A new report from the World Wildlife Fund finds that climate change is happening faster than predicted.

Here on “CNN.”:http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/20/wwf.climate.report/index.html

“I was born with my father’s eyes,” former President Jimmy Carter says in a public service announcement for the “Lustgarten Foundation.”:http://www.lustgarten.org/ “My brother and sisters were born with his pancreatic cancer gene. My father, brother and both sisters all died from pancreatic cancer.”

Now the foundation is starting a new public awareness campaign about pancreatic cancer. The first 30-second spot, “Dan’s Pancreatic Cancer,” makes you sit up.

I wrote about the Lustgarten Foundation’s work in a column today about Alexis and Andrew Weiss. Andrew Weiss died only month after he had been diagnosed; Alexis is working with the foundation to try to spare other families. A caller noticed that I forgot to include an address for anyone who wants to make a donation to the foundation. Here it is:

The Lustgarten Foundation For Pancreatic Cancer Research
1111 Stewart Avenue
Bethpage, NY 11714

Phone: 516-803-2304
Toll-Free: 1-866-789-1000

www.lustgarten.org

A follow-up on Christopher Buckley endorsing Barack Obama: He quit the National Review.

Mail was running against him, he writes—700 to 1 against him.

“In fact, the only thing the Right can’t quite decide is whether I should be boiled in oil or just put up against the wall and shot. Lethal injection would be too painless.”

More “here”:http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-14/sorry-dad-i-was-fired

PHOTO: File photo of Christopher Buckley. (AP Photo/Rick Maiman)

Hillary Rodham Clinton gives little chance to running again for president. From the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (Oct. 14) – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton puts the chances of her running for president again at near zero — slightly higher than the chances she gives for becoming Senate majority leader or a Supreme Court justice.

In an interview aired Tuesday on “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel, Clinton, the Democrat from New York, was asked the chances, on a scale of 1 to 10, that she would be the next majority leader in the Senate.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says it’s highly unlikely that she’ll run again for the U.S. presidency. Clinton, who was bested in her bid to win the Democratic nomination by Sen. Barack Obama, told Fox News that the chances of another presidential campaign by her are “probably close to zero.”
“Oh, probably zero,” she said. “I’m not seeking any other position than to be the best senator from New York that I can be.”
Being nominated to the Supreme Court?
“Zero,” Clinton said. “I have no interest in doing that.”
Running for president again?
“Probably close to zero,” she said. “There’s an old saying: Bloom where you’re planted.”
The former first lady, who was elected to the Senate in 2000 and re-elected in 2006, said she looked forward to working as a senator with a Barack Obama administration.

PHOTO: (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Today, I wondered in my column where the the stock market would land this afternoon.

Now we know.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 11 percent or 936 points, the largest point gain in a single day ever.

The surge came as central banks shored up the financial system with billions of dollars.

But, as commentators noted, credit markets were closed today for Columbus Day. Will the credit markets unfreeze? Stay tuned.

Christopher Buckley will vote for the Democrat.
Yes, that Buckley. The son of William F. Buckley.

Read it in “The Daily Beast.”:http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama/

The top five sources of oil imports for the month of July, from the Energy Information Administration:

The top sources of US crude oil imports for July were Canada (1.960 million barrels per day), Saudi Arabia (1.661 million barrels per day), Mexico (1.200 million barrels per day), Venezuela (1.187 million barrels per day), and Nigeria (0.741 million barrels per day).

The more successful the trader, the higher the level of testosterone.

That’s the finding of a British study that was published in April.

Traders with high morning testosterone levels make more than average profits that day, researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered.

The hormone seems to increase confidence and an appetite for risk, two qualities in demand in the City of London—or on Wall Street.

But too much testosterone can hinder a trader’s ability to judge risk. It can lead to impulsive behavior and sensation seeking and in extreme cases, among users of anabolic steroids, to euphoria and mania.

That may help explain why people caught up in bubbles and crashes often don’t make rational choices, unintentionally exacerbating financial crises.

“Any theory of financial decision-making in the highly demanding environment of market trading now needs to take these hormonal changes into account. Inappropriate risk-taking may be disastrous,” wrote the study’s lead author, Joe Herbert of the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

More “here.”:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/2008041701

PHOTOS

Traders react to early market moves on the London Stock Exchange and the FTSE100 index at CMC Markets in London. AP Photo/Alastair Grant

File: Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Greed is good.

“I believe that in the long run, this economy will be just fine,” President Bush said in Cincinnati today.

By the end of the day, the Dow Jones had slid more than 500 points. It stands at 9447.

As for the long run, there’s this quote from the economist John Maynard Keynes: “Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”

About a quarter of mammals are facing the threat of extinction, according to the first assessment of their health done in a decade,

“Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions, a frightening sign of what is happening to the ecosystems where they live,” said Julia Marton-Lefevre, director-general of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) which publishes the Red List.

“We must now set clear targets for the future to reverse this trend, to ensure that our enduring legacy is not to wipe out many of our closest relatives.”

More here from the “BBC.”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7651981.stm