Homeowners, small businesses install turbines to cut long-term energy costs

Technology / Energy

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 14

Steve and Sue Kirkham's home sits atop a hill where the wind can be strong enough to mute conversations and rattle lawn chairs. Instead of complaining, they decided to harness its power.


Drilling drives a wedge at climate change summit (AP)

Drilling drives a wedge at climate change summit

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 6

(AP) -- To drill or not drill for new oil and gas.


Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico (AP)

Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico's most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. ...


Mexico may isolate flu patients, inspect homes (AP)

Mexico may isolate flu patients, inspect homes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- As Mexico struggled against the odds Saturday to contain a strange new flu that has killed 68 and perhaps sickened more than 1,000, it was becoming clearer that the government hasn't moved quickly ...


Magnitude of dirty VA hospital equipment unknown (AP)

Magnitude of dirty VA hospital equipment unknown

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Thousands of veterans were at first shocked to learn they should get blood tests for HIV and hepatitis because three hospitals might have treated them with unsterile equipment. Now, just a couple ...


Arkansas reclaims its status as the Bear State

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The bear cub could be heard but remained unseen among the barren trees and dried leaves blanketing the forest floor.


With celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey helping fuel Twitter mania, the micro-blogging website is soaring

Twitter a global sensation: Hitwise

Technology / Internet

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey helping fuel Twitter mania, the micro-blogging website is soaring to stardom around the world, according to Hitwise.


Webcam fans mourn Calif. bald eagle chick deaths

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The only bald eagle nest on Santa Cruz Island is now a lonely place, one that webcam viewers were delighted to monitor just a few weeks ago.


Investigators searching for links among meningitis victims

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

"Patient Zero," the first victim to come down with the rare strain of meningitis that has killed four and infected eight others in South Florida since December, was a South Florida resident who was sickened in December but ...



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