In California, driving with people in the trunk will be illegal. In Alabama, landlords will have to provide livable conditions for tenants. Illinois agencies will have to provide people to answer phones, not just automated messages.

The consumer package goods (CPG) industry generates nearly $2 trillion in sales in the US, and it is second to none when it comes to total advertising expenditures. Yet, although the industry will spend an estimated $15.6 billion to advertise online in 2006, that accounts for just 1% of its total advertising outlay.

Washington State University and the University of Idaho and are teaming up with a brew pub to try a new teaching method: mixing beer and science.

Topless dancers in Alabama aren’t really topless.  Dancers are spraying themselves with skin-colored latex, and in doing so, redefining the legal limits of nakedness.

According to eMarketer’s estimates, an important milestone will be reached over the next 12 months — high-speed Internet penetration will surpass 50% of US households, equating to over 60 million residential broadband subscribers.

The Chicago Department of Transportation has kicked off a pilot program to test 550 feet of recycled rubber sidewalk over the next year, right across the street from the Chicago Center for Green Technology on the city’s West Side.

Obesity is so revered among Mauritania’s white Moor Arab population that the young girls are sometimes force-fed to obtain a weight the government has described as "life-threatening".

An artificial island is emerging from the waters of Ise Bay, near the geographical center of the country. It will soon be home to the Central Japan International Airport, featuring a runway 3,500 meters long.  Great photos.

China is the country with not only the largest population, but also the largest number of disabled people nearly 83 million, or about the entire population of Germany. Of that number, more than 12 million cannot physically see the country’s development with their own eyes. They are China’s visually impaired.

Drawing on a combination of natural instinct and modern technology, the earthquake bureau in Nanning, the capital of South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has developed a snake-based earthquake-detection system.

Dean Takahashi: Most of us know that Thomas Watson Sr., the founder of IBM, predicted a worldwide market for five computers. Yet we beat on, boats against the current, trying to predict the future. This year, we brainstormed and argued endlessly — for about an hour. Here are the results.

Survey finds half of all Britons regularly use the telephone naked. There, try and get that pasty-white image out of your head. You’re welcome.

Much like the battle between AC & DC current a century ago, the battle between plasma and LCD televisions will determine which becomes the industry standard, and billions of dollars are at stake.

With reference materials easily accessible online, modern public libraries are now more like coffeehouse meeting places with Internet access than book lenders. But libraries and librarians still serve a purpose, say officials from the Library of Congress, academia and the Web search industry, and they have formed an advisory group on cyber-age bibliography.

A survey conducted by the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and IEEE Spectrum magazine focuses on the key science and technology trends, advances, and innovations that are more (or less) likely to surface over the next 10-50 years.

Five percent of Internet users went online yesterday to find a place to live, according to Pew Research.

Just as the number of Americans sporting tattoos has soared in the past decade, so has membership in another group: people who want their bodywork removed. Only then do they come to know the truth — that laser tattoo removal is painful, expensive and may not do the job completely.

Texas smokers will pay significantly more for cigarettes starting Jan. 1 when the excise tax increases by $1 a pack in a move that health experts hope will discourage folks, especially teens, from lighting up.

According to the American Advertising Federation (AAF), advergames are low on the budget priority list for online advertisers. A November 2006 study by the group revealed that its members had only budgeted 3.6% of their media budgets for video games in 2007. This is up from 2006, when AAF members said that they would spend […]

Bradley Werner and Ben Barokas predict what’s up for video in 2007, including BT and contextual targeting, sponsor cards, five-second bumpers, end cards, telescoping and more.

 
It was not the sharp Alaskan winds or the dicey takeoffs among the fjords of Juneau that finally grounded the Westwind II jet used by Frank H. Murkowski as governor. It was the weight of all that political baggage.

Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Christmas, we came up with this batch of numbers to put the whole thing into perspective.

Trends related to our homes and our food are changing.  Here is the 3rd part of an iVillage discussion with three home and food experts that will surely keep us buzzing about next year.

A notorious motorway speed camera which has increased the risk of accidents and caused huge tailbacks is to be scrapped.

A comon parasite can increase a women’s attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.