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SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 12:17pm mrmdc

Times Online -- Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to control the bird’s flight remotely, state media have reported. The Xinhua News Agency said scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shando.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 12:16pm mrmdc

National Geographic -- A giant blob of water the size of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered hundreds of miles beneath eastern Asia, scientists report. Researchers found the underground "ocean" while scanning seismic waves as they passed through Earth's interior. But nob.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:55am mrmdc

CNN -- At least two Picasso paintings, worth a total of €50 million (US$66 million), have been stolen from the artist's granddaughter's home in Paris, police said Wednesday. The paintings, "Maya and the Doll" and "Portrait of Jacqueline," disappeared overni.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:55am mrmdc

CNN -- One week into their deliberations, jurors in the CIA leak trial have a question for the judge. Jurors passed a note to U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton at the end of the day Tuesday. Walton said he will address the issue in court Wednesday morning... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:54am mrmdc

SF Gate -- A 4-year-old Redwood City boy was struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle after sledding down a driveway and into traffic in Truckee, police said today. Kunal Mohindroo was playing with his parents in the snowy driveway Saturday when he slid into.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:53am mrmdc

SF Gate -- The hundreds of tons of rock that broke loose Tuesday from a slope in San Francisco's North Beach will take weeks to clean up, and it probably will be months before the hillside is made safe and the 120 residents driven from their homes can return, city o.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:52am mrmdc

Globe and Mail -- Two controversial measures in the federal Anti-Terrorism Act will disappear from the law books after a vote Tuesday night in the House of Commons that marked the first major political test for Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion. In a vote of 159 to 124, the.. Read More

ENTERTAINMENT / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:51am mrmdc

MSNBC -- More troubles on the set of “Grey’s Anatomy.” A spinoff of the popular series is in the works that will feature actress Kate Walsh’s character, Dr. Addison Montgomery, and some other cast members reportedly are feeling blindsided and short-chan.. Read More

LIFE / OPINION Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:50am mrmdc

MSNBC -- While Congress and the Bush administration debate how to improve fuel economy in automobiles, a new study says the United States is “stuck in reverse” when it comes to offering consumers a wide selection of fuel-efficient vehicles. The research fro.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:50am mrmdc

BBC News -- Four people have been killed and 30 injured after extremely strong gusts of wind toppled 11 carriages of a train in north-west China, official media said. The storm hit soon after the train left Turpan station, in China's Xinjiang region, Xinhua news a.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:48am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Oil prices fell Wednesday following a selloff on many global stock markets and expectations for lower demand from China, the world's second-largest oil consumer. Still, continued tensions over Iran and expectations that the latest snapshot of U.S. inve.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:47am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A small spacecraft en route to Pluto flew past Jupiter early on Wednesday, picking up enough speed from the giant planet's gravity field to shave three years off what would have been a 12-year voyage. In exchange, the New Horizons spacecraft is taking.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:41am mrmdc

The Register -- Namco has released the hugely-popular Ms Pac-Man for the fifth-generation iPod. Like an old college mate who refuses to accept the world has moved on, Ms Pac-Man is still out there night after night, popping pills and running from ghosts down warp tunnels.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:40am mrmdc

FOX News -- Burglars have broken into Democratic Party headquarters. No, you're not having a flashback to 1972 and the infamous event that ultimately led to the greatest scandal in U.S. political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency. Instead o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:35am mrmdc

FOX News -- Exterminators began sweeping a Kansas City neighborhood infested with rats after one of the rodents crawled into a baby's crib and severely disfigured the girl's face. Authorities said the girl's parents put her in a crib next to their bed early Sunday.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:33am mrmdc

FOX News -- A Senate hearing that began with glowing tributes to a St. Louis businessman and his qualifications to become ambassador to Belgium turned bitterly divisive Tuesday after he was criticized for supporting a controversial conservative group. Sen. John Ke.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:32am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue "was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions of de.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:27am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A city worker was awarded $660,000 over claims he was unfairly punished after reporting that fellow employees were shooting pigeons for fun on department grounds. William M. Lakes, 46, who worked for the Department of Public Works, reported the pigeon.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:25am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- When Miriam Schmetterling left Poland in 1946, she had no idea if she would ever see her home country again or meet the people who saved her life during the Holocaust. On Tuesday, the 82-year-old Jewish woman, in Poland for the first time in 60 years,.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Feb 28, 2007 @ 10:22am mrmdc

New York Times -- Stock markets fell sharply across most of Asia again today and continued to decline in Europe as investors worried about weakness in the American economy. But share prices rebounded in Shanghai and Shenzhen, the mainland Chinese stock markets that had.. Read More