Night Vision Tech Tangles Troops in Afghanistan Wired News BARAKI BARAK, Afghanistan — Staff Sgt. Andrew Odland and the Afghan police officer were standing just inches apart, looking in the same direction. But what they were seeing was completely different. A brief, contentious patrol in eastern ... |
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Night Vision Tech Tangles Troops in Afghanistan - Wired News
It's Getting Harder to Bring Home the Bacon - Wall Street Journal
It's Getting Harder to Bring Home the Bacon Wall Street Journal C. Larry Pope, CEO of the world's largest pork producer, explains why food prices are rising and why they are likely to stay high for a long time. By MARY KISSEL Bobbie Jean Pope, the 81-year-old mother of C. Larry Pope of Newport News, Va., ... |
Will Israel's Electric Cars Change the World? - TIME
Will Israel's Electric Cars Change the World? TIME Sebastian Scheiner / AP Shai Agassi, the founder of Better Place, the most sophisticated electric-car enterprise in the world, projects the ebullient confidence of a man facing a giant wave of money. ... |
Whiff of Desperation - by Stephen M. Walt - Foreign Policy
Whiff of Desperation - by Stephen M. Walt Foreign Policy BY STEPHEN M. WALT | APRIL 25, 2011 It is an ambassador's job to burnish his government's image; fidelity to the usual canons of logic and evidence are neither required nor expected. It is therefore unsurprising that Michael Oren's portrait of Israel ... |
Prince's land is on auction block - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Prince's land is on auction block Minneapolis Star Tribune Prince fell into foreclosure on 20 acres in Chanhassen where his home once stood, and the Carver County Sheriff's Office scheduled an auction to sell off the musician's land to satisfy the $368000 mortgage bill. However, a representative for Prince ... |
Dollar's Decline Speeds Up, With Risks for U.S. - Wall Street Journal
Dollar's Decline Speeds Up, With Risks for U.S. Wall Street Journal The US dollar's downward slide is accelerating as low interest rates, inflation concerns and the massive federal budget deficit undermine the currency. With no relief in sight for the dollar on any of those fronts, the downward ... |
Vibrators Carry the Conversation - New York Times
Vibrators Carry the Conversation New York Times Various personal massage devices line the shelves of a Duane Reade store in New York. For years, vibrators were bought quietly in sex shops, and later online, arriving in discreet unmarked packages. They were rarely discussed, ... |
College Football 2011: Power Ranking All 120 College Football Stadiums - Houston Chronicle
 Houston Chronicle | College Football 2011: Power Ranking All 120 College Football Stadiums Houston Chronicle One of the great things about college football is that, unlike the NFL, the opportunity to attend top-tier games is not limited geographically and financially. While NFL franchises are based in larger cities geographically located near populous regions ... |
A Sign? Man Bursts Into Flames at San Francisco Sex Shop - AOL News
 AOL News | A Sign? Man Bursts Into Flames at San Francisco Sex Shop AOL News For seven years, Roger Huang, a pastor who runs a rescue mission in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, has been trying to shut down the sex shops there. This week he may have seen a sign that his efforts are working. On Wednesday, a man burst into ... |
Chinese bullet trains: Is Beijing investing way too much in infrastructure? - Slate Magazine
Chinese bullet trains: Is Beijing investing way too much in infrastructure? Slate Magazine A bullet train to Beijing I recently took two trips to China just as the government launched its 12th Five-Year Plan to rebalance the country's long-term growth model. ... |
Indian Americans unhappy with passport surrender rules - Times of India
Indian Americans unhappy with passport surrender rules Times of India A large number of Indian Americans are very unhappy over the new rules imposed by Govt. of India for surrendering the old Indian passport and delays in issuance of visa to visit India. The decision to surrender Indian passports by all naturalized ... |
Spotlight on the queen never fades - CNN
Spotlight on the queen never fades CNN Even as her grandson and his new bride were saying their vows Friday, there she was, being gazed upon by the world. It would have been an extraordinary, perhaps even terrifying, feeling, were it being experienced by anyone else. ... |
Boston doctor pleads guilty to seeking sex with 6-year-old - Boston Globe
Boston doctor pleads guilty to seeking sex with 6-year-old Boston Globe AP / April 21, 2011 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Boston doctor avoided going to trial by admitting to a judge yesterday that he traveled to Alaska in 2009 with the intention of having sex with a 6-year-old boy. ... |
10 Craziest Tax Deductions for 2011 - Fox Business
10 Craziest Tax Deductions for 2011 Fox Business Did you hear about the human sperm deduction? The cop who wrote off his flattop haircut? The interstate cheeseburger incident? Behold Bankrate's sixth installment of the year's craziest, laughably outrageous, utterly true tax deduction ... |
Hear Me Now? - The Atlantic
 The Atlantic | Hear Me Now? The Atlantic On a recent chilly afternoon, I met the actor Paul Marcarelli at a wooden bench on University Place in New York City, not far from Washington Square Park. He wore a black down vest, checkered scarf, gray paperboy hat, and wire-rimmed ... |
Bones of Leper Warrior Found in Medieval Cemetery - Fox News
 Fox News | Bones of Leper Warrior Found in Medieval Cemetery Fox News Bone wasting reveals the owner of this skull to have suffered from leprosy. An unhealed gash on the forehead suggests that the man died a violent death, perhaps in battle. The bones of a soldier with leprosy who may have died in ... |
The OCZ Vertex 3 Review (120GB) - AnandTech
 AnandTech | The OCZ Vertex 3 Review (120GB) AnandTech SandForce was first to announce and preview its 2011 SSD controller technology. We first talked about the controller late last year, got a sneak peak at its performance this year at CES and then just a couple ... |
Trump's donation history shows Democratic favoritism - Washington Post
Trump's donation history shows Democratic favoritism Washington Post Billionaire Donald J. Trump, an early presidential favorite among tea party activists, has a highly unusual history of political contributions for a prospective Republican candidate: He has given most of his money to the ... |
Make Him a Saint - Wall Street Journal
Make Him a Saint Wall Street Journal One of the greatest moments in the history of faith was also one of the greatest moments in modern political history. It happened in June 1979. Just eight months before, after dusk on Oct. 16, 1978, a cardinal had stepped out onto the ... |
Diana's influence lives on - CNN
 CNN | Diana's influence lives on CNN London (CNN) -- Just after announcing his engagement, Prince William told the world he had given Kate Middleton the distinctive sapphire and diamond ring belonging to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, ... |
How ETFs Have Reshaped Investing - Wall Street Journal
How ETFs Have Reshaped Investing Wall Street Journal Exchange-traded funds were once an obscure niche of the mutual-fund industry. No longer. For evidence, look no further than what's happened since the markets began recovering from the global financial crisis. Since March 2009, when US ... |
Lawsuit asks state to pay for inmate's sex-change operation - Los Angeles Times
 Los Angeles Times | Lawsuit asks state to pay for inmate's sex-change operation Los Angeles Times Lyralisa Stevens says she is harassed and sexually assaulted by male prisoners, and needs surgery to be assigned to a women's prison. State officials say they aren't required to provide that level of care. Thomas Strawn, a transgender inmate who goes ... |
Indian Americans unhappy with passport surrender rules - Times of India
Indian Americans unhappy with passport surrender rules Times of India A large number of Indian Americans are very unhappy over the new rules imposed by Govt. of India for surrendering the old Indian passport and delays in issuance of visa to visit India. The decision to surrender Indian passports by all naturalized ... |
NCAA's Double Standard - New York Times
NCAA's Double Standard New York Times I don't know about you, but I had a hard time stomaching the sight of Jim Calhoun holding the championship trophy after Monday's final game of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Not because it was a lousy game (though it was), ... |
Life On The Farm Attracts Green-Spirited Entrepreneurs - CNBC.com
 CNBC.com | Life On The Farm Attracts Green-Spirited Entrepreneurs CNBC.com A growing interest in small-scale agriculture is beginning to reverse a decades-long flight from the farm. For nearly 70 years, the number of US farms has been declining, while the average age of farmers has been rising — it's now 57 years old ... |
Lazar Greenfield's 'Semengate' Stuns Scientific Community - Huffington Post (blog)
Lazar Greenfield's 'Semengate' Stuns Scientific Community Huffington Post (blog) Last week, New York state characterized freeze tag, Wiffle Ball, kickball and dodgeball as potentially hazardous, thereby subjecting camp providers overseeing those games to state regulation. Out West, the NCAA is at odds with the University of North ... |
Ikea's US factory churns out unhappy workers - Los Angeles Times
 Los Angeles Times | Ikea's US factory churns out unhappy workers Los Angeles Times A union-organizing battle hangs over the Ikea plant in Virginia. Workers complain of eliminated raises, a frenzied pace, mandatory overtime and racial discrimination. Workers prepare pieces of Ikea furniture for packing at the then-new factory in ... |
The Ryan Journey - New York Times
 New York Times | The Ryan Journey New York Times For decades, academics and think tankers have been proposing plans to avert a fiscal catastrophe. The ensuing debates were always sedate, high-minded affairs. Now Republican political leaders have come up with a bold proposal of their ... |
Overwhelmed rebel fighters flee from eastern Libyan city - CNN
 CNN | Overwhelmed rebel fighters flee from eastern Libyan city CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Airstrikes killed four people in eastern Libya on Thursday, an opposition general said, and rebel fighters and civilians made a wild, panicky retreat from a major city. Aircraft fired missiles on a rebel ... |
Royal wedding fuels popularity of Dukan diet - Los Angeles Times
 Los Angeles Times | Royal wedding fuels popularity of Dukan diet Los Angeles Times When Catherine Middleton walked down the aisle of Westminster Abbey on Friday — a willowy vision in white — she appeared noticeably thinner than she had in previous months. ... |
Horror and hope, tears and prayers - CNN
 CNN | Horror and hope, tears and prayers CNN Janet Puckett, a resident of the Alberta area of Tuscaloosa, says she's glad to be alive but adds, "I've lost everything really." Tuscaloosa, Alabama (CNN) -- It was around by 5 pm Wednesday when residents first saw the monster ... |
So You Want to Use Your iPhone for Work? Uh-oh. - Wall Street Journal
So You Want to Use Your iPhone for Work? Uh-oh. Wall Street Journal As people pack increasingly sophisticated smartphones in their personal life, they're clamoring to use those gadgets in the workplace as well. And many of their bosses are loosening up. They're ditching the traditional ... |
The Death of Right to Work - Wall Street Journal
The Death of Right to Work Wall Street Journal We knew that Big Labor had political pull at the Obama-era National Labor Relations Board, but yesterday's complaint against Boeing is one for the (dark) ages. By challenging Boeing's right to build aircraft in South Carolina, labor's bureaucratic ... |
Arkansas Derby and Blue Grass Recap - Daily Racing Form (blog)
Arkansas Derby and Blue Grass Recap Daily Racing Form (blog) If you had a sense of dj vu late Saturday afternoon, you weren't alone. For the second straight week, a highly ranked, highly respected, and heavily bet 3-year-old flopped in what was to be his final prep for the Kentucky Derby. ... |
The Audience Is Listening - National Review Online
The Audience Is Listening National Review Online There is always great intrigue in Barack Obama's speeches. Not much heft, mind you, but substance is not the point. In this Chicago-style presidency, what is said is often less telling than who is invited to hear what is said. That's where you find out ... |
The Party's Over for Buffett - New York Times
The Party's Over for Buffett New York Times Starting at around 9:30 this morning, Warren Buffett will stand on the stage of the cavernous Qwest Center in Omaha and face the music. Three journalists will ask him questions culled from thousands that have been e-mailed by shareholders ... |
So Cute, So Hard on a Marriage - Wall Street Journal
So Cute, So Hard on a Marriage Wall Street Journal After their daughter was born, Richard Goodrow and Corrie Fisher started taking walks to resolve disagreements. The couple in Boston with Cecelia, now 2. Along with shopping for sippy cups and strollers, expectant parents may want ... |
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