attacks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211101714.htm

How Influenza Virus Hijacks Human Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204131615.htm

Shades Of 1918? Comparing Avian Flu With A Notorious Killer From The Past

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210092842.htm

VA clinic warns of possible contaminant exposure

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090214/ap_on_re_us/veterans_colonoscopies;_ylt=AjraNKPPEMeb3hYIj2jSr2as0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkZmozMDI3BHBvcwMxMzkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA3ZhY2xpbmljd2Fybg--

White-nose Kills Hundreds Of Bats Near Abandoned Mines In Pennsylvania

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203172713.htm

White nose syndrome

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

Feds to consider protection for American pika

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090212/ap_on_re_us/pika_protection;_ylt=AmT4eQ.upS2wIqddd_Xrl50PLBIF

Ochotona princeps

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

Cheap Roses Cost The Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213070917.htm

People pump out more carbon than expected

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29199545/

Seeing The Forest And The Trees Helps Cut Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213114313.htm

Biofuels Boom Could Fuel Rainforest Destruction, Researcher Warns

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090214162758.htm

Atlanta Flight Test Evaluates Technique For Saving Fuel And Reducing Noise In Airliners

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203091356.htm

US Petroleum Dependency Factor Of History

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090214162640.htm

'Liquid Wood' Could Be Plastic of the Future

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=6874154&page=1

Satellite Collisions: What Can Be Done To Prevent Them In The Future?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213102047.htm

Low-flying Canadian satellites at greater risk of hitting debris

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/13/satellites-risk.html

Historians: 'W' Does Not Mean 'Worst'

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/on-c-span-histo.html


Burris says Blagojevich's brother sought donation

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51e05b-us-blagojevich-burris/

Anne Frank guardian reaches 100

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7891056.stm

Anne Frank

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

Miep Gies

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

Student Finds Rare Lincoln Fingerprint

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213104743.htm

Octuplet Mom's PR Firm Quits Over Threats

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/15/national/main4803572.shtml

For Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Guantanamo Bay image licensed under Creative Commons by USMARINE0311

Democrats seek criminal probe of Bush 'abuses'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_go_pr_wh/democrats_bush;_ylt=AlIbpwCGdnMhQVGhCrFbNsoDW7oF
See our posting of January 12, 2009: "Did Bush Really Admit to Waterboarding?"

http://americanpoliticalhandbook.blogspot.com/2009/01/did-bush-really-admit-to-waterboarding.html

Israel pursues its Gaza offensive

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7827919.stm

Gaza's water shortage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7802295.stm

Israeli Targets Gaza's Hidden Tunnels

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/13/eveningnews/main4719864.shtml

U.N. chief: 'No time to lose' in Mideast

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/14/israel.gaza/index.html

Guantanamo agents 'used torture'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7828126.stm

Detainee was tortured, U.S. official says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28649218/

Bush declares 'emergency' for inauguration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28650363/

Science, law will rule at EPA, Obama pick says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28653445/

Lisa P. Jackson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_P._Jackson

Veterans given wrong drug doses due to glitch

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28655104/

Stork Craft recalls 535,000 baby cribs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28643081/


EU warns of legal action over gas

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7827829.stm

Newsweek: Why spendy stimulus isn't working

http://www.newsweek.com/id/179337

U.S. retail sales slump for 6th month in a row

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28653868/

Sharp decline in US retail sales

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7828718.stm

Ill. gov. to preside in Senate that will try him

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28653514/


Deutsche Bank warns of big losses

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7828370.stm

U.S. arrests wealth manager accused of faking death

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50d123-us-usa-pilot/

Madoff to be in court as U.S. again seeks to jail him

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50d3kt-us-madoff/

Mozambique in food crisis warning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7827935.stm

Challenge to plant methane link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7827106.stm

World 'needs radical cuts' on CO2

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7826994.stm

China protest forces factory move

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7828003.stm

US 'fake death businessman' found

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7827787.stm

New soil map for African farmers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7826275.stm


Study Of Disease Risk Suggests Ways To Avoid Slaughter Of Yellowstone Bison

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201017.htm

Contamination fears over two-headed Australian fish

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090114/sc_afp/environmentaustraliafish;_ylt=AhOP9ScVUc0wNGwFZIOisncPLBIF

Black abalone latest endangered species in Pacific

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_re_us/black_abalone;_ylt=AjNjz3_Q1ACIvFIaW0LiOrwPLBIF

Haliotis cracherodii

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

Entrepreneur quiz: Do you have what it takes?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/01/07/entrepreneur.quiz/index.html

Archaeologist Uncovers Evidence Of Ancient Chemical Warfare

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114075921.htm


Here's looking at Europe - Czech art causes continent-wide anger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7827738.stm

Court OKs sex between teachers, 18-year-olds

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28654219/


China's population of Web users hits 298 million

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_internet_boom;_ylt=AgeZatSXNT5P6Q.DCaVAMfas0NUE