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Annual Origami Competition at MIT
Dreamed up Phone Number Leads Man to a Bride
A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message.
2008 Olympic Venues
The 2008 Olympics are getting closer and China plans to capture the world’s imagination with its colorful architecture and amazing venues. Here is a photo gallery of what’s in store.
Car Sales Start Online
More auto shoppers are going to branded carmaker Web sites than ever, but they are going to fewer sites in total, according to Capgemini.
M.A.R.S. Floating Wind Generator
This blimp-like craft will be filled with helium and hover 1,000 feet above ground level where it’ll take advantage of the stronger winds to capture energy which is then transferred back to ground.
WiMAX is Coming
WiMAX (also known as 4G, or "fourth generation") is a wireless Internet broadband technology similar to Wi-Fi, but with a much greater range. While Wi-Fi access points have a range of about 100 feet, WiMAX base stations can cover an area roughly the same as existing cellular networks, making it relatively easy to blanket an […]
100 Million iPods Sold
It’s official. Apple has sold 100 million iPods. According to the press release, this isn’t just some round number. Apparently, 100 million units sold in five and a half years makes the iPod "the fastest selling music player in history."
13 Prisoners Exonerated with DNA in Dallas
The jury that convicted him of rape never heard about the other James Giles, the one who lived across the street from the victim. It sent James Curtis Giles, now 53, to prison for 10 years for the 1982 gang rape of a Dallas woman that he has long maintained he did not commit. On Monday, […]
Teacher-Student Affairs Unprofessional but Not Always Criminal
The teacher-student relationship issue is covered with a relatively new law, and it’s riddled with problems. It doesn’t demand evidence of abuse and assumes that mature teens are necessarily traumatized by sex with adults.
Pampered Homeless
Old hotness: Feeding the homeless. New hotness: Giving homeless cellphones
Survey: Europeans Support a Preemptive Strike on Iran
Over half of Europeans would support a preemptive military strike to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, a poll released last week by a London think-tank reports.
