July 31, 2008
LA Bans Fast Food Outlets in Poor Areas
The war on fat has just crossed a major red line. The Los Angeles City Council has passed an ordinance
prohibiting construction of new fast-food restaurants in a 32-square-mile area inhabited by 500,000 low-income people.
July 30, 2008
IOC Admits Censorship Deal
Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China
block sensitive Web sites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC official admitted on Wednesday.
Persistent pollution fears and China's concerns about security in Tibet also remained problems for organizers nine days before the Games begin.
China had committed to providing media with the same freedom to report on ...
July 30, 2008
Ehud Olmert to Step Down
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday he will
not be his party's leader going into the next election.
July 29, 2008
Facebook Shuts Down Scrabulous
Facebook has
closed down its Scrabulous application following legal action from toy maker Hasbro.
July 28, 2008
GM Cuts Truck/SUV Production by 117,000
General Motors (GM) said Monday it will
cut production by another 117,000 vehicles, citing continued weak in consumer demand for pickups and sport-utility vehicles.
July 28, 2008
Major Skirmish on India-Pakistan Border
A border clash between Indian and Pakistani troops sparked
heavy fighting Monday in the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, an Indian military spokeswoman reported.
July 27, 2008
Sastre Wins Tour-de-France
Carlos Sastre sealed his first
Tour de France crown and became the third Spaniard in three years to win.
July 27, 2008
Dozens Executed in Iran
The condemned were said to have committed rape, murder with torture, armed robbery and the trafficking of hundreds of kilograms of narcotics, though some were also accused of drinking alcohol and possession of ammunition.
July 27, 2008
How High Fructose Corn Syrup Makes You Fat
New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center shows the amazing speed that our bodies make
body fat from fructose. One of the reasons why low carb diets help you lose weight is that they reduce your intake of fructose.
July 27, 2008
No Corrosion in Qantas Jet Hole
The Australian air safety agency is investigating Saturday the emergency landing of a Qantas Boeing 747 in the Philippines after a hole in the fuselage made the plane lose cabin pressure.
July 26, 2008
PM Brown Given Two Month Deadline Before Revolt
Cabinet ministers last night set Gordon Brown a
two-month deadline to win back voters’ trust or face a full-scale ministerial revolt.
July 26, 2008
FCC Poised to Punish Comcast
A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of
punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.
July 25, 2008
UK Recession Now Inevitable
However, the growth figures published by the Office for National Statistics underline the fact that UK Plc is
heading slowly but surely towards negative territory.
July 25, 2008
Britain Plans to Spend £3Bn on Nuclear Warheads
The UK is to
replace its stockpile of nuclear warheads at an estimated cost of more than £3bn, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
July 25, 2008
Heart Drug Vytorin Under Scrutiny
A study that unexpectedly linked the heart drug Vytorin to
excess cancer deaths has provoked controversy among heart specialists worried that the drug's risks may outweigh its benefits.
July 25, 2008
Hole in Qantas Jet Forces Landing
A passenger plane en route from London to Melbourne has made an emergency landing in the Philippines after a
large hole appeared in its fuselage.
July 24, 2008
Ford Posts $8.7Bn Loss
Ford (F) disclosed its largest quarterly loss in history —
$8.7 billion — Thursday as it announced it will convert two truck plants to make cars and quicken its move toward a lineup of smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles.
July 24, 2008
Iraq Banned from Beijing Olympics
The International Olympic Committee has
banned Iraq from competing in the upcoming Summer Olympics because of what it says is the government's political interference in sports.
July 23, 2008
Novak Cited for Hitting a Pedestrian
Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he
hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning.
July 23, 2008
Canoe Couple Get Six Years in Jail
Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin and his wife Anne have each been
jailed for more than six years for fraudulently claiming £250,000.
July 23, 2008
Oil Prices on Downward Tumble
Oil prices slipped further Wednesday after tumbling more than $3 a barrel in the previous day's session as a hurricane looked likely to spare key oil installations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
July 22, 2008
Wachovia Reports $8.86 Billion Quarterly Loss
Wachovia Corp.
lost $8.86 billion in the second quarter, and said Tuesday it was slashing its dividend and cutting 6,350 jobs after losses tied to mortgages soared.
July 22, 2008
Karadzic to Fight Extradition
Former Bosnian leader Radovan Karadzic will
fight extradition from Serbia on war crime charges, his lawyer said Tuesday.
July 21, 2008
French Constitutional Reform Vote Passes
President Nicolas Sarkozy's risky bid to rewrite France's political rules with
sweeping constitutional changes worked — but just barely — with both houses of parliament meeting in special session Monday to pass the measures by a single vote.
July 21, 2008
The Yolk’s On Us? McDonald’s New Egg Ad ...
Following their awesome Fresh Salads billboard that was made out of real lettuce, McDonald’s continue to roll out unique outdoor ads like a
giant egg that hatches each day.
July 21, 2008
Court Negates Jackson ‘Wardrobe Malfunction&# ...
A federal appeals court on Monday
threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction."
July 21, 2008
B-52 Crashes Near Guam
A U.S. Air Force B-52 with six crew members on board
crashed off the island of Guam on Monday, an Air Force spokesman said.
July 21, 2008
Portuguese Police Shelve Madeleine McCann Enquiry
The police inquiry into Madeleine McCann's disappearance has been
shelved because of a lack of evidence, Portugal's attorney general has said.
July 20, 2008
Harrington Defends British Open Title
Padraig Harrington’s wrist hurt so much he wondered if he could even play in this British Open. Well, it was strong enough to hoist the silver claret jug.
July 20, 2008
Calera Cement to Sequester CO2?
Calera cement, funded by Vinod Khosla, which would take CO2 from the air to make cement and
contour crafting which is a technology for printing buildings to speed up construction by 100 times
could be used to build new cities, dams, wind turbines and airports and many other useful cement construction as productive carbon sequestering. It would be possible ...
July 20, 2008
Solar Dish Hot Enough to Melt Steel
The solar industry is booming. With waves of investment and grants, the solar power industry is for the first time becoming a serious business. New power plants will soon be pumping power out to consumers, while other firms market to sell panels directly to the consumer, providing them with a more direct means of experiencing solar energy.
July 20, 2008
Teen Dies After Tasered for 37 Seconds
A teenager
died after being hit with a police Taser gun for 37 seconds, and the whole thing was caught on tape by surveillance cameras.
July 20, 2008
Rapper DMX Arrested in Phoenix Mall
Rapper DMX was arrested at a Phoenix mall Saturday on suspicion that he gave a gave a false name to a hospital to get out of paying for medical expenses.
July 19, 2008
British PM to Cut Troops in Iraq
Gordon Brown, on a flying visit to Baghdad and Basra, said today he plans to
reduce the remaining number of British troops in Iraq following a drop in attacks, but declined to set a timeframe for their departure.
July 18, 2008
Jennifer Garner Pregnant
Jennifer Garner and husband Ben Affleck are
expecting another baby, Garner’s former Alias co-star Victor Garber confirms to
Usmagazine.com.
July 18, 2008
A Sticky Problem in Texas - Molasses on Highway
A sticky mess has been cleaned up after an overturned tanker truck poured
5,000 gallons of molasses onto a major Texas highway.
July 18, 2008
Citigroup Posts $2.5Bn Loss
Citigroup posted another loss in the second quarter as it struggled with surging loan defaults, but the
$2.5 billion shortfall was smaller than Wall Street anticipated.
July 18, 2008
Bush Signs Expanded Wiretap Law
President Bush signed a bill into law Thursday that
broadens the government's surveillance power. The move came just a day after the Senate passed the legislation, by a 69-to-28 margin, culminating months of political fireworks. The package includes a controversial clause that grants immunity to telecommunications companies that participate in National Security Agency warrantless wiretapping approved after the Sept. ...
July 18, 2008
Voyager 2 Finds Lopsided Solar System
Data from Voyager 2, described in a series of papers today in Nature, show that the craft entered the termination shock on August 31, 2007, at a distance from the sun of about eight billion miles (13 billion kilometers) and crossed it the next day.
July 18, 2008
Voyager 2 Finds Lopsided Solar System
Researchers say the crossing confirms that the heliosphere—the region swept out by the solar wind—is actually
lopsided, perhaps due to a tilted magnetic field in local interstellar space.
July 17, 2008
Gore Challenges US to Produce Clean Energy
Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to
produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.
July 17, 2008
Texas OKs Massive Wind Farm Project
Texas officials gave preliminary approval Thursday to the nation's largest
wind-power project, a plan to build billions of dollars worth of new transmission lines to bring pollution-free energy from gusty West Texas to urban areas.
July 17, 2008
Israel Buries Remains of Soldiers
Israel Thursday
buried two soldiers whose remains were returned in an exchange with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah the day before.
July 16, 2008
Photos Suggest Mars Was All Wet, Once
A lot more Martian rocks were altered by water than scientists originally thought, suggesting that
early Mars was a very wet place.
July 15, 2008
S.F. Officials Locked Out of Computer Network
A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to
deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
