Interesting links for Wednesday, October 17th
By dailyupdate on Oct 17, 2007 in periodic updates
- Drug-Resistant Staph Germ’s Toll Is Higher Than Thought - The microbe, a strain of a once innocuous staph bacterium that has become invulnerable to first-line antibiotics
- Tale of Outlaw Racing, With the U.S. as a Course - …New York to Los Angeles in 31 hours 4 minutes. He said he recorded an average speed of 90.1 m.p.h. over a mapped route of 2,794 miles.
- Man Reportedly Fathers 6 Children With 6 Different Women - No, I be concubining,” Lackey responded, meaning he lives with women he is not married to.
- Senate approves $150B in war funding - Senate Democrats on Monday helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Bush Veotes Child Health Plan - President Bush, in a confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children’s health insurance.
