Nightly News Supplemental
Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:10 PM by Daily Nightly Editor
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Nightly News Supplemental
September 4, 2008
Is your plastic bottle safe?
September 2, 2008
PNAS, the journal that published the article referenced in Robert Bazell's report on the "monogamy gene," has the full research paper here.
The Karolinska Institute has issued public press release as well.
August 26, 2008
Read the full Stanford University study mentioned in John Larson's "Improving with Age" report: "Reduced Disability and Mortality Among Aging Runners."
August 12, 2008
According to a story today in the New York Times, U.S. spending on contractors in Iraq will reach $100 billion sometime this year.
A study appearing in the August 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests citizen-soldiers pressed into service have less preparation for the stress of war and fewer support services after they come back home.
August 11, 2008
Fit and fat: US Study shows it's possible
Low vitamin D shown to raise death risk
August 6, 2008
More on camp for children with special needs
Click here to read Tiki Barber's personal connection to the story
August 5, 2008
More on prostate health and screening
August 3, 2008
More on Newsweek's Christopher Dickey's diary
August 2, 2008
On Nightly Saturday, we reported more details on Ivers' possible motive and audio tapes posted on the New York Times' Web site. In court, a former therapist called Ivers a psychotic "revenge killer."
Read more on the new AIDS infection rate report from the CDC here.
And to learn more on Mark Potters' report on the Run For The Fallen, click here. You can track the runners' journey on the site.
August 1, 2008
News broke today that a top researcher apparently committed suicide as prosecutors prepared to seek an indictment.
On msnbc.com, NBC News employee Casey Chamberlain wrote about her ordeal, opening the lettter addressed to Tom Brokaw.
We also profiled China's Yiwu Commodity Market, the biggest in the world where merchants around the globe travel to buy the stuff they sell you. Click here to learn more about an author mentioned in the piece Sara Bongiorni, on her year on living without China.
At the end of tonight's broadcast, we featured a summer camp that's making a difference in the lives of dyslexic kids. You can learn more about that organization here.
July 31, 2008
NASA confirms water on Mars
Exercise in a pill? Drug shows promise in mice
And did you see the solar eclipse? Meet a man who travels the world just to witness an eclipse (video).
July 30, 2008
In tonight's broadcast, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell and Chuck Todd reported on the controversial new John McCain tv ad . The First Read folks also weighed in on the matter, offering a glimpse of what people were saying over at Drudge, politico.com, and theinsider.com. Lively discussions on the subject were also taking place over at Huffingtonpost.com, and talkingpointsmemo.com, and NBC's Andrea Mitchell summed up her conversation with Obama senior strategist David Axelrod here.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released its evaluation of the safety of synthetic turf athletic fields, concluding that young children are not at risk from exposure to lead in these fields. As an overall guideline, the CPSC recommends that children wash their hands after playing outside. The commission's evaluation is available at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08348.html.
July 29, 2008
A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations. There were no immediate reports of major damage or serious injuries. Read the story here. Newsviners shared their accounts of the earthquake here. What causes quakes? See this interactive.
July 25, 2008
Mark Potter's report on parents who are deferring their own retirement to keep their kids out of debt refers to an AARP survey statistic that says 39 percent of respondents ages 45 and older are paying bills for their adult children. You can read the full AARP report, "The Economic Slowdown's Impact on Middle-Aged and Older Americans," here.
Several photos of the barge-and-tanker collision that caused a major oil spill in the Mississippi River near New Orleans can be viewed here.
NBC's Digital Correspondent Mara Schiavocampo has been blogging from the UNITY Convention in Chicago - you can read her posts here.
July 22, 2008
Caught on tape: The video showing President Bush making light of the economic and housing crisis at a fundraiser in Houston can be seen here.
RX for Sex?: You can read the full JAMA report on the use Viagra to treat women with antidepressant-associated sexual dysfunction here.
You can view Part One of Robert Bazell's report on Iceland's genetic jackpot here; NBC Producer Jane Derenowski also wrote this related blog post from Iceland.
