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On Sunday, New York becomes the sixth state where same sex-marriage is legal.The milestone was achieved in no small part due to the efforts of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, long a vocal advocate of the cause.Two of Bloomberg s senior aides are gay - and he ll be presiding Sunday when his chief policy advi
stanley becher ser, John Feinblatt, and his Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, Jonathan Mintz, get married.The couple will be among the first to take advantage of the new la
stanley cupe w, in the morning.Bloomberg has only officiated at two other weddings -- one was his daughter s, and the other was of his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani. But he s making another exception, he says, because of his close personal connection to Feinblatt and Mintz and the role they played in personalizing the issue of same-sex marriage for him. John and Jonathan are two of the smartest and hardest-working people in our administration, Bloomberg says. This just felt like the best way for me to say thank you. He says he s honored to be part of it. Mintz and Feinblatt have been together 14 years and have two young daughters.To meet demand from the many same-sex couples wanting to marry on the first day they can in New Y
stanley cup ork, the city is taking the unusual step of opening the City Clerk s office on a day when it would normally be closed. On The Early Show on Saturday Morning, Bloomberg, Feinblatt and Mintz talked about the enormity of the day, for themselves and the rights of the entire gay commun Ujqq 鈥婭f You Want a Glimpse of the Future Food Wars, Look to Hawaii
A recent study out of UC Berkeley has discovered that tiny golden-winged warblers can predict impending storms 鈥?or rather, they can actually hear them approaching. Scientists hope to use what they ;ve learned to help save lives ahead of violent weather. Reports The Atlantic: In April, a massive thunde
stanley quencher rstorm unleashed a series of tornadoes that tore through the central and southern United States.
stanley cup Scientists say a peculiar event took place just two days before the storm: Flocks of songbirds fled the area en masse. Many golden-winged warblers had just finished a 1,500-mile migration to Tennessee when the
stanley cup y suddenly flew south on a 900-mile exodus to Florida and Cuba. At that time, the storm was somewhere between 250 and 560 miles away. The researchers said that the birds somehow knew about the impending storm. The UC Berkeley team, led by population ecologist Henry Streby, were studying migratory patterns when they noticed a discrepancy in the data. The Atlantic explains: Why, the researchers wondered, would these tiny birds travel so far from their already-grueling migratory route Upon further inspection, the scientists found that the dates the birds broke with the pattern coincided with the beginnings of the storm. In a paper reported today in the journal Current Biology, the team suggests that the birds made their evacuation migration because their keen sense of hearing alerted them to the incoming natural disaster. Huge tornado-spewing storms produce
