1,360 experts in 95 nations Report: Human Damage to Earth Worsening Fast

Yahoo! News: "More land was changed to cropland since 1945, for instance, than in the 18th and 19th centuries combined"

Stunning.

"A wetland in Canada was worth $6,000 a hectare (2.47 acres), as a habitat for animals and plants, a filter for pollution, a store for water and a site for human recreation, against $2,000 if converted to farmland, it said. A Thai mangrove was worth $1,000 a hectare against $200 as a shrimp farm."

Penny wise...

Film Article | Reuters.com

" it will be the first 'Star Wars' that's a PG-13"

....maturing with the audience that grew up with it? Seems more credible than pimping jar jar and ewoks.

AlterNet: War on Iraq: "Going to War with the Army You Have"

AlterNet: War on Iraq: "Going to War with the Army You Have": "If a product is not selling well, for example, an engineering organization might conclude that better engineering of the product was in order; a manufacturing firm, that more efficient production technology was needed; and a marketing company, that better advertising would do the trick. This sort of organizational idee fixe has led to some truly horrendous failures in business and military history."

Ummm....this is bleak

US urges Opec not to cut oil production in face of $60/barrel prices.

Energy Secretary Bodman has "...a lot of things on my plate".

Our Energy Secretary sounds like and utter buffoon here. Slanted? Perhaps. Though it is from a Reuters feed.
The Reuters article is not quite so stinging, but still embarassing.