The sound of grasshoppers chirping and clicking their legs is going to be used to help track climate change.Grasshoppers and bush crickets are going to be pubically monitored in Britain to record sightings of all 27...
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With the Model T turning 100 a few days back, the new cars by Ford shows how far we have advanced over the past 100 years. This new technology is called MyKey. The new features allow parents to limit teen drivers to...
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The proposed $700 billion bailout has brought immense media attention as well as that of ordinary Americans, and the surest test of that came from the House of Representatives' own website, which was deluged with...
An interesting study by a group that studies people's facial reactions to ads concludes that McCain isn't effective in selling hope but is very good at projecting anger and selling fear. "A marketing research...
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" Gov. Ed Rendell calls for halt to prisoner releases"" Responding to mounting criticism of Pennsylvania's parole process after the killing of a Philadelphia police...
"Can you believe it? Audi TT has been driven for 10 years. To mark this, Audi has revealed the most performance focused version of its iconic sports car, the TTS Quattro. The TTS made its debut this week at the...
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"Google (NSDQ: GOOG), T-Mobile, and htc launched the latest salvo in the smartphone wars as they unveiled the first handset to support Google's Android operating system. The G1 smartphone, manufactured by HTC and...
He is not wearing green, and he does not live in Sherwood forest, yet he calls himself a modern day “Robin Hood." Enric Duran, a middle-aged man from Spain, has fooled 39 Spanish banks to lend him close to half a...
"Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction photo credit: laffy4k New York Times called the possibility of an AIG liquidation “as close to an extinction-level event as the financial markets have seen since the Great Depression.” We keep hearing that the current...
More trouble could be brewing in the Caribbean. Even if it does not reach storm status, the last thing Haiti, Cuba and other area islands need is more rain."SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 415 PM EDT SUN SEP 21 2008 ...
"The Endocannabinoid SystemCannabis preparations have been used medically for thousands of years for illnesses such as epilepsy, migraine headaches, childbirth, and menstrual symptoms. However, it is only relatively recently that the active components have been identified and...
"After winning India’s first individual gold in Olympics, the shooter gave credit to his father for the success. Abhinav said that the victory was more in spite of the system than because of it. This comment infuriated Digvijay Singh, the president of the Shooting...