Group 4: Amanda Black, Editor

Obama buys first video game campaign ads
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Barack Obama, flush with cash and ramping up his advertising in the final weeks before the November 4 election, is making U.S. political history by placing the first presidential campaign ads in online video games. By Mary Milliken, Yahoo News, October 17, 2008 http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20081017/tc_nm/us_usa_politics_videogames
Obama opens 8-point lead over McCain
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has opened an 8-point lead over Republican John McCain two weeks before the U.S. presidential election, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday. By John Whitesides, Reuters, October 21, 2008 http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49J0LF20081021?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Motorists Adapt Driving Habits To Gas Prices
Gas has dropped to $2.92 a gallon across the country. We examine how some motorists are changing their driving habits according to the rise and fall of prices. By Celeste Headlee, NPR, October 21, 2008 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95935303&ft=1&f=1006
White supremacists target Middle America
The white-power movement is changing its marketing strategy to broaden its appeal. The USA's largest neo-Nazi group is ditching its trademark brown Nazi uniform with swastika armband for a more muted look in black fatigues. In Pennsylvania, the Keystone State Skinheads is changing its name to Keystone United to attract members. By Marisol Bello, USA Today, October 20, 2008. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-20-hategroups_N.htm?csp=34
India Launches Unmanned Orbiter to Moon
NEW DELHI — India launched its first unmanned spacecraft to orbit the moon early Wednesday, part of an effort to assert its power in space and claim some of the business opportunities there. By Somini Sengupta, NY Times, October 21, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/world/asia/22indiamoon.html?hp
The Right to Know, Then to say 'No'
Terminally ill patients in California are the first in the nation to have a legal right to information from their doctors, upon request, about end-of-life options, including hospice, palliative care, refusing or withdrawing life-prolonging treatments, and making the choice to refuse food and hydration. By Jane Gross, NY Times, October 21, 2008 http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/the-right-to-know-then-to-say-no/?ref=health
Flat-panel TV prices set to dive, analysts say
NEW YORK – A combination of weak consumer spending and a peak in manufacturing capacity will push prices for flat-panel TVs down to unprecedented lows this holiday season, according to analysts. By PETER SVENSSON, Yahoo News, October 15, 2008 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tec_techbit_hdtvs;_ylt=Ap6_CMlpuWfN_8xZhag2BDkjtBAF
Men's Reactions Peak at Age 39
This explains everything. Scientists asked 72 men, ranging in age from 23 to 80, to tap their index fingers as fast as they could for 10 seconds. The researchers also did brain scans to measure in each subject the amount of myelin - a fatty sheath of insulation that coats nerve axons and allows for signaling bursts in our brains. By Live Science Staff, Yahoo News, October 18, 2008 http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081018/sc_livescience/mensreactionspeakatage39;_ylt=AgJI5uaRsgM2VJ.eOek_jjsPLBIF
Pandemics: Google takes on real virusesGoogle has pledged to try to stop the next global pandemic by investing $15m in a series of hi-tech health schemes. Money from the internet giant will provide funding for six projects that aim to detect new diseases and understand the conditions that help them spread – potentially saving millions of lives in the process. By Bobbie Johnson, Guardian, October 21, 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/21/google-healthcare
Magnet Approved to Treat Depression
The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression-- a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull. If it sounds like science fiction, well, those woodpecker-like pulses trigger small electrical charges that spark brain cells to fire. Yet it doesn't cause the risks of surgically implanted electrodes or the treatment of last resort, shock therapy. By Lauran Neergaard, Discovery News, October 21, 2008
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/21/magnet-depression.html