Secret service steps up inauguration security

" As many as 4 million people are expected to attend Obama’s inauguration at the Mall. What a gigantic, enormous, gargantuan, staggeringly mammoth job this will be: "Law enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing...

Cancer-Sniffing Dog to Be Cloned

Marine is a black lab that can sniff out human cancer cells. Touted as being the top cancer-sniffing dog, Marine is scheduled to be cloned in South Korea at a Seoul-based biotech company where the first dog was cloned in 2005. "Cloned fetuses from the black labrador retriever...

Keith Richards: Too Piratical for PIRATES

Yes, claiming to have snorted your dad's cremated remains is a bit... controversial, but when you're promoting a movie about pirates, it seems really appropriate in a sense. Still At World's End is a Disney movie, and it looks like Disney-style values have won the day. Having...

Male Sweat Boosts Women's Hormone Levels

I see this Berkley study as evidence that the Dutch may be on to something..."Science Daily — Just a few whiffs of a chemical found in male sweat is enough to raise levels of the stress hormone cortisol in heterosexual women, according to a new study by University of...

Bomb-sniffing robots on way to troops in Iraq

"U.S. troops deployed in Iraq will soon receive help in the form of explosive-detection robots, which can sniff out deadly improvised explosive devices, more commonly known as IEDs. More than 100 PackBot robots provided by iRobot Corp. will be fitted with the sniffing...

10 Jobs That Let You Shop

" If shopping were an Olympic sport, you'd take home the gold every time. But where does someone with that kind of talent work? Can your knack for sniffing out sales translate to anything you can use in the working world? Absolutely -- all you have to do is know where to...

Border Officials Seize 306 Pounds Of Cocaine

Cocaine valued at more than $10 million hidden in the support beams of a flatbed trailer hauling cinder blocks from Mexico

Port of Seattle Terminal Evacuated - Guardian Unlimited

" SEATTLE (AP) - Authorities set up a half-mile perimeter around a terminal at the city's port Wednesday after bomb-sniffing dogs indicated that at least one container recently unloaded from a ship could contain explosives. Dozens of personnel were evacuated from Terminal...

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