Science Wire

Microsoft has once again made an unsuccessful bid to take over internet giant, Yahoo, but as many times before, the boys at Yahoo will have none of it. In particular, Jerry Yang, Chief Executive, has been instrumental in the repeated rejections as his demand price of $37 a share was not been met by the software giant. On August 1, however, Microsoft with the aid of billionaire, Carl Icahn will attempt overthrow Yahoo’s board of directors at the shareholders meeting.

Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri Al-maliki, has initiated a program that seems geared towards buying support from the Iraqi people. He and select few high-ranking officials hand out sums of money not exceeding $8000 to people, in an effort to ease the pain of the majority population.

The American public welcomes this new procedure as it shifts the financial burden associated with Iraq off the shoulders of the government and onto those upon whose it belongs, the Iraqi Government with its super-saturated with oil revenue based economy.

Tony Snow, writer and commentator, as well as spokesman for President George W. Bush, has died of colon cancer at age 53. Snow was the first host of the television news program, “Fox News Sunday” and remained with the show between 1996 and 2003. Snow replaced Scott McClellan as press secretary in May 2006 and attained a reputation as  a camera-friendly spokesperson unlike his predecessor. He leaves behind his wife, Jill Ellen Walker and three children.