Scientists Create Energy-Producing Solar Paint

Soon terawatts of non-polluting electrical energy will be readily and cheaply available from sunlight, even when it's cloudy.  An inexpensive photo-voltaic paint has been invented in the UK and will soon be in...

Science: dinosaur find in Dorset

"The most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Britain is about to go on display - evidence of a species unique to Britain that perished in a devastating flood.The first piece was retrieved from a beach in Dorset in 2000 by David Sole, a former solicitor turned...

Museum Director Is Found Dead

An American director of a museum at Bangkok University, who was recently charged with wire fraud, has been found dead in Seattle. "The 62-year-old American director of a museum in Thailand who was indicted in a federal investigation into looted antiquities was found dead in a...

Crashed probe yields Sun secrets

" Scientists have measured the composition of oxygen at the birth of the Solar System. The discovery is a vital piece of data for reconstructing the evolution of our cosmic neighbourhood. Nasa's Genesis...

Collect.com Show and Tell Sweepstakes Announced

Collect.com has announced its new contest, a sweepstakes sponsored by Krause Publications, for Collect.com forum users.To enter the contest, participants need only visit and register with www.collect.com, and place a post in their favorite forum stating what they collect and...

Bottle of booze sells for $54,000 at NYC auction

I know it's relative and the numbers don't mean anything when you're wealthy, but I still think a bottle of anything that costs more than two cars is sinful if not entirely stupid. "NEW YORK - A bottle of...

UK govt mislays personal details of half the nation

Hmmnnnnn....remarkable!"The personal details of half of Britain have been mislaid by the government, finance minister Alistair Darling said on Tuesday, in another major blow to an administration reeling from the Northern Rock banking debacle. The opposition...

FBI told in Advance of OJ 'sting' plan

One can assume the FBI didn't take O.J. SImpson's Sting Operation seriously, or perhaps the (FBI) just needed an excuse to jail O.J.,  feeling Justice was not served a decade ago in the murder of his wife and an...

The $100,000 Lock of Hair

A hair lock snipped from Ernesto “Che” Guevara before his burial in 1967 sells for $100,000 at auction to a Houston-area bookstore owner who called the Marxist “one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th...

Holy attic find, Batman! Rare comic grabs huge price

Most of us find spiderwebs and old diaries when we clean out our attics; not so for a Pennsylvania man who found a near-mint copy of Detective Comics No. 27 in his attic. The DC comic series, then its infant stages,...

Suspect Arrested in O.J. Simpson Las Vegas Hotel Robbery Case

UPDATE In the endlessly evolving story of OJ Simpson, there has been an arrest of one of the three or four colleagues that accompanied OJ the night the police were summoned to a Las Vegas hotel room of...

O.J.:"There was no armed robbery here,"

  "LAS VEGAS - O.J. Simpson said he doesn't understand why he is under investigation in an alleged armed robbery at a casino hotel room involving his sports memorabilia. The former football star told The...

Sixties singer facing jail term

" Sixties singer facing jail term Wayne Fontana The singer was told off for his 'fancy dress' Sixties pop star Wayne Fontana has been remanded in custody after admitting setting fire to a debt collector's car. The...

The Debt Collector vs. The Widow

"Fyffe, Ala. Heart surgery halted Viola Sue Kell's work sewing carpets in a rug mill in 2001. It was the end of 40 years of cleaning motel rooms, restaurant jobs, "just hard stuff," says Mrs. Kell, a 64-year-old widow. She applied for Social Security disability, and her...

When The Collector Calls: Top Ten Tips to Negotiating

How to negotiate a settlement: 1. Plan your call and set your goals before calling. If you want to settle for 50% start negotiating at 25%. 2. Make no solid agreement on your first phone call. 3. Make sure...

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