Cameron Is Caught in Conservative Quandary Over Hostility to EU (Bloomberg) Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- David Cameron , who polls suggest will be Britain’s next prime minister, faces the dilemma of angering his supporters, his European Union allies or both should he win elections this year. [News Source]

Normal protein can be converted into prion that causes fatal brain diseases in humans (News-Medical-Net) Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals. [News Source]

Cameron Is Caught in Conservative Quandary Over Hostility to EU (Bloomberg) Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- David Cameron , who polls suggest will be Britain’s next prime minister, faces the dilemma of angering his supporters, his European Union allies or both should he win elections this year. [News Source]

US op dream to help girl walk (Isle of Wight County Press) Gracie-May Fuller, with her mum, Mandy Fuller. Picture by Peter Boam. THE parents of plucky toddler Gracie-May Fuller wait on tenterhooks to find if their disabled daughter will get the vital operation she needs to help her walk. [News Source]

Bachmann sends regrets to Tennessee Tea Party (Pioneer Press) Rep. Michele Bachmann has backed out of plans to speak at next week's National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn. [News Source]

President arrives in Los Angeles en route back to Taiwan (Chinapost.com.tw) Los Angeles -- President Ma Ying-jeou arrived in Los Angeles Thursday evening for an overnight transit stop en route to Taiwan after a diplomatic trip that took him to Honduras and the Dominican Republic. [News Source]

It’s official, we’re Slow-noma (Sonoma Index-Tribune) PIER GIORGIO OLIVETI, director of Cittaslow International, talks with reporters and Virginia Hubbell (right), director of Cittaslow Sonoma Valley, during a press reception Wednesday. [News Source]

Cameron Is Caught in Conservative Quandary Over Hostility to EU (Bloomberg) Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- David Cameron , who polls suggest will be Britain’s next prime minister, faces the dilemma of angering his supporters, his European Union allies or both should he win elections this year. [News Source]

China May Be Fourth-Largest U.S. Beef Buyer, Export Chief Says (Bloomberg) Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- China’s ban on U.S. beef imports has failed to prevent shipments of the meat from arriving indirectly via other countries in Asia, said Jim Peterson, the chairman of the U.S. Meat Export Federation. [News Source]

Study Offers Evidence That Spongiform Brain Diseases Are Caused By Aberrant Protein (redOrbit) Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals.The finding, in mice, is expected to advance the understanding of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs, a family of neurodegenerative diseases that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, kuru and fatal familial insomnia in humans ... [News Source]