Justus For All

Broken Quanta offers up a beautiful tribute to his mother.
Sometimes it is great to read something like this.

BBC NEWS:
Three Iraqi Sunni parties have announced the formation of an alliance to contest upcoming legislative elections in December.
The announcement on Tuesday that the constitution was approved cleared the way for the polls to elect a new Iraqi National Assembly.
The parties urged Iraqis to take part in the polls and to reject any calls for […]

New York Times:
Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s, died yesterday at her home in Detroit. She was […]

SWashington Post:
An anti-war British lawmaker gave false testimony to Congress when he denied receiving U.N. oil-for-food allocations from deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a Senate investigative panel said Monday.
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., chairman of the subcommittee, and his investigators presented evidence that they say shows British lawmaker George Galloway’s political organization and his wife received […]

Michael Yon has written about the latest Iraqi elections. As always, wonderful reporting.

New York Times:
President Bush will nominate Ben S. Bernanke, his top economic adviser, to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a White House official said.
Mr. Bernanke, 51, is expected to be named to the post at 1 p.m., said the official who asked not to be identified because of the pending […]

Dean’s World has some good advice on avoiding blogger burnout.
Especially true is his first point:
Write about whatever you want to write about, whenever you want to write about it, for whatever reason you want to write about it. Period. No exceptions.
I tend to write about a lot of random stuff. Sure a lot is […]

ABC News:
Google Inc. shares rocketed to an all-time high on Friday as an impressive round of quarterly results appeared to win over skeptics worried that the Web search company was more bark than bite.
In an earnings report that showed the company outstripped Wall Street expectations for the fifth consecutive quarter since its initial public […]

New York Times:
The United Nations investigation into the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon is focusing on the powerful brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria as the main suspect, a diplomat with intimate knowledge of the inquiry said Thursday.
A United Nations report on the February bombing of a convoy carrying […]

Nanotechnology Now:

These single-molecule vehicles measure just 4×3 nanometers and have four buckyball wheels connected to four independently rotating axles and a organic chemical chassis. The Rice team found that the nanocars moved about on a metal surface by rolling of the wheels in a direction perpendicular to the axles, rather than sliding about like a […]