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April 9 (Bloomberg) — New York, the third most-populous U.S. state, faces a $1 billion cash shortfall in the first week of June, state budget director Robert Megna said.
Full story: New York State Faces $1 Billion Cash Shortage in June (Update1)
With unemployment still at a severe high, a majority of states have drained their jobless benefit funds, forcing them to borrow billions from the federal government to help out-of-work Americans
APWhere's the Bread?With the all-meat, no-bread Double Down, the fast-food chain joins the ranks of other U.S. eateries seeking success in excess.
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The announcement marks another step in the transformation of the American elite. Justice Stevens, who turns 90 later this month, is the only Protestant now on the court. Once entirely Protestant, the court now has six Catholics and two Jews. Among the top three candidates to succeed Justice Stevens, two are Jewish and one is Protestant.
Henderson Waves
Background: The 118-foot tall Henderson Waves is Singapore's tallest pedestrian bridge, linking Mount Faber Park with Telok Blangah Hill Park.
Why It's Innovative: Pedestrian bridges allow for a certain amount of creativity that's not possible with structures that need to support heavy-duty use. The undulating outer shell of the Henderson Waves is striking, and the inside is shaped into benches where tourists can sit and gaze at nature or the nearby skyline of Singapore City. The bridge, which is about 900 feet long, is illuminated by an array of LED lights each night to bolster its snake-like presence in the midst of two
Millau Viaduct
Background: English architect Norman Foster designed this massive cable-stayed bridge to carry travelers over the valley of the Tarn River. It opened in 2004 with a final price tag of nearly $600 million.
Why It's Innovative: With its apex at 1125 feet, the Millau Viaduct is one of the world's tallest bridges. Despite its huge size, the construction period lasted only three years thanks to the use of GPS guidance systems, self-climbing formwork and prefabricated materials. "What is unusual is to have the towers taper in both directions as they rise," Macdonald says.
Gateshead Millennium Bridge
Background: This award-winning tilt-bridge is the brainchild of Wilkinson Eyre, a London-based architecture firm. It crosses the River Tyne, connecting Gateshead and New Castle.
Why It's Innovative: A system of six hydraulic rams can pivot the bridge's walkway at a 40-degree angle in order to let boats pass. Wilkinson Eyre describes the bridge's movement as looking like a "slowly opening eyelid" when it raises, a process that takes fewer than 5 minutes. Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that the bridge was fully constructed before being installed as a single piece by Europe's largest floating crane, Asian Hercules II.
Steel House
Lubbock, Texas
Background: Artist and architect Robert Bruno has been at work on his steel home since 1974. Bruno has said that he wants the shape of the structure to be somewhere between animal and machine.
Klein Bottle House
Mornington Peninsula, Australia
Background: This beach house, which was designed be the firm McBride Charles Ryan, was named the world’s best home at the 2009 World Architecture Festival awards.
Why It’s Unique: A Klein Bottle is a complex mathematical concept that involves folding a cylinder into itself in order to create an unusual, spiraling form. This notion was the driving force behind the Klein Bottle House, which appears to bring the interior out to the exterior and vice versa. A steel frame was layered with cement and sheet metal, while the architects created a courtyard at the center of the house to allow winds to easily pass through.
Free Spirit Sphere
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
Background: This hanging room is the brainchild of Tom and Rosy Chudleigh, a Canadian couple that builds these spherical living spaces for customers around the world.
Antigovernment extremists are on the rise—and on the march.
Stewart Rhodes does not seem like an extremist. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former U.S. Army paratrooper and congressional staffer. He is not at all secretive. In February he was sitting at a table at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at a fancy downtown hotel in Washington, handing out fliers and selling T shirts for his organization, the Oath Keepers. Rhodes says he has 6,000 dues-paying members, active and retired police and military, who promise never to take orders to disarm U.S. citizens or herd them into concentration camps. Rhodes told a NEWSWEEK reporter, "We're not a militia." Oath Keepers do not run around the woods on the weekend shooting weapons or threatening the violent overthrow of the government. Their oath is to uphold the Constitution and defend the American people from dictatorship.
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Linked to Vitamin D Deficiency
Women living in the northeastern United States are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA), suggesting a link between the autoimmune disease and vitamin D deficiency, says a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher.
The Study found that women in states like Vermont, New Hampshire and southern Maine were more likely to report being diagnosed with RA.
The Przewalski's horse is starting to rebuild its numbers after being re-introduced into the wild.
Currently restricted to two small areas of Cuba. 
The national bird of Grenada is threatened by habitat loss. 
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Only a few hundred of these small amphibians are left. 
; the hirola is a highly threatened African antelope. 
With only 400 left, the ploughshare tortoise is threatened by the illegal pet trade. 
Living on the California Channel Islands, this is the smallest fox in the United States. 
This population has declined 80 percent during the past 75 years. 
This small ocean porpoise is drowning in fishing nets. 
Only 59 of these monkeys remain on a small island off Vietnam.
A tiger jumps at a performer on a 130-metre-long tightrope some nine metres above the tiger enclosure at a zoo in Changzhou in east China's Jiangsu province
Right whales began washing up on the shores of Argentina's Patagonian coast in 2005. So far, researchers have counted a total of 308 dead whales.
About 88 percent of the whale deaths were calves that were less than three months old. Curiously, many of the corpses had unusually thin layers of blubber. The deceased calves found comprise almost a third of all right whale calve sightings in the last 5 years.
