Cell Tower Study Finds No Ill Effects

Phone mast allergy 'in the mind'

Dozens of people who believed the masts triggered symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness could not detect if signals were on or off in trials.

However, the Environmental Health Perspectives study stressed people were nonetheless suffering "real symptoms".

Campaign group Mast Sanity said the results were skewed as 12 people in the trials dropped out because of illness.

In the trial, many of those who blame masts for their symptoms reported greater distress when they thought the signal was on, suggesting the problem has a psychological basis.

"Belief is a very powerful thing," said Professor Elaine Fox, of the University of Essex, who led the three-year study.

"If you really believe something is going to do you some harm, it will."

The study was funded by the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research programme, a body which is itself funded by industry and government.

That the study was funded by government and the industry is cause for caution, but does not imply that the results are inaccurate.
The article then goes on to mistakenly assert that electrosensitivity is real and that it's an allergy:

It is unclear how many people in the UK suffer from "electro-sensitivity", an allergy they believe can be triggered by a range of modern day appliances from hair driers to mobile phone masts.

Could they put it more lamely and ambiguously? And this is the BBC. Shit.
Here's a nifty meta-study for some more info.
Here's my old post on EMF mania.

And God Commanded Them to Eat Crappy Pizza Every Night

City of God: Catholic Town Opens in Florida

The Florida town of Ave Maria is like many other large family neighborhoods. The town will have 11,000 homes in its community.

But unlike so many other communities, Ave Maria has a specific purpose. The quaint location isn’t built for golfers or retirees like so many other Florida developments. Ave Maria is a refuge of sorts for Christian values in a secular age.

It opens its gates to the public for the first time on Saturday. It is the brainchild of Dominos Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, who built the town as part of his life-long dream. The staunch Catholic envisioned a community that would draw residents who shared his Catholic values.

Alternate Title: Your Pizza Delivered in 30 Minutes or Less, or the Delivery Boy Burns in Hell!

They can add my contempt, as well

House Committee to Vote on Contempt Citation

The House Judiciary Committee is meeting now to vote on whether to cite former White House counsel Harriet Miers and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten with contempt. The result of the vote isn't cause for much suspense, and neither is the probable Republican reaction, given that committee GOPers have consistently backed the White House in the dispute.

LOLKINGS

Doctors Accused of Spreading HIV Freed

Libya Frees Foreign Medical Workers in H.I.V. Case - New York Times

After more than eight years in jail in Libya, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor stepped off the French presidential plane here in Bulgaria’s capital early this morning where they were greeted by crying relatives and Bulgaria’s top officials.

Nice Day in NY

Yesterday, actually

Bush to New York: Drop Dead!

U.S. Refuses More Money for New York in Terror Fight - New York Times

New York State officials said on Thursday that they had not been able to persuade the head of the federal Department of Homeland Security to give them more grant money to prevent or respond to terrorism attacks.

They met with Secretary Michael Chertoff just days after an article in Newsday disclosed how much the New York metropolitan area would receive this year under the department’s Urban Areas Security Initiative. The program will divide about $747 million among 45 high-threat, high-density urban areas.

Though the New York region will receive $134 million, up 7.6 percent from last year’s $124.5 million, officials who represent the state are not happy, especially in light of the 2005 grant of $207.5 million.

Leaving the meeting, Mr. Chertoff said he “didn’t come here to make money announcements.”

Libby, Libby, Libby is a Loser, Loser, Loser

From TPM Muckraker:

It sounds like it wasn't even close. The decision by the court was unanimous, the AP reports, while Reuters says "he appeals court turned down Libby in a one-paragraph order, ruling he has not shown that his appeal 'raises a substantial question.'"