Week of February 15, 2008
A gunman dressed in black, steps on stage in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois
University and opens fire on a geology class. Five are dead plus, the gunman
killed himself on the lecture hall stage. 16 others were wounded.
The Supreme Court gives business two wins. On one ruling the court said makes
of medical devices cannot be sued by injured patients if the FDA had approved
the devices for sale. Also, the court freed shippers such as UPS from state
regulations requiring them to verify that an adult was the recipient of cigarettes
delivered to a residence.
Barack Obama wins in Wisconsin- setting the stage for Ohio and Texas.
Oil passes the $100-per-barrel mark.
President Bush, expressing frustration that the United Nations has had a difficult
time raising and deploying a sufficient peace-keeping force in Darfur says that
the 1994 Rwandan genocide should have taught the world not to ignore signs of
budding brutality.
Mitt Romney
endorses John McCain for
president after a bitter campaign feud.
FEMA says it will accelerate efforts to get
victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita out of
government-supplied trailers after tests
showed that the temporary residences
contain levels of toxic formaldehyde.
Music news - Another musical Cyrus -
There’s dad Billy Ray, daughter Miley and
Trace Cyrus - singer/guitarist of the emo-
electro band Metro Station. “I wanted to see
how long we could go without anybody
knowing.” “It’s not like I didn’t want to be
associated with that, but I didn’t want to be
put in a genre where I had to be approved for
mothers and 12-year-olds. I want to be
myself.”
Technology -
Sony’s Blu-ray emerges the victor in the battle to set the standard for high
definition DVD’s - winning over Toshiba’s rival HD DVD. Toshiba announces this
