Some interesting things being found in the world today...

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Lucy on Tour: Exhibit Pits Museum Against Scientific Community


By MONICA RHOR, Associated Press Writer

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6257fb56-5aa2-4b5f-9443-4b07eb36d250

HOUSTON (AP) -- In the Ethiopian language, she is called Dinknesh -- a name that means the wonderful, the fabulous, the precious.
But to most of the world, she is known as Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old fossil whose discovery 33 years ago yielded then-unparalleled insights to the origins of humankind...

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[Mickey1953]

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2173.html?theme=light

Spectacular shot of a Nippon jet being struck by lightning in Osaka. Amazing that the aircraft itself and the people and equipment inside can survive such a hit!

 

[Mickey1953]

Record Number of Americans Lack Health Insurance


Federal report cites drop in employer-sponsored coverage


By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter

http://health.msn.com/healthnews/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100168613&GT1=10316

TUESDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A record number of Americans are without health insurance, according to new U.S. Census Bureau statistics released Tuesday.
Some of the trend can be explained by employers who are curtailing coverage or making it too costly for lower income workers to afford, the report said.

My husband has had his business for over 30 years... and we provided, then cut to 1/2 paying for coverage and now he will have to cut it all together... we cannot afford it. Many are in the same situation as us...

Our overhead is hurting our business and health care is one of the biggest...he is trying hard to hold on & keep the health insurance ... I am not sure what will happen. If we do not make cuts, there will not be a business left.

For those who are lead to pray, please pray for us and his employees.

 

[Mickey1953]

China's Wall becoming less and less Great


Wed Aug 29, 5:48 AM ET


BEIJING (Reuters) - Sand storms in northwest China are reducing sections of Great Wall to mounds of dirt and may cause them to disappear in about 20 years, state media said on Wednesday.


Reuters Photo: A Chinese flag flies in front of the Great Wall of China, located north of...

http://www.yahoo.com/

 

[Mickey1953]

Is New Orleans Safe? Will It Ever Be?


Will a $15 Billon Rebuilding Program Be Enough to Save New Orleans?

By CHRIS FRANCESCANI, JIM AVILA & BETH TRIBOLET
ABC News Law & Justice Unit
Aug. 28, 2007


After $1.7 billion worth of work on a patchwork of levees, pumps, flood walls, canals and floodgates, New Orleans as a whole remains alarmingly vulnerable to another Katrina-like catastrophe, according to scientists and engineers who have studied the improvements and residents, politicians and watchdogs who have spoken to ABC News.
"Is it safe?" asked Roy Dokka

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/WorldNews/story?id=3533549&page=1

 

[Mickey1953]

Helmsley's Dog Gets $12 Million in Will


Helmsley Dog Gets $12 Million, but Real Estate Billionaire Leaves Nothing to 2 Grandchildren

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3535824

 

[Mickey1953]

Lolita's ClosetUnbearably trampy back-to-school clothes.

By Emily Yoffe
Posted Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, at 12:32 PM ET

http://www.slate.com/id/2172705/?GT1=10346





My 11-year-old daughter and I just did her back-to-school shopping. Shopping for a 'tween is a little like being a presidential candidate—you try to find some middle ground in a world of clamorous extremes. I want her clothes to reflect the fact that she's still a girl, but....

 

[Mickey1953]

You have got to read this story if think slavery is history...

Slavery is not history


http://www.palmbeachpost.com/hp/content/moderndayslavery/reports/migrant_part1.html

Used and Abused
[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]With fake names, fake Social Security cards and few rights, [/FONT]
[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]migrant farm workers stay invisible in plain sight.[/FONT][FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]

Part 1: [/FONT]
[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]Unscrupulous labor contractors regularly cheat migrants out of their pay, sometimes charging exorbitant fees for food, transportation. [/FONT]


[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]Migrants sealed in a trailer[/FONT]
[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif] [/FONT]

[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]Farm workers -- both legal and illegal -- say they have been held under lock and key by their employers. [/FONT]


[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]Getting by on $200 a week [/FONT]
[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]Migrants sleeping 10 to a trailer wire wages home to Mexico and Guatemala. Their day ends just it begins -- on a bus packed with workers. [/FONT]

[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]Life in a migrant town [/FONT]
[FONT=bodoni,times new roman,serif]Fellsmere migrants crowd in squalor, 'owned' as chattel until meager wages can cover their debts. [/FONT]

 

[Mickey1953]

After profane outburst about Obama & Clinton, rocker Nugent asked to tone down in S.D.

Last week, Web video of rocker Ted Nugent profanely expressing his outrage about Democratic presidential contenders Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama....

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/08/after-profane-o.html

I shared many posts ago that when I was in high school,
Ten Nugent would come and play at our school dances...

We all had to sit and listen... and I loved to dance...

 

[Mickey1953]

Check your freezers for contaminated beef

Nine people have gotten sick in Washington, Oregon and Idaho from contaminated beef no longer on store shelves.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/30/news/ecoli_beef.reut/index.htm?iref=topnews


August 30 2007: 6:40 PM EDT

(CNN) -- Federal and state health officials issued a consumer alert Thursday after nine people were sickened by contaminated beef.
A day before the start of what historically is a popular weekend for grilling, officials urged consumers to check the beef in their freezers and make sure it doesn't include possibly tainted meat.

 

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Reuters Photo: A nurse attends to a baby inside a foster home in Antigua, Guatemala August 14, 2007

Cleaning Up International Adoptions

By MICA ROSENBERG/ANTIGUA Fri Aug 31, 6:05 PM ET

Earlier this month, dozens of Guatemalan police, soldiers and government officials raided Casa Quivira, a foster home in the colonial town of Antigua. They took custody of 46 babies and accused the home of failing to issue the proper paperwork for adoptions. Worse, says Carmen de Wennier, Guatemala's Secretary for Social Welfare, Casa Quivira is being investigated for illegally trafficking infants, an accusation that its owners vehemently deny: "If these children were bought in the womb," de Wennier says, "that is a crime."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20070831/wl_time/cleaningupinternationaladoptions

 

[Mickey1953]

August 16, 2007

Comet-like star streaks through Milky Way


WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A large star in its death throes is leaving a huge, turbulent tail of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen in its wake that makes it look like an immense comet hurtling through space, astronomers said on Wednesday.



This dying star is shedding material that will be recycled into new stars, planets and possibly even life.

Searching for pictures I ran across an artist radition of the following and just thought I would share it... It is beautiful....

APOD: 2007 May 2 - Sunrise from the Surface of Gliese 581c

 

[Mickey1953]

JPost.com » Middle East » Article

Aug 29, 2007 19:08 | Updated Aug 29, 2007 19:08
PA chairman urges US to map out peace plan
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1188392492477

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas warned Wednesday that a US-sponsored international peace conference planned for November could fail if no plan for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was devised ahead of the meeting

 

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20564433/?GT1=10357
Farmer sued for abnormal agricultural sound

Ky. neighbors say propane cannon used to scare away birds is too loud


Sept 2, 2007

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. -
A group of residents is suing a farmer, claiming the propane cannon he uses to scare away birds from his sweet corn is too loud....

 

[Mickey1953]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/13/mine.rescue/index.html?iref=newssearch
Mine boss: Still hope for finding miners alive

HUNTINGTON, Utah (CNN) -- Rescuers have found no signs of the six men trapped in a Utah mine for more than a week, but the mine operator's CEO insists there is still hope of finding them alive.

Murray Energy CEO Bob Murray says it's possible the miners are "very much alive."

var CNN_ArticleChanger = new CNN_imageChanger('cnnImgChngr','/2007/US/08/13/mine.rescue/imgChng/p1-0.init.exclude.html',1,1);//CNN.imageChanger.load('cnnImgChngr','imgChng/p1-0.exclude.html');"I'm very disappointed to be telling you on the eighth day that we have not found six alive miners," said Bob Murray, president and CEO of Murray Energy.

 

[Mickey1953]

Mexico trucks to roll on U.S. highways

Sat Sep 1, 2007 11:44AM EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSN0129981820070901

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration can proceed with a plan to open the U.S. border to long haul Mexican trucks as early as next week after an appeals court rejected a bid by labor, consumer and environmental interests to block the initiative.

 

[Mickey1953]

The Return of the Doomsday Machine?Please don't count on me to save the world again.

By Ron Rosenbaum
Posted Friday, Aug. 31, 2007, at 3:52 PM ET

Nuclear bomb test



http://www.slate.com/id/2173108/pagenum/all/

 

[Mickey1953]

Will President Bush bomb Iran?

By Tim Shipman in Washington

Last Updated: 12:17am BST 02/09/2007

In a nondescript room, two blocks from the American Capitol building, a group of Bush administration staffers is gathered to consider the gravest threat their government has faced this century: the testing of a nuclear weapon by Iran.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/02/wiran102.xml

 

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Lake Tawokoni State Park rangers Mike McCord, left, and Freddie Gowin check out a giant spider web at the park.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/30/spider.web.ap/index.html

Monster spider web spun in Texas



WILLS POINT, Texas (AP) -- Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.

Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park say the massive mosquito trap is a big attraction for some visitors, while others won't go anywhere near it.

 

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http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/




Astronomers Find Enormous Hole in the Universe

Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.....