Nov
10
2009
The SMS Attack; The Koreans React
- A bill to bar text messaging while driving in Pennsylvania is headed to the House floor. The bill won a unanimous vote of support Tuesday from the House Transportation Committee.
- An overwhelming majority of the Democratic lawmakers who opposed the Healthcare bill — 31 of the 39 — represent districts that were won by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, in the 2008 presidential election, and a third of them were freshmen.
- Scientists have borrowed a monitoring technique from supermarkets by creating a collection of so-called “DNA barcodes” to understand how the diets of animals would change with global warming.
- Babies learn how to cry in their mother’s speaking accent while still in the womb, according to a report in the medical journal Current Biology.
- Two shipping vessels; A North Korean and a South Korean have exchanged fire, leaving the North Korean ship to retreat in flames; The first naval clash in seven years broke out just a week before President Obama is due to visit Seoul, raising suspicions the North’s communist regime is trying to rachet up tensions to gain a negotiating advantage.
- A breakdown of US exports to China by state.
- France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to stay in power to keep hopes for Mideast peace alive.
- A gallery of the world’s newest metro systems; from Dubai to Berlin.
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