Newser - All Storieshttp://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorWed, 03 Dec 2008 20:48:11 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44314/sorry-us-mumbai-is-not-about-you.html?refid=rss_all_defaultUS pundits have portrayed the Mumbai attacks as the 9/11 of India, a terrorist test of Barack Obama, and a deliberate attempt to go after US citizens abroad. "Sorry, it is not always about America," writes Indian native Isaac Cheriyathu in SpliceToday. Devastating, yes. But this was a domestic attack on India, one of countless such assaults over the years. "Just because you weren't paying attention until now does not make it any more significant."http://www.newser.com/story/44314/sorry-us-mumbai-is-not-about-you.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Dec 2008 20:17:51 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44326/slates-new-columnist-eliot-spitzer.html?refid=rss_all_defaultEliot Spitzer continues his slow creep back into the public eye. The disgraced New York governor will begin writing a regular column for the online magazine Slate, the New York Observer reports. Spitzer's column, called the Best Policy, will debut tomorrow, then appear every other week. It will cover government, regulation and finance, and will focus heavily at first on the current economic mess.http://www.newser.com/story/44326/slates-new-columnist-eliot-spitzer.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Dec 2008 19:54:23 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44311/foreign-workers-held-in-iraq.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAbout 1,000 foreign workers brought to Iraq with the promise of lucrative jobs have been living for 3 months in Baghdad warehouses under poor sanitary conditions and in possible violation of US military rules, McClatchy reports. A Kuwaiti company that subcontracts with KBR, formerly Haliburton, brought the men from Central Asia and elsewhere after charging them $2,000.http://www.newser.com/story/44311/foreign-workers-held-in-iraq.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Dec 2008 19:34:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44309/army-deserter-seeks-asylum-in-germany.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSpecialist André Shepherd has become the first US military deserter to apply for political asylum in Germany, Der Spiegel reports. Shepherd, who disobeyed orders to redeploy to Iraq from Germany in the spring of 2007, argues in his petition that the Iraq war violates international law. "If I carried out my orders, it would make me a criminal," said the 31-year-old Cleveland native.http://www.newser.com/story/44309/army-deserter-seeks-asylum-in-germany.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Dec 2008 19:08:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44324/conservative-episcopalians-form-rival-branch.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTheological conservatives upset by liberal views of US Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province today. The development is the culmination of a five-year rift that erupted when Episcopalians in New Hampshire consecrated the first openly gay bishop. The split represents a new challenge to the already splintering, 77-million-member Anglican fellowship—the world's third largest Christian body—and its spiritual leader, the archbishop of Canterbury.http://www.newser.com/story/44324/conservative-episcopalians-form-rival-branch.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Dec 2008 18:38:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44322/india-to-use-truth-serum-on-terrorist.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIndian police plan to inject a controversial truth serum into the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist to try to prove his identity, reports the London Times . The narcotics-powered analysis could yield proof that the so-called "baby-faced gunman" is indeed from Pakistan, which India suspects but Pakistan doubts. Western agencies stopped using the method—usually a form of sodium pentathol—during the Cold War because of psychological side effects such as hallucinations and delusions.http://www.newser.com/story/44322/india-to-use-truth-serum-on-terrorist.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Dec 2008 18:11:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44104/jane-austen-museum-bans-fans-ashes.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe caretakers of Jane Austen's estate in England have issued an unusual plea to her devoted fans: Please stop having your ashes scattered in her garden. Museum representatives say they understand the passion but can't allow the practice. “It is distressing for visitors to see mounds of human ash, particularly so for our gardener," a museum official wrote to the Jane Austen Society. "Also, it is of no benefit to the garden!”http://www.newser.com/story/44104/jane-austen-museum-bans-fans-ashes.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Dec 2008 18:10:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44317/scientists-sniff-out-ancient-stash-of-pot.html?refid=rss_all_defaultScientists excavating a grave in China’s Gobi desert have found what they believe is the world’s oldest marijuana stash, reports Discovery News . Two pounds of still-green plant material were found in a 2,700-year-old grave belonging to a Caucasian man researchers believe may have been a shaman.http://www.newser.com/story/44317/scientists-sniff-out-ancient-stash-of-pot.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Dec 2008 17:24:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44305/surgeon-amputates-using-texted-instructions.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA volunteer surgeon in a Congolese war zone followed texted instructions to perform an amputation that saved a 16-year-old boy's life. The teen's badly injured and infected arm required that his collar bone and shoulder blade be immediately removed, but Dr. David Nott had never conducted such a procedure. He contacted a British colleague back home via phone text, "and he texted back step-by-step instructions," the Guardian reports.http://www.newser.com/story/44305/surgeon-amputates-using-texted-instructions.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Dec 2008 17:11:28 CST