Caloplaca Obamae First New Species Named After Obama and More for Thursday, April 16, 2009

New Species Of Lichen Named After President Barack Obama image licensed under Creative Commons by Llima

Sea sickness
Piracy is a symptom of Somalia's bigger problems

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8001183.stm

Al Qaeda Urges Somalis To Attack Ships

http://www.cbsnews.com/external/story.php?story=/stories/2009/04/16/link/blog/main4949562.shtml

What Is It Like to Be Kidnapped in Somalia?

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7343205&page=1

Payne: Mistake to send in troops to Somalia

http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/15/congressman-came-under-fire-in-somalia/

Mardell's Europe
Time for EU to get tough with French fishermen?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/

Obama to support anti-drug efforts on Mexico visit

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53d0fj-us-obama-mexico/

U.S. captain in Kenya, South Korea sends warship

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53f2d6-us-somalia-piracy/

Spain rules out torture probe of U.S. officials

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30241123/

N. Korea orders out nuclear inspectors

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/16/nkorea.nuclear.inspectors.out/index.html

Mexico's drug cartels thrive in the shadows

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/15/mexico.gangs/index.html

'Los Zetas' turn cops into cartel hit men

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/15/mexico.gangs/index.html

New Species Of Lichen Named After President Barack Obama

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415141217.htm

Caloplaca obamae

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

Cyberspy Network Uncovered and Bushies Face Spanish Inquisition and More for Sunday, March 29, 2009

Malware Detection image licensed under Creative Commons by Channy Yun

Canadian research uncovers cyber espionage network

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/29/internet-spying.html

Major cyber spy network uncovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7970471.stm

Researchers uncover China cyber spies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29935591/

Spies Hack Computers in 103 Countries

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=7199851

US begins cybersecurity review

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7880695.stm

Malicious programs hit new high

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7232752.stm

Panda Security

http://www.pandasecurity.com/usa/

AV Test

http://www.av-test.org/

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 (...nobody expects the Spanish Inquisiton...)

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

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

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 (...it shouldn't happen to a dog of war...)

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

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

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

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)

Economic crisis prompts Spanish vote to cancel bullfighting festival

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

For Friday, January 23, 2009

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Suspected US missile strikes kill 18 in Pakistan

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan;_ylt=Aj9LI85gr58NyR8_DD8C7ems0NUE

UK in recession as economy slides

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7846266.stm

UK in recession after worst GDP drop in 30 years

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m2au-us-britain-economy/

Report: Former Gitmo prisoner fights again

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28800516/

Ex-Gitmo Detainee May Be Al Qaeda Leader

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/23/terror/main4749326.shtml

Stem Cell OK Gives Paraplegics New Hope

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6714423&page=1


Green light for US stem cell work

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7847450.stm

FDA allows first test of human stem cell therapy

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m2u9-us-stemcells/

Analysis: Abrupt end to 'war on terror'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28807952/

Obama asks lawmakers to back stimulus bill

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_economy;_ylt=AnMcS5t6gcImBY3D_fWXqvqs0NUE

Obama removes restrictions on abortion funding

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m3pq-us-obama-abortion/

FDA: 31M lbs of peanut products recalled

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_he_me/med_salmonella_outbreak;_ylt=AkAwtFIC91VYqnghi7pexnqs0NUE

Peanut product recall keeps spreading

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28749159/

Peanut popularity complicates salmonella probe

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/23/peanut.probe.salmonella/index.html

Kentucky leads nation in smoking deaths

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28801743/

Obama acts fast on Mideast, but substance familiar

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m32g-us-obama-arabs/

Did Israel Use A Banned Weapon?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/22/eveningnews/main4748346.shtml

Retailers at risk of closing

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1019193

GE profit down 44 percent, shares fall premarket

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m2nc-us-ge/

Russia says ready to work with U.S. on Afghanistan

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m3da-us-russia-usa-afghan/

Rwanda arrests Congo rebel leader

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7846339.stm

Group: Migrants abandoned at sea

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28810185/

Spain's jobless rate hits 13.9%

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7846895.stm

Red Tape: Credit card hackers find new targets

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/01/credit-card-hac.html

Judge orders Illinois TB patient into isolation

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_re_us/tuberculosis_patient;_ylt=ApbxgrJuzNljVGMsulsh5wKs0NUE

Racial Bias Can Be Reduced By Teaching People To Differentiate Facial Features Better In Individuals Of A Different Race

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090120204759.htm

China closes 1,250 sites in online porn crackdown

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_pornography;_ylt=AjCQP55lTeSVMYt_acxxgj6s0NUE

Anti-Counterfeiting Money

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0901-anticounterfeiting_money.htm

Obama musicians were live but the music you heard was not

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/obama_inauguration/7846472.stm

Revisiting The Anthrax Attacks Of 2001

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122100832.htm

Farmers slash planting due to drought

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28808767/

Study: Western forests dying at increasing rate

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_sc/sci_dying_forests;_ylt=Al8ip1lYQtlRHNEtW22lifys0NUE

Antarctica Warming More Than Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121144049.htm

Treeline Advances In Canada’s Arctic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122162332.htm

French farmers raise stink over U.S. tariff on Roquefort cheese

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/01/23/roquefort-cheese.html

Nigerian police detain goat over armed robbery

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_nigeria_robbery_goat;_ylt=AioynFHg9u.Kjhk6wRZjDhHtiBIF