Monday, February 23, 2009

News Update

Highlights from my travels through the internet:

  • Slumdog Millionaire Wins 8 Oscars [WSJ]
  • Monday morning explosion in Basque region [Le Monde]
  • Asian countries pool $120 Billion to protect their currencies [Bloomberg]
  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Urges China to support Obama stimulus plan by buying US Treasury Securities [Bloomberg]
  • Electrocuting Cancer Cells with a Nanoknife [Medgadget]
  • Yves St. Laurent's Private Collection at Christie's International (Estimated $380 Million) [Bloomberg]
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will give 95% of working families a tax cut and many other things as well [White House Blog]
  • MEDGADGET: Internet Journal of Emerging Medical Technologies [Medgadget] This is going on my daily looks!
  • New bill proposes that all Internet providers will have to keep records of everything to aid police reports for 2 years [CNN.com] That SUCKS!!!!!!! Don't go all patriot act on me, man. Seriously. That's enough.
  • Brain injuries increase your chance of epilepsy for years [Reuters Health]
  • Complete mammoth skeleton found in Los Angeles [Reuters] WHAT THE! That's awesome...and sort of weird! It was dug out of a construction site in downtown LA.
I used to have several blogs updating people about interesting things I found in the news, but I'm just going to post it in my Singlish blog with News as the label.

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