News clips from around the world
Alan Colmes interview with Barak Obama, where the Senator from Illinois speaks on the Senate race, his latest book and the Presidency 
Alloy Holds Out Promise of Speedier Memory Chip 
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: December 11, 2006
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 4 — Scientists at I.B.M. and two partner companies have developed a promising material that they believe will lead to a new kind of computer memory chip able to meet the growing appetite for storing digital music, pictures and video.
Most Unusual Buildings
USA Federal judge: Making files available for download = distribution
Maria Cary is threatening legal action against porn star Mary Carey because she is planning to trademark her similar-sounding stage name. The singer is worried that fans might confuse the two “performers” if Mary Carey’s application is successful. But the adult entertainer, whose real name is Mary Cook, said: “It’s kind of funny because I’m a porn star and I’ve been being myself for a long time. I think she’s being silly.” Cook’s lawyer insisted that the Grammy winner had little chance of success: “My first thought was, does Mariah Carey realize what her lawyer is comparing her to and are they seriously concerned? Do they seriously think the fans are going to be confused?”
Beautiful beer lost in the vaults since 1869
David Friend is Vanity Fair’s editor of creative development.
He has published a list of Dick Cheney’s google searches
China’s banking regulator said it had received eight applications from foreign banks for local registration, which it would begin processing today, a first step in granting national treatment.
Actor and former Oscar winner Nicholas Cage plans to take time off from acting to concentrate on interests, including developing independent film-making. 
He never did any acting in any movie except 
33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names
How White Was My Savior? 
Why has the portrayal of Jesus in art drifted far from the likelihood he was a brown-skinned Semitic Jew?
Smoking becoming taboo in US workplace, homes and even in public
Economic storm brewing in America
Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution
By NICHOLAS WADE
A surprisingly recent instance of human evolution has been detected among the peoples of East Africa. It is the ability to digest milk in adulthood, conferred by genetic changes that occurred as recently as 3,000 years ago, a team of geneticists has found.
AT&T Says It Won’t Need Fiber-to-the-Home Network 
9-Foot, 500-Pound Shark Washes Ashore In Texas
New York City Bans Science 
Wii Safety: The Missing Pages –RGB
2008: If Obama runs, he wins
McDonald’s testing Angus burgers in Los Angeles 
Ten Verses Never Preached On
Serious Use for Silly String
I want this watch
United States Patent Application: 20060252371
Kind Code: A1
Yanagi
da; Toshiharu: November 9, 2006
Human body communication system and communication device
Disclosed herein is a human body communication system for communicating data via an electric field formed by intervention of a human body, the human body communication system including: a transmitter for generating the electric field by transmitting a potential difference signal corresponding to transmission data from a transmitting electrode; and a receiver for receiving the data by reading the potential difference signal in the electric field by a receiving electrode; wherein the transmitter and the receiver use the potential difference signal in a frequency band such that a quasi-electrostatic field formed within the human body is dominant over a radiation field formed outside the human body when the transmitting electrode and the receiving electrode are each disposed in very close vicinity to the human body.
http://www.wiidamage.com/
“A YouTube for Data”
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Man fined for tossing pig at hotel
The headline could only be better if the pig’s name was Max, and it was dead.
Gift cards can be a costly convenience
Convenience good, but data show card users losing money
Is Google too smart for its own good? 
Google’s famous for hiring the best and the brightest, but when they get bored, they’re bound to create the son-of-Google, warns Fortune’s Jeffrey O’Brien.
By Jeffrey M. O’Brien, Fortune senior editor
7 Home Gadgets You Can’t Buy
In politics, good looks can help: study
Man Accused of Faking Retardation 
for 20 years.
Controlling confusion — Researchers make insight into memory, forgetting
After decades of intensive effort by both experimental and theoretical physicists worldwide, a tiny particle with no charge, a very low mass and a lifetime much shorter than a nanosecond, dubbed the “axion,” has now been detected by the University at Buffalo physicist who first suggested its existence in a little-read paper as early as 1974.
McDonald’s forced to shut from lack of patronage in healthy town
It’s been so long since I’ve been out on the town with friends. It’s also been 2 years since I’ve celebrated by birthday,” she writes addressing oodles of ink spilled recently about her busy nightlife. “Every move I make at this point has been magnified more than I expected, and I probably did take my new found freedom a little too far. 
–Britney Spears
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