FEMA Blasted for Fake ‘News’ Conference

By Jordy Yager, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 27, 2007
WASHINGTON — No one had any hard questions for the deputy administrator of FEMA, an agency deeply tarnished by its delayed action after Hurricane Katrina, when he held a news conference Tuesday to talk about the California wildfires.
“Are you happy with FEMA’s response so far?” someone [...]

Chevy Shoots ‘Fans’ with Sign, Inserts in World Series for Sponsorship Message

Oct 26, 2007Chevy has teamed up with Fox on a creative new way to include a visual that goes along with the “brought to you by…” messages that the announcers read during the World Series.
Typically, a sponsor’s logo is overlaid on the screen as the announcer reads his short spiel. Chevy, instead of including such [...]

White House Chided for Editing Testimony

By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Oct. 24, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two chairmen of key committees in the House and Senate on Wednesday criticized the White House for editing testimony from a government expert about the health impacts of global warming and demanded documents involving the testimony he provided to Congress.
“I am deeply concerned that important scientific and [...]

Turkey Launches Airstrikes Against Kurdish Rebels

Wikinews, the free news source you can write!
October 24, 2007
According to reports, Turkey has today launched airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases near the border to Iraq. F-16 fighter jets and helicopter gunships are said to have bombed targets on both sides of the border.
Turkish officials said that a major incursion was not implemented [...]

California Wildfires Force Historic Evacuation

California Wildfires Force Historic Evacuation
Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:28pm EDT
By Dana Ford
SAN DIEGO, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Fierce wildfires raged across Southern California on Tuesday, threatening more than 60,000 homes as night fell and forcing half a million people to flee in the state’s largest evacuation.
California’s worst fires in four years, driven by hot Santa [...]

4 States To Sue For Tougher Emission Rules

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/23/tech/main3396332.shtml
Oct. 23, 2007
(CBS/AP)
California’s attorney general is suing the EPA for stalling on a decision about whether to let California and 11 other states force car makers to produce cleaner vehicles.
The lawsuit is to be filed in federal court in Washington on Tuesday. It comes 22 months after California first asked the EPA to let the [...]

Environmental Laws Waived to Press Work on Border Fence

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/us/23fence.html?ref=science
By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times
October 23, 2007
Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, waived several environmental laws yesterday to continue building a border fence through a national conservation area in Arizona, bypassing a federal court ruling that had suspended the fence construction.
Citing “unacceptable risks to our nation’s security” if the fence along the border with [...]

Albus Dumbledore was Gay, JK Rowling Tells Amazed Fans

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2196020,00.html
By David Smith
Sunday October 21, 2007
The Observer
There could hardly have been a bigger sensation if Russell Crowe, Rod Stewart or Sven-Goran Eriksson had come out of the closet. Millions of fans around the world were yesterday digesting the news that one of the main characters in the Harry Potter novels, Albus Dumbledore, is gay.
The revelation [...]

Bill Maher Boots 9-11 Truth Protester From Audience

Associated Press
Oct. 20, 2007LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Maher can add “security guard” to his job description alongside comedian and political commentator.Maher on Friday night helped security remove a rowdy protester from the studio during his weekly HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and it was all captured on live television.
Maher was talking science [...]

Dalai Lama’s Speech at the Congressional Gold Medal Award Ceremony

http://www.dalailama.com/news.171.htm
President Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Speaker Pelosi, Senator Bryd, my fellow Laureate Elie Wiesel, Honorable Members of Congress, Brothers and Sisters.
It is a great honor for me to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. This recognition will bring tremendous joy and encouragement to the Tibetan people, for whom I have a special responsibility. [...]

Colbert Announces Presidential Pursuit

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFzxF7XLwi7Il2DVEE6la0NVo–gD8SB07VO0
By JAKE COYLE
Oct. 17, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert has announced his candidacy for president on “The Colbert Report,” tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race.
“I shall seek the office of the president of the United States,” Colbert said Tuesday on his Comedy Central show as red, white [...]

China Cancels Iran Meeting Over Dalai Lama

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1537624920071015
Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:16pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China pulled out of a meeting this week at which world powers were to discuss further action against Iran in protest against the U.S. Congress’ plan to honor the Dalai Lama, the State Department said on Monday.
The meeting in Berlin on Wednesday on the showdown with [...]

Gore Shares Peace Prize for Climate Change Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/13nobel.html?em&ex=1192507200&en=ca0af1b2fb850296&ei=5087%0A
By WALTER GIBBS and SARAH LYALL
OSLO, Oct. 12 — Former Vice President Al Gore, who emerged from his loss in the muddled 2000 presidential election to devote himself to his passion as an environmental crusader, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United [...]

UN Slams Myanmar Crackdown, Urges Prisoner Release

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hbcOs4oX-gJN8MAhby6d8w2XIr6Q
Oct. 11, 2007
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The UN Security Council Thursday slammed the military crackdown in Myanmar, as concern mounted over some 1,000 pro-democracy protesters still held by the regime.
After much behind-the-scenes haggling, the 15-member council — in its first joint formal action since last month’s protests — said it deplored the crackdown and urged [...]

Your Outboard Brain Knows All

http://www.wired.com/print/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/st_thompson
By Clive Thompson
Spet. 25, 2007
“We’re running out of memory.
I don’t mean computer memory. That stuff’s half-price at Costco these days. No, I’m talking about human memory, stored by the gray matter inside our heads. According to recent research, we’re remembering fewer and fewer basic facts these days.
This summer, neuroscientist Ian Robertson polled 3,000 people and [...]

Tibetans Storm Chinese Embassy

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6NG8iGoKShLziFNw8plKcqZubtwD8S69U400
By GAVIN RABINOWITZ
October 10, 2007
NEW DELHI (AP) — Some 30 Tibetan exiles protesting Chinese religious policies stormed the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on Wednesday, with several breaching the front gate and chaining themselves to the flag pole inside, police and witnesses said.
Others repeatedly sprayed “Free Tibet” in red paint on the embassy walls and [...]

Google and IBM Partner to Push Cloud Computing

http://www.informationweek.com/research/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202400042
To prepare students “to harness the potential of modern computing systems,” the companies will provide universities with hardware, software, and services to advance training in large-scale distributed computing.
By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
October 8, 2007 03:28 PM
Google(GOOG) and IBM(IBM) on Monday announced an initiative to advance large-scale distributed computing by providing hardware, software, and services to universities.
The two [...]

I am Creating Artificial Life, Declares US Gene Pioneer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/06/genetics.climatechange
· Scientist has made synthetic chromosome
· Breakthrough could combat global warming
* Ed Pilkington in New York
* The Guardian
* Saturday October 6 2007
Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the [...]

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