That, says Stephen Gardner, staff lawyer for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, is exactly the problem. In an age of soaring obesity rates among children, he argues that soda and other sugary beverages are harmful to students' health and that selling those drinks in schools sends a message that their regular consumption is perfectly fine.

In a lawsuit they plan to file in the next few months, Mr. Gardner and half a dozen other lawyers, several of them veterans of successful tobacco litigation, will seek to ban sales of sugary beverages in schools.

Lines Are Drawn for Big Suit Over Sodas

As NASA prepares to once again send humans to the surface of the Moon, Russia is also developing its own plans for future manned spaceflight.

The country's Clipper project to develop a six-person spacecraft to deliver astronauts into Earth orbit, and potentially beyond, appears in some ways to be the Russian Federal Space Agency's answer to NASA's Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV).

Russia's Next Spaceship: Alternative to NASA's CEV

"Today is the last day of winter," begins one of nearly 300 poems surreptitiously carved in Chinese characters by detainees on the walls.

Make sure to check out the picture.

Poetic Justice for a Feared Immigrant Stop

Why are so many people turning to Fecalgram.com when they need a gift for that "Special Someone"? Because we send 100% natural, freshly squeezed, human-made turds to anyone in America completely anonymously. Guaranteed.

Once again, I'm a visionary.

Poop flinging has evolved.

Taiwanese electronics maker AOpen plans to launch an updated version of a small desktop PC that closely resembles Apple Computer's Mac mini but runs the Microsoft Windows operating system and will carry Intel's latest dual-core microprocessors for mobile devices.

AOpen Readies Yonah-Based Mini PC

NBC Universal has begun selling downloadable television shows, from ``Law & Order'' to ``The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,'' on Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes store, the companies said on Tuesday in the latest attempt by a major network to reach beyond the traditional TV audience.

NBC, Following ABC, Will Sell Programs on iTunes

Abstract

Recent announcements of better-than-expected collision attacks in
popular hash algorithms have caused some people to question whether
common Internet protocols need to be changed, and if so, how. This
document summarizes the use of hashes in many protocols, discusses
how the collision attacks affect and do not affect the protocols,
shows how to thwart known attacks on digital certificates, and
discusses future directions for protocol designers.

RFC 4270: Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes in Internet Protocols

XCOR's EZ-Rocket flew into the history books today. The craft made a record-setting point-to-point flight, departing here from the Mojave California Spaceport, gliding to a touchdown at a neighboring airport in California City.

XCOR Rocket Plane Soars into Record Book

NASA is leaning toward flying its next space shuttle mission without the protective foam ramp that broke away from Discovery's external tank during its July return to flight, according to a spokesman for the U.S. space agency.

NASA Likely To Fly Next Shuttle Sans Foam Ramp

Xen 3.0.0 offers:

* Support for up to 32-way SMP guest operating systems
* Intel (Physical Addressing Extensions) PAE to support 32-bit servers with more than 4GB physical memory
* x86/64 support (Intel EM64T, AMD Opteron)
* Intel VT-x support to enable the running of unmodified guest operating systems (Windows XP/2003, Legacy Linux)
* Enhanced control tools
* Improved ACPI support
* AGP/DRM graphics

Xen 3.0 features greatly enhanced hardware support, configuration flexibility, usability and a larger complement of supported operating systems. This latest release takes Xen a step closer to being the definitive open source solution for virtualization.

The VT support is huge -- on a new enough CPU, you can run unmodified Windows/... in a Xen domain!

Xen 3.0 Released