Somehow this doesn’t seem like the kind of tan most people look forward to in the summer.
Reports have been trickling in that Apple’s new iPhone 3GS gets too hot too handle (no, not because of pornography) during some uses – and may even heat up so much that white cases …
AP - The question of when and where a public memorial service will be held for Michael Jackson has finally been answered. But how city officials will handle the likelihood of a massive crowd remains to be settled.
AP - U.S. forces have encountered little resistance in the initial phase of a massive operation by some 4,000 Marines in Taliban-controlled areas of southern Afghanistan, but that’s a common tactic by insurgents.
AP - First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well.
Time.com - For conservatives, the crisis is an opportunity to impose fiscal restraint. But the costs, say liberals, is a huge amount of suffering. Is there a solution?
Time.com - Back in 1978, Proposition 13 was a boon to property to owners but it was a slow but sure carcinogen to the body politic. Now the patient is in dire straits
AP - President Barack Obama said former Russian President Vladimir Putin and his hand-picked successor should expect an in-person reminder the Cold War is over when the U.S. leader makes his first trip to a Moscow summit.
AP - After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw “the city was about to fall.” Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country’s prime minister.
AP - The investigation of Michael Jackson’s death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police.
AP - South Korea said Friday it is closely monitoring North Korean military sites because the communist nation may fire more missiles, amid speculation that a long-range test launch aimed toward the U.S. is possible in coming days.
