12:24 AM
The US and Kazakh governments completed the secret transfer of 11 tons of highly enriched uranium and 3 tons of plutonium, moving it 1,890 miles by rail and road across Kazakhstan. The nuclear material could have been used to make more than 770 nuclear bombs and had been at a location feared vulnerable to terrorist attack. This operation started under Pres. Clinton, continued under Pres. Bush, and was finally completed under Pres. Obama:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/1117/US-and-Kazakhstan-complete-secret-transfer-of-Soviet-nuclear-materials
Germany is bracing for a terrorist attack, with authorities trying to find 2 suspected suicide bombers who are believed to be planning to strike a prominent location. A second terrorist group is apparently planning to attack Germany soon:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/germany-braces-terrorist-strikes
Japan is training a tiny Chihuahua to become a search-and-rescue dog for disaster recovery--its small size means it can squeeze into places too narrow for dogs such as German Shepherds:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/first-tiny-chihuahua-set-join-japan-police
Seismological survey warned that the Panama Canal is at a greater risk of a catastrophic earthquake than previously assumed:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/panama-canal-due-big-earthquake
Samsung sold 600,000 Galaxy Tablets in its first month--Apple sold 1 million iPads in its first month, but that was before the tablet market really existed:
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101121000281
It is sad that more than 1/3 of the graduates of public high schools in Hawaii that went to college in the University of Hawaii System needed remedial instruction in math or English:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20101122_Isle_grads_ill-prepared_for_college.html
Miami doctor sued a restaurant for not teaching him to properly eat an artichoke. He ordered the grilled artichoke special and ate everything on his plate--the hard outside portions ended up giving him "severe abdominal pain and discomfort":
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/11/arturo_carvajal_sues_north_mia.php
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/1117/US-and-Kazakhstan-complete-secret-transfer-of-Soviet-nuclear-materials
Germany is bracing for a terrorist attack, with authorities trying to find 2 suspected suicide bombers who are believed to be planning to strike a prominent location. A second terrorist group is apparently planning to attack Germany soon:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/germany-braces-terrorist-strikes
Japan is training a tiny Chihuahua to become a search-and-rescue dog for disaster recovery--its small size means it can squeeze into places too narrow for dogs such as German Shepherds:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/first-tiny-chihuahua-set-join-japan-police
Seismological survey warned that the Panama Canal is at a greater risk of a catastrophic earthquake than previously assumed:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/panama-canal-due-big-earthquake
Samsung sold 600,000 Galaxy Tablets in its first month--Apple sold 1 million iPads in its first month, but that was before the tablet market really existed:
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101121000281
It is sad that more than 1/3 of the graduates of public high schools in Hawaii that went to college in the University of Hawaii System needed remedial instruction in math or English:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20101122_Isle_grads_ill-prepared_for_college.html
Miami doctor sued a restaurant for not teaching him to properly eat an artichoke. He ordered the grilled artichoke special and ate everything on his plate--the hard outside portions ended up giving him "severe abdominal pain and discomfort":
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/11/arturo_carvajal_sues_north_mia.php