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THE BULLETIN BOARD of DOOM
From Mudd, Stiles & The Heath Monitor Files
Recently,
members of the public were asked what biodiversity is. The most common
answer was "some kind of washing powder". [BBC News]
Winnebago,
one of the top manufacturers of recreational vehicles, posted stronger
than expected quarterly profits on Thursday. The company said its
results were lifted by increased motor home deliveries, "particularly
in the Class A category," which can sell for as much as $300,000 each.
INTERNET ACCESS ON MT EVERIST!!
A
U.N.-backed study this month said global environmental damage caused
by human activity in 2008 totaled $6.6 trillion, equivalent to 11
percent of global gross domestic product. [MSNBC]
According to his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, Mr. Obama is not particularly fond of the presidential retreat at Camp David. Mrs. Obama reports that her husband, a longtime resident of Chicago, is more at ease in an urban setting.
Tanzania's
president, Jaka-ya Kikwete, plans to build a national highway straight
through the Serengeti park, bisecting the migration route and possibly
sending a thick stream of overloaded trucks and speeding buses
through the traveling herds.
Scientists
and conservation groups paint a grim picture of what could happen
next: rare animals like rhinos getting knocked down as roadkill;
fences going up; invasive seeds sticking to car tires and being spread
throughout the park; the migration getting blocked and the entire
ecosystem becoming irreversibly damaged.
New York Times
Researchers
at MIT, whose work is reported by National Geographic, used a computer
model to track plane emissions through the atmosphere. They noted
where the emissions were likely to fall and then linked them to human
deaths. They tabulated that around 10,000 deaths per year can be blamed
on airplane pollution. [AOL News]
"Hope & change"
WASHINGTON
- The Obama administration failed to act upon or fully inform the
public of its own worst-case estimates of the amount of oil gushing
from the blown-out BP well, slowing response efforts and keeping the
American people in the dark for weeks about the size of the disaster,
according to preliminary reports from the presidential commission
investigating the accident. NY Times
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