Thursday, March 20, 2008

Daily News Digest: Most Popular News

Today's Most Popular News:

It pays to play nice, Harvard study says
'Virtual massage' for phantom limb pain
Japan appoints cartoon ambassador
Are Humans Meant to be Monogamous?
First lady records show Clinton promoted NAFTA
In a first for astronomy, methane is spotted on distant planet
Grannies and pro-war activists clash in Times Square
Hillary Clinton Schedules Show Drop in Policy Role
Lewinsky and the first lady
SC troopers used cars to ram suspects
Bin Laden warns EU over Prophet cartoons
13 dead, 3 missing in central US storm
Bush defiantly defends war in Iraq
Bin Laden slams EU over prophet cartoons
Bush OKs supplying arms to Kosovo
Documents shed light on Lewinsky affair
China tightens grip in Tibetan areas
What will steady shaky financial system?
Study details effects of prostate cancer
Sturdy cars make it harder for rescuers
--> It pays to play nice, Harvard study says
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:03 am PDT
AP - Screaming sports coaches and cutthroat tycoons have it wrong: Nice guys do finishfirst, a
new study suggests. Full Story Top
'Virtual massage' for phantom limb pain
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:26 pm PDT
AFP - An amputee could be "cured" of phantom limb pain by tricking the braininto
reacting to the sight of someone else performing soothing, massage-like gestures,a researcher has
found. Full Story Top
Japan appoints cartoon ambassador
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:19 am PDT
AP - Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation, and named a
perfectfigure Wednesday to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon. Full Story
Top
Are Humans Meant to be Monogamous?
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:46 am PDT
LiveScience.com - News of politicians' extramarital affairs seems to be in no short
supply lately,but if humans were cut from exactly the same cloth as other mammals, a faithful
spousewould be an unusual phenomenon. Full Story Top
First lady records show Clinton promoted NAFTA
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:05 pm PDT
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton now argues that the North
AmericanFree Trade Agreement needs to be renegotiated, but newly released records showedon
Wednesday she promoted its passage. Full Story Top
In a first for astronomy, methane is spotted on distant planet
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:10 am PDT
AFP - Astronomers on Wednesday announced they had detected methane in the atmosphere
ofa planet 63 light years away, boosting prospects for identifying any life that existsbeyond our
Solar System. Full Story Top
Grannies and pro-war activists clash in Times Square
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:19 pm PDT
Reuters - Grannies holding a knit-in to protest the war in Iraq clashed in a shouting
matchwith pro-war activists in Times Square on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of thestart of the
conflict. Full Story Top
Hillary Clinton Schedules Show Drop in Policy Role
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:35 pm PDT
Bloomberg - March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton's daily schedules show that her
formalpolicy role in the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton, shrunk once Congressshelved the
health- care plan she helped craft in the administration's firsttwo years. Full Story Top
Lewinsky and the first lady
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:47 pm PDT
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton was in the White House on at least seven days when her husbandhad
sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky, according to the first lady's calendarsreleased Wednesday.
A look at her schedule on days when Lewinsky said she had sexualencounters with Bill Clinton: Full
Story Top
SC troopers used cars to ram suspects
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:42 pm PDT
AP - Videos have surfaced showing two members of the South Carolina Highway Patrol usingtheir
cruisers to ram fleeing suspects, just weeks after two leaders of the agencyresigned because of a
furor over a trooper's use of a racial slur. Full Story Top
Bin Laden warns EU over Prophet cartoons
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:22 pm PDT
Reuters - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden threatened the European Union with grave
punishmenton Wednesday over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Full Story Top
13 dead, 3 missing in central US storm
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:24 pm PDT
AP - Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and
evacuatedWednesday after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in thenation's
midsection. At least 13 deaths had been linked to the weather, and threepeople were missing. Full
Story Top
Bush defiantly defends war in Iraq
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:59 pm PDT
AP - President Bush defiantly defended the Iraq war Wednesday as U.S. troops began a sixthyear
of combat in the long and costly conflict that has dominated his presidency.Bush conceded the war
has been harder and more expensive than anticipated but insistedit has all been necessary to keep
Americans safe. Full Story Top
Bin Laden slams EU over prophet cartoons
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:37 pm PDT
AP - Osama bin Laden, in a new audio message posted Wednesday, condemned the
publicationof drawings that he said insulted the Prophet Muhammad and warned Europeans of
a"severe" reaction to come. Full Story Top
Bush OKs supplying arms to Kosovo
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:59 pm PDT
AFP - President George W. Bush authorized Wednesday supplying Kosovo with weapons,
signalingthe establishment of government-to-government relations after recognizing its
independence,the White House said. Full Story Top
Documents shed light on Lewinsky affair
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:56 pm PDT
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton was home in the White House on at least seven days when
herhusband had sexual encounters there with intern Monica Lewinsky, according to Sen.Clinton's
schedule, released Wednesday among 11,000 pages of papers from her yearsas first lady. Full Story
Top
China tightens grip in Tibetan areas
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:59 pm PDT
AP - China acknowledged for the first time Thursday that anti-government riots that
rockedTibet last week have spread to other provinces, while communist authorities announcedthe
first group of arrests in connection with the violence. Full Story Top
What will steady shaky financial system?
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - After months of wrenching upheaval in financial
markets, the system hasn't self-destructedbut it also hasn't stabilized. Full Story Top
Study details effects of prostate cancer
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:06 pm PDT
AP - One of the first large quality-of-life studies on today's prostate cancer
treatmentssuggests that for some men, it's a matter of picking your poison and facing
potentialsexual, urinary or other problems. Full Story Top
Sturdy cars make it harder for rescuers
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:54 am PDT
AP - Capt. Clint Roberts makes his living cutting accident victims out of hideously
mangledvehicles, but even he could hardly believe it when two people in a 2007 midsize carsurvived
a head-on crash with a full-sized pickup last year. Full Story Top


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