CNN U.S. News: 19 February 2009
February 20th, 2009 • CNN News, U.S.
- California lawmakers pass state budget
California lawmakers passed the state’s budget — closing a $42 billion deficit — early Thursday, and it now awaits the signature of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The budget package includes tax increases, spending cuts and borrowing to close the deficit. - Economy puts bite on shark attacks
Shark attacks on humans were at the lowest levels in a decade last year, and a Florida researcher says hard economic times may be to blame. - Guarding endangered whales
North Atlantic right whales are among the largest and most endangered whales and females are giving birth off the coast of Florida and Georgia. - Bloggers blast Holder for ‘nation of cowards’
America is “a nation of cowards” when discussing race. That sentiment from the country’s first African-American attorney general, Eric Holder, has stirred up pundits, bloggers and readers. - Nearly intact mammoth skeleton a rare find
He had a rough life during the Ice Age, walking around with a couple of broken ribs and a possibly cancerous lesion on his jaw before dying at a young age. - Men see bikini-clad women as objects
It may seem obvious that men perceive women in sexy bathing suits as objects, but now there’s science to back it up.
