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

Crises in NKorea and Auto Industry? and More for Monday, March 30, 2009

USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) image licensed under Creative Commons by Matt Watts

U.S. deploys anti-missile ships before N.Korea launch

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52t0f8-us-korea-north/

Obama: We Cannot Let Auto Industry Vanish

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/business/main4903151.shtml

Auto Workers Uneasy Over Obama's Auto Plan

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/business/main4902920.shtml

Obama denies bailout funds for automakers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29944834/

Car problems slam Wall Street

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

World stock markets tumble on automotive, banking concerns

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/30/world-markets.html

GM, Chrysler rocked by Obama autos team hard line

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52s1vv-us-autos/

GM chief Wagoner ousted by Obama

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7971202.stm

Rick Wagoner

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

Japanese Anxious Over U.S. Auto Woes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/business/main4902178.shtml

Officials: Waterboarding Foiled No Plot

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/29/politics/washingtonpost/main4901154.shtml

Abu Zubaydah

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

2nd U.S. GI Convicted For Iraqi Executions

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/iraq/main4902039.shtml

North Korea rocket shown on launch pad

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/north.korea.rocket/index.html

China dismisses cyber-espionage claims

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/30/ghostnet.cyber.espionage/index.html

Israeli military rejects Gaza abuse claims

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/30/israel.gaza.abuses/index.html

Fargo braces as new storm nears

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

Obama monitors flooding, pledges federal help

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29938827/

Fargo Works To Protect Good Water From Bad

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/national/main4902624.shtml

'Torture' Could Haunt Bush Officials

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7203966&page=1

Brown accused over green spending

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7971183.stm

Judge to rule whether British MP can enter Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/29/galloway-mp--ruling-injunction.html

George Galloway

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

Hamas (Wiki page)

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

Spain bank bail-out hits shares

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7971582.stm

Japan debates digging itself out

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29951880/

Why wasn't I hired? How to deal with rejection

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29796678/

Court hears Khmer Rouge testimony

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7971231.stm

Thirty years on, Khmer Rouge torturer in dock

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52t0kz-us-cambodia-rouge/

Khmer Rouge

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

Death toll cut in Australia fires

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7971270.stm

2009 Victorian Bush Fires

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2009_Victorian_bushfires

Tibet reopens to foreign tourists

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7971445.stm

Border corruption US graft fuels the drugs war, Mexico's president tells BBC (…actually most Americans think/believe it’s the other way around…)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7971335.stm

Felipe Calderon

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

Fans blamed for Ivorian stampede

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7971596.stm

'Open cloud' computing sparks dissent

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7969458.stm

Cloud Computing Manifesto (Wiki page)

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

Google China to push music tracks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7972399.stm

Obama plans climate summit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7970274.stm

Nasa man's 'extinction' warning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7951833.stm

Coyote attacks in urban areas on the rise, alarming residents

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1050867

Canis latrans

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

Microbes In Mud Flats Clean Up Oil Spill Chemicals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205505.htm

Panel: All teens should be tested for depression

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29945008/

The Conficker Worm: What Happens Next?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/27/60minutes/main4897053.shtml

Statistical Road Safety Illuminated By Mathematics Of Eighteenth Century Minister

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327092904.htm

Thomas Bayes

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

Could the Internet run out of space?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/03/28/execed.websites/index.html

Internet (Wikipage)

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

Supreme Court Won't Revive Anti-Spam Law

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/supremecourt/main4903078.shtml

High-Tech Hijinks: Top 7 Web and PC Pranks

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=7193603&page=1

Tanzania train wreck 'deliberate'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7972019.stm

How passengers are getting even with cruise lines

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29921431/

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

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/

Fetal stem cells trigger tumors in ill boy

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

Man's family finds kidney donor on Craigslist

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

Smoker's widow seeks $130 million US in damages

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

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

Threat To Cod Fisheries: Pathogenic Bacterium Identified In Cod

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212093856.htm

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/

Chinese blogger stabbed after public reading

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29224105/

Opinion: Rodriguez takes us out for a spin

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

Counterfeit toothbrushes could pose choke risk, warns Health Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/02/17/toothbrushes-fake.html

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