ARCHIVE February 27, 2005 to the present
February 26, 2006
Click. (Courier Journal) Senator Frist says he's OK with ports deal.
Click. (Sidney Morning Herald) A maritime company from Dubai will be operating in Australia's - and the world's - ports. Jane Martinson meets the boss.
Click. Juan Cole: More shrines destroyed, 60 killed. Sistani forms militia.
Click. (Independent) Iraqis tortured by government death squads.
Click. (Independent) Iran agrees to basic nuclear deal with Russia.
Click. (The Australian) Abbas "to be Hamas fig leaf".
Click. James Madden: "Jihad" Jack guilty on terror charge.
Click. (London Times) Princess Diana driver was secret informer.
Click. (London Times) 7/7 cover-up exposed.
Click. (Observer) Investigation reveals new evidence that pilots, cabin crew and passengers are being exposed to a potentially toxic gas in aircraft.
Click. Douglas Feiden: Saving the fish, not the troops.
Click. Joe Cannon: Desperation row.
Click. Michael Goodwin: Does anyone in Washington have a clue?
Click. Rachel Abramowitz, Robert Welkos: Anthony Pellicano and his tangled web. The indicted private detective has cast a long shadow on Hollywood, where hardball is an art.
Click. Brenda Stardom: The Olympics Sucked For the Most Part.
Click. (New York Daily News) The cutters who made a killing. Meet the regular guys working for ghouls.
Click. Japanese scientists produce Tamiflu via chemical synthesis.
Click. Jake Armstrong: Genetically modified. Advancements in biotechnology could play a key role in how Lodi's grape harvest is grown.
Click. (The Australian) Australian scientists have overcome a hurdle in the evolution of embryonic stem cell technology by devising a means of weeding out cells that are potentially cancerous.
February 24, 2006
Click. (The Australian) Gates of hell are open.
Click. (New Zealand Herald) A look at the armed factions in Iraq.
Click. Juan Cole: Suicide bombing of Saudi Oil complex foiled. We all just dodged a bullet. But for how long?
Click. (Financial Times) Oil prices jump as terrorists strike at Saudi refinery.
Click. Guy Dinmore: US marines probe tensions among Iran’s minorities.
Click. (Strategypage.com) Signs that the US is about to bomb Iran.
Click. (Bloomberg) Filipinos march in Manila, defy Arroyo's state of emergency, protest ban.
Click. A. Lin Neumann: Philippines tears itself apart.
Click. Herbert Docena: Philippines. When Uncle Sam comes marching in.
Click. (Deutsch Welle) Germany admits spies gave intelligence to US in Iraq war.
Click. (Spiegel) Merkel's first 100 days -- Foreign flair, domestic denial.
Click. (Aljazeera) Yemen has rejected US demand to arrest scholar Shaikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani, whom Washington accuses of financing terrorism.
Click. (Sydney Morning Herald) Live here, be Australian.
Click. (E & P) Embed who ran afoul of military in Iraq reflects on his experience.
Click. (London Times) Blair to create minister for social exclusion.
Click. (MSNBC) Chavez curbs flights by US airlines.
Click. (Bloomberg) South Dakota lawmakers vote to ban abortion, setting up Roe v. Wade test.
Click. James Ridgeway: South Dakota's genius scheme to outlaw abortion.
Click. (San Diego Tribune) A psychiatrist says Randy “Duke” Cunningham's fall from Vietnam War hero to corrupt politician grew out of “an outsized ego and a mantle of invulnerability” that allowed him to rationalize his behavior.
Click. (Bloomberg) Contractor pleads guilty to bribing Rep. Cunningham.
Click. Paul Joseph Watson: Google imposes worldwide ban on China critical website.
Click. Shane Harris: Total Information Awareness (TIA) lives on.
Click. (Spiegel) After years of anonymity, the names of hundreds of terrorist suspects being held at Guantamo are soon to be released. More details
Click. Layla Bohm: Hayat, informant talks weighed. Discussions reveal jihad interest by Lodian, but don't prove attendance to terror camp.
Click. Murray Waas: Did the White House authorize leaks to Woodward?
Click. Joe Cannon: Woodward.
Click. (Dallas Morning News) Tighter Medicaid rules `wake-up call' to seniors. Congress just made it harder to get help with nursing home bills.
Click. John W. Dean: Why should anyone worry about whose communications Bush and Cheney are intercepting, if it helps to find terrorists?
Click. (Christian Science Monitor) New Orleans port back in business.
Click. (Bloomberg) Research In Motion Ltd. shares rise as judge delays BlackBerry shutdown order.
Click. (Bloomberg) Bush says Iraqis face "moment of choosing" as sectarian violence spreads.
Click. (UPI) United Arab Emirates terminal takeover extends to 21 ports.
Click. Thalif Deen: Why Bush is stuck on the port deal.
Click. Paul Krugman: Osama, Saddam and the ports.
Click. Arianna Huffington: Civil war in Iraq. Murtha told us so.
Click. Helen Kennedy: Hillary may have the White (House) stuff.
The 23rd Qualm (Written by a retired Methodist minister.)
Bush is my shepherd; I dwell in want.
He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests.
He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.
He restoreth my fears.
He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war,
I will find no exit, for thou art in office.
Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy media control, they discomfort me.
Thou preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy religion.
Thou anointest my head with foreign oil.
My health insurance runneth out.
Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days of thy term,
And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever and ever.
Amen.
Click. Peter Hecht: Susan Kennedy has governor's ear, critics' scorn.
Click. Kate Folmar: GOP appears united for convention.
Click. (AP) Governor Schwarzenegger tours Sacramento levees.
Click. Andy Furillo: Bond plan's focus ripped. Angelides and environmental groups complain too little would go to public transit.
Click. Kevin Yamamura: Camejo joins governor's race. The veteran Green Party candidate says this will be his last long-shot bid.
Click. Steve Geissinger: State facing sobering federal cuts. Report: Loss of funds will offset increased tax revenue.
Click. Katy Hillenmeyer: Feds may drastically cut salmon season.
Click. (Santa Rosa Press Demo) Habematolel Pomos said the tribe is
willing to negotiate a legally binding contract to limit the size of a proposed casino near Upper Lake.
Click. Janine DeFao: Reiner stumps for preschool initiative. Prop. 82 would tax wealthy to finance statewide program.
Click. (AP) Rob Reiner denies impropriety in preschool.
Click. Sonya Sorich: Chinese adoptions. Local adoptive families set their eyes on future travel.
Click. (San Bernardino Sun) Judge takes scandal figure off the hook.
Click. Llana DeBare: Girls learn that they can be engineers, too. Program designed to offer inside look at the profession.
Click. Brenda Stardom: The Visa Account I Don't Have Has Been Hacked.
Click. Matt Brady: How digital animation conquered Hollywood.
Click. Catherine Field: Russians battle for Tsar's basilica.
Click. (London Times) Don't enter witness box, Queen advises Charles.
Click. (BBC) Forensic experts claim to have proved a bust and a death mask are the exact likeness of William Shakespeare.
Substances to be probed for potential in slowing Parkinson's +
Report says chromium's lung-cancer risk concealed +
Brilliant's Wish: Disease Alerts +
Doc defends pain supplements, slams study +
Solving problem children +
Engineered Mouse Mimics Cognitive Aspects Of Schizophrenia +
Crohn's disease lined to weakened immunity +
Cancer vaccine may be possibility +
Cruise ship illnesses are studied +
Re-used needles not cause of African HIV +
New behavioral therapy might cut drug use +
New Evidence That Natural Selection Is A General Driving Force Behind The Origin
Of Species +
Infection 'Alarm' Yields Clues To Immune System Behavior +
Calcium Plus Vitamin-D Supplementation Does An Older Body Good +
World-first Forensic Technique Heralds New Horizon For Mass Fatality Radiology
+
Newly Identified Mechanism Helps Explain Why People Of African Descent Are More
Vulnerable To TB +
Ginkgo Biloba Extract: More Than Just For Memory? +
One In Four Men With Same British Surname Are Linked Genetically +
Loud Music Worsens Effects Of Taking Ecstasy +
Living Taste Cells Produced Outside The Body +
Detection Of DNA On Nanotubes Offers New Sensing, Sequencing Technologies +
A Better Tool To Study Role Of Iron In Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
+
Benefits Of Eating Seafood Outweigh Risks +
Genetic And Environmental Influences On Alcohol Consumption Among Rhesus Monkeys
+
Study Shows Relationship Between Oral And Cardiovascular Health +
Approach To School Affects How Girls Compare With Boys In Math +
Efficacy Of Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulfate May Depend On Level Of
Osteoarthritis Pain +
Autistic ability
'underestimated' +
'Pharmed' goat
drug not approved
West Nile could get worse, turn into epidemic +
Bird Flu Spreads on European Farms +
Needed: new scientific norms for emergency times +
Between the lines of the WHO India update +
Harvard poll on bird flu +
French farm turkeys died of bird flu +
U.K., Ireland Order Experimental Bird Flu Vaccine for Health-Care Workers +
Microbes Convert Styrofoam Into Biodegradable Plastic +
France holds
human bird flu drill
Why Is Mt. Kilimanjaro Melting? +
The Cold Warat the Arctic Circle +
Mutant Algae Is Hydrogen Factory +
Work More, Do Less With Tech +
Why high-tech means low esteem +
Fighting Sound With Sound, New Modeling Technique Could Quiet Aircraft +
New Map Of Milky Way Reveals Millions Of Unseen Objects +
Three New Species Of Lemurs Identified +
Changes In Reef Latitude: Is Pollution Causing Regional Coral Extinctions? +
Go-ahead for Europe ice mission
Nanoscience Study Shows That Quantum Dots 'Talk' +
Mixed Conductor Ceria Proven As Excellent Catalyst For Fuel Cell Anodes +
How Long Can Apple's Billion-Download Baby Hold the Lead? +
Google's Web Page Creator Crashes On Takeoff
February 23, 2006
Click. (Khaleej) Over 120 shot dead in Iraq sectarian bloodshed.
Click. (AP) Iraqi sectarian violence flares: Minister says insurgents seeking civil war.
Click. (Bloomberg) Philippine Army says it foiled plan by troops to join anti-Arroyo rallies.
Click. (BBC) French President Jacques Chirac has attended a memorial for a young French Jew whose killing shocked the nation.
Click. (Bloomberg) Sri Lanka's government, rebels pledge to boost cease-fire, prevent violence.
Click. Kevin G. Hall: Survival of Mexico's long-dominant PRI in question.
Click. Jim Yardley: Man freed after years in jail for Mao insult.
Click. (DEBKAfile) Russian missile cruiser Moskva on a NATO exercise, docked at Syrian Latakia port on Feb. 21.
Click. (Reuters) German police raid suspected weapons spy ring.
Click. (Khaleej) Rice shunts Lahoud, pressures Syria on Lebanon visit.
Click. (Khaleej) Guantanamo must close, says US ally Berlusconi.
Click. (Canadian Press) More than six dozen CIA-linked landings in Canada: declassified memos.
Click. (Xinhua) World Bank opens marketplace for development ideas by Chinese NGOs.
Click. (Bloomberg) Canadian defense minister O'Conner may discuss US missile plan.
Click. (Bloomberg) Peru's Humala vows to end gas exports, trade treaties if elected President.
Click. (ABC) Average American family income declines.
Click. (BBC) Could a South Dakota law really end US abortion rights.
Click. Senator Hilary Clinton turns to veteran fundraisers.
Click. (Hearst news) People who tumble over mail left in their doorways can sue the US Postal Service, the Supreme Court ruled.
Click. James Sterngold: Urban housing success story faces budget ax.
Click. Tim Funk: Supreme Court hears case on admissibility of evidence of third party culpability for crime.
Click. Michael J. Sniffen: Defense: jury stacked against Moussaoui.
Click. Andrew Gumbel: A cover-up under two Presidents. The unsolved mystery of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Click. (Lodi News) Hamid Hayat: Did he confess to agents?
Click. Rhone Tempest: FBI informer begins his testimony in Lodi terror trial.
Click. Metea Gold, Meg James: In the wake of a CBS and Warner Bros. deal, Murdoch's company is banking on telenovelas.
Click. (AP) Watchdog group questions 2004 Florida vote.
Click. (BBC) Four charged over US bones theft.
Click. (Bloomberg) Fannie Mae's former chief financial officer caused $11 billion of accounting errors and misled the board.
Click. (Bloomberg) The FBI warned military intelligence agents that they were using illegal techniques to question suspected terrorists at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay.
Click. (Khaleej) Rice to soothe fears over ports row on UAE visit.
Click.
Click. (Khaleej) Editorial: View from Dubai.
Click. (Bloomberg) Senators urge Dubai port deal be postpones: Rove suggest delay possible.
Click. Ted Bridis: Senator Carl Levin challenges port procedure.
Click. Ron Hutcheson: Bush sees bright side in outsourcing.
Click. (AP) Difficult to discern who runs US ports.
Click. Daniel Enberg: I'm running a port. What do I do? How a port operator operates.
Click. Anacher Forester: Baker key to Dubai ports mess.
Click. Fred Kaplan: You're a spy. If the Bush administration's interpretation of espionage law
is upheld, then everyone
Click. Paul Waldman: The GOP's loyalty fetish.
Click. Robert Parry: UAE, Port Security & the Hariri Hit.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Secret Service alerted by Jack Thompson over Cheney/Bush games.
Click. Tracy Hamilton: Journalist Bob Woodward warns of police State.
Click. Bruce Schneier: US ports raise proxy problem.
Click. (AP) UAE gave $100 million for Katrina relief.
Click. (AP) White House Katrina report highlights.
Click. (AP) Comparison of reports on Katrina.
is breaking the law, all the time.
intoxicated to remember making statements attributed to her
by a CHP officer who arrested her on
suspicion of drunken driving last year.
Click. (Oakland Tribune) Delta's levees remain a top-flight concern. Feinstein
to back governor's public works
proposal in D.C.; legislative leaders want more modest plan.
Click. Jason B. Johnson: State's levees in danger. More engineering armor urged for California delta.
Click. Carla Marinucchi: Big test for governor at GOP convention. He is recovering from fall defeat, but faces a tough crowd.
Click. Paul Chorneau: Money rolling in worries state budget analyst.
Click. Rachel Gordon: Mayors look for housing money. San Francisco, San Jose and LA top officials visit the Capitol.
Click. Nancy Isles Nation: Marin Foundation in tug of war over donation.
Click. (Mountain Democrat) Adopted orphans find a new home in El Dorado.
Click. John M. Gilonna: Bay Area lawmaking. The weird and the wonderful.
Click. Anthony York: Team Schwarzenegger gets overhaul with a White House feel.
Click. Emily Fancher: Oldest salvaged ship resurrected in San Francisco.
Click. (Chicago Tribune) At DePaul, queer studies finds a niche.
Click. (London Times) Archeological recovery of the Battle of Chester in AD 616.
Click. Maev Kennedy. Archangel sculpture rises from Lichfield nave.
Click. Adam Gopnik: Bohemian yet bourgeois, Paris is a city of contradictions. No wonder American artists have
always been dazzled by it.
Click. John Hooper: Villagers claim church fresco is lost Michelangelo.
Click. Maddy Costa: "Shakespeare was daring - why aren't new writers?".
Click. (Xinhua) Chinese college students "compelled" to find love.
Click. Juliane Ngan: Feast of Fools features "Pagan Idol" competition.
Study says supplements Chondroitin, Glucosamine don't ease arthritis pain +
Robot surgeons match
heartbeats +
Jakarta May Complete Search of Houses for Diseased Fowl in Three Months +
Fast biosensor is developed +
By the three
moons of Pluto! +
Fossil Overturns Ideas of Jurassic Mammals +
Ultraviolet satellite operational again +
Google, EarthLink Bid to Offer Wireless Access in San Francisco +
Live
Thumbnails: Watch 'em Grow +
Pharmed goats seek
drug license +
Soldiers' hearing loss quietly taking big toll +
Mutant Algae Is Hydrogen Factory +
A Solid That's Light as Air +
Crohn's
disease 'enigma' close to solved? +
Caregiving: Pataki's complicated recovery +
Ped Med: Tracing ADHD's history +
Mobile animal diagnostic lab is developed +
Scientists grow prostate from stem cells +
Ancient Origin Of Vertebrate Skeleton In Unlovable Lamprey +
Genes Involved In Cell Growth And Cell Division Identified +
Chromosome Rearrangements Not As Random As Believed +
Genetic Test Accurate For Salt-related High Blood Pressure +
Tool Helps Doctors Tailor Infertility Treatments For Couples +
Learning And Memory Stimulated By Gut Hormone +
Use Of Statins Shows Improvement In Erectile Performance Of Some Men Who
Previously Did Not Respond Well To Viagra + |
New Study Shows Antibody-interleukin Complexes Stimulate Immune Responses +
1st Diagnostic Indicator For Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) +
Mobile Lab Expands Capacity Of Animal Disease Diagnostics +
Obesity May Affect Response To Asthma Medications +
Obesity May Affect Response To Asthma Medications +
Proteins Are Key To Cell Death In Heart Disease, Stroke And Degenerative
Conditions +
Is Salmon Good or Bad for Pregnant Women? +
Fresh theory
on cause of Crohn's +
'Biggest
measles campaign' ready
Snakes Poisoned At Birth +
Shopping List Gets Longer -- Not Less Choosy -- In Some Of World's Largest
Fisheries +
Hens' Teeth Not So Rare After All +
France Tests Turkeys for Bird Flu; India Reports No Human Cases in Workers +
Using eight tons of
sand in the fight against bird flu +
Jakarta May Complete Search of Houses for Diseased Poultry in Three Months +
Luck of
the Irish +
Dumb and dumber in the Middle East +
France Tests Turkeys for Bird Flu; India Reports No Human Cases in Workers
Man-made
'star' is created+
Researchers Describe Discovery Of Pluto's New Moons +
Europe ice mission decision due
Google Enters Web Design Business + |
Quantum Computer Solves Problem, Without Running +
Hackers Beware - New Technique Uses Photons, Physics To Foil Codebreakers +
Godfather classic film seeks to become video game hit +
Google Sets
February 22, 2006
Click. (London Times) Al-Askariya shrine -- "Not just a major cathedral".
Click. (Zaman) Al-Sadr calls for revenge amid mosque attack.
Click. (ABC) Iraq bomb attack. Why is civil war possible?
Click. (RIAN) Moscow has no new offers for Iran at nuclear talks.
Click. (Sydney Morning Herald) Files reveal al Qaeda's worries over marketing.
Click. (Int'l Herald Tribune) Egyptians rebuff US bid to slash Hamas aid.
Click. Warren P. Strobel: Egypt cautions against isolating Hamas.
Click. Don Lee: Shanghai celebrates giant port amid worries of overcapacity.
Click. Matthew Lynn: Nazis, slavers return as corporate albatrosses.
Click. (Bloomberg) Ecuador sends troops to oil producing area after protesters cut pipeline.
Click. Denny Walsh: FBI agents suggested answers to some questions during a protracted videotaped interview in which a Lodi man charged with providing material support to terrorists confessed to undergoing jihad training at a camp in Pakistan.
Click. Mark Sherman: New FBI computer system exceeds costs.
Click. (Christian Science) Faculty clout helps oust Harvard's President Summers.
Click. (Time) How the US nabbed alleged terrorists in Toledo.
Click. (Houston Chronicle) Oregon property rights law upheld.
Click. Bob Nichols: Heads roll at the Veterans Administration.
Click. (CNN) Bush: India should divide nuke programs.
Click. (Bloomberg) Bush, Snow didn't learn of Dubai port deal until after US approval given.
Click. Ted Burdis: Bush unaware of ports deal before approval.
Click. (Daily Kos) UAE royal family met with Bin Laden, saved him from CIA hit.
Click. Bill Berkowitz: Where is Neil Bush? Dubai?
Click. James Ridgeway: Dubai's point of no return.
Click. Doug Thompson: Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer.
Click. (Reuters) White House blocked briefing on NSA spying.
Click. Arianna Huffington: Is Sean Hannity addicted to Coulter crack?
Click. Paul Craig Roberts: Would someone please interfere in our elections?
Click. (Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control) Risk Report. United Arab Emirates Transshipment Milestones.
Click. Maureen Dowd: G.O.P. to W.: You're Nuts!
Click. (USA Today) Bin Laden's operatives still using freewheeling Dubai.
Click. Scooter Libby's web page.
Click. (Bakersfieldonline) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger highlighted the Strategic Growth Plan's $35 billion investment to maintain and improve the state's levee and flood control system.
Click. Dan Walters: Financing bonds could be sticking point on infrastructure accord.
Click. Sabin Russell: California postpones Morales execution. Doctors' ethical dilemma: "This is a job for an executioner, not a physician".
Click. Kerri Brenner: DA probes activities at office of Marin assessor.
Click. (Vallejo Times Herald) The state Attorney General has sued Napa County to halt
the dumping of untreated sewage into
Lake Berryessa.
Click. (LA Times) Orange County Judge John M. Watson rebuked for doing business from the bench.
Click. (Bloomberg) California's sentencing guidelines draw US Supreme Court scrutiny.
Click. Samuel A. Schreiner: Clearing Mary Lincoln's name.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Making Money Off Fatima and the Spiritually Confused.
Click. Carl T. Hall: Gay pride, Turin's other claim to fame.
Click. P. J. Corkery: A cab, a library, a couple of bars (in San Francisco).
Click. Yoolim Lee: The Emperor's old clothes. Collecting Chinese silk robes.
Click. (BBC) Oliver Stone explains September 11 movie.
Click. (Bloomberg) Deloitte to sponsor Leonardo exhibition, draw on "Da Vinci Code" appeal.
Click. (The Guardian) Councils fund "panic rooms" for domestic violence victims.
Click. (London Times) Retirement cruises put marriages on the rocks.
Computer
lets parents track kids' eating +
LA -
based Sunkist to begin selling bags of sliced fruit +
Panel backs infant rotavirus vaccine +
Twelve
humans positive for bird flu in India? +
Bird
flu vaccine no 'silver bullet' +
Good results seen in Ebola vaccine study +
Frog clue to
mosquito repellent +
Physicists Step Closer To Understanding Origin Of The Universe +
Oceans Are 70-Percent Shark Free +
Google hires Dr. Larry Brilliant to head $1 billion charitable foundation +
Google loses fight over photo links
+
Shuttle next-gen SFF PC exposed
+
15-year women's health study comes to an end. Now what? +
Napa doctors become sleuths to find the elusive sources of aches and pains +
Medicare endorses 3 obesity surgeries +
MS diagnosis may be too late to help veteran of first Gulf War +
A New Heart for Baby Nick +
Oklahoma has flu (but not bird flu) +
DNA
could predict your surname
+
Malnutrition
test must be norm +
Ped Med: The female factor in ADHD +
Scientists identify embryonic cell gene +
Something Fishy About Human Brain Evolution +
Science Class Experiment Reveals Vitamin B12 Secret +
Male Gene May Explain Higher Incidence Of Parkinson's In Men +
Link Is Found Between Morphine Addiction And The Tendency To Explore +
New Nano-canary In The Nanotoxicology Coalmine: The Body Itself +
Northwestern Researchers Launch Avastin Trial For Pancreatic Tumors +
Food Experts Say Public Has Inadequate Understanding Of Food Risk Issues +
Researchers Find Molecule That May Hold Key To Learning And Memory +
UVa Scientists Hot On Trail Of Therapies For Deadly Lung Failure +
Evidence Lacking For 'Inflatable-pants' Heart Failure Therapy +
Stressed-out Women More Likely To Miscarry Early +
Second Low-oxygen Pathway Hints At Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease Physiology
Studied: Outbreaks that fail and epidemics +
India seals off town of 30,000 over bird flu fears
+
Germany's Baltic Sea Island Ruegen Remains Country's Bird Flu `Hot Spot' +
Austria Detects H5N1 Bird Flu in Chickens, Ducks; Virus Spreads in Nigeria
Researcher Outlines Coral's Future In An Increasingly Acidic Ocean +
Monitoring Baleen Whales With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles +
New Theory Resolves Mystery Of Anomalous Cosmic Rays +
Researchers Develop Alternate Method To Dispose Nuclear Liquid Waste +
Unearthing Explanations For New Madrid Earthquakes +
Horseshoe Crab Decline Threatens Shorebird Species +
Rare Gamma-ray Flare From A Distant Star Disturbs Earth's Daytime Ionosphere
+
The Dawn Of Deep Ocean Mining
Early Americans Faced Rapid Late Pleistocene Climate Change And Chaotic
Environments
'Millions
suffer RSI' from text messaging
+
EU
Commission eyes MIT-style research powerhouse +
More
security problems bite Apple +
Microsoft
rivals in new EU action +
How
hi-tech vandals are recruiting and controlling PCs +
Japan sends infrared satellite into orbit
February 21, 2006 Tuesday
Click. (The Guardian) New wars for old.
Click. Syed Saleem Shahzad: Musharraf losing his grip.
Click. (Ottawa Citizen) The Afghanistan tinder box.
Click. (Army Times) Army testing unmanned Stryker convoys.
Click. (London Times) US military planes criss-cross Europe using bogus call sign
Click. Robert Burbach: Bolivia's Morales deftly keeps enemies at bay while pushing reforms.
Click. Al Giordano: Subcomandante Marcos Invites the Braceros to Go with Him to Meet Mexicans that Live and Work In the United States.
Click. Teresa Gutierrez: Pentagon quietly builds up South American bases.
Click. (Mainichi) Asahara's lawyers release psychiatric evaluation saying he is fit to stand trial.
Click. George Monbiot: When it won't need a tyranny to deprive us of our freedom.
Click. Nikolai Patrushev: Foreign intelligence services becoming more daring in hunt for Russian military secrets".
Click. (Herald Tribune) Hamas offers cabinet jobs but finds few takers.
Click. (AP) A chilling visit with Pol Pot's "brother".
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portugal and Italy Aid Flood-Stricken Algerian Camps.
Click. (Capitol Hill Blue) Feds step up concealment of public documents.
Click. (BP News) Supreme Court agrees to hear partial-birth abortion case.
Click. Gina Holland: Supreme Court allows church's hallucinogenic tea.
Click. Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair: A "100 Per Cent Certainty". The FBI and the Myth of Fingerprints.
Click. Noah S. Leavitt: Nuremberg at 60. How the US is turning away from its proud history.
Click. (CNN) Bikers roll to military funerals to oppose anti-gay protests.
Click. (AP) Three Ohio men charged with planning attacks in Iraq.
Click. (USA Today) Harvard President to step down.
Click. (AP) Boot camp autopsy doctor questioned before.
Click. (Reuters) Bush defends ports deal, threatens veto.
Click. (ABC) Bush: Arab company port deal should proceed.
Click. (Bloomberg) Dubai port purchase pits Bush against lawmakers, Governors in both parties.
Click. (New York Daily News) W aides' biz ties to Arab firm.
Click. (Khaleej) Hughes says P & O takeover wont' be hit by objections in US.
Click. Tom Flocco: Dubai's Grand Central Station purchase raises terrorism questions. Bush friend Robert Bass was lead investor in building sale to royal family.
Click. Nicholas D. Kristoff: Time for an extreme makeover at the White House.
Click. Nat Parry: Bush's mysterious "new programs".
Click. (BBC) Doctors halt "painless executions".
Click. (San Diego Tribune) California seeks alternate way to execute Morales before midnight.
Click. (AP) Berkeley High football star, subject of book, shot and killed.
Click. (AP) Prominent lawyer pleads not guilty in Hollywood wiretapping probe.
Click. (AP) Pregnant inmate dies.
Click. Tom Chorneau: Candidates try to define themselves.
Click. Dan Walters: State has used Enron-style accounting tricks to cover its deficits.
Click. (AP) Hawk habitat money unspent.
Click. (ABC10) Fewer farmworkers employed in California.
Click. Einstein's wife. The life of Mileva Maric Einstein.
Click. (New Yorker) When in Rome: A striking redesign of the Getty's Malibu villa.
Click. (The Guardian) The Thornborough henges have been saved after being overlooked for nearly 1,000 years.
Click. (LA Times) They're building in Baja and boomers are buying.
Click. Meredith Grenier: San Pedro playwright takes 9-11, breaks it apart and puts it back together in "Blockbuster!"
Click. (LA Times) Carmel Valley Zen retreat famous for veggie cuisine, hot springs.
Chewing
gum aids colon surgery recovery +
Drug limits
fetal alcohol damage +
Forensics: DNA
could predict your surname +
The Age of Autism: Who runs Colorado? +
Stressed women prone to early miscarriages +
Action of 'strep' bacteria is determined +
Two hay fever drugs produce equal results +
Clock Molecule's Sensitivity To Lithium Sheds Light On Bipolar Disorder +
Organic Diets Lower Children's Exposure To Two Common Pesticides +
Technology Helps Disabled Kids Find Their Voice +
Research Offers Hope To Increase Islet Supply To Cure Type 1 Diabetes +
Experts Question Prevalent Stereotypes About Autism +
Waking A Sleeping Virus: Taking Aim At One Of Mankind's Most Common Diseases
+
High Risk Of Breast Cancer Associated With Genetic Variation In Leptin And Its
Receptor +
Accutane registry to begin next week
Indians hunted carelessly, study says +
State researchers to track elusive wolverine's secrets +
Elephant seals dive for science +
British explorer prepares for record breaking Artic expedition +
Comet dust is studied in Chicago +
New Fossil Find In New Mexico Named After Artist Georgia O'Keeffe +
Oceans May Soon Be More Corrosive Than When The Dinosaurs Died +
'Kelp Highway' May Have Helped Peopling Of The Americas +
New Clues in the Plant Mating Mystery +
What Constitutes Acceptable Earthquake Risk? +
Successful Venus Express Main Engine Test +
Next Good Dinosaur News Likely To Come From Small Packages +
The Math Of Deadly Waves +
Study Indicates Speed Cameras Could Curb Road Deaths +
Predators 'drove
human species'
(Effect Measure) WHO updates on H5N1 mutations + Quick pandemic flu test 'vital' + Australia increases bird flu research...
Google
concedes desktop security risk +
IBM squeezes more
into chips +
Google Under Fire for China Presence +
Neurosphere: The convergence of
evolution, group mind and the Internet +
Shuttle Atlantis to be retired in two years
February 20, 2006
Click. Shibley Telhami, Eberhard Rhein: In the Middle East, the third way is a myth.
Click. Jane Mayer: The memo. How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.
Click. Marty Lederman: How the Pentagon came to adopt criminal abuse as official policy.
Click. Peter W. Galbraith: The mess.
Click. (Zaman) Washington to hit Iran in January 2007.
Click. (Moscow News) US asks Georgia to use its land for bases to attack Iran.
Click. (Forbes) Hamas picks prime minister.
Click. (Zaman) Muslim brothers to finance Hamas.
Click. (Xinhua) Japan, US to test interceptor technology in March.
Click. (Houston Chronicle) Lawmakers, White House at odds over ports.
Click. (Washington Post) White House working to avoid wiretap probe.
Click. Bob Egelko: Water wars await Alito in debut on Supreme court. Future of nation's rivers, wetlands hinges on 2 key cases.
Click. Layla Bohm: Notes on the Lodi terror trial.
Click. Philip Pan: China's net nanny's slip is showing.
Click. (Mainichi Daily News) Psychiatric report says AUM guru Asahara fit to stand trial.
Click. Arianna Huffington: The Mary Matalin horror show.
Click. Joe Cannon: Crashing into history.
Click. Bob Herbert: The torturers win.
Click. Paul Krugman: The Mensch gap.
Click. (San Diego Tribune) Randy Duke Cunningham. In disgrace but not all alone.
Click. (EffectMeasure) What did we buy for $33 billion and why?
Click. Jennie Jarvie: Latinos sought a US mining's next generation.
Click. Eric J. Sinrod: A federal court has ruled recently that a loan company was not negligent and did not have a duty under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley statute to encrypt a customer database on a laptop computer that fell into the wrong hands.
Click. (SactoBee) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to spend $105 billion on roads and highways over the next 10 years, unfettered by what some consider to be the Holy Grail of public works projects - competitive bidding.
Click. (LA Times) IRS reviewing United Farm Workers and related charities.
Click. Jim Boren: State's gambling tribes risk killing their golden goose.
Click. Matier & Ross: Helpful Amtrak conductor is fired over injuries. She was hurt aiding passenger; railroad says she broke rules.
Click. Mareva Brown, Sam Stanton: Molester says treatment working, soon to be released in California.
Click. Ben Aguirre, Jr.: Local police in California requiring residents to file police reports online.
Click. Jeff Wells: Markovian Parallax Denigrate.
Click. Andrew Gumbel: The original desperate housewife: America remembers Grace Metalious.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs.
Click. Kelly Anne-Suarez: Timetables, tour books, catalogs: Bit by printed bit, Wally Shidler pieces together L.A. history.
Click. Luis Sahagun: The Natural History Museum is putting the finishing touches on an atlas that documents 230 breeding bird species in Los Angeles County.
Click. Pictorial diary of sailing on the Great Lakes.
Laser that lets you see through solid objects +
From
Far East, a lesson in how to beat bird flu +
Heavy drinking linked to poor diet +
Foods to control the dieter's stomach +
Rapid spread of bird flu from Asia puzzles experts +
Cervical vaccine jabs may help men too +
US soldiers seek thrill of war on fast bikes +
With Web, nurse extends care +
Scientists dig into pile of 4.5 billion-year-old comet dust +
University finds pig cells can treat diabetes +
125 Big Questions +
'Faster emergence' for diseases +
Fountain of youth within reach? +
New Clues in the Plant Mating Mystery +
Seven-month-olds Show An Abstract Numerical Sense Before They Can Even Talk +
Ovarian Cancer Responds To Aspirin Derivative With Chemo +
Dramatic Metabolic Differences In How Adults, Infants, Children
Process Drugs +
Engineering Nerve Jumper Cables For Spinal Cord Repair In Animal Model +
Quantum Physics: The 'Spin Triplet' Supercurrent +
Researchers Develop Revolutionary New Heart Valve For Children +
Early Human Ancestors Walked On The Wild Side +
Marine Ecologists To Help Rebuild Decreasing Fish Stocks +
Gene Patterns In White Blood Cells Quickly Diagnose Disease +
Estrogen-progestin Menopausal Hormone Therapy And Risk Of Lobular And Tubular
Breast Cancer +
Sex, Cleaner Of Genomes +
Livers From Non-heart Beating Donors Would Boost Organ Supply +
Phytoplankton Bounce Back From Abrupt Climate Change +
Instruments On Alaska's Augustine Volcano Provide New Insights Into Volcanic Processes +
Ticks, Flukes, And Genomics: Emerging Pathogens Revealed +
UCLA Finds Cancer Drug May Improve Progeria; Genetic Disease Causes Accelerated
Aging In Children
February 19, 2006
Click. (Sydney Morning Herald) Iranian suicide bombers wait in the wings.
Click. Borzou Daragahi: Iraqi insurgents seem to time their attacks and informal cease-fires for maximum gain, while distancing themselves from foreign fighters.
Click. (The Australian) Chavez the joker not funny for Bush.
Click. Mary Mitchell: Corner drunk couldn't have bombed worse than FEMA.
Click. Simon Jenkins: Bush and Blair have brilliantly done Bin Laden's work for him.
Click. Anne Woolner: Did politics trump law in spying, tobacco cases.
Click. (Bloomberg) Crude oil may rise in London tomorrow after an attack on a terminal operated by Royal Dutch Shell Plc cut Nigeria's export capacity by about 20 percent.
Click. (Bloomberg) Lawmakers increased pressure on the Bush administration to review its approval of the $6.8 billion sale of a company that operates six U.S. ports to a firm controlled by the United Arab Emirates.
Click. (Bloomberg) Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said President George W. Bush didn't need court approval when he authorized a National Security Agency surveillance program, and that the U.S. law establishing a special court to review national security wiretap requests doesn't need to be changed.
Click. Nanette Asimov: Extra-special education at public expense.
Click. Sam Stanton, Marveva Brown: Sex offenders often disappear after release.
Click. Scott Allen: UC Irvine studies long-term impact of Civil War trauma.
Click. Jacob Adelman: Japanese convenience stores land in California.
Click. Gaye LeBaron: Grocery stores come and go, but loyalties die hard.
Click. (Mountain Democrat) "Paper pregnancies" take local families to Asia.
Click. Elaine Cassel: An issue of competency. The sentencing of Zacarias Moussaoui,
Click. (Xymophora) The Able Danger danger.
Click. Evan Thomas: Inside Dick Cheney's dark, secretive mind-set—and the forces that made it that way.
Click. Richard A. Serrano: Cheney's heart is in the hunt.
Click. Lorenzo Munoz: The Hollywood gospel according to Tyler Perry.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Portugal's Massive Cocaine Busts.
Click. (New Zealand Herald) 3-D technology can be good for business.
Click. Carol Strickland: The secret life of old New Orleans.
Click. Rick Anderson: From spy to psychotic. The latest on the very strange story of former Seattle journalist Susan Lindauer.
Click. Robert Crumb: The religious experience of Philip K. Dick.
February 18, 2006
Click. (Lebanon Daily Star) Iran calls for withdrawal of UK troops from Basra.
Click. David Ignatius: Playing raw, hardball politics in Baghdad.
Click. (Haaretz) Rice warns Iran not to finance Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
Click. (Australian) Iraq to flush out killers in the ranks.
Click. Charley Reese: What Bush is up to.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Hunting for a straight shooter.
Click. (Democracy Now) Professor McCoy exposes the history of CIA interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror.
Click. (CBS) Chavez: US oil exports could end.
Click. (Mother Jones) Iraqi veteran forced out of Senate race by Harry Reid.
Click. (AP) Pelosi wants ethics probe of deficit bill.
Click. (AP) Prosecutors seek 10 years for Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
Click. Graham Stewart: A vice-president with clear aim and intent.
Click. (AP) Child pornographer gets life sentence. Man fingered in federal initiative believed to be first to get life for kid porn.
Click. (Moscow News) Russia’s illegal drugs business worth $15B a year.
Click. Henry K. Lee: Scott Dyleski to stand trial in the murder of Pamela Vitale.
Click. (Recombinomics) H5N1 Bird Flu alert declared in Iraq.
Click. (BBC) The age of retirement should be raised to 85 by 2050 because of trends in life expectancy,
Click. John Updike: The sea, the sea.
Click. (BBC) Jeanne d'Arc relics to be tested
February 17, 2006
Click. (Washington Post) Senate panel rejects spy probe. White House's assurances take air out of effort to investigate warrantless wiretaps.
Click. (New York Times) Doing the President's dirty work.
Click. Katherine Schrader: Judge orders spying documents to be released.
Click. E. J. Dionne, Jr.: No end to phony populism.
Click. (Bloomberg) German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair discuss Iran nuclear problem, urge Hamas to reject violence.
Click. (Bloomberg) Russia has bird flu outbreak in Southwest: Turkey reports suspected cases.
Click. (London Times) Mardi Gras façade will hide a toxic, rubble-strewn wasteland.
Click. (The Independent) African bio-resources "exploited by the West".
Click. Keaye Davidson: Activists push fight on germ research. Appeal filed over Livermore lab's new facility for study of pathogens.
Click. Henry K. Lee: Teen suspect Dyleski's mother testifies in slay case. She says drawings made her consider psychologist for son.
February 16, 2006
NEWSMAKINGNEWS: A look into the time-line in that box inside VP Cheney's brain:
Click. Pete Yost (AP): "Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that he has the power to declassify sensitive government information, authority that could set up a criminal defense for his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby."
"Scooter" Libby says, in essence, that he told the grand jury convened by prosecutor Fitzgerald that his superiors authorized him to out Valerie Plame. He implies he is, therefore, guilty of no crime on this issue. His chief superiors were VP Cheney and President Bush. Is Libby's defense plausible?
Joe Wilson's New York Times editorial regarding the absence of enriched yellow cake uranium from Niger, cited by Bush and Cheney and others as a reason to go to war with Iraq who they alleged had access to that yellow cake, was published on
February 13, 2003.March 2003, at a meeting in the Vice President's Office, attended by Libby and other Cheney staffers. At that meeting, according to Wilson, orders went out to do "a work-up" on Wilson. `A work-up," Wilson explained, "is an intelligence operation to find out everything that you can about Wilson and his family.'" Click to source."At a press conference on Capitol Hill on July 14, Ambassador Wilson, flanked by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), reminded reporters that the "Get Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame" campaign was launched in
The 1995 Executive Order 12958 cited by VP Dick Cheney on
February 15, 2006 in an interview with Fox News re: the Armstrong Ranch shooting incident, was amended on March 25, 2003. Here is the text of the amended Executive Order 13292 Click. Its new provisions are in bold. (By these provisions, the Vice President appears to have arguably have expanded legal powers to declassify material.)On
July 14, 2003, Valerie Plame was outed as an undercover CIA operative by Robert Novak in a news article.Click. Gina Holland: Justice Alito hires trusted conservatives.
Click. (AP) Court voids Michael Jackson’s ex-wife’s loss of parental rights
Click. (London Times) Britain plans no-go areas planned as bird flu closes in.
Click. Pam Easton: Is it time for police surveillance cameras in homes?
Click. Brenda Stardom: I'm A Gamer! Hear Me Roar.
Click. Henry K. Lee: Scott Dyleski housemate says he found gruesome to-do list.
Science: Sick kids may be at risk for mental ills + Modern technology finds ancient Maya ruins + Program helps in designing artificial DNA + Technology may revolutionize kitchens + Scientists study spousal illness effects + New test possible for shaken baby syndrome + Doctors Test Robotic Surgeon For Laparoscopy + Antioxidant Supplementation Not Associated With Decreased Risk Of Prostate Cancer + Targeting Pancreatic Cancer + Unique Equine Cataract Surgery Offered On Routine Basis + Yale Statistics Professor Identifies Flaws In IOC Figure Skating Scoring System + New Compound May Protect Against Liver Cancer + New Targeted Treatment For Brain Tumors Shows Promise In Pre-clinical Models + Simple System Predicts Mortality Of Older Americans With 81 Percent Accuracy
February 15, 2006
Click. (Bloomberg) US Homeland Security Chief Chertoff says he is responsible for Katrina failures.
Click. R. J. Eskow: Cheney's Chappaquiddick. The real story emerges.
Click. (Bloomberg) Cheney, facing criticism on shooting, to comment for first time.
Click. Maureen Dowd: Shooter slips on a silencer.
Click. (Zaman) US and Israel to use isolation plan to overthrow Hamas.
Click. Glen Greenwald: Silencing Bush critics with prison.
Click. (Independent) "Death squad" kills outspoken critic of Kazakh government.
Click. Daniel Finkelstein: How I woke up to a nightmare plot to steal centuries of law and liberty.
Click. (Independent) Terror threat -- the great deception.
Click. Wayne Madsen: National security whistleblowers testify to planted classified documents and other abuses.
Click. (London Times) Abu Ghraib scandal reignited.
Click. Jason Dearen: Hearing highlights the macabre. Prosecutor paints teenager Dyleski charged in Lafayette slaying as disturbed young man.
Click. Steve Geissinger: Governor Schwarzenegger risks north - south water fight.
Click. (Lodi News) Juror chosen in Lodi terror case.
Click. Brenda Stardom: Help Find Jennifer Keese.