Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on Wednesday.
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Texas Dicks Looking for Drunks in a Bar
25% of Employees Use Computers to Search for New Jobs on Company Time
A quarter of U.S. workers who use a computer admit using it to hunt for a new job on company time, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome
Doctors are calling for more research into a very rare, poorly understood syndrome that is the opposite of the most common sexual complaint in women.
Facial Recognition to Revolutionize Digital Photos
Ever look for a picture on your desktop and find that you
have about a million pictures labeled IMG_0001.jpg? What if you didn’t have to
label each picture? Wouldn’t it be nice if your pictures were automatically labeled
according to who was in the photo?
Bird Flu Hard to Spread Human to Human
To date, roughly 103 people have been infected with the H5N1 avian
influenza virus–or bird flu. Yet few, if any, of them have spread the
disease to other humans.
Amazon Rainforest Needs Help
About 40 percent of the Amazon’s rainforests could be lost by 2050
unless more is done to prevent what could become one of the world’s
worst environmental crisis, scientists said on Wednesday.
Cash, Credit, or Phone?
Online payment company PayPal said on Wednesday it was preparing to
offer a service for consumers to make purchases or money transfers
using simple text messaging via mobile phones.
Online Role Playing Games good for Job Training?
In late 2004, Stephen Gillett was in the running for a
choice job at Yahoo! - a senior management position in engineering. He
was a strong contender. Gillett had been responsible for CNET’s
backend, and he had helped launch a number of successful startups. But
he had an additional qualification his prospective employer wasn’t
aware of, one that gave him […]
MIT Moves Closer to Morphing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists say they may have found a way for structures and materials to morph from one shape into another.
The Coming Era of Fish Farming
With the world’s wild fish stocks plummeting, experts say that something must be done to ensure our seafood supply. Are offshore fish farms the solution?
