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U.S. Congress approves Obama funding for Iron Dome defense system

Lawmakers voted to give Israel $205 million for its production of the short-range rocket defense system by a 410-4 margin.

By Natasha Mozgovaya

Lawmakers, by a 410-4 margin, backed Obama's...

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20100520/US.Arkansas.Officers.Shot/

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — Two police officers doing anti-drug work along a busy Arkansas interstate were shot and killed Thursday during a traffic stop by two men with AK-47s, and the suspects later died in a separate shootout with police in a crowded...

Way more than you want to read, I didn't read all of it either, but this guy is one of the small handful of financial writers worth reading. I think he has a good take on what will happen.

You Better Read This, Gold & Greece: Not What You Think

Kenneth J. Gerbino & Company
Posted May 20, 2010...

AUSTIN, Texas — A century after Albert Einstein said we would never be able to observe the instantaneous velocity of tiny particles as they randomly shake and shimmy, so called Brownian motion, physicist Mark Raizen and his group have done so.
laser

A 5-micrometer glass bead levitated in air by a single laser beam from below. This optical trap...

Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20 and began spilling an untold amount of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, authorities and Gulf coast residents alike have worried about what would happen...