http://www.ey3news.com/content/topic_000023_page.shtml Updated with the latest news for Science and Technology en-gb Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:06:44 EST Copyright: (C) Ey3News.com, see http://www.ey3news.com/terms_and_conditions.shtml for terms and conditions of reuse http://www.ey3news.com/ http://www.ey3news.com/images/icons/ey3news_logo_rss.gif http://www.ey3news.com Astronaut Scott Kelly is never one to mince words, and there is no doubt he is not very happy about the rumors that NASA astronauts have mixed alcohol and rocket fuel, so to speak. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219761 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219761 2007-08-10 18:01:49 They met as part of a NASA program to recognize their under-appreciated profession. They bonded in grief when Christa McAuliffe, the first Teacher in Space, perished with six colleagues in the Challenger explosion in 1986. This week, they are together again. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219762 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219762 2007-08-10 18:01:49 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219763 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219763 2007-08-10 18:01:49 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219764 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219764 2007-08-10 18:01:49 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219765 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219765 2007-08-10 18:01:49 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219766 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219766 2007-08-10 18:01:49 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219767 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219767 2007-08-10 18:01:49 At least twice, NASA astronauts were allowed to fly drunk despite warnings from doctors and colleagues that they posed a flight safety risk, according to a report described Friday in Aviation Week. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219768 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219768 2007-08-10 18:01:49 An explosion at an airport home to Scaled Composites -- the builder of the first private manned rocket to reach space -- killed two people and left four seriously hurt Thursday, a Kern County Fire Department official says. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219769 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219769 2007-08-10 18:01:49 The American Association for the Advancement of Science calls it a crisis. Atmospheric scientist Timothy L. Killeen, the president of the American Geophysical Union, says it "could harm our ability to protect our citizens." We call it plain old scary. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219770 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219770 2007-08-10 18:01:49 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219751 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219751 2007-08-10 18:01:48 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219752 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219752 2007-08-10 18:01:48 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219753 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219753 2007-08-10 18:01:48 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219754 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219754 2007-08-10 18:01:48 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219755 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219755 2007-08-10 18:01:48 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219756 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219756 2007-08-10 18:01:48 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219757 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219757 2007-08-10 18:01:48 Michael Sturtz is that rare speed freak who hates the idea of spitting carbon into the air. So he built a biodiesel motorcycle -- a really, really fast one. Sturtz and his team at the Crucible, an industrial-arts group in Oakland, California, started with a BMW diesel car engine and fitted it to an old motorcycle. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219758 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219758 2007-08-10 18:01:48 Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed to space Wednesday evening, carrying teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan and her six crewmates. Morgan has been waiting 22 years for her flight. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219759 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219759 2007-08-10 18:01:48 Read full story for latest details. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219760 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219760 2007-08-10 18:01:48 A SURGE in demand for grouse moors could reverse the decline of shooting estates in Scotland, helping both the environment and the struggling rural economy, it was claimed yesterday. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219579 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219579 2007-08-10 18:01:39 THE world is warming up faster than at any time in the past 100 years, according to a global climate forecast that reveals Britain will be 0.3C hotter by 2014. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219580 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219580 2007-08-10 18:01:39 BRITISH tourists were injured when their sightseeing boat was rocked by a huge wave triggered by chunks of ice breaking off a glacier in the Arctic. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219581 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219581 2007-08-10 18:01:39 MOST householders probably feel the odd twinge of guilt when they put their black bin bags of non-recycled rubbish out in the morning - but not the residents of Lerwick. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219582 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219582 2007-08-10 18:01:39 RESEARCHERS who have been studying the role aspirin can play in fighting bowel cancer have today been given a funding boost. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219583 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219583 2007-08-10 18:01:39 SCIENTISTS have found the "Homer hormone" which controls our desire for food and leaves the Simpsons character salivating uncontrollably at the mention of doughnuts. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219584 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219584 2007-08-10 18:01:39 ANTIOXIDANT overload may underlie diseases such as congenital heart failure and Alzheimer's, a study has shown. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219585 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219585 2007-08-10 18:01:39 INVENTORS are filing more patents than ever before, with Japan and the US receiving almost half of the 1.66 million registrations annually. For 2005, some 427,000 patent applications were filed in Japan, 390,000 in the US and 173,000 in China. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219586 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219586 2007-08-10 18:01:39 RECORD numbers of people are developing "avoidable cancers" because of their lifestyle, despite warnings. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219587 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219587 2007-08-10 18:01:39 IT IS the iconic image of human evolution: the gradual transformation over millions of years of an ape-like creature into a tall, modern-day human. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219588 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219588 2007-08-10 18:01:39 PEOPLE who cope well with stress can cut their risk of having a stroke by almost a quarter, research has shown. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219589 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219589 2007-08-10 18:01:39 SCIENTISTS have discovered the universe's largest known planet, a giant ball made mostly of hydrogen that is 20 times bigger than Earth. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219590 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219590 2007-08-10 18:01:39 Switch in food supply makes for desperate future, writes MARTYN McLAUGHLIN http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219591 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219591 2007-08-10 18:01:39 A MISTAKE in a letter sent to pupils by Scotland's exam body contributed to thousands of teenagers receiving their results late, it has emerged. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219592 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219592 2007-08-10 18:01:39 A FRESHWATER dolphin species has been declared extinct after desperate efforts to rescue it came too late. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219593 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219593 2007-08-10 18:01:39 Bright virtual pages, with advantages like weight, capacity and a built-in reading light, are gradually drawing readers from paper books, one of the last holdouts against digitization. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219381 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219381 2007-08-10 18:01:34 Was the "3G for All" campaign to promote the production of an inexpensive third-generation cellphone missing the point about why most people still use their phones only to talk and send text messages? http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219382 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219382 2007-08-10 18:01:34 Internet radio stations offer an endless smorgasbord of audio entertainment. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219383 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219383 2007-08-10 18:01:34 Its growth is accelerating as customers buy faster network equipment to handle applications such as online video. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219384 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219384 2007-08-10 18:01:34 The cellphone giant Vodafone Group said that it had decided not to sell part of its 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219385 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219385 2007-08-10 18:01:34 The chip maker must pay its competitor Broadcom license fees for the use of power management technology. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219386 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219386 2007-08-10 18:01:34 The ruling in an MP3 patent case by a U.S. district court judge in San Diego is a major setback to Alcatel-Lucent, whose lawsuit against Microsoft had produced the largest judgment ever in a patent infringement case. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219387 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219387 2007-08-10 18:01:34 The company on Tuesday started its Garage Sale service on Facebook. Unlike eBay, which charges sellers a listing and final transaction fee, Buy.com has a flat 5 percent commission for the items users post and sell on their profile pages. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219388 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219388 2007-08-10 18:01:34 New sites are using tools similar to Facebook and Wikipedia to let people share consumer advice, compare investment strategies and even loan one another money. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219389 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219389 2007-08-10 18:01:34 The potential of new streaming video services - fast, full screen and in sharp resolution - is unleashing a torrent of movies and television shows, much of it aimed at narrowly defined audiences that cannot find niche programming - even on cable systems with 500 or more channels. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219390 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219390 2007-08-10 18:01:34 Motorola's new Talkabout two-way radios advance communication by broadcasting emergency alerts through the handset as well. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219391 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219391 2007-08-10 18:01:34 Sky's challengers in the battle for TV football fans are offering an increasingly flexible service, says Matt Warman. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219092 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219092 2007-08-10 18:01:20 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219093 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219093 2007-08-10 18:01:20 What will it mean for the mobile market if Google launches its own mobile phone? http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219095 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003219095 2007-08-10 18:01:20 The move is seen by many to be part of the industry’s wider push to increase competition to iTunes and shift leverage away from Apple. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218586 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218586 2007-08-10 18:01:08 Second Life is a Web site that gives thousands a chance to build online houses that are Architectural Digest-style fantasies. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218587 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218587 2007-08-10 18:01:08 The Universal Music Group said on Wednesday that it had acquired a stake in the operator of the urban social networking Web site Loud.com. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218588 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218588 2007-08-10 18:01:08 The former general counsel of Grand Theft Auto maker Take-Two was sentenced to three years of probation for his role in the company’s options backdating woes. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218589 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218589 2007-08-10 18:01:08 Sprint Nextel managed to beat Wall Street expectations despite a sharp drop in second quarter profits. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218590 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218590 2007-08-10 18:01:08 After reporting a strong second quarter, Cablevision trimmed its 2007 outlook for cable TV subscribers and revenue. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218591 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218591 2007-08-10 18:01:08 The case of a former Brocade Communications executive was the first stock options backdating case to go to trial. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218592 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218592 2007-08-10 18:01:08 The company said its fiscal fourth-quarter profit climbed to $1.9 billion, or 31 cents per share, from $1.5 billion, or 25 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218593 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218593 2007-08-10 18:01:08 If successful, the deal would help Lenovo quickly capture market share in a region where it is ranked sixth and is barely profitable. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218594 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218594 2007-08-10 18:01:08 The company unveiled a line of slimmer desktop computers on Tuesday, positioning it for the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218595 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218595 2007-08-10 18:01:08 A federal district court judge delivered a major setback to Alcatel-Lucent by setting aside a jury’s judgment against Microsoft in a patent infringement lawsuit over digital music technology. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218596 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218596 2007-08-10 18:01:08 The Bush administration on Monday let stand an earlier ruling that requires Qualcomm to pay licensing fees to its competitor Broadcom. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218597 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218597 2007-08-10 18:01:08 The National Music Publishers’ Association said it would join a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google’s video-sharing site YouTube. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218598 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218598 2007-08-10 18:01:08 UltraSPARC T2, the new chip, is twice as fast as the previous generation and will be available this year. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218599 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218599 2007-08-10 18:01:08 The Softbank Corporation, the Japanese mobile phone company, posted an eighteenfold increase in first-quarter profit after adding users at a pace twice that of the market leader, NTT DoCoMo. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218600 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218600 2007-08-10 18:01:08 Skyrocketing farmland prices are stirring optimism, but for young and small-scale farmers, the news is grim. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218538 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218538 2007-08-10 18:01:07 Scientists, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are becoming increasingly interested in making more than fuel out of the raw materials for biodiesel fuel and ethanol. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218539 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218539 2007-08-10 18:01:07 New York’s municipal native-plant nursery is part of a global project to collect and store seeds from 10 percent of the world’s flowering 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http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218543 2007-08-10 18:01:07 Gregory Clark believes that the Industrial Revolution occurred because of a change in the nature of the human population. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218544 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218544 2007-08-10 18:01:07 The biggest name-dropper in science, Albert Einstein, mentioned God often enough that one could imagine he and the “Old One” had a standing date for coffee or tennis. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218545 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218545 2007-08-10 18:01:07 Aging spans may be troubled, but more recent ones are longer and stronger thanks to new ideas and technologies. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218546 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218546 2007-08-10 18:01:07 A new report suggests that pterosaurs probably were incapable of skimming behavior. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218547 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218547 2007-08-10 18:01:07 Is it true that airport taxiways are lined with blue lights because blue light can be seen from the longest distance? http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218548 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218548 2007-08-10 18:01:07 A federal judge ordered the Navy to stop using medium-range sonar in training exercises, citing a prediction that marine mammals could be harmed. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218549 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218549 2007-08-10 18:01:07 The latest puzzle to be cleared up about Saturn’s rings involves the origin of one of the outermost ones, a thin, faint one labeled G. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218550 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218550 2007-08-10 18:01:07 Yellowstone is home to elk and bison, wolf and beaver, eagle and hawk — and a newly discovered light-harvesting bacterium. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218551 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218551 2007-08-10 18:01:07 The commander of the space shuttle mission scheduled to be launched on Tuesday sent a letter saying that reports of alcohol use by astronauts had been exaggerated. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218552 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218552 2007-08-10 18:01:07 Profiles of the seven members of STS-118, which will bring structural elements up to the International Space Station and carry on the process of building the station. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218553 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218553 2007-08-10 18:01:07 A brief but fierce storm paralyzed the city’s transit system Wednesday, and some problems could last into today. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218497 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218497 2007-08-10 18:01:06 As in a 2004 storm, officials blamed overwhelmed pumps and the city’s sewers for crippling the subway system. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218498 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218498 2007-08-10 18:01:06 The storm included a Category 2 tornado in Brooklyn, the first tornado recorded in the borough since record-keeping began in 1950. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218499 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218499 2007-08-10 18:01:06 A survey of the nearly 1,000 readers comments that were posted throughout the day on City Room, a news blog at nytimes.com. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218500 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218500 2007-08-10 18:01:06 The lone survivor of a schoolyard shooting that left three college students dead on Saturday night has identified a suspect in a photo array. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218501 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218501 2007-08-10 18:01:06 A 20-year-old woman whose body was found in a Greenwich Village apartment on Sunday was strangled and smothered with a towel. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218502 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218502 2007-08-10 18:01:06 The case in a plot to blow up fuel tanks at Kennedy International Airport is working its way through Federal District Court in Brooklyn and the courts in Trinidad. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218503 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218503 2007-08-10 18:01:06 Asians were the only major racial or ethnic group to record population gains in every county in the New York metropolitan region since 2005. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218504 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218504 2007-08-10 18:01:06 Three weeks after the steam blast outside Grand Central Terminal, many businesses remain closed and are losing money. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218505 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218505 2007-08-10 18:01:06 All murder is awful, but, in truth, not all murders are created equal. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218506 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218506 2007-08-10 18:01:06 Even lifelong New Yorkers were struck by the scale of the subway service failures after the storm. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218507 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218507 2007-08-10 18:01:06 The supplier of the epoxy that federal officials have blamed for the collapse of a Big Dig tunnel was indicted in the death of a woman crushed by ceiling panels. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218508 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218508 2007-08-10 18:01:06 The State Commission of Investigation said that it would suspend its review of actions by aides to Gov. Eliot Spitzer involving the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, until the Albany County district attorney completed his own inquiry. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218509 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218509 2007-08-10 18:01:06 A Jamaica man who fatally shot his father and his brother in 2002 was sentenced yesterday in State Supreme Court to life in prison without parole, prosecutors said. The man, James Seecoomar, 38, was convicted of first-degree murder in February, said Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney. Mr. Brown said Mr. Seecoomar, a deli worker, shot his brother, Leonard, 35, in the back of the head with a revolver on March 27, 2002, as he watched television. When his father, James, 66, ran into the room, James Seecoomar shot him in the head and body, Mr. Brown said. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218510 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218510 2007-08-10 18:01:06 A North Bergen man was sentenced yesterday in Federal District Court to nearly 17 years in prison for robbing 10 banks in New York and New Jersey, prosecutors said. The man, Eduardo Quevedo, 44, was arrested on June 19, 2006, a day after robbing a Bank of America branch in North Bergen, said Christopher J. Christie, the United States attorney in New Jersey. When Mr. Quevedo was arrested, Mr. Christie said, federal agents seized an assault rifle, a handgun and ammunition. Mr. Quevedo admitted robbing 10 banks in 2005 and 2006 and was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months in prison. He was also ordered to repay more than $66,000, the amount taken in the robberies, prosecutors said. Compiled by John Sullivan. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218511 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218511 2007-08-10 18:01:06 Two computers stolen from Yale University last month contained the Social Security numbers of about 10,000 current and former students and about 200 faculty and staff members, university officials said yesterday. Yale officials said they had notified those affected, but had not received any reports that the data on the machines had been misused. The officials said the computers were password-protected, one by multiple password levels, which “would require considerable computer savvy to bypass.” The machines were stolen from a dean’s office on July 17. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218512 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218512 2007-08-10 18:01:06 A 22-year-old school aide has been arrested on charges of raping and sexually abusing an eighth-grade student, the office of the special commissioner of investigation said yesterday. The aide, Anthony Casey Jr., is accused of raping the student, a 13-year-old girl attending Lola Rodriguez de Tio Junior High School in the Bronx, twice in May, the commissioner’s office said, and at least one other time in June. Some of the rapes occurred at Mr. Casey’s Bronx apartment, the office said. Mr. Casey, who was suspended without pay, worked at the school for two years. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218513 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218513 2007-08-10 18:01:06 A driver who suffered a seizure just before a fatal car crash last year has been charged with falsely stating on his driver’s license renewal form that he did not have a medical condition that could cause unconsciousness, prosecutors said yesterday. The driver, Alexander Juwah, 44, a St. Albans psychiatrist, was charged yesterday in Criminal Court with offering a false instrument for filing, said Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney. Mr. Brown said Dr. Juwah suffered a blackout on Springfield Boulevard on Nov. 4, 2006, causing a multicar accident that killed three people and injured seven. Mr. Brown said Dr. Juwah knew that he suffered from a seizure disorder at the time he renewed his driver’s license. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218514 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218514 2007-08-10 18:01:06 James P. Molinaro, the Staten Island borough president, suffered a heart attack after a news conference yesterday and was hospitalized for surgery, his spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman, Pat Wilks, said that Mr. Molinaro, left, was resting comfortably at Staten Island University Hospital. He felt ill after a boardwalk news conference with Senator Charles E. Schumer and was driven to the hospital, she said. Mr. Molinaro, 76, a Conservative, began serving his first term as borough president in January 2002, succeeding Guy V. Molinari. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218515 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218515 2007-08-10 18:01:06 A Rider University student pleaded not guilty yesterday in State Superior Court to aggravated harassment in connection with the alcohol-related death of a college freshman in the spring. The student, Adriano DiDonato, 22, of Princeton, did not speak during his arraignment. Mr. DiDonato was charged after Gary DeVercelly, 18, of Long Beach, Calif., died after drinking at a fraternity party. The authorities said that Mr. DeVercelly had a blood alcohol level of 0.426 percent when he was pronounced dead on March 30. Mr. DiDonato was the residence director of the campus chapter of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, which has since been disbanded. Two school officials and two students have also been charged in connection with Mr. DeVercelly’s death. http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218516 http://www.ey3news.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?stid=0000000003218516 2007-08-10 18:01:06