daily links: april 2007

4.2.07
CNN.com—Woman charged with manslaughter after husband catches her having sex with her lover and kills the man when his wife yells rape
CBS News—Judge rejects new Bush guidelines that would open more public land for logging and mining
MSNBC—Man shoots two, kills one, and steals two cars just so he could see his brother play in a college football scrimage game
USA Today—Flight attendant arrested after carrying concealed handgun onto flight
ABCnews.com—Privately funded NYC program will offer up to $5000 to poor parents who attend parent-teacher conferences
Fox News—French architect has new theory on how Egyptian pyramids were constructed


4.3.07
CNN.com—Supreme Court rules that the EPA must revist global warming and that it has the power to regulate CO2 emissions if necessary
USA Today—EMI will make its entire catalog available for purchase on iTunes with no embedded copy protection
MSNBC—NASA has big presence in Second Life
New Scientist—Critical piece of Large Hadron Collider fails during routine testing
BBC News—Catholic Church rushing to make Pope John Paul II into a saint
ABCnews.com—Former Star Trek star to have his ashes launched into space


4.4.07
USA Today—Keith Richards says he snorted his father's ashes after mixing them with cocaine
MSNBC—125 Jackson Hewitt tax preparation stores in four states accused of systematic tax fraud schemes that cost the government over $70 million
BBC News—China unveils its moon rover
ABCnews.com—Two twelve year old girls accused of trying to poison their teacher with lip gloss
CNN.com—Scary Spice gives birth to baby she claims was fathered by Eddie Murphy
Fox News—Swedish government will not approve name for child whose parents want to call her Metallica


4.5.07
New Scientist—FBI investigating virtual casinos in Second Life
CBS News—New French train sets speed record
CNN.com—Director of A Christmas Story killed by drunk driver
USA Today—Felons who have served their time will have their voting rights restored in Florida
Fox News—Man kicks 17th century painting hanging in museum because he did not like the subject matter
ABCnews.com—Swift Boat donor appointed ambassador to Belgium after Bush skirts rules by waiting until congress was out of session


4.6.07
Fox News—New Ford CEO paid $40 million for four months work even as automaker posted huge losses
CNN.com—Miami housing sex offenders under highway bridge
MSNBC—Church denies communion to lesbian couple
USA Today—Rental propertly looted after fake craigslist posting
CBS News—All new vehicles will be required to have anti-rollover technology by 2012
ABCnews.com—$17,000 found under old slot machines in a casino that was being prepped for demolition


4.9.07
Yahoo! News—Global species count tops 1 million, with several hundred thousand more still expected
CBS News—Giant fish that may have been a century old caught off coast of Alaska
USA Today—Gingrich latest Republican to call for Gonzales' resignation
CNN.com—RFID chips allow marathon fans to track runners in real time over the entire course of the race
ABCnews.com—High school principal suing students who posted demeaning things about him online
Fox News—Man offering free house to anyone who will move it from its current location


4.10.07
MSNBC—Apple records sale of 100 millionth iPod
CNN.com—Nurse started fatal fire in office building in an attempt to avoid being fired for not having current accreditations
ABCnews.com—Obama joins Edwards in boycotting a proposed debate hosted by Fox News
BBC News—Upcoming Firefox releases will further blur the line between the desktop and the browser
Wired News—World of Warcraft added to roster of World Series of Video Games contests
Fox News—Woman left her disabled husband locked in a car so that she could gamble


4.11.07
New Scientist—Hubble finds signs of water on a planet outside our solar system
MSNBC—US spy chief wants to expand the government's surveillance powers
Fox News—Citigroup to cut 17,000 jobs
CNN.com—New paints make cars appear to change color
CBS News—Sheriff writes himself a ticket after rear-ending another driver
USA Today—Halo 3 beta available next month


4.12.07
CNN.com—Tours for soldiers currently in Iraq extended by an extra three months
ABCnews.com—Senate passes bill easing restrictions on federally funded stem cell research
USA Today—All charges dropped against Duke lacrosse players accused of rape
MSNBC—Soldiers may receive up to $150,000 for re-enlisting
CBS News—FDA says energy drink called "Cocaine" is being illegally marketed
BBC News—China limiting the amount of time young people can play online games


4.13.07
CNN.com—Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
USA Today—Leahy accuses Bush aides of lying about lost emails
CBS News—Some college presidents planning to boycott US News rankings
ABCnews.com—Nestle to buy Gerber for $5.5 billion
Fox News—Ohio man charged with conspiring with al Qaeda
MSNBC—Don Imus fired from radio show the day after MSNBC dropped him from its cable broadcast


4.16.07
Fox News—A group of serial killers freed by Iranian court because their victims were engaging in un-Islamic activities
MSNBC—Russia beginning construction on first of six planned floating nuclear power plants
BBC News—Windows XP to be retired in 2008
CBS News—Google buying DoubleClick for $3 billion
CNN.com—Don Ho passes away
ABCnews.com—Chicago will be US candidate for 2016 summer Olympics


4.17.07
CNN.com—Gunman kills more than 30 people on Virginia Tech campus
USA Today—NY attorney general issues more subpoenas in student loan probe
MSNBC—The British government will no longer use the phrase "war on terror"
BBC News—Apple delays its next OS in order to roll out the iPhone on schedule
CBS News—French intelligence agency warned the CIA that al Qaeda were planning attack on US months before 9.11
ABCnews.com—Jury issues verdict of $2.8 million in damages against Allstate in Katrina case


4.18.07
USA Today—Lenders banned from Department of Education student database in wake of student loan scandal
CBS News—Japanese mayor shot in public by organized crime boss
CNN.com—Google makes deal with Clear Channel to sell radio ads
ABCnews.com—New Tolkien work set 6000 years before Lord of the Rings was completed by the author's son using his father's notes and drafts
Fox News—Dozens of girls in Louisiana kicked out of prom for wearing dresses that were too revealing
MSNBC—Justice Department sues tax protest group


4.19.07
CNN.com—Buzz Aldrin planning lottery with trip to space as top prize
ABCnews.com—Supreme Court ruling upholding ban on partial birth abortions could be first in a series of rulings that will chip away at Roe v Wade
CBS News—Hong Kong diners are charged fines for leftovers based on the weight of the food they don't eat
MSNBC—Virginia Tech gunman sent a written communication, photos, and a video to NBC in between the two attacks
USA Today—Sony may cut jobs from its gaming division
Fox News—Last minute tax filers swamp TurboTax's servers


4.20.07
USA Today—Norway wants to be carbon neutral by 2050
CBS News—Donkey testifies in his own defense. Only in Texas, people.
CNN.com—Human rights group suing Yahoo for providing information on its users to the Chinese government
BBC News—New barcode system uses color and geometric patterns to fit more data into a smaller space
Fox News—Man shoots and kills his wife thinking she was an intruder
ABCnews.com—Oliver Stone to direct anti-Iraq war ad


4.23.07
Fox News—Mets fan accused of trying to blind Braves players with a high-powered flashlight during game on Saturday
MSNBC—Prison wrongly frees inmate after receiving fake fax demanding his release
ABCnews.com—NASA employee kills his supervisor and himself after a poor job performance review
CNN.com—Blue Angels jet crashes at airshow, killing the pilot and damaging nearby houses
CBS News—Washington governor signs law giving same-sex couples the many of the same rights as heterosexual married couples
USA Today—Circuit City teaming with Napster to create iTunes alternative


4.24.07
ABCnews.com—Limbaugh concludes that the VT shooter had to be a liberal without any actual evidence. Right, because liberals tend to like guns so much...
CBS News—Reid says Congress will pass Iraq withdrawal bill this week and that Bush is in denial about the progress of the war
USA Today—British Airways blurs out logo of rival Virgin Air in in-flight version of latest James Bond film, and also cuts cameo by Virgin head Richard Branson
CNN.com—Boris Yeltsin dies
Fox News—Wiccan pentacle now allowed on soldiers' tombstones in national cemeteries
MSNBC—NYC bans metal bats from high school baseball games


4.25.07
CNN.com—World Bank directors refuse to meet with Wolfowitz and call for his resignation
USA Today—Toyota outsells GM for the first time in the first quarter of 2007
BBC News—Dell adds Windows XP choice back to certain new PCs after customer feedback indicated that not everyone wants to upgrade to Vista yet
MSNBC—Virgin Atlantic partnering with Boeing to develop biofuel for jets
Fox News—Girls Gone Wild mogul sentenced to 35 days in jail for contempt of court after swearing at opposing attorneys during settlement negotiations
ABCnews.com—Professor fired after reenacting VT shootings in his classroom


4.26.07
USA Today—Congressional panel subpoenas Rice in investigation of US intelligence in run up to Iraq war
New Scientist—China to surpass US and become world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases before the end of the year
ABCnews.com—Congressional committee grants immunity to Gonzales aid in order to get her to testify about the firing of eight US attorneys
Fox News—The Dow closes above 13,000 for the first time in history
CNN.com—Rosie O'Donnell leaving The View
MSNBC—China hopes to force rain immediately before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing in order to guarantee sunshine for the games


4.27.07
ABCnews.com—11 soldiers arrested in the home invasion and attack on a fellow soldier and his wife
BBC News—Creator of all three PlayStation systems announces his retirement
USA Today—FDA rejects Vioxx successor
CNN.com—Students using iPods to cheat on tests
Fox News—Philadelphia cracks down on psychics, astrologers, and tarot card readers
MSNBC—Dollar at record low against the euro


4.30.07
BBC News—Dutch man builds replica of Noah's ark
CNN.com—British town bans plastic bags
MSNBC—Woman suing university that denied her a teaching degree because of a photo on MySpace
ABCnews.com—Gonzales heckled at his Harvard reunion
USA Today—Cardinals pitcher killed in auto accident
CBS News—California to sue EPA over emissions standards

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