Senate approves 8 percent boost in U.S. nutrition funds (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The Senate sent President Barack Obama a bill to boost spending on U.S. public nutrition programs, including food stamps and school lunch, by 8 percent, a reflection of the economic recession, on Thursday. [News Source]

Film pick of the week: “Zombieland” (The Rocket) "Zombieland" is flat-out fun-an insane adrenaline rush with a knock-out iconic performance from Woody Harrelson. Okay-back to the movie at hand. "Zombieland" isn't a great movie, it won't win awards (except maybe of the MTV variety) and it won't be used as an example in filmmaking classes. [News Source]

Fish scales, sheep fur may help restore vision (The Times of India) CHENNAI: Fish scales and sheep fur could soon help restore vision. [News Source]

Andreas Whittam Smith: The fine of art of scapegoating (Independent) In his book about the handling of mad cow disease by both the Conservative and the Labour Governments, Sir Richard Packer, the former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, wrote: "It was standard New Labour practice to decide on who should be categorised as a villain in any given circumstances (whether fairly or not was irrelevant) and to take steps well beforehand so that ... [News Source]

A return to Laramie to see what has changed (Orlando Sentinel) Two Orlando theaters will present 'The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (An Epilogue)' Leave a city for 10 years, and when you come back you expect that nothing, or everything, has changed. But it was more complicated than that for Moisés Kaufman and his fellow writers in the Tectonic Theater Project, who returned to Laramie, Wyoming -- scene of their acclaimed drama The Laramie Project -- 10 ... [News Source]

Ecology Of Infectious Disease Grants Awarded By NSF, NIH (redOrbit) Researchers will study links among spread of infectious diseases, global warming and other environmental changesThe spread of malaria to formerly disease-free regions like East Africa's highlands. [News Source]

Welcome to Zombieland: Would you like some comedy with your apocalypse? (Arizona Daily Wildcat) As is common in times of recession, society has disaster on its mind, and the world of cinema is no exception. [News Source]

‘Zombieland’ rises up over any other zombie comedy (Plattsburgh Press Republican) Usually zombie movies are made to be scary. Often they're unintentionally funny. Occasionally, however, the living dead are played purely — and intentionally — for laughs. [News Source]

Recent movie releases: ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ (Detroit Free Press) "Capitalism: A Love Story:" Michael Moore's latest documentary sets out to cover a lot: the unholy alliance between bankers and the Treasury Department, the politics of shifting the tax burden away from the rich, the loss of jobs and rights from individuals to corporations. The result is alternately moving and disheartening. [News Source]

Napo Pharmaceuticals hosts educational panel to address global health and environment (News-Medical-Net) Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Napo) recently hosted an educational panel to address the impact of the lack of access to clean water and enteric disease on global health, the environment, and human rights. [News Source]