Isn’t Life Strange?

Links for the week beginning Sunday, April 6, 2008 (Emphasis is my own):

NEWS STORIES

• Olympic Torch Concludes Hide and Seek Run Through San Francisco Streets (via Fox News)
• Russian Shuttle With Space Mines Retires (via The Telegraph)
• Virginia First State to Require Internet Safety Lessons (via Examiner.com)
• 400 Children in Custody in Polygamist Raid (via Houston Chronicle)
• Teen Held in Identical Twin’s Death (via ABC News)
• Girls Attack, Film Teen’s Beating, Police Say (via Local 6 Orlando)
• Girl Giggles As Bail Set in Video Beating (via Local 6 Orlando)
• East Texas Teenager Attacked Over History Project (via KLTV)
• Athens (TX) School ‘Attack’ Proven To Be False, Girl To Be Charged (via KLTV)
• Girl Sent To ISS For (TX School) Incident Speaks to KLTV (via KLTV)
• Israeli Officials: Facebook Is National Security Threat (via CNN) - MISLEADING HEADLINE
• Postal Officials Defend $13,5000 Steak Dinner (via Orlando Sentinel)

POLITICS

• Obama Draws Fire for Comments on Small-Town America (via Fox News)
• Clinton Says Obama is "Out of Touch" with Middle Class Americans, Calls Comments "Elitist" (via CBS News)
• Obama’s Remarks Slammed by Rivals (via Washington Times)
• Obama Explains Why Some Small Town Pennsylvanians Are "Bitter" (via ABC News) (Blog)
• (Indiana State) GOP Calls on Dems to Denounce Obama Comments (via WANE)
• Obama: If I Offended, I deeply Regret That (via CNN) (Blog)
• Clinton Calls on Bush to Boycott Olympics Opening Ceremonies (via Fox News)

SPORTS

• After 20-Year Drought, Kansas Rallies to Beat Memphis for NCAA Title (via ESPN)
• Buckner Throws Out First Pitch as Red Sox Hand Out Bling (via ESPN)
• Buckner Throws Out First Pitch at Fenway - VIDEO (via Boston.com)
• Yosh Kawano Leaving Clubhouse After 65 Years of Service (via Chicago Cubs)

 HEALTH/MEDICINE

• Antibiotic Alligator: Promising Proteins Lurk in Reptile Blood (via Science News Online)
• Discovery of the Decade? Injection ‘Could Cure Alzheimer’s in Minutes’ (via Belfast Telegraph)
• Getting Forgetful? Then Blueberries May Hold The Key (via Science Daily)
• No Mouth-to-Mouth Required in New CPR Rules (via MSNBC)
• Professor Calls for Tax on ‘Poison’ Butter (via Stuff - New Zealand)

SCIENCE/TECH

• SUV Not Big Enough For You? Try an XUV (via Daily Tech)
• ‘The Grid’ Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete (via Fox News)
• Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, but Gasoline Might (via National Science Foundation)
• Why Beautiful Women Marry Less Attractive Men (via LiveScience)
• Windows is ‘’Collapsing" Gartner Analysts Warn (via Computerworld)

MISCELLANOUS/ENTERTAINMENT/ODD NEWS

• A Complete List of Things Caused By Global Warming (via Numberwatch.co.uk) - Many Links
• NZ Man ‘Used Hedgehog As Weapon’ (via BBC News)
• Cop: Robber Left Name on Job Application (via MSNBC)
• Disney’s Pixar Movies Moving to 3-D Format (via CNN)
• Alicia Keyes: ‘Gangsta Rap’ Created to Convince Black People to Kill Each Other (via Fox News) - Evil white folks strike again!
• Shreveport Fire Department Will investigate Deja Vu Adult Club After Dancer Burned (via KSLA) - Only in Louisiana!
• New Photos of Elvis in 1972 Surface (via AP/Yahoo)
• Noise That Irked Florida Town Came From Fish (via Chicago Tribune)
• New Kids on The Block To Reunite (via MSN) - Now THAT’S funny!

AND FINALLY

This one will make you cry…

• (Peoria) Rivermen Have Lost Their Biggest Fan (via Peoria Journal-Star)