Wednesday, April 18, 2007 In France, voting has traditionally been a low-tech experience: voters isolate themselves in a booth, put a pre-printed sheet of paper indicating their candidate of choice into an envelope. After officials verify the voter’s identity, the voter drops the envelope into the ballot box and signs the voting roll. French electoral…Continue reading
A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, June 4, 2007. MediaCorp Radio in Singapore has been fined 15,000 Singaporean dollars (US$9,800) over an on-air stunt in March in which female guests on a radio show were asked to remove their brassieres, and pose for video that was to be posted on the station’s website and…Continue reading
Friday, March 23, 2007 In a press release earlier today, New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker, along with Dean of Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine Donald F. Smith, confirmed that scientists at the New York State Food Laboratory identified Aminopterin as a toxin present in cat food samples from Menu Foods. Menu Foods…Continue reading
Saturday, July 23, 2011 Lucian Freud, the painter and grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, died Wednesday at his London home following a short illness. He was 88 years old. Freud, the elder brother of the late comedic writer and broadcaster Clement Freud, was born in Berlin in 1922 and moved with his…Continue reading
byAlma Abell Selling a house is the goal when someone has an open house to show off the home for sale to prospective buyers. If you are trying to sell a home in the Houston, Texas area, then you will want to know how to have successful Houston open houses. Houston Buyers Look for Houston…Continue reading How To Have Successful Houston Open Houses
Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye.…Continue reading
Friday, July 28, 2006 An early medieval Christian Psalter (prayer book) was discovered in a bog in the Midland Region of Ireland on July 25, 2006, prompting some to term it the Irish version of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The psalter was found by a worker excavating peat from the bog. The worker immediately covered…Continue reading
Monday, November 21, 2005 The international entry mail art show SAT: An Exhibit of Chairs was put on display Friday in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Held in the Fridge Front Gallery at the Shoppers World Brampton mall, SAT is a diverse collection of artworks focusing on a generally mundane object, the chair. Works in the show…Continue reading
Monday, August 26, 2013 German non-profit organization Definetz announced on Friday the development of the ‘Defikopter’: a medical drone, launched by smartphone app, designed to be able to fly defibrillators to heart attack victims in remote areas quicker than an ambulance. The Defikopter is to be launched by an app that sends out the GPS…Continue reading
Warning: The information on this page may be incorrect and/or outdated. Don’t trust it. Information about the world’s markets index, no longer maintained. Index Name Description Current Value Change Updated ^MERV MerVal (Argentina) 1479.650 25.720 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^AORD All Ordinaries (Australia) 4338.100 0 Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ^ATX ATX (Austria) 4.898,18 -0.1% Friday,…Continue reading