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The city of Cranston, R.I., used to operate a separate pension fund for hundreds of police and firefighters who contributed money from their paychecks to the fund. But instead of setting the money aside and investing it, the city spent it on operating expenses.

Scripps Glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker was awarded the Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica for her work on sub-glacial lakes and remote sensing techniques. We'll talk to her about Antarctica, which she calls the most unobservable place in the world, and the work she's doing to detect changes in the ice sheet. We'll also find out about the iceberg, four times the size of Manhattan, which just broke apart from Petermann Glacier in Greenland and began drifting into the Nares Strait.

When President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meet in Washington, the first item on their agenda is how to deal with Palestinians who are divided physically and politically, with Fatah controlling the West Bank and Hamas in charge in the Gaza Strip.

Bodies were moved into a mass grave and piled throughout Port-au-Prince as rescue and relief teams struggled with the huge scale of death and injury in the wake of Tuesday's earthquake. Aid convoys were warned to add security to protect against looting.

This is a subject that, right off the bat, suggests a public act of physical effort. Note the words "public" and "physical" in the same sentence. It also implies that it be done with another person, a gesture of shared affection, executed with some semblance of coordination. Swell.

Sharks: Many fear them - others are fascinated by the ocean's top predator.

Male porn stars have been known to don all sorts of interesting attire -- but one thing you'll seldom see them wear is a condom. A health care group that has long lobbied for mandatory condom use may be about to win a round in that fight. But erotic-film makers worry about the proposal's effect on their industry.

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, is a huge research facility devoted to solving some of the major problems facing the planet. The brand new school -- it opened just this past fall -- rises from the desert like the secret research lab in a James Bond movie.

Investigations into sudden acceleration involving Toyota vehicles are shedding new light on black boxes in cars. As with black boxes on planes, they can reveal a lot about driver behavior and the car's performance.

German Theodor Haensch and Americans John Hall and Roy Glauber win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on the physics of light. Their work with lasers has helped redefine how distance is measured and allowed physicists to measure the atom's internal structure with new precision.