Friday, May 08, 2009

Headlines below the fold

A Washington state ecology employee says that an airline won't be fined for dumping fuel.
The plane had just taken off (i.e. fully loaded with fuel) and had to make an emergency landing...the fuel was dumped to lighten the plane for safety reasons.

Great...now pilots have to worry about saving fish instead of saving passenger's lives?
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Popular Mechanics has an article on the Tunguska explosion. Was it caused by a comet?
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Robert Reich on the bank bail out...
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Insomnia download of the day: Gray's Anatomy...not the TV show the book of muscles.
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Using tea time and cellphones to fight the Taliban?

Sounds about right...

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