World’s top scientists to review climate panel (AP)

AP – At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world’s most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations’ Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel.

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella (AP)

AP – As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.

Outside science academies to review warming panel (AP)

AP – The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports.

NASA: Money key to more space shuttle flights (AP)

AP – With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn’t be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to keep paying $200 million a month.

As Chile shook, cities rolled to the west a bit (AP)

AP – The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit.

GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging (AP)

AP – General Electric Co. on Monday proposed halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup.

Metal From Hip Implants Passed on to Babies (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com – Some moms might pass more than genetics to their newborns.
Doctors found three babies born to women with hip implants had high levels of
chromium and cobalt in their umbilical cord blood – metals that had worn off
the implants.

China, India give qualified nod to climate deal (AP)

AP – China joined India on Tuesday in giving qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Arms, energy to dominate Russia’s Putin India trip (Reuters)

Reuters – Russian Premier Vladimir Putin will offer a traditional cocktail of arms and oil deals when he travels to India on Thursday to persuade a Cold War ally to buy new weapons amid rising competition with the United States.

NASA: Space Shuttles Could Fly Longer With Extra Funds (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – WASHINGTON – The chief of NASA’s space shuttle program said
Tuesday that the agency could technically continue to fly its three aging
orbiters beyond their planned 2010 retirement if ordered to do so by President
Barack Obama and lawmakers. All it would take would be the extra funding needed
to pay for it.

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