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What Does Your Car Say About You?

May 21st, 2007 at 8:49 pm » Comments (0)

Ask a Chevrolet dealer what kind of message a $22,000 Monte Carlo coupe puts out.



Dirty Windows May Be Part of the Pollution Problem

May 21st, 2007 at 8:29 pm » Comments (0)

Dirty windows may worsen smog, according to Canadian chemists who say urban grime may help recycle nitrogen oxides into the air.



New Memjet Printers

May 21st, 2007 at 5:48 pm » Comments (0)

Memjet-powered printers shoot ink through 70,000 nozzles to print a color, 8 ½-by-11 page in a second. Blink and you’ll miss it. The company promises fast, laser-quality prints at a third of the cost of LaserJet printers.



Survey: Denver is the Most Fit & Most Stressed City

May 21st, 2007 at 4:27 pm » Comments (0)

Denver residents have more confidence about their fitness than people in other major cities but they’re also more stressed out than their counterparts in other major markets, according to the Health and Well-being in America survey released Monday.



Most Trusted People in Australia … a Few Surprising

May 21st, 2007 at 3:15 pm » Comments (0)

Ausralians look for important qualities when choosing their most trusted people: medical practitioners and scientists have them and so do musicians who relate to kids.



The ‘Jury Duty Scam’

May 21st, 2007 at 2:13 pm » Comments (0)

The phone rings, you pick it up, and the caller identifies himself as an officer of the court. He says you failed to report for jury duty and that a warrant is out for your arrest. You say you never received a notice. To clear it up, the caller says he’ll need some information for [...]



Music Industry Growth to Come From Licensing

May 21st, 2007 at 12:24 pm » Comments (0)

Most of the recent attention on the music industry has focused on the tension between falling CD sales and the rise of digital music: Will the latter compensate for the former? Yet it is not recordings that will drive net growth for the industry. Instead, live music and music publishing will grow along with the [...]



Robots May Soon Replace our Nurses

May 21st, 2007 at 8:42 am » Comments (0)

Robut nurses could be bustling around hospitals in as little as three years.



Indonesian Man Catches Ancient Fish

May 21st, 2007 at 8:23 am » Comments (0)

 An Indonesian fisherman has caught a coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct at the time of the dinosaurs, a fishery expert said on Monday.



Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water

May 21st, 2007 at 8:21 am » Comments (0)

A Purdue University engineer has developed a method that uses an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water for running fuel cells or internal combustion engines, and the technique could be used to replace gasoline.



Podcast User Demographics

May 21st, 2007 at 8:13 am » Comments (0)

It would be a mistake to think that the average podcast user is a 23-year-old male with a college education and a really big comic book collection. Podcast users are not a homogeneous group, and downloads range from music to religious broadcasts to museum tours.