The world seems more like a Michael Crichton novel everyday

1. Chief executives and doctors at various hospitals in Los Angeles accused of luring homeless people into hospitals and giving them unnecessary and dangerous treatments as a way to defraud taxpayer-funded healthcare programs. Link. (Next.)

2. "It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more 'provocative' than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface." Link. Via. (Sphere.)

3. Rare metals are worth killing over in Africa. Link. (Congo.)