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Sports: Yahoo! News - AL Wrap: Rays Extend Winning Streak to 12 Games: “The Devil Rays, perennial doormats who have finished last in the AL East six years in a row, had never before won more than six straight games in their history. After a 3-19 start, Tampa Bay is 23-6 in its last 29 games to move into third place in the division and to within one game of the .500 mark at 33-34. ”

Tech: Yahoo! News - Swiss OK Gypsy Holocaust Suit Vs IBM: See this for more details. “A Swiss court has cleared the way for a group of gypsies to sue computer giant IBM for allegedly helping Nazi slaughter campaigns during World War II, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said on Tuesday. Lawyer Henri-Philippe Sambuc said an appeals court had overturned an earlier lower court ruling that Geneva had no jurisdiction to hear the test case that could eventually lead to a wider $12 billion claim against IBM. The case claims that IBM facilitated the mass slaughter of gypsies by knowingly allowing Nazi Germany to use its punch-card Hollerith tabulating machines — the mainframe computer of its era — to track and identify victims. IBM had its European headquarters in Geneva during World War II.”

Sports: Yahoo! Sports - MLB - Devil Rays 5, Blue Jays 1:

“Not even a poor outing by their starting pitcher could derail the Devil Rays.Tampa Bay extended its franchise-record winning streak to 12 games Tuesday night, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1 behind homers from Julio Lugo and Carl Crawford… “At the beginning of the season it was terrible. We were just Tampa Bay,” Lugo said. “Now everybody is calling us the stinging Rays.””

USA: Yahoo! News - Response to 9/11 chaotic: “Neither did the FAA alert the military to the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77 — until just minutes before the plane slammed into the Pentagon, according to the report. Likewise, the headquarters staff failed to act on a suggestion from the Boston regional control center for an immediate national alert to aircraft to secure their cockpits against intruders. Twelve minutes later, hijackers took over United Flight 93, the final plane captured by terrorists.
‘It just seems to me that those 12 critical minutes were a real opportunity to potentially do something about that fourth flight,’ said commission member Timothy Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana. Another commissioner, former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, declared that the FAA ‘blew it.’ As Sept. 11 unfolded, it often was lower-level FAA employees who bypassed the chain of command and took the initiative to respond, according to the report. Immediately after the Pentagon was struck, a manager at the national air traffic command center ordered all commercial aircraft grounded on his own authority while higher-ups were still debating such a move, the report said. ”

USA: Yahoo! News - 48 Nobel Prize winners slam Bush, back Kerry: “The star-studded scientific endorsement for Kerry came on a day when the presumptive Democratic nominee stood in Civic Center Park and told several hundred rain-soaked voters that the way to build the economy is to invest in science, technology and higher education. ‘We need a president who will once again embrace our tradition of looking toward the future and new discoveries with hope based on scientific facts, not fear,’ said Kerry, vowing not to let ‘ideology and fear stand in the way.’ Many scientists have complained that the Bush administration has filled science advisory panels with conservative ideologues rather than individuals with sterling scientific credentials. ”