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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 2009
Page
14
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule banning the pesticide carbofuran for food crops, citing unacceptable health risks to children. Sold as Furadan, the granular insecticide faced years of EPA review and had previously been banned in granule form in the mid-1990s for contributing to the death of millions of migratory birds.
Police said after a Swedish league match Djurgarden fans on a Malmo Aviation plane assaulted a passenger and threatened flight attendants. About 100 passengers were aboard. five involved were removed before takeoff and seven more were questioned on arrival in Stockholm.
The Smithsonian leads six zoos and institutes in the Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project to raise 1.5 million dollars and deploy researchers in Central America. The effort focuses on a Panama region untouched by chytrid fungus, while officials warn the disease endangers about 6,000 known amphibian species and has already driven 122 extinct.
In Riyadh a Saudi judge at a conference on domestic violence said a husband has the right to slap a wife who spends money wastefully and blamed women for rising abuse. The out of court comments drew controversy though not law.
In Jerusalem on Monday Pope Benedict XVI met six Holocaust survivors and stated that victims “lost their lives but they will never lose their names.” Israeli memorial officials faulted him for not apologizing or using the words murder or Nazis in his speech.
Atlantis launched toward the Hubble Space Telescope for a risky 11 day mission featuring five spacewalks to replace batteries and gyroscopes and repair two instruments. A second shuttle stood by to aid in case of trouble.
An Associated Press iVillage poll finds many women misjudge their health, with 60 percent overweight or obese, 50 percent unhappy with weight, and only 8 percent meeting five daily fruit and vegetable servings. Experts urge prioritizing fitness over weight.
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