A group of people got together in the Commercial Drive area to phone North Carolina voters and ask them to support Barak Obama for the president of the United States.

Polling by the Clinton campaign continued to show her trailing Mr. Obama, advisers said this weekend, but they were holding out hope of at least narrowing the margin of an Obama victory to less than her margin in the April 22 Pennsylvania primary, which she won by slightly less than 10 percentage points. “If she carries North Carolina, she will get the nomination, and if she gets the nomination, she will be president of the United States,” Gov. Michael F. Easley, a Clinton supporter, said at a rally with Mrs. Clinton on Friday in Hendersonville.

It cost $63 to buy two servings of ground bison, four veggie burgers, a slightly stale pack of hamburger buns, vegetable pate, barbecue flavoured-rice crackers, half a gallon of organic milk, a bag of potato chips, butter cookies with dark chocolate, three packs of juice, 32 ounces of Nancy’s Vanilla yogurt, 8 yoplait Tubes, and a package of frozen French fried potatoes at a grocery store on Cambie Street.

A billion Asians are going to need assistance to weather the soaring price of food, the head of the Asian Development Bank said today.

A man collapsed while playing tennis at the Heather Park tennis courts. Emergency workers came to the scene and cars idled on the street as drivers tried to see what was going on.

Animal control personnel patrolled the Douglas Park area on Sunday, seeking dogs without licenses.

A task force attempted to draft a proposal for hospitals in figuring out who will live and die in a pandemic, CBC reports. They decided that people older than 85, those with severe trauma, which could include critical injuries from car crashes and shootings, severe burn victims over 60, those with severe mental impairment, and the extremely poor would be the first to be denied treatment.

A spokesperson for the group said compiling the list "was emotionally difficult for everyone."

That's partly because members believe it's just a matter of time before such a health-care disaster hits, the spokesperson said.

Ten thousand people died over the weekend in a Burmese cyclone.

Baby boomers were losing their memories,
the New York Times reported, but they weren't giving them up easily. "Decaying brains, or the fear thereof, have inspired a mini-industry of brain health products — not just supplements like coenzyme Q10, ginseng and bacopa, but computer-based fitter-brain products as well.

Nintendo’s $19.99 Brain Age 2, a popular video game of simple math and memory exercises, is one. Posit Science’s $395 computer-based “cognitive behavioral training” exercises are another. MindFit, a $149 software-based program, combines cognitive assessment of more than a dozen different skills with a personalized training regimen based on that assessment. And for about $10 a month, worried boomers can subscribe to Web sites like Lumosity.com and Happy-Neuron.com, which offer a variety of cognitive training exercises.”

And an article in Macleans suggested that losing the ability to remember names went first. They offered the following technique to assist name retention: To remember names, repeat the name of the person once, wait a few minutes, repeat the name again, wait a few minutes, repeat it again. You should now remember the name. I think I got that right. But I can’t find the article. I forgot what issue it was in.