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ABC News: After Bailout, AIG Execs Head to California Resort
sstrong42 rated Liked it 8 hours ago http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5973452&pag
So it's begun. AIG executives head off with taxpayer cash to exclusive California spa and run up $440,000 bill. More...
4 reviews business, bailout, government-greed
Village gets clinic from brothers it helped - Wonderful Worl...
Foggy1 rated Liked it 9 hours ago http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25573377/
From the page: Kenya village gets clinic from brothers it helped Residents sold chickens and cattle to send siblings to college in the U.S.A. Image: Milton Ochieng Christopher Williams / AP Mil More...
4 reviews medical-science, altruism
Salon.com | Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to th...
Kilroy60 rated Liked it 9 hours ago http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/24/
From the page: "The point is that the deployment is a very dangerous precedent, quite possibly illegal, and a radical abandonment of an important democratic safeguard. As always with first steps of th More...
13 reviews politics, military, police-state
Nepal declares girl new living goddess - World Faith- msnbc....
OneStonedCrow rated Liked it 11 hours ago http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27065016/
Nepal declares young girl new living goddess From the page: She will be worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists as an incarnation of the powerful Hindu deity Taleju. A panel of judges conducted a serie More...
5 reviews religion, society, hinduism
CANOE -- CNEWS - World: Jewish modesty patrols sow fear in I...
TOMTHUMB rated Liked it 12 hours ago http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/04/69802
From the page: "JERUSALEM - In Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law sometimes takes a back seat to the rule of God, zealots are on a campaign to stamp out behaviour they con More...
10 reviews religion, fundamentalism, israel
Human evolution coming to a halt - Yahoo! News UK
virtualmonkey rated Liked it 13 hours ago http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20081007/tuk-hum
interesting article, but i'm just not convinced of the argument that evolution is linked to the age of male sperm, and therefore because we're having children at a younger age there are fewer mutation More...
31 reviews evolution, news, science
Light bulb networks could be the next WiFi - Engadget
javamanjoe rated Liked it 14 hours ago http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/07/light-bulb-netw
LIGHT BULB NETWORKS MAY BE THE WIFI OF THE FUTURE. WHAT A BRIGHT IDEA. If researchers at Boston University's College of Engineering have their way, light bulbs of the future may be the highway your da More...
28 reviews science, boston-university, networking
The worlds best birding sites | Environment | guard...
marymar rated Liked it 15 hours ago http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008
Sri Lankan frogmouths roosting in Goa. More...
3 reviews birds
The ultra-thin solar cells that could generate power through...
allnew rated Liked it 16 hours ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-106
From the page: "'You can make (the solar cells) in the form of a gray film that could be added to architectural glass,' said lead researcher John Rogers of the University of Illinois. 'It opens up More...
3 reviews alternative-energy
The destructive policies of President Bush - The Boston Glob...
Rrrick rated Liked it 19 hours ago http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinio
The destructive policies of President BushFrom the page: "The hubris and arrogance of Bush's first term still poisons the wells of good will this country once enjoyed. The undermining of the Constitut More...
12 reviews politics, bush, palin
Nation &World | Pesticide-testing program halted | Seattle T...
Rozlynn rated Liked it 20 hours ago http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/
From the page: "The Bush administration has abruptly halted a government program that tests the levels of pesticides in fruits, vegetables and field crops. The decision was criticized by r More...
5 reviews health, government, public-safety
Richard Cohen - This Debates Biggest Loser - washingtonpost....
billso rated Liked it 20 hours ago http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic
Cohen nails it in this analysis of last week's VP debate. Palin blew it. From the page: "A perfect example is the Wall Street Journal, whose (conservative) editorial page has been absolutely fixated More...
3 reviews politics, sarah-palin, palin
Boss of Lehman Brothers left squirming as veteran Democra...
Silverfox616 rated Liked it 22 hours ago http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/07/leh
Well, he better get used to being examined and get to the bottom of this fiasco, that money hungry, greedy baboons started... More...
7 reviews banking, economy, corruption
Arianna Huffington: McCains Desperate Claim: Obama is Danger...
pmorency11 rated Liked it 23 hours ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/m
from the page: "So here it comes. One last desperate, pathetic, sordid attempt to distract the country from anything resembling a real debate about a real issue." classic GOP More...
8 reviews politics, mccain, election
Evolution stops here: Future Man will look the same, says sc...
chron rated Liked it 25 hours ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-107
Although I believe in Creationism, I also have logic. Some of the arguments presented seem valid, but others do not. I think humans will evolve though. Genes which prevent cancer and are resilient More...
4 reviews science, evolution, moose
The amazing photographs that show the worlds most famous lan...
chris789 rated Liked it 37 hours ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1069772/Th
The amazing photographs that show the world's most famous landmarks replaced by cheap souvenirs More...
26 reviews photography, souvenirs, landmarks
BBC NEWS | UK | England | West Yorkshire | Girl fed school s...
vajraguru333 rated Liked it 38 hours ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yo
Yes but to be fair they do say that neither teacher actually complained about it. A day off for being as stoned as they were at teachers college...I am sure they loved it. More...
15 reviews bizarre, school-policy, drugs
BBC NEWS | Health | Nobel prize for viral discoveries
colinmac rated Liked it 39 hours ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7654214.stm
From the page: "The scientists who discovered HIV will share the Nobel prize for medicine with the expert who linked human papillpoma virus (HPV) to cervical cancer" More...
5 reviews medical-science, virus, news
Gallery - Solargraphs show half a year of sun - Image 1 - Ne...
erinj1976 rated Liked it 39 hours ago http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/mg20026761900-
This is a solargraph. It shows the path taken by the sun as it travelled across the sky above the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, UK, between 19 December 2007 and 21 June 2008 (between the winte More...
12 reviews photography, news, science
A Promising Oil Alternative: Algae Energy - washingtonpost.c...
michaelarchangel rated Liked it 40 hours ago http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic
From the page: "A Promising Oil Alternative: Algae Energy (Istockphoto) Enlarge Photo TOOLBOX Resize Text Save/Share + Digg Newsvine del.icio.us Stumble It! Reddit Facebook Prin More...
9 reviews alternative-energy, algae, environment
Starbucks wastes 23 million litres of water each day - Teleg...
geojim56 rated Liked it 40 hours ago http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3142711/Starbucks-
From the page: "The American coffee shop chain Starbucks has been accused of wasting more than 23 million litres of water each day because staff are told to leave taps running non-stop."The bizarre po More...
50 reviews environment, health, starbucks
How cat has earned Japanese city millions - Travel - smh.com...
yobaba rated Liked it 44 hours ago http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/cat-earns-city-m
As the economic might of Japan faces up to the global banking crisis, a single cat has boosted the finances of a small Japanese city by millions of dollars, according to a study. Tortoiseshell Tama i More...
14 reviews pets, japan, cats
Germany takes hot seat as Europe falls into the abyss - Tele...
pseudonym rated Liked it 46 hours ago http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambrose
From the page: "Investors will learn today whether the Paulson bail-out - fattened to $850bn (£480bn) by Congress - can begin to halt the death spiral in the credit system. So far, the res More...
4 reviews economics, financial-meltdown, thanks-shrub
Prehistoric cave paintings took up to 20,000 years to compl...
aliasinkhorn rated Liked it 3 days ago http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/e
Prehistoric cave paintings took up to 20,000 years to complete From the page: "It may have taken Michelangelo four long years to paint his fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but his More...
8 reviews anthropology, art, science
The partys over for Iceland, the island that tried to buy...
Jerome rated Liked it 3 days ago http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/05/icelan
Iceland: Crash From the page: "Iceland is on the brink of collapse. Inflation and interest rates are raging upwards. The krona, Iceland's currency, is in freefall and is rated just above those of Z More...
16 reviews economics, iceland, credit-crunch