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Most popular news on 25 August 2009 |
The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising
LiveScience.com - The body's appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing save a potentially lethal case of inflammation.
Police: Man leaves kids in car, goes to strip club
AP - Authorities said a man was arrested after being accused of leaving two small children in his vehicle while he was in a Clearwater strip club. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reports that the 33-year-old man left a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old in a car late Sunday night. The report said the man was in the club, drinking at the bar, for 30 to 60 minutes.
AP Source: Coroner rules Jackson's death homicide
AP - Michael Jackson's death has been ruled a homicide caused by a mix of drugs meant to treat insomnia, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press, while his personal doctor told investigators he was actually trying to wean the King of Pop off the powerful anesthetic that did him in.
NJ town wishes to make no room for Gadhafi
AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will set foot on U.S. soil for the first time next month when he comes to address the U.N. General Assembly. Now he wants to put down stakes in the middle of American suburbia.
RI gov to shut down state government for 12 days
AP - Rhode Island will shut down its state government for 12 days and hopes to trim millions of dollars in funding for local governments under a plan Gov. Don Carcieri outlined Monday to balance a budget hammered by surging unemployment and plummeting tax revenue.
AP IMPACT: New meth formula avoids anti-drug laws
AP - This is the new formula for methamphetamine: a two-liter soda bottle, a few handfuls of cold pills and some noxious chemicals. Shake the bottle and the volatile reaction produces one of the world's most addictive drugs.
'Inhumane' CIA terror tactics spur criminal probe
AP - The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism, revealing CIA interrogators' threats to kill one suspect's children and to force another to watch his mother sexually assaulted.
Latest in Stimulus: 'Cash for Refrigerators'
BusinessWeek - A $300 million cash-for-clunkers-type federal program to boost sales of energy-efficient home appliances provides a glimmer of hope for beleaguered makers of washing machines and dishwashers, but it's probably not enough to lift companies such as Whirlpool and Electrolux out of the worst down cycle in the sector's history.
'Vogue' editor Wintour critiques Letterman's socks
AP - No aspect of fashion escapes the sharp eye of "Vogue" queen Anna Wintour, including David Letterman's socks.
LaToya Jackson named guest co-host of 'The View'
AP - ABC says LaToya Jackson will be a guest co-host on "The View" Sept. 16 and 18. Having previously co-hosted the ABC daytime talk show in 2003, Jackson is the latest celebrity to be named as a substitute for Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who is on maternity leave until mid-October.
Worker accused of assault at 50 Cent's Conn. home
AP - An employee of rapper 50 Cent has been accused of getting into a fight after a sex-related dispute at the hip-hop star's mansion and is facing assault charges.
Shiite groups form new alliance excluding Iraqi PM
AP - The Iranian-backed Shiite parties that helped propel Iraq's prime minister into power three years ago dumped him Monday as their candidate for re-election, forming a new alliance to contest the January vote.
Analysis: Obama in crosswinds on detention policy
AP - After declaring he would rather look forward, President Barack Obama is delving instead into the past to deal with lingering assertions of CIA mistreatment of terror suspects during the Bush administration. It's another headache for an administration struggling to juggle two wars, a painful recession and a crowded agenda bogged down in Congress.
AP source: Obama to nominate Bernanke to 2nd term
AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, widely credited with taking aggressive action to avert an economic catastrophe after the financial meltdown last fall, will be nominated by President Barack Obama for a second term, The Associated Press learned Monday night.
Report: NKorea invites Obama's top envoys
AP - North Korea has invited top envoys of President Barack Obama to visit the communist nation in what would be the first nuclear negotiations between the two countries under his presidency, a news report said Tuesday.
Daughter-In-Law Takes Offense At Family's Tardy Condolences
Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: We received a nasty note from our daughter-in-law, "Ariella." She lives several states away. Her father passed away about six weeks ago. They lived out of state, and we were never close with them.
Not Everyone Is Lovin' Japan's New McDonald's Mascot
Time.com - A growing number of non-Japanese who live in Japan are decidedly not lovin' Mr. James, the geeky American mascot of McDonald's Japan latest ad campaign
VH1 cancels reality shows with dead murder suspect
AP - VH1 will not air the reality shows with a contestant who was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide at a Canadian motel. Both shows featured Ryan Jenkins, the contestant sought in the killing of his model ex-wife.
Mother: Slain Okla. pastor 'just loved people'
AP - A pastor who came alone to a small church in southwest Oklahoma every Sunday on the chance that that someone would join her to pray was found slain inside the weathered building, police said Monday, but who would want to kill her was a mystery.
It rhymes this time: Slang used at London ATMs
AP - You'd better get ready to use your loaf if you want to get your hands on some bread.
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