Toms says right shoulder needs surgery (AP)
AP – Former PGA champion David Toms has been losing length off the tee that he can’t afford, and now he knows why. Toms said Friday he has a bone spur in his rotator cuff that will require surgery.
First-time cosmonauts set to blast off with toy duck (AFP)
AFP – Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov brandished a small toy duck Friday as he and his crewmates prepared to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) in April.
Men Take More Risks When Pretty Women Are Around (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com – Being around a pretty woman can make men take more risks, a
new study finds.
Happiness Is … Making More Money Than the Next Guy (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com – One key to happiness might be whether you make more than
your peers, regardless of whether that income is six figures or just a mediocre
take-home, a new study finds.
The Big Bang: Solid Theory, But Mysteries Remain (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – The Big Bang was the beginning of the universe as we know
it, most scientists say. But was it the first beginning, and will it be the
last?
Japan sighs relief as bluefin tuna ban fails (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Sushi chefs and fish dealers across the Japanese archipelago were letting out small sighs of relief Thursday night as news filtered in from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Qatar that a proposed export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna had failed to pass. Japan consumes around three-quarters of the globeâs bluefin tuna catch, with almost all of it served raw as sushi and sashimi, of which it is the most sought-after variety.
Lifetime tiger hunter, 92, snared in Indonesia (AFP)
AFP – Indonesian conservationists said on Friday they had caught red-handed a 92-year-old man who had admitted to killing dozens of critically endangered Sumatran tigers over a lifetime of hunting.
Students Discover Clawed Dinosaur in China (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com – A claw sticking out of a cliff face in Mongolia, China,
turned out to be the tip of the dinosaur – the skeleton of a 6-foot-long agile
predator that preyed on its own kind.
Geneva atom smasher sets record for beam energy (AP)
AP – Operators of the world’s largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.
U.S. says driver error possible in NY Prius crash (Reuters)
Reuters – U.S. safety officials believe driver error may be behind the crash in New York of a Toyota Motor Corp Prius that has been investigated as a possible case of unintended acceleration, federal investigators said on Thursday.
New date set for European climate satellite launch (AFP)
AFP – The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday said it had set the date of April 8 for the delayed launch of CryoSat-2, a satellite designed to see how Earth’s ice sheets react to climate change.
