“Today’s funeral service for Coretta Scott King would’ve been remarkable for just for bringing together four presidents-President Bush as well as past presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W Bush and Jimmy Carter.

But it was arresting to watch at times because critics of the current administration skewered President Bush as he sat just a few feet away, outside the White House bubble that usually protects sitting presidents, especially this one.

Rev. Joseph Lowery, former head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the group the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once led, spoke after President Bush’s brief remarks and with the freedom that comes from being 84 years old with little left to lose.

“How marvelous that presidents and governors have come to mourn and praise. But in the morning, will words become deeds that meet needs?… [Mrs. King] extended Martin’s message against poverty, racism and war. She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor.”” (Chicago Tribune)

“Lost world” found in Indonesian jungle: “Scientists said on Tuesday they had found a “Lost World” in an Indonesian mountain jungle, home to dozens of exotic new species of birds, butterflies, frogs and plants.

“It’s as close to the Garden of Eden as you’re going to find on Earth,” said Bruce Beehler, co-leader of the U.S., Indonesian, and Australian expedition to part of the cloud-shrouded Foja mountains in the west of New Guinea.

Indigenous peoples living near the Foja range, which rises to 2,200 metres (7,218 ft), said they did not venture into the trackless area of 3,000 sq km (1,200 sq miles) — roughly the size of Luxembourg or the U.S. state of Rhode Island.” (Yahoo! News)

Study Finds Low-Fat Diet Won’t Stop Cancer or Heart Disease: “The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet keeps women from getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet had no effect.” (New York Times)

Compound could be long-sought breakthrough: “What studies to date show is a compound that attacks HIV at its molecular membrane level, disrupting the virus from interacting with their primary targets, the “T-helper” class white blood cells that comprise and direct the human immune system. Further, CSAs appear to be deadly to all known strains of HIV. ” (Salt Lake Tribune)