Study: 1918 flu survivors seem immune to swine flu (AP)
AP - The way swine flu multiplies in the respiratory system is more severe than ordinary winter flu, a new study in animals finds.
AP - The way swine flu multiplies in the respiratory system is more severe than ordinary winter flu, a new study in animals finds.
AP - NASA is hoping the weather finally cooperates for its sixth launch attempt for space shuttle Endeavour.
Macworld.com - PocketMac announced on Tuesday the release of RingtoneStudio 2.0, an update to its software for creating and editing iPhone ringtones. Included in version 2.0 are visual sound editing, which lets you view the actual waveforms in realtime with a zoom of up to 16x, volume control for sound clips, and the ability to add fade-ins or fade-outs to any ringtone.
PC World - Sun Microsystems is suing startup GreenBytes for allegedly claiming that Sun stole its data de-duplication technology.
AP - “So tired today,” Annemarie Dooling tweeted early Tuesday. “really really tired. ugh.”
Bloomberg - July 14 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia
Sotomayor told lawmakers she was following âÂÂestablished
precedentâ when she ruled against white firefighters who sued a
Connecticut city over the cancellation of planned promotions.
CQPolitics.com - House Democrats plan to push ahead with their health care overhaul after unveiling a bill Tuesday, with promises to pass it before the August recess.
Reuters - Former General Motors Corp Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner, ousted in March by the Obama administration, will retire in August with a package worth $8.6 million in the first five years, the company said on Tuesday.
AP - A family of three evaded what could have been a major, if not fatal, mishap after a sport biplane doing loops flew too low and collided with their car.
AFP - The European Commission announced Tuesday that it had taken Garuda Airlines and three other Indonesian carriers off its aviation blacklist after air transport authorities addressed safety concerns.
AP - A Bureau of Prisons Web site says that disgraced financier Bernard Madoff has been moved to a federal prison in Atlanta.
AFP - In a move that may cheer critics of alleged “war on terrorism” excesses, historic US Supreme Court pick Sonia Sotomayor denounced the World War II-era jailing of Japanese-Americans.