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[Hours before Palestinian PM offers referendum on recognizing Israel, they shell beach full of tourists. Now why would they do that?] Israeli naval gunboats killed at least 10 Palestinian civilians and wounded about 40 others as they relaxed in the s
[Hours before Palestinian PM offers referendum on recognizing Israel, they shell beach full of tourists. Now why would they do that?] Israeli naval gunboats killed at least 10 Palestinian civilians and wounded about 40 others as they relaxed in the s
Oklahoma became the fifth state to allow the death penalty for certain sex crimes. Anyone convicted twice for rape, sodomy or lewd molestation involving children under 14 can face the death penalty. "The last message you want to give an offender
Eastward from Meridiani Planum, the flat ground that Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on gives way to rougher, more heavily cratered terrain. Many craters found there testify to a long history of formation by impact, filling by sediments, bu
Seaweed, crustacean shells, and a patient's own cells may allow doctors to improve bone grafts. To fill gaps in a bone—which can result from accidents or surgery, especially when some kinds of tumors are cut away— surgeons will often craft a scaf
Scientists are working on a tactile sensor that could one day lend a human touch to robotic hands. The new sensor responds to pressure and texture with a sensitivity and spatial resolution comparable to human fingers. Film made of stacked layers of s
Somewhere on Earth, close to 4 billion years ago, a set of molecular reactions flipped a switch and became life. Scientists try to imagine this animating event by simplifying the processes that characterize living things.
The governor of Texas wants to turn all the world into a virtual posse. Rick Perry has announced a $5 million plan to install hundreds of night-vision cameras on private land along the Mexican border and put the live video on the Internet, so that an
Google is committed to doing business in China despite criticism the company has faced for abiding by Chinese government censorship restrictions, co-founder Sergey Brin said. He reiterated Google's intention to move ahead with its google.cn site—
Google held on to its commanding lead as the preferred search engine in the U.S. in May, processing almost 60% of all queries filed, way ahead of its two closest competitors Yahoo (22%) and Microsoft (12.1%).
It doesn't matter what role you play in this industry: player, affiliate, casino manager, software provider. This bill - if passed - will affect us all. Even though you may reside outside the US (like me), this could have grave consequences for y
In another boost to Mozilla, Google has created a tool that lets users synchronize the settings of their Firefox browsers across multiple computers. Users will maintain the same bookmarks, Web site visits log, saved passwords and persistent cookies i
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously to designate the manatee as a threatened species rather than endangered. It also voted to remove the bald eagle from its list of threatened species. State officials said the
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is launching a massive project to post 48 million pages of documents, 400,000 photos and 1,200 hours of video on the Internet. The late president's papers will be digitized first, and could be a
Ayn Rand, born Russia 1905 on the cusp of the cascading revolutions. Her family lost just about everything in that process, something which imbued her with a deep seated hate for anything smacking of socialism.
In 1999, MIT engineering Professor David Miller showed Star Wars on the first day of class. During the scene where Luke Skywalker practices his light saber against a seeker remote, Miller stood up and said "I want you to build me some of those.*
The US trade deficit widened 2.5 percent in April to 63.4 billion dollars as imports of oil and cheap goods from China rose. The US trade performance was better than expected by economists, who had predicted an April figure of 65.0 billion dollars. T
Vice President Dick Cheney defended himself against accusations by a leading Republican senator that he worked to thwart Senate plans to make telephone executives testify at a hearing about a U.S. domestic spying program.
Iraq's prime minister imposed a daytime driving ban in Baghdad and in the province where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by American bombs, fearing insurgents will seek to avenge the death of the al-Qaida in Iraq leader.
House Democrats will decide next week whether to remove Rep. William Jefferson from a powerful committee pending the outcome of a federal investigation of the Louisiana Democrat on possible bribery charges.
Texas roads sometimes seem to stretch into infinity and beyond but the huge state will not take so long to cross since it adopted the fastest speed limit in the US. Last week signs went up on 2 interstate highways that raised the limit to 80mph.
Most individuals see that the price of gasoline, movie theater tickets, ice cream cones, and practically all other goods and services has increased quite substantially over the past fifty years. Just recently there were comments in this newspaper ab
Letter carriers collected 70.5 million pounds of food donations along their mail routes in the nation's largest one-day effort to combat hunger, the National Association of Letter Carriers(NALC) announced today. Final results showed 70,493,150 p
In the months after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI tried to buy satellite photos from a Russian company to track Timothy McVeigh's movements before the attack, a newly released FBI teletype shows. The teletype, filed Friday
In what some on Capitol Hill are calling a surprising decision, US Rep. Henry Hyde has given the nod for hearing into the long-debated question of whether those responsible for the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building had help from any forei
For the first time since Congress mandated its annual publication, a State Department report cataloging human trafficking across the globe includes allegations that American taxpayers financed such abuses. This year's Trafficking in Persons Repo
Producing more government laws that increase the number of individuals becoming criminals is typical of a society where government regulations control the individual as opposed to allowing the individual to take responsibility for his own life. The
Rep. Jerry Lewis' stepdaughter received $42,000 from a political fundraising group led by a defense contractor who got government contracts worth millions of dollars from a powerful House committee that Lewis chairs, records show.
U.S. and Iraqi forces zeroed in on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi over two weeks, finally tracking his spiritual adviser to the terrorist leader's doorstep and unleashing the airstrike that killed them both, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday. The s
Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft continued to oversee the Valerie Plame-CIA leak probe for more than two months in late 2003 after he learned in extensive briefings that FBI agents suspected White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter**
