Random

• Hearing loss has been tied to hormones and is thus treatable in some cases, according to a new Swedish study. -- Link

• The University of Guam has been fined $10,000 for failing to "properly label, store and manage hazardous waste such as varnish and flammable paint waste, oil and other wastes like lead acid batteries and fluorescent lamps." -- Link

• Huckabee is out but he's by no means going to slip quietly into the sunset.

• The Federated States of Micronesia are concerned about the eventual submergence of island atolls. There are several islands out there losing beaches and they are having to adjust the docks in some places. They are convinced that the US can do something about it all.