The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

This edition was published on 04/24/10 at 9:57 a.m. [ Go to the front page ]

Home

About us

Our Team

Volunteer

Ways to help

Opinion

In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico, a boat with an oil boom tries to contain oil spilled from the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, approximately seven miles from where the rig sunk. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

Email_icon

Thousands march in Armenia to remember mass killings

Thousands marched in the Armenian capital on the eve of the 95th anniversary of Ottoman-era mass killings of Armenians and amid fresh tensions with Turkey over stalled peace efforts.

Email_icon

Montreal Gazette

Symbol_story

Turkey-Armenia relationship strains further

Email_icon

What the data crunchers know about you

How do companies know things about you? Because they’re becoming increasingly adept at using the mountains of credit card and other data they collect on you to predict how you’re likely to behave.

Email_icon

Toronto Star

Oil drilling injuries prompt safety rules

The U.S. Minerals and Management Service is developing regulations aimed at preventing human error, which it identified as a factor in many of the offshore oil drilling accidents in recent years.

Email_icon

Detroit News

Symbol_story

Ripple effects after an offshore oil rig explosion

Email_icon

TIME

Special section:

Deadly oil rig accidents

Email_icon

Associated Press

Symbol_slideshow

Ultimate oil rigs

Email_icon

National Geographic

Obama hails auto industry turnaround

President Barack Obama heralded signs of recovery at General Motors and Chrysler in his weekly radio address, saying their rescues show the need for the financial reform bill.

Email_icon

Detroit Free Press

Symbol_story

Auto industry fueling new regional growth

Email_icon

Chattanooga Times Free Press

Fixing Detroit: a laboratory for saving America's cities?

Detroit is a city in crisis, but it is hardly alone. From San Jose to Atlanta, cities are grappling with budgets that clearly show that the effects of this recession are far from over.

Email_icon

TIME

NATION

US military launches mystery space plane on secret mission

An unmanned Atlas rocket carrying a miniature space shuttle blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a technology test flight that could last as long as nine months.

Email_icon

CNN

Symbol_video

Blast off for X-37B military spaceplane

Email_icon

BBC

Bailout cost may total just $87 billion

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is telling Congress that the administration believes the final cost of the government's heavily criticized financial bailout effort could be as low as $87 billion.

Email_icon

Kansas City Star

White-collar crime floods Twin Cities

Authorities are accelerating investigations exposed by the credit crisis, and U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones said that he expects the housecleaning to continue.

Email_icon

Star Tribune

POLITICS

Toughest immigration law in US is signed

Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the toughest illegal immigration law in the country, aimed at identifying, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants.

Email_icon

Special section:

Timeline of US immigration policy

Email_icon

MSNBC

SEC staffers watched Internet porn as economy crashed

As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees cruised porn sites.

Email_icon

CNN

Democrats plan to introduce bill to blunt ruling on political spending

Democrats plan to introduce a bill to sharply limit foreign-connected companies' participation in U.S. politics and requiring greater transparency from corporations, unions and nonprofits buying ads.

Email_icon

Washington Post

HEALTH

Doctors praise 'world’s 1st full face transplant' operation

Surgeons said a 24-hour full face transplant operation, thought to be the most complex of its kind ever performed in the world, would enable the patient to live a "practically normal life."

Email_icon

Telegraph.co.uk

Symbol_video

Mom undergoes surgery to get new face

Email_icon

ABC News

Fatal fungus sparks fear

The new strain of the well-known Cryptococcus gattii fungus is "worrisome" because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people. But there's no need to sound the alarm, doctors say.

Email_icon

ABC News

Symbol_audio

Fungal disease spreads

Email_icon

NPR

Schools can dish out help in battling childhood obesity

Some schools are doing great things with school lunches, but an unrelenting focus on obesity can have a serious downside.

Email_icon

Denver Post

SPORTS

NCAA seals new deal with CBS, Turner for 68-team tournament

College basketball's signature event will grow to 68 teams from 65 in conjunction with a new 14-year, nearly $11 billion television agreement with CBS and Turner Sports.

Email_icon

USA TODAY

Clausen lands in Carolina; McCoy falls to Browns in 3rd round

Jimmy Clausen waited longer than anticipated to hear his name announced during the 2010 NFL Draft, as the Notre Dame quarterback was taken with the 48th overall pick by the Carolina Panthers.

Email_icon

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Green tech wilting under patent scrutiny

It's been a slow start for the U.S. Patent pilot program to fast-track the evaluation of patent applications for green technology, with the agency approving about one-third of the requests it has received.

Email_icon

Scientific American

Scientists create tiniest 3-D world map

IBM scientists working across three countries have created the smallest-ever 3D map of the world — so tiny that 1,000 maps could fit on a grain of salt.

Email_icon

Popular Science

Symbol_story

World's smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope is invented

Email_icon

ScienceDaily

Hubble team marks 20th birthday with a brand new view

The team behind the Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating the orbiting observatory's 20th birthday with a picture that shows a cosmic pillar of gas and dust piled high in the Carina Nebula.

Email_icon

MSNBC

Hubble turns 20, and it's still amazing

Email_icon

Houston Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Online comic books pull fans to the Web

The comic-book industry has begun to lurch away from print and toward a future where comics fans will consume them online.

Email_icon

Christian Science Monitor

Idol Gives Back a success for Fox, raising record donations

Fox's Idol Gives Back has raised a whopping $45 million for various charities that it funds including the Children’s Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More and Save the Children’s U.S. Programs.

Email_icon

Monsters and Critics

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Rachel Barrus, Ashley Nawn and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Hero dog brings help to burning home

Buddy the German shepherd was hailed as a hero for guiding Alaska State Troopers through winding back roads to a fire at his owners' workshop.

Email_icon

Hartford Courant

Symbol_video

Dog leads police to burning building

Email_icon

MSNBC

10,000 Jewish teens aim to improve world during day of service

Ten thousand Jewish teens from across North America, Europe and Israel will participate in a day of community service projects as they take part in J Serve, a National Day of Jewish Youth Service.

Email_icon

PNNOnline

Surgeries create a new life for Iraqi boy

Black hair covers the scars that disfigured Mohammed's head as an infant. He's grown nearly four inches, added 26 pounds to his once-undernourished frame and discovered a love of baseball.

Email_icon

Detroit News

WORLD

Mumbai's Oberoi hotel reopens after deadly 2008 attack

The Oberoi hotel, one of the best-known landmarks in Mumbai, is due to reopen — 18 months after being badly damaged when militants stormed the Indian city.

Email_icon

BBC

Tyranny of high expectations plague Shanghai expo

After an eight-year build-up, the final countdown is on for Shanghai's World Expo. Crowds and endless queues marked the $45 billion extravaganza's opening, but it's already receiving complaints.

Email_icon

NPR

BUSINESS

Other benefits for Goldman in subprime

Goldman Sachs Group may have used a subprime mortgage-linked security that is the focus of a U.S. civil fraud lawsuit against the bank to unload other complex bonds it created.

Email_icon

Reuters

Special section:

Goldman Sachs Group

Email_icon

Greek crisis overshadows IMF meeting

The debt crisis in Greece looks set to dominate a meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington.

Email_icon

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

A renewable energy debate heats up in the Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert in southeastern California is the mother lode of renewable energy. But the Mojave is also valuable to rare plants and animals and the people who want to protect them.

Email_icon

NPR

Department of Energy announces $200 million for solar and water power

Email_icon

Green Chip Stocks

College graduation to go green with eco-friendly caps and gowns

As colleges strive to go green, it’s getting harder to justify the waste generated amid the circumstance of commencement. Now they can walk the walk by ordering eco-friendly caps and gowns.

Email_icon

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

College students are Internet-addicted

American college students are hooked on cell phones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions.

Email_icon

MSNBC

Moms push for stronger parent voice in failing schools

Two mothers formed a friendship over a shared concern and are now faces of a controversial proposal under consideration by the Connecticut legislature, which gives parents more power to fix failing schools.

Email_icon

Hartford Courant

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pro-religion groups, atheists lobby over Day of Prayer

Groups across the country rallied both for and against the Day of Prayer by e-mailing, sending letters and planning the use of billboards to convince state and local leaders to see things their way.

Email_icon

YMCA re-emphasizes Christian roots

For almost 157 years, the YMCA has moved steadily away from overt displays of Christian principles. In St. Louis, that's about to change.

Email_icon

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Studies: MS pills show promise, risk

Tests of the first two oral drugs developed for treating multiple sclerosis show that both cut the frequency of relapses and may slow progression of the disease, but with some side effects.

Email_icon

Photo of the Day

A South Korean worker attaches the name cards of Buddhists on lanterns to celebrate the upcoming Buddha's birthday on May 21 at the Bongun Temple in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon / AP)

Email_icon

DailySource Most Popular

Most viewed

Most recent

Connect with Us

Nonprofitdonate

Or enter Amazon via the box below and they will donate 4-7% of all purchases you make in the next 24 hours to us.

Amazon.com Widgets

Take a Quick Tour

Tour

The Daily Quote

Email Newsletters

Browse Past Content

Scroll through recent items from your favorite sections:

Columns and Op-ed

The Daily Quote

Photo of the Day

Browse past editions

Makehomepage

Ways to Help

Spread the word

Other ways

Copyright © 2006-2024 The Daily Source. All rights reserved. Terms of Service

Website monitoring for The Daily Source provided for free by Nimsoft