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Experts: Civil Liberties & Social Justice (Newswise)University of Oregon experts: civil disobedience; freedom of speech/Constitutional; immigration; Pakistan, South Asia and Muslim societies; women in Muslim world; poverty, genocide and Darfur; poverty and women; racial inequality; racial politics; social inequality; and violence against women.

Yahoo Answers & Social Researching: The Dangers, Risks, and Proper Usage (Search Engine Journal)Jacob Leibenluft at Slate recently wrote a piece about Yahoo Answers, summing up the entire service as a librarians worst nightmare. My worst nightmare as a library professional is more along the lines of a crazy patron wreaking havoc at the library and jeopardizing my sanity, not ones use of an unreliable source [.]

A gunman opened fire in a church in Neosho, Mo., killing three people and wounding several others, the authorities said.

- 3 Killed in Missouri Church as a Gunman Opens Fire

Why it isn?t easy to replace bridges, power plants and planes.

- Ideas & Trends: Things Fall Apart, but Some Big Old Things Don?t

The Indiana University Adult Anxiety Disorders Clinic seeks participants for a clinical treatment study of medications for panic attacks. Participants in the study must be over the age of 18 and have repeated panic attacks. [click link for full article]

- Indiana University Seeks Panic Attack Patients

The paradox of American policy in the Middle East is that almost everywhere there are free elections, the American-backed side tends to lose.

- Memo From Dubai: U.S. Promotes Free Elections, Only to See Allies Lose

According to Peter H. Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, many of us suffer from an insidious condition called “plant blindness.” We barely notice plants, can rarely identify them and find them incomparably inert.

- Life-giving, forever young: in praise of plants

An international team will use state-of-the-art, high-density microarrays and new computer algorithms to improve the detection of variants in the human genome which are implicated in various diseases. The new systems are the foundation of Phase 2 of the Genome Structural Variation Consortium, which was set up in 2004 and seeks to identify structurally variable regions in the human genome. [click link for full article]

- Canadian, British And American Scientists Launch Major New Genome Partnership To Catalogue All Common Copy Number Variations

Campaigners are to gather at Stockwell Tube station to mark the anniversary of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.

- Ceremony marks Menezes death

Restrictions on the movement of animals due to the foot-and-mouth outbreak are relaxed in Scotland. Scots livestock move ban relaxed

Exploring ways that technology can help produce better medical doctors is the focus of a new lecture series kicking off at the University of Central Florida next week. Dr. Richard M. New UCF Lecture Series Focuses On Technology, Simulations In Medical Education, USA

Big dreams, such as those we experience after the death of a family member, are once again on the minds of psychologists as part of a larger trend toward studying dreams as meaningful representations of our concerns and emotions.

- Emotional landscapes portrayed in dreams

As baby boomers begin to approach retirement, many are panicking that their nest egg just isn’t going to see them through their golden years. But it’s not too late to secure your future, says author of The Last Chance Millionaire. Read an excerpt from the book here.

- The Last Chance Millionaire Book Excerpt

Police in the Philippines launch a murder inquiry after a 66-year-old Welsh emigre is found dead.

- Welshman murdered in Philippines