Weekly interesting news round up

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For those of you that are also on my facebook, forgive the duplication:

Posted by way of my friend Marla. Truly amazing footage of an elephant giving birth. A bit graphic and the little one struggles a bit at first, but it has a happy ending and baby is just fine: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/656611/d1dfcfee/live_olifant_geboorte_tv.html

And now for a little comic relief:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/rules-grammar-change,922/
Rules Grammar Change
"WASHINGTON, DC-The U.S. Grammar Guild Monday announced that no more will traditional grammar rules English follow. Instead there will a new form of organizing sentences be."

Why am I not surprised?
Study: Insurance companies hold billions in fast food stock
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/15/insurance.fast.food.stock/

Massive fireball reported across Midwestern sky
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/midwest.fireball/
Make of it what you will ;-)

Amazing photos of the eruption of a volcano in Iceland:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yahooeditorspicks/galleries/72157623855495574/
Fire and ice!

And a great quote posted on the profile of my friend Sarah:
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all." Kahlil Gibran