Headlines | 3-13-09

Some of the most important stories of the day . . .

Economy and Business

• Dow adds 9%, S&P, Nasdaq nup 10% on week; best gains in four months

• The real Adam Smith was more complex than people realize

• Marc Faber recommends investing in gold exploration companies with strong backers that have money to essentially develop the exploration result that they may or may not achieve. The one's that are partially owned by the majors like Novagold, Ivanhoe Mining and Gabriel Resources.

Politics

• Obama administration withdraws ‘enemy combatant’ definition; will hold people at Gitmo based on authority form Congress and international laws of war
  

• Obama cites national security for keeping the terms of a new international copyright treaty secret which would allegedly criminalize peer-to-peer sharing, make iPods searchable at the border, and allow internet service providers to monitor their customers' communications

• Obama Justice Department defends Rumsfeld in torture case

• New UK memos support ‘sexed up’ Iraq dossier claim

Science and General Interest

• US warships head for South China Sea after standoff

• Scientist: Warming could cut population to 1 billion

• Paraplegic bitten by spider walks after 20 some years

• Experts say Obama's stem-cell funding will trigger a worldwide renaissance in regenerative medicine

• Brain scans can read memories

This roundup may be updated periodically throughout the day.