Don get me wrong. Billions of dollars are still going to move from banks to monolines and investors, especially once the Federal Housing Finance Agency cases begin to settle. But we climbed almost to the top of the learning curve.Lawsuits are flying up on the Range . Environmental Protection Agency's decision to grant a water quality variance to the Mesabi Nugget iron processing plant near Hoyt Lakes, saying regulators violated the Clean Water Act and other federal laws when they approved it late last year. The lawsuits were filed late Monday by the environmental group WaterLegacy and by the Fond du Lac and Grand Portage Chippewa bands.".

In a paper published in the Dec. 6 issue of the journal Vaccine, scientists showed that an experimental flu vaccine grown entirely in bacteria a process that bypasses the egg completely works well in people, triggering an immune response that would protect them against the flu. The vaccine which is free of bacteria itself is mad