A Pound of Paper : Confessions of a Book Addict

John Baxter

	A Pound of Paper : Confessions of a Book Addict
	Published: 11 December, 2003
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	Author: John Baxter

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A Pound of Paper : Confessions of a Book Addict

Researchers study mercury in the Great Salt Lake (AP)

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_sc/poisoned_lake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080808/capt.fd7f19ac389d470984ea9ceb7181f5a2.poisoned_lake_slc104.jpg?x=130&y=115&q=85&sig=e66bNlSIOPiPtGMdR5sj4w--" align="left" height="115" width="130" alt="U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Chris Cline marks a cinnamon teal duck egg with an identification number Monday, June 30, 2008, in the marshlands along the shore of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Eggs are then tested for mercury levels. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with toxic mercury.

Scientists create stem cells for 10 disorders (AP)

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_sc/sci_stem_cells_diseases"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080731/2008_07_31t141156_450x444_us_stemcells_nerves.jpg?x=130&y=128&q=85&sig=SEUM7W0UVJMOXcRfyY6DSA--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="Handout image shows a flow chart illustrating the process by which stem cell lines are generated directly from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. Ordinary skin cells taken from patients with ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, a fatal and incurable nerve disease, have been transformed into nerve cells in a first step toward treating them, U.S. researchers reported on July 31, 2008. (Kit Rodolfa/John Dimos/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Harvard scientists say they have created stems cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases develop in a lab dish.

2.5 million-year-old mastodon unearthed in Romania (AP)

AP - Miners in Romania have unearthed the skeleton of a 2.5 million-year-old mastodon, believed to be one of the best preserved in Europe, a local official said Friday.

California eyes cattails to combat climate change (AP)

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_bi_ge/farm_scene_cattail_farming"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080808/capt.317f3a4e3bac40c0aabf7f70e16a950c.troubled_delta_cattail_farming_fx101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.huB8BXsVAYYZjWmK7nkhw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, a field full of tules and cattails, left, is seen across a road from a cornfield on Wednesday, July 30, 2008, on Twitchell Island, near Rio Vista Calif. Twitchell and other delta islands are slowing sinking, their soil eaten away by wind, rain and farming. Most are more than 20 feet below the surrounding water. Only a system of increasingly pressured levees keeps them from being flooded. (AP Photo/USGS, Jim Nickles)" border="0" /></a>AP - On one side of the gravel road are hundreds of acres of corn. On the other is a different crop that scientists hope will enable farmers to rebuild sinking islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, combat global warming and make a profit at the same time.

The Reason More of Today's Scientists Hire Armed Guards (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - When Charles Darwin boarded the H.M.S. Beagle in 1831 as the ship's naturalist, he had only one challenge - to keep himself entertained for the next five years. His scientific assignment was to collect anything that crawled, swam or flew, and to keep track of all sorts of biological measures such as water temperature and currents. But really, boredom was the big problem.

Hurricane Hernan forms off Mexico's Pacific coast (AP)

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_tropical_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080808/capt.cps.nfl58.080808054734.photo00.photo.default-512x351.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=XIyQjgNH2CwwxOSNRlZ4GQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="File photo shows a Chinese farmer camping out beside a river after he evacuated from his flooded home in Chuhe. Eleven people were killed when a river in eastern China flooded after a severe tropical storm lashed part of the country, state media reported.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hurricane Hernan formed far off Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday and is expected to remain far from land, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Pilots' reports on low fuel (AP)

AP - The Aviation Safety Reporting System — a database maintained by NASA — has reports from pilots expressing safety concerns about airline directives pressuring them to fly with uncomfortably low fuel levels. NASA deletes names and other identifying information to encourage pilots, flight crews, dispatchers and others to identify safety problems, including their own mistakes.

Not just guns: Gazans smuggle lions into zoo (AP)

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_gaza_zoo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080808/capt.jrl11308082010.palestinians_gaza_zoo_jrl113.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=3UNt0UAPPaMaGlGFmxlBUA--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="African lion cubs are inside a cage at the 'Heaven of Birds and Animals Zoo' in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008. The zoo in Rafah, stocked almost entirely with smuggled animals, is a sign of Gaza's ever-expanding tunnel industry. Tunnel traders say dozens of passages snake the border, and have become a mainstay of the local economy, with each passage feeding about 35 families. (AP Photo/ Adel Hana)" border="0" /></a>AP - The monkeys and lions were drugged, tossed into cloth sacks and dragged through smuggling tunnels under the border between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip before ending up in a dusty Gaza zoo. Stocked almost entirely with smuggled animals, the "Heaven of Birds and Animals Zoo" is a sign of Gaza's ever-expanding tunnel industry.

Poland to open museum for cousin of T-Rex (Reuters)

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080806/sc_nm/poland_dinosaur_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080807/2008_08_06t130231_450x301_us_poland_dinosaur.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ocNwkB6Clfs3L._3xAJ3VQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Polish palaeontologist Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki holds up an excavated bone that will now need to be identified, in a brickyard in Lipie Slaskie, near Lisowice, southern Poland, August 5, 2008. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Poland opens a museum on Thursday to exhibit the remains of a previously unknown dinosaur, an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus Rex, which have attracted scientists from around the world to this small southern village.

Ask AP: Drilling for oil, the role of honeybees (AP)

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_us/ask_ap"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080808/capt.89ab45752a244a29b809dd6136d9ade1.ask_ap_ask102.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=w1fnTrueISVTwgEJIUsSgg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="In this Feb. 19, 1997 file photo, a speed limit sign stands tall on the median of Highway 395 North in Washoe Valley, Nev. A reader-submitted question about why the candidates and commentators aren't pushing the idea of a nationwide 55 mph speed limit is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called 'Ask AP.' (AP Photo/Nevada Appeal, K.M. Cannon, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's one of the central issues in the debate over U.S. energy policy — and, recently, in the presidential campaign: where oil companies should be allowed to drill.

Skin cells produce library of diseased stem cells (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. stem cell experts have produced a library of the powerful cells using ordinary skin and bone marrow cells from patients, and said on Thursday they would share them freely with other researchers.

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