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• States remove local barriers to eco-friendly homes
  USA Today-- Laws supersede homeowners groups that restrict solar or wind technology. [Read more]
• Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit
  N.Y. Times--With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead. [Read more]
• Families will make case for vaccine link to autism
  Washington Post--Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine as they take their case to a federal court. [Read more]
• British birds adapt to global warming
  L.A. Times--Great tits adjust their breeding season so that chicks hatch when winter moth caterpillars -- their main food source -- are most plentiful, long-term research shows. [Read more]
• Peregrine falcons in California's urban areas are contaminated with toxic chemicals
  L.A. Times--The birds were endangered by DDT in the '70s. Now, scientists have found that falcons in cities including Los Angeles contain record-high levels of flame retardant. [Read more]
• Gray wolf protection lawsuit to move forward
  L.A. Times--A Montana judge refuses a delay that the federal government requested. [Read more]
• Burma Faces 'Public Health Catastrophe,' Charity Says
  Washington Post--An estimated 1.5 million Burmese are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned. [Read more]
• Oil powered Norway gradually turns into the wind
  A.P.--As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition. [Read more]
• Piece of Missing Cosmic Matter Found
  SPACE.com--Astronomers have found a piece of the universe's puzzle that's been missing for awhile: a type of extremely hot, dense matter that is all but invisible to us. [Read more]
• Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
  Wired--Information from a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003 has been recovered. [Read more]
• US Offering to help China in fight against viral infection
  AP- The US is offering to help China in its fight against a viral infection that has killed 34 children and sickened thousands others. [Read more]
• China, Tibet, and the strategic power of water
  Circle of Blue- Management of the Tibetan plateau's supply of freshwater is becoming the center of increasing political strife between China and Tibet. [Read more]
• Think Again: The cost of Enforced Sexual Ignorance
  American Progress- An extensive investigation into the Texas' abstinence-only education. [Read more]
• Gray wolf protection lawsuit to move forward
  LA Times- A federal judge has rejected the government's request to delay a lawsuit seeking to place the gray wolf back on the endangered species list. [Read more]
• Peregrine falcons in California's urban areas are contaminated with toxic chemicals
  LA Times- Peregrine falcons in the LA area are contaminated with record-high levels of toxic chemicals that may threaten their existence. [Read more]
• Planes fly more, emit less greenhouse gases
  USA Today- The US aviation industry has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13% since 2000. [Read more]
• Group Urges FDA to Take Contraceptive Off Market
  NY Times- The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has petitioned to pull the birth control patch "Ortho-Evra" off the market calling it far riskier than the pill. [Read more]
• Armstrong urges Congress to renew war on cancer
  AP- Lance Armstrong urged Congress to renew the nation's war on cancer. [Read more]
• Presidential Candidates Have Little Opportunity to Talk about Education
  US News and World Report- As other issues draw attention, education policy has been ignored in the presidential campaigns. [Read more]
• Congressional Panel Considers Call for More Female Science Professors
  The Chronicle of Higher Education- A draft bill by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson would promote workshops "to increase awareness of implicit gender bias in grant review, hiring, tenure, promotion and selection for other honors based on merit." [Read more]
• Bush's signature gives go-ahead for Platte recovery plan
  Rocky Mountain News- President Bush has signed the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008. [Read more]
• Smith talks science
  Gering Courier- Rep. Adrian Smith talk about domestic energy production, and the need for hydro, nuclear and coal energy. [Read more]
• New rule would limit insurers contact with elderly, disabled
  AP- Under a proposed federal rule, agents selling private health insurance plans would no longer be able to cold call the elderly and disabled. [Read more]
• Bush's reading program doesn't pass
  LA Times- The Reading First program in the No Child Left Behind Act has not helped young children read better. [Read more]
• Durbin Assails Energy Department on FutureGen Project
  Congress Daily- Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin criticized the motives for restructuring the FutureGen clean coal energy project. [Read more]