3 Leave AOL in Search Data Fallout
• APTwo AOL employees were fired and its chief technology officer has left the company following a privacy breach in which the Internet search terms of more than 650,000 subscribers were publicly released.
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World's fastest jaws
• LiveScience.com (video links)Scientists have discovered the fastest bite in the world, one so explosive it can be used to send the Latin American ant that performs it flying through the air to escape predators. These powerful jaws could serve as inspirations for the propulsio
Galactic crash sheds light on mysterious dark matter
• Space.comA huge collision between two clusters of galaxies has provided the first direct evidence of the existence of the universe's mysterious dark matter, researchers said.
Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for 100 years
• AFPGreenland's glaciers have been shrinking for the past century, according to a Danish study, suggesting that the ice melt is not a recent phenomenon caused by global warming.
US businesswoman Anousheh Ansari: first woman space tourist next month
• APA Japanese space tourist who had hoped to blast off on board a Russian rocket next month was deemed unfit for the trip, a Russian space official said, adding that a U.S. woman [who funded the X prize] was most likely to replace him.
Asia's Young Entrepreneurs: Sponsored by Freedom
• BusinessWeekLed by China and India, Asia's superfast economies have dazzled observers for the last decade. But until recently the defining feature of most of them was corporate bigness. Now Asia is the scene of a broad flowering of startup activity -- as evi
Those Gloomy Consumers
• BusinessWeekThe University of Michigan consumer sentiment index tumbled to 78.7 in the preliminary August reading, vs. 84.7 in the final July print. That's the lowest since last October in the aftermath of the hurricanes. The current economic conditions inde
Campaign Targets Web Crimes Against Kids
• APAttorney General Alberto Gonzales announced a new [election year] public service campaign that will warn teenage girls against posting information on the Internet that could put them at risk of attack by child predators.
Bush to GOP Candidates: Focus on Economy
• APEven though he's not running for re-election this year, President Bush knows just what he would focus on if he were: the economy and taxes. As Republicans face an increasingly tough political outlook, in part because of Bush's sagging appr
US arrests over a dozen for Tamil Tiger support
• ReutersMore than a dozen people have been arrested in the US on suspicion of trying to provide money and weapons including surface-to-air missiles to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, U.S. officials said. [Only the gov't. can supply weapons.]
One charge in set-up Padilla terrorism case tossed by judge
• ReutersA judge threw out a murder-conspiracy charge against former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla on grounds that it duplicated other charges still pending against the alleged al Qaeda operative.
US says carmakers must tell buyers about recorders
• Reuters[Like the gov't. cares about your privacy.] The US government will not require recorders in autos but said that car makers must tell consumers when technology that tracks speed, braking and other measurements is in the new vehicles they buy.
Iran Denies U.N. Inspectors Site Access
• APIran turned away U.N. inspectors from an underground site meant to shelter its uranium enrichment program from attack, diplomats said, while the country's supreme leader insisted Tehran will not give up its contentious nuclear technology.
Did Armitage out Plame?
• APThen-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
Lebanon's Fragile Unity Cracks
• APLebanon had not even finished burying the dead from 34 days of war when the country's deep sectarian and political divisions split open again. That has shattered the semblance of unity that held, just barely, through the Israeli attacks against H
Baghdad's Walls Are Closing In
• LA TimesCurling through the desert, wind rattling its marshes, the Tigris once brought so much life to this city, where spices and silks were loaded on wooden boats bound for Basra and beyond. Shiites lived with Sunnis, Christians and Jews, but today, as in
How war against drugs may have helped Hezbollah
• London TimesBRITAIN’S attempts to counter heroin traffickers may have provided Iran with the opportunity to supply Hezbollah with British military equipment. Around 250 sets of military night vision equipment sent to Tehran from Britain appear to have been pa
At Guantanamo, Caught in a Legal Trap
• Washington Post6 men suspected of plotting to attack the US Embassy were seized by US troops and became some of the first arrivals at the Pentagon's new prison at Guantanamo Bay. The seizure was ordered by senior US officials in defiance of rulings by top court
SpaceX, Rocketplane Kistler Win NASA COTS Competition
• Space.comNASA announced that it has picked Space Exploration Technologies and Rocketplane Kistler to share $500 million to develop new commercial delivery services for the International Space Station.
Lasting Pain, Minimal Punishment
• LA TimesThe soldiers crossed paths with an irrigation worker and 2 teenage boys tending ducklings. Bumgarner detained the 3 Vietnamese and marched them to a secluded spot, where he and one of his men opened fire. Then they searched the bodies, removing ident
Federal Kangaroo Court: Driving With Money is a Crime
• theNewspaper.comYesterday the Eighth Circuit summarily overturned a lower court ruling that had found no evidence of drug activity, stating, "Possession of a large sum of cash is 'strong evidence' of a connection to drug activity."
Bush's Press Conference - 08-21-2006
• www.tpmmuckraker.comDuring a long, wandering answer about his administration's rationale for the Iraq War during his press conference today, President Bush asserted that "nobody's ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attacks
2 Strange deaths in European wiretap scandal
• AlternetJust after noon on Friday, July 21, Adamo Bove -- head of security at Telecom Italia, the country's largest telecommunications frim -- told his wife he had some errands to run as he left their Naples apartment. Hours later, police found his car
CIA's secret British bank trawl maybe illegal
• GuardianA covert programme under which confidential information about British banking transactions is passed to the CIA with the full knowledge of the government may breach both British and European law, the Guardian has learned.
Hagel: ‘Don’t Feed More Troops to Iraq’
• CrooksAndLiars.comHagel says that, regardless of the U.S occupation, only Iraq could determine the outcome of the current violence there. (Will the drums for leaving Iraq become deafening _before_ the November elections?)
Debt Can Rise to Infinity
• by The Mogambo Guru"How the Greenspan Fed Screwed Up in the Mid-90s and set the stage for the Greatest Financial Bubble in the History of the World."
Financial Reckoning Night
• by Bill BonnerCurrently, in the NYSE jungle, investors reckon a stock is worth about 17 times what the company behind it earns in an average year. There is no cosmic law that decrees that a stock is worth that much...or even half that much. Nor, is there any God i
Reasons I Love LewRockwell.com
• by Karen KwiatkowskiBut it is when we cast our eye on something that learning begins. This is why the internet has exploded in reach, application, and impact, boggling the minds of central planners everywhere.
Bush indicates support for Plan B
• WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UPI)U.S. President George Bush indicated he supports over-the-counter sales of Plan B, a so-called morning-after contraceptive -- except for minors.
Consumers to feel squeeze as orange juice price hits 16-year high
• Raw StoryLONDON (AFP) - A carton of orange juice could be set for a steep price rise after wholesale prices of the tropical juice hit 16-year highs last week on fears for the harvest in the US state of Florida.
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