Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel dead at 96
Studs Terkel, an Amercian historian, radio talk show host and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has died at the age of 96. His son, Dan Terkel, said he died peacefully in his Chicago, Illinois home. "My dad led a long, full, eventful, sometimes tempestuous, but very satisfying life. [His death was] peaceful, no agony. This is ...
Mars Orbiter Finds Widespread Evidence of Water-Bearing Minerals
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found evidence of hydrated silica or opal, a form of mineral, over large areas in the Martian surface, including in the large martian canyon called Valles Marineris. The discovery was made by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM) instrument on the orbiter. The findings are...
Campbell Government Backs Unlimited Deposit Insurance for BC’s Credit Unions
One of the few good news stories to come out of recent global economic turmoil has been the revelation that Canada’s banking system is about the most stable and best-regulated in the world. While Iceland’s banking system freezes solid and the US desperately tries to bail out its drowning financial institutions, in Canada’s ...
India's First Lunar Mission Launched
India's first unmanned lunar mission was launched off of the shore of Andhra Pradesh this morning. India now joins the United States, Russia, Japan, China and the European Space Agency as being the only nations to launch satellites to the moon. The Chandrayaan-1 satellite was launched from the Satish Dhawan space centre at ...
Canadian Farmer Vows to Continue Providing Customers with Raw Milk Despite Order
A Canadian farmer has announced that he will continue to provide his customers with raw milk despite the fact that courts have ordered his to stop providing his customers with the product. "Yes, we will continue with what we're doing," he said, after being ordered by the courts to stop selling the product. He made these...
China's Premier Recognises Government Responsibility in Milk Incident
In a rare one-on-one interview with the editor in chief of the journal Science Magazine published online on Friday, Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People's Republic of China, acknowledged that although companies were to blame, the government was also partially responsible in the recent melamine contamination of milk and infant ...
'Mobile Phone Dermatitis' Linked to Nickel Deposits
The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) has released a report saying that an illness they named 'mobile phone dermatitis', in which individuals owning a cell phone have developed a rash on the side of their face, is likely linked to nickel deposits in the metal of some cellular phones. Nickel has been known to cause...
Second Pipeline Blast Hits Dawson Creek
Today in Dawson Creek, at 9:15 a.m. local time, police reported that two gas pipeline bombs have now hit the area. As a result of these incidents, local residents are now concerned for their safety. The two explosions were targeting gas pipelines operated by EnCana near the British Columbia –Alberta border. The most recent ...
Secret Memos Reveal Bush Administration Endorsed Torture
Classified memos have revealed that the Bush administration knowingly endorsed waterboarding and other torture methods for use against terrorist suspects. The memos were issued to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 as classified documents in response to the department's former director George Tenet's request for White House approval....
Markets Down Across the World; Dow Jones Falls Below 9,000
Stock markets across the world have fallen dramatically once more as worries that recent government moves might not prevent a global recession. The largest drop was with the the Dow Jones(DJIA), which fell 678 points, or more then 7.3%, to below 9,000 to close at 8,579.19. The index has fallen over 2,000 points in the past ...
