As reported by that Washington Post:

"The virus, closely related to one previously found only in mice, was found in cancerous prostates removed from men with a certain genetic defect. The researchers, with the University of California, San Francisco and the Cleveland Clinic, warn that they have not discovered any links between the virus and prostate cancer, but they were nonetheless excited about prospects for future research."

You can read the full article at the post.

As reported by Science Daily:

"Increased carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly making the world's oceans more acidic and, if unabated, could cause a mass extinction of marine life similar to one that occurred 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs disappeared. Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology will present this research at the AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences meeting in Honolulu, HI on Monday, Feb 20."

You can read the full article here.

For lack of a better place to put them, it looks like the subversion version of Ejabberd now has native Mysql support but requires a patch to erlang:

Process one bug entry:

https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-8

https://support.process-one.net/doc/display/CONTRIBS/Yxa

mentioned on the ejabberd list here:

http://lists.jabber.ru/pipermail/ejabberd/2006-February/001602.html

An article on the problems associated with the large trade deficit:

"Miami economist Manuel Lasaga, who burnished his University of Pennsylvania doctorate in economics with a stint at Citibank renegotiating the Latin-American debt in the 1980s, shares few characteristics with Chicken Little, who always warned that the sky was falling.

Still, the 53-year-old economist correctly sounded the alarm over the need to devalue the overvalued Argentina peso back in the 1990s, when such talk was dismissed by the Argentine government, which later faced financial and economic implosion."

You can read the full article at the Miami Herald.