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the Home Funeral Revolution
Common Ground - San Anselmo,CA,USA
... personal and meaningful death rituals and ceremonies much like the home wedding, home birth and home schooling movements they spearheaded in the ’60s. ...
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'US ready to strike Iran on Good Friday'
Jerusalem Post - By JERUSALEM POST STAFF AND AP. The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 am until 4 pm on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.

 

 

Iran snubs UK olive branch Ahmadinejad demands apology despite words of 'regret' from Beckett. The feuding behind the Iran crisis Graphic: Where they were captured Leader: Iran will face isolation Comment: Malcolm Rifkind Full Iran coverage

 

 

Official: BBC is too upmarket
Channel bids to shake off charges of elitism.
More media news and features

 

 

Blair: I'll be treading the boards again
Prime Minister agrees to take role in The Crucible.
More politics news and comment

 

 

Europe has failed us in the Iran crisis
Malcolm Rifkind: Margaret Beckett is getting it right. It's our EU allies who are letting us down.

 

 

Even Nixon didn't trust him Andrew Cockburn's Rumsfeld offers a chilling example of all that is wrong and corrupt about the American body politic, says Andrew Stephen.

 

 

French riot boosts vote for right Voters move to Sarkozy and Le Pen after Gare du Nord riot. In pictures: France's housing estates More on France

 

 

Edwards debunks a campaign myth
New York notebook: News that Elizabeth Edwards's breast cancer has returned triggers a ferocious debate.
More on US elections 2008

 

 

'Bloody pillow' in Woolmer's hotel room
Telegraph.co.uk - By Catherine Elsworth in Kingston, Sunday Telegraph. A blood-stained pillow reportedly found in the hotel room of Bob ...

 

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Deadliest bomb in Iraq war kills 152

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government raised the death toll on Saturday from a truck bomb in the town of Tal Afar to 152, making it the deadliest single bombing of the four-year-old war.

 

 

Iran says Britain mishandling captives' issue

TEHRAN (Reuters) - London has mishandled the aftermath of the detention of British naval personnel in the Gulf, Iran's president said on Saturday after Britain expressed concern at Iranian "sabre-rattling."

Iran leader attacks 'arrogant' UK Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemns the UK as "arrogant and selfish" over the Royal Navy captives crisis. Navy captives 'face legal action' Britain and Iran raise the stakes Timeline: UK-Iran stand-off

 

Apple invades the living room

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The long-awaited Apple TV home entertainment adapter has finally shipped, and for the first time reviewers and consumers can see for themselves whether Apple's iPod magic can extend into the living room.

 

 

Dining & Wine <== better than usual

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/dining/index.html

 

 

In Paris, Language Sparks Culture War

By ALAN RIDING

With French long engaged in a losing battle against English around the world, a new way of fighting back has been proposed: uncouple the language from France and turn French literature into “world literature.”

 

 

 

Daddy May Write Laws, but Daughter Has Her Eye on a Book Deal

By ASHLEY PARKER

First there was chick lit. Then there was political-makeover lit. And now we have their spawn: D.C.-daughter lit.

 

 

25 Years After War, Wealth Transforms Falklands

By LARRY ROHTER 

The British-controlled islands in the South Atlantic are facing an influx of outsiders attracted by new prosperity.

 

 

The Poor Little Rich Girl in Leopard Skin Who Was Warhol’s Muse

 

 

Panel Finds Troubled Mood at Coast Guard Academy

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A task force warned that the United States Coast Guard Academy had to restore its focus on leadership and character.

 

 

 

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Cyber-bullies' abuse, threats hurl fear into the blogosphere

By Alex Pham

A tech blogger canceled public appearances after getting violent posts, a hazard of the wild Web.

 

Who's most Web-savvy candidate?
Nonpartisan 'group blog' tracks effect presidential hopefuls having online
--ABC News

A system to keep tabs on ships

By Ronald D. White

The Coast Guard has been directed to develop a program for tracking vessels, but has shown little interest in a private service that does just that.

 

Three lines and you're out

According to Cor van den Heuvel (co-editor of the new book "Baseball Haiku"), Masaoka Shiki wrote the first besoboru haiku in 1890. Shiki, the inventor of modern Japanese haiku, was also a mad-for-the-game left-handed prep school catcher. Nearly 70 years later, Jack Kerouac (a high school outfielder) wrote the first American baseball haiku - like most of the English-language practitioners who followed him, without regard for counting syllables. Since then, as "Baseball Haiku" makes clear, many more poets have taken a swing at the form.

 

 

 

Architect claims to solve pyramid secret

PARIS - A French architect claimed Friday to have uncovered the mystery about how Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu was built — with use of a spiral ramp to hoist huge stone blocks into place.

 

 

Great Pyramid was built inside out, Frenchman says <== longer/better version of the above

PARIS (Reuters) - A French architect said on Friday he had cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, saying it was built from the inside out.

 

 

Study Explains Why We're Not All Beautiful LiveScience.com <== interesting theory

 

 

Sunbathers bask in record Moscow heatwave

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Miniskirts have replaced fur coats and lightweight blazers are worn instead of heavy jackets in Moscow as the city basks in the hottest March weather on record.

 

 

Violence in Iraq kills 508 in six days
Brisbane Times, Australia - "There is a race between the government and the terrorists who are trying to make people reach the level of despair," al-Askari said. ...

 

 

Admission to private schools is a stress test

By Carla Rivera

At some campuses, the entire family goes under the microscope as screening committees look for the perfect fit.

 

 

She was a seamless alloy of Southern belle, New England bluestocking, and Chinese tai-tai. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek played her role to 105... more»

 

The biographer, like a burglar, breaks into a house, rifles through drawers, and in triumph bears his loot away... more»

 

 

America unprepared for 'likely' nuke attack
Public awareness campaign is only hope, says 3-year University of Georgia study
--WND

 

 

Internet TV channel devoted to whiskey
Toast of Wall Street: 24-hour programming reaching 750,000 viewers per month
--Scotland on Sunday

 

 

Peru 'must protect Amazon tribes'

The top Latin American rights body says Peru must do more to protect Amazonian tribes from illegal loggers.

 

 

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http://www.janes.com/security/law_enforcement/news/jdw/jdw070330_1_n.shtml

Private security companies contest last 'big money' job in Iraq

 

 

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/04/spicer200704?printable=true&currentPage=all

The Business of War

Iraq's Mercenary King

 

 

Putin keeps Russia guessing over succession

Mr Putin has consistently insisted he is intending to go, causing the issue of succession to be the subject of intense speculation.

Russian juice ad squeezes oligarchs

Video: Juicemaker's TV raspberry

 

 

Yard team to join Woolmer murder hunt

A team of murder squad detectives from Scotland Yard is expected to fly to Jamaica to help find the killer of Bob Woolmer.

Cricket in crisis

 

 

To meet the author, right click

A writer’s website once meant a biog and a backlist. Now a new world is opening up online. And it’s not just for the geeks, Tom Cox says

 

 

Carry on, Jeeves! And on, and on . . .

As Everyman publishes its fiftieth Wodehouse title, James Naughtie celebrates an inimitable, ageless world

 

 

Oporto Cultivates a Taste for the New
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
Thanks to the likes of Evelyn Waugh and PG Wodehouse, however, Oporto has been overshadowed by its principal export, port wine. Wines have been traveling ...

 

 

Comedy ain’t what it used to be
Times Online - UK
It surfaced again in PG Wodehouse; was there ever a more pronounced example of a closed, restrictive society than a weekend party at an Edwardian country ...

 

 

ORA

 

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/032607Cherbonnier.shtml

BOOK SYNOPSIS & REVIEW:

Blackwater Reveals Underpinnings of 'Private Security' Industry

Reviewed by Alice Cherbonnier

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
NY: Avalon Publishing Group, Inc./Nation Books, 2007. 438 pp. $26.95.

 

 

 

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Iran Turns Up Volume in Face-Off Over Captured Britons
New York Times - By ALAN COWELL. LONDON, March 30 - As the confrontation over British military prisoners in Iran entered a second week, Iran stepped up its propaganda campaign, broadcasting new video on Friday of a captured British marine and releasing a third letter ...

 

Dengue Surging in Mexico, Latin America

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The deadly hemorrhagic form of dengue fever is increasing dramatically in Mexico, and experts predict a surge throughout Latin America fueled by climate change, migration and faltering mosquito eradication efforts.

 

How occupation by Argentina created a little Britain
A robust economy is drawing people in to a once decaying outpost.
More on the Falklands

 

Bolivians join migrant rush - on cruise liner
A group of 82 Bolivians tried a novel way to migrate to Europe: they took a luxury cruise.

 

Pom-Poms, Pyramids and Peril

By BILL PENNINGTON 

Cheerleaders suffer more catastrophic injuries than athletes in all other sports combined.

Video: Cheerleader's Harrowing Fall

 

Arts »

The Greatest of Ease

 

The star attraction at the Greatest Show on Earth is the Wheel of Steel.

 

Atheists Split Over Message

 

Richardson Troubled by N.M. Scandal

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democratic presidential hopeful, said Friday he is troubled and saddened by the latest public corruption scandal to hit New Mexico.

 

Iraq's 'Arab Idol' Captivates Nation

BAGHDAD (AP) -- For four long years, life has been brutally unkind to most Iraqis, but Friday night they had one of those rare moments to focus beyond the daily violence that is swallowing their lives. One of their own took first prize in the Arab version of American Idol.

 

Study Stokes Longtime Debate on Day Care

NEW YORK (AP) -- When the National Institutes of Health issued some good-news-and-bad-news findings this week for working parents with young children, it started with the ''good'' news.

 

Congress questions Google's Katrina maps 

NEW ORLEANS - A congressional subcommittee accused Google on Friday of "airbrushing history" by replacing post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its popular map portal with images of the region taken before the storm's devastation.

 

 

 

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Hot Dog Seller Gets First Foie Gras Fine

CHICAGO (AP) -- The city issued its first foie gras fine to a hot dog seller of all people, accusing ''Hot Doug's'' of violating a Chicago ban by lacing its specialty dogs with the duck liver delicacy.

 

 

IBM developing wiki how-to tool
Wikipedia-like tool aims to help people automate repetitive tasks performed on the Web, such as filling out forms or paying bills.

Thu Mar 29 16:40:00 PDT 2007 | Read full story

 

 

Google reverts to pre-Katrina maps
Also: Worldwide worker shortage? Read it now...

 

 

IBM helps blind 'see' web video IT giant IBM has developed a multimedia browser to make content accessible to vision impaired people 'Most websites' failing disabled Deaf to 'hear' PA system on phone Proposal for porn domain rejected Plans to create a dedicated internet domain catering for pornographic websites are rejected. Users warned on Windows cursors Microsoft is warning users about a flaw in Windows animated cursors that could leave PCs open to attack.

OTHER TOP STORIES Hackers target TK Maxx shoppers

 

Maxx out
How credit card numbers drive the digital underground

 

 

John McCain, MySpace and gay marriage
Presidential candidate succumbs to 'immaculate hack'.
More from News blog

 

 

Bloody week in Iraq points to emboldened al Qaeda

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A surge of violence in Iraq in the past week demonstrated the ability of al Qaeda to strike virtually anywhere at will with a seemingly limitless supply of explosives and suicide bombers to wreak chaos.

 

 

April 1 looms, but hoax expert says times are hard

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As April Fools' Day looms, the curator of the Museum of Hoaxes has a word of caution for those who want to believe the unbelievable -- a good hoax is hard to find.

 

 

Rice calls Saudi envoy over Abdullah's remarks
Reuters AlertNet - WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Saudi Arabia's ambassador after Saudi King Abdullah criticized the US presence in Iraq, the State Department said on Friday.

 

ORA

 

Computers and People : Essays from the Profession by W. Neville Holmes (Paperback - Oct 27, 2006)

 

Insight Rarely Seen in Our Profession, November 7, 2006

Reviewer:

John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews

Once in a while each of us in the computer industry has to sit back and think about the overal aspects of the industry. How do we really interface with the non-computing world? What does the non-computing world think of us? And where are the two of us going?

These essays are broken down into six categories:

The Basis of Computing
Computing So Far
Computers and Education
Computing and Prodessions
The Potential of Computing
Facing the Future
Technical Details.

They are written by the editor of the feature column 'The Profession' in the IEEE Computer Society's flagship magazine 'Computer.'

It is clear that computers, especially when connected to the Internet offer capabilities that simply never existed before such as access to a worldwide library of information. Likewise there is the opportunity for organizations like terrorist organizations to spread their message of hatred and to provide untraceable communications.

Mr. Holmes provides an overall insight that is rarely seen. These articles are highly recommended.

 

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State Dept. Warns: Be Careful Overseas

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As if you needed reminding: It's dangerous out there. And if your parents' warnings that the world is full of malevolent people and mishap-prone places didn't stick, the State Department is ready to fill the void.

 

 

Military to Use Bomb - Sniffing Robots

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- As it increases its use of robots in war zones, the military will begin using an explosive-sniffing version that will allow soldiers to better detect roadside bombs, which account for more than 70 percent of U.S. casualties in Iraq.

 

 

China cyberspace, outerspace war gains impress: U.S

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's development of modern modes of warfare including military uses of outer space and cyberspace have yielded impressive gains that require U.S. vigilance, experts told a congressional panel on Thursday.

 

 

Tehran raises stakes in hostage crisis
2nd 'confession' letter released questioning UK's presence in Iraq
--London Guardian

 

 

Station riot makes crime dominate French poll
Crime and the fear of violence returned to dominate France's presidential election campaign.
More on France

 

 

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS

Suddenly sexy Why young people are interested in university science again

Dry world Why the end of oil spells climate catastrophe

Have Your Say Does enough political will exist to tackle climate change?

 

 

Tropicana! Gallery: Behind the scenes at Cuba's legendary cabaret. More on Cuba

 

Declaim academy Talent show TV is just as popular in the Middle East as it is in the west - but as Nicholas Blincoe discovers, the huge audiences there are switching on to see contestants reciting their own poetry.

Fooling around Extract: As April Fool's Day looms, Martin Wainwright recalls some of the silliest tricks.

 

 

Too good to be true? Companies selling raw chocolate claim it is healthy and good for the planet. Claudia Cahalane reports. More on food

 

 

Hells Angels to celebrate 50-year anniversary
Oakland police expect peaceful weekend birthday bash but extra cops on duty
--Associated Press

 

 

Minn. Lawmaker Lobbies for Tilt - a - Whirl

ST. PAUL (AP) -- State Rep. Patti Fritz, DFL-Faribault, has introduced a bill designating the Tilt-A-Whirl the official amusement ride in Minnesota.

 

 

In the age of computer design, why do engineers still send airplane models to the wind tunnel? ... [more]

 

 

Our pets or zoos may provide the best biosensors for human disease outbreaks ... [more]

 

 

Web news readers have greater attention span: U.S. study 

 

 

R u rdy 4 wrlds fastest txt msg? 

 

 

Internet Agency Rejects .xxx Domain

 

 

Class of one
One of the world's most isolated schools - a farm in the Falklands

 

 

 

Revenge of the Alpha Mom

By Rosa Brooks

Thank heavens for the media. How else would we make sense of our lives? Take parenting. Had it not been for the media, I'd never have thought to scrutinize my children's behavior so closely.

Send in the Spartans

By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey

Hollywood has an almost inexhaustible capacity to irritate politicians, both foreign and domestic. The recent film "300," which tells the story of a few hundred Greeks holding off a massive army of invading Persians in 480 BC - saving Western civilization from death in its cradle - has outraged the government of Iran. The latter-day Persians complain, among other things, that filmmakers portrayed Great King Xerxes as a two-dimensional tyrant. He was, of course, a three-dimensional tyrant, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems determined to follow in his footsteps.

Rejected by Stanford? You'll live

By Richard H. Shaw

This afternoon, my office will send out nearly 18,000 e-mail messages to high school seniors who are waiting with anticipation to learn whether they will be invited to spend the next four years at Stanford.

 

Harvard rejection rate breaks record
Most elite U.S. college mails 2,058 acceptance letters – and 20,897 denials
--ABC News

To be or not to be, soft-core division

By Joel Stein

I always wondered how much my soul was worth. So when Cinemax asked me if I'd go on camera to interview soft-core porn stars on the set of its new series, "Sin City Diaries," in return for $2,000 and a free night in Las Vegas, I discovered that my soul was worth some amount less than $2,000 and a free night in Las Vegas.

 

 

today's ORA

 

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19510

Review

By John R. Searle

Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness

by Nicholas Humphrey

Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 151 pp., $19.95

 

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The lyrical Democrat This week two poems by Barack Obama, published in a student magazine when he was 19, came to light. So did the US presidential candidate miss his true calling? Fellow poet Ian McMillan gives his expert verdict. Blog: beware the poetic politician

 

 

Writers strike gold, Richard and Judy style

March 29: The author of legal thrillers John Grisham makes $21m (£10.67m) a year, yet was humbly grateful last night to be told he has won a prize which consists simply of a golden pen nib.

 

 

Readers get first glimpse of final Potter
March 28: Publishers have added to excitement over the last of the Harry Potter books by releasing the covers ahead of July's publication.
Special report: Harry Potter

 

 

Obituary: Richard S Prather
March 28: Thriller writer from a world of sex, violence, Caddys and 'frails'

 

 

Sirius to launch TV service in Chrysler 2008 cars 

 

 

Army Tests High - Tech Concept Vehicles

SEATTLE (AP) -- A group of soldiers has been busy testing a series of high-tech military concept vehicles outfitted with remote weapons systems, night-vision capabilities and enough strength to sustain the concussion of a roadside bomb.

 

 

Data trivia shared by IBM's Many Eyes
Research team behind data-sharing site aims for it to evolve into a kind of social-networking site.

Thu Mar 29 12:41:00 PDT 2007 | Read full story

 

 

About National Poetry Month
Established by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month brings together publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools, and poets around the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. To learn more, please visit: www.poets.org/npm

 

 

About the Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1934 to foster appreciation for contemporary poetry and to support American poets at all stages of their careers. For over three generations, the Academy has connected millions of people to great poetry through programs such as National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world; Poets.org, the most popular site about poetry on the web, presenting a wealth of great poems, audio recordings, poet biographies, essays, and interactive discussions about poetry; the Poetry Audio Archive, capturing the voices of contemporary American poets for generations to come; American Poet, a biannual literary journal; and our annual series of poetry readings and special events. The Academy also awards prizes to accomplished poets at all stages of their careers. For more information, visit www.poets.org.

 

 

Patrolling Baghdad's Dora neighborhood, where 'gators' lurk
The predominantly Sunni Arab district has become a byword for lawlessness and mayhem. By Sam Dagher

British on tightrope over captives in Iran
London asked the UN Security Council on Thursday to 'deplore' Iran's seizure of its sailors. By Mark Rice-OxleyScott Peterson

 

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from the March 30, 2007 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0330/p03s02-nbgn.html Etc... The lighter side of news, and the daily list. Compiled from wire reports by staff Don't call us. We'll call you. As a publishing venture, Harlequin Enterprises has almost everything going for it that a business could hope for. Except, perhaps, one. It cranks out more romance novels than any of its competitors. Last year, it sold 131 million copies in 94 countries. In the US alone, an estimated one-third of women have read at least one of its titles. What's more, these readers fit one of the most desirable demographics; most are in their peak spending years. So, where could Harlequin possibly be lacking? Well, in attracting "real men" to pose for its covers. Thus, in Toronto, its base, a casting call went out for "iconic ... sensitive, beautiful, and fit" males to audition as models. Said company representatives, "We want exactly what you think [of] ... when you're imagining that ideal man." Some of the heroes in Harlequin's stories are captains of industry – in other words, hard-charging, high-earning types. In contrast, "A lot of the models were too young – in their 20s. Our audience likes men a little older, a bit bigger than the runway models." Anyway, last Saturday, roughly 200 hopefuls showed up to audition as a panel of judges watched via closed-circuit TV from an adjacent room. Several were invited to return for an opportunity to complement the heroines and earn up to $215 an hour. Full HTML version of this story which may include photos, graphics, and related links

 

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New schools 'not fit for future' Plans to rebuild England's schools must create classrooms fit for lessons of the future, a report warns.

Pupils get lessons in PlayStation Children at a Birmingham school are to take part in a trial of lessons with PlayStations.

 

 

Rising demand
Have we hit the buffers in terms of food production?

 

 

 

 

Russia, China aim for Red Planet China and Russia will launch a joint Mars mission, a "milestone" in co-operation in space between the two.

 

 

 

Letter from New York

Brits Behaving Badly

A tour of such New York British hangouts as Soho House, the Red Lion, and Tea & Sympathy left the author, an Englishman, blushing: what makes his fellow expats such a thoroughly annoying lot

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/04/brits200704?printable=true&currentPage=all

 

 

THE WORLD FROM BERLIN 'A Crisis Is Simmering With Iran'
Spiegel Online - Iran's intransigence over the 15 kidnapped British sailors has forced London to go on the offensive. Tony Blair has now called on the international community for its support.

 

 

Giuliani Cozing Up To Flat Tax?
Donklephant - What’s interesting is that Rudy seems to be flirting with Forbes’ flat tax idea when he had previously condemned it. Rudolph W. Giuliani accepted the ...
Steve ‘Flat Tax’ Forbes Endorses Rudy Giuliani Portable Planet
As Forbes Endorses Giuliani, Giuliani Endorses a Flat Tax New York Times
Giuliani on the Flat Tax [Ramesh Ponnuru] National Review Online Blogs
WMUR
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Senate backs Iraq withdrawal date The US Senate backs a March 2008 date to withdraw troops from Iraq, defying a presidential veto threat. Dozens dead in new blasts Seized sailor's release in doubt Iran may delay the planned release of the only woman among 15 captured UK Navy personnel, an official says. Ancient wreath returns to Greece A golden wreath goes on display in Athens after a 10-year campaign to bring it back from the US.

OTHER TOP STORIES Helicopters fire on Somali market African leaders in Zimbabwe talks 'No new Woolmer post-mortem' Maradona 'sedated' in hospital Swiss man jailed for Thai insult Green tea 'may keep HIV at bay' ALSO IN THE NEWS Heard the one about the president giving a comedy speech? All aboard the wi-fi bus delivering mail and the web to rural India SPORT HEADLINES West Indies v N Zealand Football: Appeal to England fans

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS

Inglorious isolation Gulf dispute highlights the strain on Iran's leadership

Web 2.0 wonders Meet the developer who stumbled into web success

 

 

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Saturn Hexagon Mystifies Scientists
Discovery Channel - March 27, 2007 — Something downright weird has been sighted twirling over the north pole of Saturn: A long-lived double hexagon formed in the clouds. ...

Arms are dead giveaway for risky drivers
Monitoring a driver's gaze - as some luxury cars are now designed to do - may not be the best way to ensure a driver is paying attention

Lack of sea ice devastates seal populations
Conservationists warn that an exceptional die-off of seal pups in Canada, combined with the country's annual seal hunts, could spell disaster

Coastal living - a growing global threat
One person in 10 worldwide, including one in eight city-dwellers, lives in an "at-risk zone" for flooding and storms, exacerbated by climate change

Mothers' beefy diet linked to sons' low sperm count
Men born to women who eat more than a serving of beef each day while pregnant might have reduced fertility, a new study warns

Chernobyl-based birds avoid radioactive nests
Some species around the exploded nuclear reactor choose nest sites with lower levels of background radiation, but how they discern is a mystery

Soft splint instantly heat-welds to hold broken limbs
Injured skiers and mountaineers could protect injuries using a flexible plastic bandage that rapidly hardens to form a solid cast

Equinox challenge to Newton's law
An exquisitely sensitive experiment that can only be performed during equinoxes could test some of the theories that offer an alternative to dark matter

Scientists steal turns of phrase from other papers
Eloquent language has never be the strong point of academic papers, but minor plagiarism is a dubious solution

See yourself as others see you online
What your online profile says about you may not be what you expect

'Inspector Gadget' to star in space tether test
A thermos-flask-sized satellite called Gadget will ride up and down a 1-kilometre-long tether in space, to check its resistance to micrometeoroids

 

Exclusive environment blog: Fred's Footprint
Fred Pearce is travelling the world investigating his own environmental footprint. This stop: How fair is fair-trade coffee?

 

MTV goes '4D' with virtual-worlds push
At N.Y. marketing conference, the cable network touted its game plan for melding content from MTV shows with fully 3D virtual worlds.
Images: Living in a virtual Laguna Beach

Thu Mar 29 04:00:00 PDT 2007 | Read full story

When corporate 'greening' chafes environmentalists
Green bloggers can be a nitpicky bunch, but their hats are off to Wal-Mart's new eco-friendly initiatives.

Thu Mar 29 04:00:00 PDT 2007 | Read full story

Yahoo opens up e-mail APIs to outsiders
The company invites Web developers to build applications that use Yahoo Mail.

Wed Mar 28 17:00:00 PDT 2007 | Read full story

Video of the day

Creative Suite 3
review The Adobe Systems software package gives serious digital designers updated versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, integrated with updates to Flash, Dreamweaver and more.

Commentary

Sprint calling on wireless broadband
Executive says carrier is banking on wireless data services to win customers in the highly competitive mobile phone business. Read Full Story

News.com Extra

BBC calls for blogging code of conduct
Also: U.S. loses top spot in global tech study Read it now...

 

 

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Kinja card for Salutor - Kinja, the weblog guide

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George Sanders: See what people are saying right now on Technorati

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Say cheese-cam - thousands set to watch internet Cheddar test

 

 

Cheddarvision TV not to be sniffed at

LONDON (AFP) - A unique form of reality TV has captivated the interest of more than half a million viewers who have tuned in to watch a mouth-watering round of cheddar cheese slowly mature at a farmhouse in Somerset.

 

 

Yahoo expands newspaper content

Yahoo signs a deal with US newspaper group McClatchy to access news and commentary.

 

 

Buried treasures
Scientists forecast a 'golden age' of new dinosaur discoveries

 

 

Popular belief has it that humans show a predilection for deadly violence that is even more vicious in the modern age. Steven Pinker argues a different view... more»

 

 

Edith Wharton died in France just before the Nazis got there. Well, if they’d taken over her villa, she’d have made their lives miserable... more»

 

 

Arabs warn of nuclear arms race
Reuters - The statement at the close of a two-day Arab League summit also warned of a nuclear arms race in the region, in an apparent reference to Israel and Iran, ...

 

 

Intel plans new generation of chips

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Intel Corp. said it is developing a new generation of chips that will achieve a significant increase in performance without consuming more power.

 

 

Intel Outlines Processor Roadmap
eWeek - By Scott Ferguson. By the second half of this year, Intel plans on producing the first of its Penryn family of 45-nanometer processors and the company also plans to move ahead with its next-generation architecture in 2008.

 

 

Ten of the best April Fool's Day hoaxes: US museum 

NEW YORK (AFP) - From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fool's Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history.