The Queen, reported the Daily Mail, was wearing a speckled cream suit and matching hat. Her Majesty was at the London School of Economics, listening to a professor, Luis Garicano, talk about the credit crunch. “It’s awful,” she said suddenly. “Why did nobody see it coming?” For three years I have pondered the Queen’s question, [...]
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Shale gas drilling’s dirty secret is out | Josh Fox
Thursday’s stunning announcement from US EPA that implicates hydrofracturing (“fracking”) as the cause of groundwater contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming is news that has rocked the world. But as groundbreaking and innovative as the investigation has been, the news comes as no surprise to anyone who has been following fracking closely. Anyone who lives in a [...]
November 20, 2011
Progress made on Reno wildfire
(CNN) — Firefighters in Reno, Nevada, have contained 80% of a wildfire there and expect to have it nearly completely contained by day’s end, officials said Saturday. The blaze has made 32 homes uninhabitable and damaged five, but is no longer a major threat to other structures, said Reno Fire Chief Michael Hernandez. Some 140 [...]
November 16, 2011
Police find body near where boy went missing
(CNN) — Police in eastern Missouri found the body of missing 1-year-old Tyler Daniel Dasher on Tuesday in a wooded area about a mile from his home. A cause of death has not been determined and authorities are still in the early stages of trying to figure out what happened, St. Louis County police said [...]
November 15, 2011
Diaspora’s co-founder dies at 22
15 November 2011 Last updated at 11:29 GMT The homepage offered a simple tribute to Mr Zhitomirskiy Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the co-founder of Facebook rival Diaspora, has died. The 22-year-old was one of four New York-based students who launched Diaspora as a “privacy-aware, user-controlled” social network. It was set up in response to criticism that Facebook [...]
November 12, 2011
This Veterans Day, we must remember the Iraqi interpreters | Michael Breen
Americans have special cause for reflection, celebration and gratitude this Veterans Day. After almost a decade of bloody struggle in Iraq, the troops are finally coming home. I experienced the early days of our misadventure in Iraq as a young Army lieutenant, walking the streets of Baghdad with my infantry company. In the years since, [...]
November 9, 2011
Seventeen workers exposed to plutonium radiation at Idaho lab
November 9, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Seventeen workers exposed to plutonium radiation at Idaho lab –There were no details from the lab on the precise cause or nature of the radiation release. 08 Nov 2011 Seventeen workers were exposed to low-level [sic] radiation from plutonium on Tuesday at a U.S. Energy Department nuclear research lab [...]
November 8, 2011
US screenwriter Kanter dies at 92
8 November 2011 Last updated at 09:18 GMT Kanter also directed episodes of The Jimmy Stewart Show Emmy-winning screenwriter Hal Kanter, who wrote films including Elvis Presley’s Blue Hawaii, has died at 92. The cause of death was complications from pneumonia, his daughter Donna told the Los Angeles Times. He wrote Bob Hope and Bing [...]
November 1, 2011
UNESCO Grants Palestinians Full Membership
The Israeli government said Monday’s vote by the United Nations cultural agency to accept the Palestinians’ bid as a full member would harm efforts to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks. A foreign ministry statement called UNESCO‘s action in Paris a “unilateral Palestinian maneuver” that further removed the possibility for a peace agreement. Palestinian leaders welcomed the [...]
October 11, 2011
Steve Jobs died of respiratory arrest, death certificate reveals
A copy of Steve Jobs‘s death certificate indicates that the Apple co-founder died of respiratory arrest resulting from pancreatic cancer that had spread to other organs. Jobs died last Wednesday at the age of 56. Apple did not disclose the cause of death, but Jobs had been in poor health for a number of years. [...]
October 7, 2011
Apple: Co-founder Steve Jobs dead at 56
October 6, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Apple: Co-founder Steve Jobs dead at 56 06 Oct 2011 Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died. He was 56. Apple announced his death without giving [...]
October 4, 2011
Nuclear reactor shut down in Japan, cause unknown
October 4, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Nuclear reactor shut down in Japan, cause unknown 04 Oct 2011 A nuclear power reactor was shut down automatically in western Japan on Tuesday, but the cause of the suspension was not immediately known, its operator said. Operations at the number four reactor of Genkai Nuclear Power Plant in [...]