New Years Links

Slow start to the day here, hope all of you are feeling okay.

Convenience stores linked to child obesity

Hawaii first in nation to require home solar water heaters

Lucky New Year's foods also healthy

New York Times: C.I.A. Takes On Expanded Role on Front Lines The deaths of seven Central Intelligence Agency operatives at a remote base in the mountains of Afghanistan are a pointed example of the civilian spy agency’s transformation in recent years into a paramilitary organization at the vanguard of America’s far-flung wars.

California police building rigged to explode

Gay Couples Start 2010 With N.H. Weddings

Detroit, LA on list of 'Cities You Hate'

Daily Telegraph: New Mexico town to host world's first spaceport Fifty years after a small desert town in southern New Mexico put itself on the map by re-naming itself after a quiz show, the inhabitants of this remote corner of America and neighbouring townships are pinning their hopes on an even more radical transformation.