An anonymous reader points out a story in The Register by Opera Software CTO Hakon Lie which tells the story of how Microsoft’s interoperability promise for IE8 seems to have been broken in less than six months. Quoting:

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New Guidelines Set for Safely Removing Excess Earwax. The body is a miraculous mechanism. Consider the once-lowly earwax. People used to try to remove it. Now, we now know that earwax has a job to do. Think of it kind of like the oil in your car, except it doesn’t ever have to be changed. Earwax is created by a mixture of secretions from glands that line the ear canal, sloughed-off skin cells, and bits of hair.

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Area Is Close To All-Time Low. A polar bear swims recently in open water off the coast of Alaska. The shrinking sea ice increases the pressure on polar bears, who usually hunt on the ice. Arctic sea ice has shrunk to the second-lowest level since record-keeping began three decades ago, a group of international researchers determined yesterday, a revelation underscoring how rapidly climate change is transforming ecosystems in northern latitudes.

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As the number of people who test positive for infection with West Nile virus increases, health officials offer advice on prevention of West Nile virus infection. The virus can infect humans via mosquito bites that caught the disease from infected birds. After the mosquito-transmitted disease claimed the lives of two people in Orange County, a Garden Grove man, age 64, and a 72-year-old Buena Park woman, Shasta County Deputy Health Officer Lou Anne Cummings announced the first confirmed human case of the mosquito-spread virus in Shasta County this year.

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