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| Finding genes that make teeth grow all in a row (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 6:21 pm
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| | AP - Ever wonder why sharks get several rows of teeth and people only get one? Some geneticists did, and their discovery could spur work to help adults one day grow new teeth when their own wear out. |
| Colleges warn students about Mexico travel (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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|  AP - The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border.
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| 4 members of assisted suicide group are arrested (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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|  AP - Joining the Final Exit Network costs $50, and the privileges of membership include this: When you're ready to die, the organization will send two "exit guides" to show you how to suffocate yourself using helium tanks and a plastic hood. The Georgia-based organization says it is providing an invaluable and humane service. Authorities call it a crime.
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| Gates: Media photos of war dead need families' OK (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration is reversing an 18-year ban on news coverage of the return of war dead, allowing photographs of flag-covered caskets when families of the fallen troops agree, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
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| Report: Bishop who had denied Holocaust apologizes (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 5:44 pm
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|  AP - A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust embroiled Pope Benedict XVI in controversy has apologized for his remarks, a Catholic news agency said Thursday. Bishop Richard Williamson, with the conservative Society of St. Pius X, had faced worldwide criticism over a television interview in which he said no Jews were gassed during the Holocaust.
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| Senate votes to give DC citizens vote in Congress (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 5:33 pm
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| | AP - WASHINGTON(AP — The right to a vote in Congress denied the District of Columbia when it became the nation's capital two centuries ago would be granted under legislation the Senate passed Thursday. |
| Final Harry Potter film gets release date (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 4:42 pm
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| | Reuters - Harry has a final date with film destiny: Warner Bros. will open the eighth film in its Potter franchise -- "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II" -- on July 15, 2011. |
| Obama health plan opens tough negotiation (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama's prescription for the nation's ailing health care system comes with Medicare cuts and tax hikes — usually poison pills that doom any overhaul effort in Congress.
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| Jerry Seinfeld bringing reality series to NBC (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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|  AP - Jerry Seinfeld is returning to NBC as producer of a comic reality series where celebrities and a referee try to help squabbling couples make peace. That's the good news for Seinfeld's fans.
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| British actress Wendy Richard dead at 65 (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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| | AP - British actress Wendy Richard, whose four-decade television career included roles as a sexy sitcom shop assistant and a working class matriarch on the soap opera "EastEnders," died Thursday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 65. |
| A Sliver of Chance for Life on Mars (SPACE.com)
February 26, 2009 at 12:30 pm
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|  SPACE.com - The Phoenix Mars Lander ended its mission last November, but scientists are still pondering the data. One intriguing discovery was a nightly cycle in which water vapor in the atmosphere collapsed into the Martian soil. One researcher thinks this may hint of dew-like films that could have supported life in a previous Martian climate.
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| Obama forecasts $1.75 trillion deficit this year (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 11:02 am
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama forecast the biggest U.S. deficit since World War Two in a budget on Thursday that urges a costly overhaul of the healthcare system and would spend billions to arrest the economy's freefall.
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| 'Hard choices' budget sees $1.75 trillion deficit (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 11:01 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama has unveiled a $3.55 trillion spending plan for next year that would boost taxes on the wealthy and curtail Medicare to make way for a $634 billion down payment on universal health care.
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| GM posts $9.6B 4Q loss, burns through $6.2B cash (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 11:00 am
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. posted a $9.6 billion fourth-quarter loss and said it burned through $6.2 billion of cash in the last three months of 2008 as it fought the worst U.S. auto sales climate since 1982 and sought government loans to keep the century-old company running.
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| Scientists meet to save Lascaux cave from fungus (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 10:33 am
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|  AP - Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened Thursday in Paris to discuss how to stop the spread of fungus stains — aggravated by global warming — that threaten France's prehistoric Lascaux cave drawings.
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| Bangladesh: Mutiny ends after tanks enter capital (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 10:13 am
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|  AP - Mutinous Bangladeshi border guards who seized control of their headquarters completed their surrender Thursday after tanks were sent into the capital as a show of force, the government said.
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| Def Leppard returns to road, but may take break (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 8:54 am
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|  AP - Def Leppard has become a fixture on the touring circuit over the last few summers, and this year is no different. The classic rock group plans to go out on the road again, this time with Poison and Cheap Trick.
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| Wooden sarcophaguses found in Egypt tomb (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 8:19 am
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| | Reuters - Japanese archaeologists working in Egypt have found four wooden sarcophaguses and associated grave goods which could date back up to 3,300 years, the Egyptian government said on Thursday. |
| Injured good Samaritan ticketed for jaywalking (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:34 am
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| | AP - A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket. |
| Low-carb? Low-fat? Study finds calories count more (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:15 am
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|  AP - Low-fat, low-carb or high-protein? The kind of diet doesn't matter, scientists say. All that really counts is cutting calories and sticking with it, according to a federal study that followed people for two years. However, participants had trouble staying with a single approach that long and the weight loss was modest for most.
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| Police: Miami piano teacher kills kids, wife, self (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 3:12 am
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|  AP - Pablo Amador was a "regular dad" who made music with his children and shared his gift teaching kids to play piano, a man known for a friendly wave and lending a hand to jump-start a car. And those who knew him say they can't understand why he apparently shot and killed his two daughters, wife and then himself.
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| American Airlines plans furloughs on April 1 (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 2:07 am
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| | AP - American Airlines Inc. is telling flight attendants that it intends to furlough up to 410 of them on April 1 if it does not have enough volunteers for early leaves, retirements and other programs. |  |
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