News Archive for February 15 2008

Florida Pastor Issues 30-Day Sex Challenge

A Florida pastor has a new challenge for his parishioners. It involves sex - a subject that may be taboo in many congregations.

Outage hits Amazon S3 storage service

A massive internal server error shut Amazon’s S3 storage service down Friday morning.

LAPD Mourns Slain SWAT Officer

Those who worked with SWAT team member Randal Simmons never believed he would fall to a gunman's bullet.

22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall: doctor

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television's 60 Minutes program.

Economy 'on the edge' of recession, Greenspan says

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Thursday night that the U.S. economy is "clearly on the edge" of a recession, ...

Iraqi Shiite Worshippers Attacked, 3 Die

BAGHDAD — Two suicide bombers, one apparently armed with a grenade as well as an explosive vest, killed at least three people and wounded 17 as worshippers left a Shiite mosque after Friday prayers in the northwestern city of Tal Afar. The explosions came on a day when the U.S. military and Iraqis were at odds over who was killed in a raid earlier [...]

Study: Lack of MRAPs cost Marine lives (AP)

AP - Hundreds of U.S. Marines have been killed or injured by roadside bombs in Iraq because Marine Corps bureaucrats refused an urgent request in 2005 from battlefield commanders for blast-resistant vehicles, an internal military study concludes.

Zoo Atlanta to resume mating pandas (AP)

AP - Zoo Atlanta is hoping to hear the pitter-patter of little panda paws again. Now that giant panda cub Mei Lan is old enough to be weaned, zookeepers hope her mother, Lun Lun, is ready to mate again. If all goes as planned, Lun Lun will become pregnant this spring and deliver Zoo Atlanta's second giant panda cub at the end of the summer.