Is commercial real estate the next shoe to drop?
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The risk to the economy is unknown, but likely underestimated in the government's stress test of 19 major banks. The results released last week projected that should the recession worsen, the losses from commercial real estate loans could h...
Comprehensive genetic study paves way for new blood-pressure medicines
EurekAlert!
( Uppsala University ) Eight previously unknown genes that affect blood pressure were recently identified in a comprehensive international study comprising 34,433 Europeans. The findings of the study, in which Uppsala University researchers...
'Quit heckling back and forth please'
Globe and Mail
That prompted an outcry from the Conservatives to which an unknown Liberal voice yelled: "Why aren't you doing anything then?" Then a Conservative, also unknown, yelled back: "What would YOU do?" The Bloc's Gilles Duceppe was on about green...
Number of gun owners without licences 'unknown'
radionz
Police admit they they have no idea how many unlicensed gun owners there are in this country, in the wake of revelations the gunman at the centre of the Napier siege had at least 18 firearms in his home. Jan Molenaar, 51, shot and killed Se...
In a Lab, an Ever-Growing Database of DNA Profiles
New York Times
At that point, the lab may use another form of genetic material, mitochondrial DNA.But mitochondrial DNA passes only from the mother, making it less helpful for identifying unknown suspects. In addition to speeding up DNA typing, the roboti...
Reports of Suu Kyi's Health Raise Concerns
Wall Street Journal
Suu Kyi has also been deprived of the services of her primary physician, who was detained last week by the government on unspecified charges and whose whereabouts are still unknown, Zin Linn said. Attempts to reach the Myanmar government, w...
Cause of Hugo siren activation still unknown
KAAL Austin
Authorities still aren't sure what caused tornado sirens to sound in Hugo on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 5. Even though there was no weather warning in place, the sirens sounded just after 1 p.m. and one stayed on for more than 30 minutes...
Chinese herdsmen abandon pasture after invasion of unknown worms
People's Daily
About 20,000 heads of livestock and 50 families of herdsmen have been forced this week to leave a grassland in Usu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, after an invasion of unknown worms. The worms, with a density of up to 3...
Luggage Container Sucked into Airplane Engine at LAX
LAist
Whoa! A luggage container was "drawn" into an engine of a Japan Airlines jet as it pushed from its gate at LAX at approximately 1:30 p.m. The plane was immediately grounded and the 245 passengers safely departed back into the terminal as au...
Extra, Extra
Gothamist
Photo taken on Broadway by Kesnerster on flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap : a missing child on Bedford Ave in Brooklyn, a crime scene at W 56th St and 7th Ave in Manhattan and a school bus incident at 80th St and Park Ln in Queens. Five US...
Tony Avella Looks Forward to Running Against Bloomberg
The New York Observer
Tony Avella, a councilman from Queens who is unknown to most New York voters, is delighted by the decreasingly ridiculous-sounding prospect of being the unchallenged Democratic nominee to take on Mike Bloomberg for mayor. "I made a predicti...
New imaging technique reveals structural changes in Tourette's
EurekAlert!
Magnetization transfer imaging has been used to visualize previously unknown alterations in the cerebral architecture of patients with Tourette's syndrome. The researchers, writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience, also found a c...
City officer charged in connection with road rage incident
Baltimore Sun
As The Sun reported at the time, unknown assailants ambushed Cirello as he got out of his patrol car in Patterson Park on Sept. 7, 2006, shooting him twice in the chest at close range. Police said body armor saved him from serious injury or...
