Reuters - Inflation accelerated in June to its
fastest rate since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005
while workers' earnings slumped, compounding the stagflationary
dilemma facing the Federal Reserve.
LiveScience.com - On fields of dreams, the duel between the batter and the pitcher at
times assumes aspects of humiliation and farce. And never more so than
when a batter misses a pitch, swinging so forcefully as to nearly
sprain something. The culprit in such cases is usually either a rising
fastball or a so-called drop curveball. -- read full article
AP - Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday.
AP - The first archaeological dig at one of the nation's oldest cathedrals has turned up a mix of new finds in the heart of the French Quarter. Discoveries behind St. Louis Cathedral include a small silver crucifix from the 1770s or 1780s and traces of previously unknown buildings dating back to around the city's founding in 1718.
Reuters - Oil steadied on Wednesday, after a sharp fall the previous session on expectations that a faltering economy in top energy consumer the United States would hit demand growth.
AP - Three Chinese citizens were arrested Wednesday at Nairobi's international airport carrying dozens of pieces of ivory, including chopsticks, bracelets and carved figurines. -- read full article
AFP - The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.
Reuters - Some U.S. weather forecasting models
suggested a high pressure ridge would move into the western
Midwest by late July which could mean hot and dry weather when
corn is in the midst of pollination, meteorologists said
Wednesday. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Artificial wombs and experiments on human embryos grown in the lab will be commonplace and no big deal ethically in 30 years, several scientists predict. -- read full article
AFP - Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station made a new space walk to finish off work begun during an earlier operation last week, the Russian space centre said.
AP - Bulldozers worked Tuesday to reopen roads and clear tons of mud left by flash floods after thunderstorms unleashed downpours on mountain slopes burned bare by California wildfires. -- read full article
AP - Use of radioactive materials has been suspended and worker training is being reassessed following a plutonium spill at the Boulder, Colo., laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the agency's deputy director told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday. -- read full article
