These are some interesting (IMHO) news items - some interesting reading for Friday.
--- Scientists Build Virus from Scratch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Using only a genetic map as a guide, U.S. researchers said on Thursday they had built a polio virus from scratch and used it to infect and paralyze lab mice. It is the closest anyone has yet come to creating life in a test tube -- although scientists deny a virus, which is not a living cell but which can replicate itself, is alive in the same way a bacterium, a plant, or a human being is. Nonetheless, it has genetic material like all other life. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20020711_470.html --- Californians Actually Fry Egg On Sidewalk PLEASANT HILL, Calif. -- It's no yolk -- you really could fry an egg on the sidewalk in Pleasant Hill, Calif. Wednesday, a group of sweaty folks decided to see if they could cook an egg in their baking Northern California community. First, they broke an egg straight on the pavement. Nothing happened. Then, they tried a different approach. They put a frying pan on the pavement for a few minutes. When they cracked an egg in it, the pan started sizzling and the egg cooked. No word, though, if they also tried frying some bacon for their sidewalk meal. http://www.mycfnow.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-155460620020711-150733.html --- Sesame Street to introduce HIV-positive muppet NEW YORK - Sesame Street will soon introduce its first HIV-positive Muppet character to children of South Africa, where one in nine people have the virus that can lead to AIDS. The upbeat female Muppet will join ''Takalani Sesame'' on Sept. 30 for its third season on the South African Broadcasting Corp. The character -- which has yet to have a name or final color or form -- will travel to many if not all of the eight other nations that air versions of the educational children's show that began in the United States in 1969, said Joel Schneider, vice president and senior adviser to the Sesame Street Workshop. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0711ENTERTAINMENT-LIFE-SESAMESTREET-DC.html --- Sniper record set in Afganistan - U.S. bullets help Canadian snipers set world record A world-record killing shot by a Canadian sniper detachment in Afghanistan could never have been made with the ammunition they were issued when they left Edmonton last winter, the triggerman said in a recent interview. The Canadian .50-calibre rounds have a maximum range of between 2,200 and 2,300 metres. But the U.S. rounds, they discovered, "fly farther, faster," said Cpl. "Bill", a 26-year-old native of Fogo Island, Nfld. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026143313994&call_pa ge=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World --- Clinton has fun with Nike condom FORMER US president Bill Clinton has stolen the show at the world AIDS conference after laughingly conjuring up the idea of condoms brandishing the Nike logo. Clinton took part in a "town hall forum" of present and former world leaders who aired their views about the global AIDS crisis in Barcelona, Spain. He was jokingly urged by the meeting's Thai moderator to encourage the US sportswear maker Nike to start marketing its own contraceptive to help promote anti-HIV practices among the young. "If in fact Nike got into the condom business, someone would have a field day with their logo," Clinton quipped. http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,4690194%5E401,00.html ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
