Bahrain World Trade Center
• Popular ScienceThe first skyscraper to integrate large-scale wind turbines suspends three 1,200-megawatt units between its matching 787-foot office towers.
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LiveScribe - Gift Idea
• livescribe.comThe Pulse smartpen records and links audio to what you write, so you never miss a word.
Veggies May Be the Key to Fighting Cancer
• Popular ScienceUC Berkeley researchers are the first to explain how a compound in broccoli and cabbage can inhibit an enzyme to battle breast and prostate cancers
California May Pay With IOUs, Minnesota $5.2 Billion in the Hole
• Michael Shedlock / Mish“It’s getting worse very quickly,” Schwarzenegger, a 61- year-old Republican, told reporters Dec. 1 after declaring a fiscal emergency and ordering the Legislature into a special session to find ways to close the deficit. “It’s like an avalanche in t
Saudi Arabia's Jurassic Park
• Popular ScienceBeneath Saudi Arabia’s blazing sun, the largest greenhouse ever planned is taking shape. It will take visitors on a walk through Earth’s history—and into its future
A Silent Electric Plane
• Popular ScienceThe builder says his goal was a noiseless plane that would fly as smoothly as a magic carpet.
SWAT Team conducts food raid in rural Ohio home
• CrossroadOn Monday a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, for 9 hours.
Cellular 'Bullets' Destroy HIV, Raise Vaccine Possibilities
• WiredThe blow-by-blow cellular story of those rare people whose immune systems control AIDS on their own has been unknown to scientists — until now.
Eye Spy: Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket
• WiredIn effect, he will become a "little brother," someone who's watching and recording every move of those in his field of vision.
Study: Nearly half of world's jailed journalists come from Web
• LAtimes.comMore than print, TV or any other medium, online journalists are now the most-jailed category of journalists worldwide. A study by the Committee to Protect Journalists said that the online reporters, editors and bloggers make up 45% of the 125 journa
Almost 10% of Homeowners with Mortgages Delinquent or in Foreclosure Process
• Calculatedrisk.blogspot.comMost concerning is the surge in the prime delinquency rate. The prime problem appears to be concentrated in a few states (California and Florida lead the way), and is mostly due to prime ARM loans.
Milwaukee neighborhoods could print own money
• Chicago TribuneResidents from the Milwaukee neighborhoods of Riverwest and East Side are discussing printing their own money. The idea is that the local cash could be used at neighborhood stores and businesses, thus encouraging local spending.
HuffPost Readers Blog The Meltdown
• Huffington Post(Interesting window into the lives of Huffington Post Readers)
Sarah Palin: The New and 'Explosive' Leader of the GOP
• Huffington PostSpecifically, Sarah Palin is a walking, talking psychobomb, and elevating her to anything beyond a near-term novelty will be disastrous -- in a word, "explosive" -- for the Republican Party.
This (Old) News Just In... Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation
• Huffington PostThe New York Times is reporting about an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama's thinking on Iraq, citing his recent statements about his plan to keep a "residual force" in the country
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
• Matthew Alexander for the Washington PostWhat I saw in Iraq still rattles me -- both because it betrays our traditions and because it just doesn't work.
Diary of a Suicide: An Iraq Soldier's Story
• Salt Lake WeeklyDiary of a Suicide: For two years Jason Ermer fought to make it home from Iraq. Last New Year’s Eve, he gave up.
Caroline Kennedy: Clinton Senate Replacement?
• Huffingtonpost.comAnother Senator Kennedy? A Democrat who would know tells ABC News that New York governor David Paterson has talked to Caroline Kennedy about taking the seat.
5 Cosmic Events That Could Kill You Before Lunch
• CrackedEverybody has seen Armageddon and knows that an asteroid could come hurdling toward us. But there are a whole lot of other threats out there in the cosmos that could wipe us out at any moment. And we'd probably never see them coming.
Just Great. A robot made of Legos is smarter than me.
• YoutubeThis stand-alone robot solves Rubik's cube automatically. (3 min.)
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• The Daily Show with Jon StewartThursday December 4, 2008 - Ron Howard / "Clusterf#@k to the Poor House"
Man Who Killed Three Mexican Cops Taken from Jail, Beheaded
• PoliceLink.comJustice was quick and severe for a suspect who murdered three Mexican police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call. Four men, possibly impersonating other officers, removed the suspect from the jail and beheaded him.
U.S. Payrolls Decline by 533,000, Most Since 1974
• Bloomberg.comPayrolls plunged by 533,000 last month, the biggest loss since December 1974, after shrinking a revised 320,000 the prior month, the Labor Department said today in Washington. November’s losses exceeded all 73 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey.
Straight Light
Light Of Wisdom For President Obama That He May Not Stumble In The Dark
Edwin SumcadPresident Obama must know that there is a trapdoor of advocacy between Liberalism on the edge, and Conservatism in extremis. Once a diehard with a one-track mind is trapped, there is no way out! He must stay in the middle of the road t
Obama's War Cabinet
Stephen LendmanObama's cabinet picks signal continued wars and homeland repression.
Bernanke Stirs Pot On Home Loan Help
• NY TimesAfter pouring vast amounts of money into financial institutions of almost every type, and having little to show for it, the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve are suddenly taking a new look at ordinary homeowners.
Retailers Report a Crisis in All Aisles
• Washington PostRetailers posted the worst November sales in more than 30 years yesterday, as holiday shopping not only failed to lift the economy but showed that the financial crisis is further distressing everyday consumers.
India names Pakistani masterminds, date plot to 07
• APA Pakistani militant group apparently used an Indian operative as far back as 2007 to scout targets for the elaborate plot against India's financial capital. Aa blow to Indian officials who have blamed the deadly attacks entirely on Pakistani ext
Justice Thomas Forces Supreme Court to Probe Obama's Citizenship
• Afro America NewspaperU.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has asked his colleagues on the court to consider the request of an East Brunswick, N.J. attorney who has filed a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama’s status as a United States citize
TX Drug Search Ends with a Twist
• cbs7kosa.comOdessa Police served a warrant this afternoon looking for drugs, but instead found themselves the subject of a reality television show. They didn't turn up drugs, but instead thousands of dollars of television cameras.
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