links for 2006-12-11

• NWCN.com
  49-year-old Lepa Leposava, allegedly attacked her son with a kitchen knife after the young man ate some of her freshly prepared popcorn.
  (tags: oregon news)
• ESPN.com - NCF - Idaho AD says Erickson leaving for Arizona State job
  Dennis Erickson has accepted the head coaching job at Arizona State, Idaho athletic director Rob Spear said Saturday night.
  (tags: sports football oregon)
• The Washington Times: Report Princes Diana Driver was Drunk
  New DNA evidence proves the driver of Princess Diana's car was drunk on the night of her fatal crash in a Paris underpass in 1997, British Broadcasting Corp. said Saturday
  (tags: uk news)
• Kuklas Korner: Get A Life
  One Surrey, B.C., subscriber says he voted 500 times in two days. Obviously, he has no job and no life
  (tags: hockey canucks)
• FT.com / Home UK / UK - Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies
  General Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile who ruled the Andean country for 17 years, has died a week after suffering a heart attack. He was 91
  (tags: history chile uk)
• A missile defense system is taking shape in Alaska - Americas - International Herald Tribune
  After the North Korean test either failed or was aborted, "there was a little bit of a letdown" at the base, said Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hildreth, the commander of the 49th, "because we were prepared."
  (tags: usa asia politics news waronterror)
• FT.com / World / US & Canada - China risk to world economy, says Schwab
  US-Chinese relations are in jeopardy because Beijing is slowing the pace of reform and putting the global economy at risk, Washington’s chief trade negotiator said on the eve of a high-level delegation to China.
  (tags: china chinaeconomy usa politics economics)
• Idaho Zamboni drivers fired after trip to fast-food drive-thru - USATODAY.com
  BOISE (AP) — Two employees of the city's ice skating rink have been fired for making a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis.
  (tags: hockey news)
• The Washington Times: AP
  Then the virus went quiet. Except for a steady stream of human cases in Indonesia, the current flu epicenter, the past year's worries about a catastrophic global outbreak largely disappeared.
  (tags: birdflu health china)