BOSTON (Reuters) – Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney jumped on his Jet
Ski over the holiday weekend to help save six people and a Scottish terrier
as their boat rapidly sank on a New Hampshire lake.
Romney, whose Jet Ski had seating for passengers, made three trips to
take the people who abandoned their boat ashore.
The sense of touch can
be significantly improved using drug therapy, new research suggests.
According to a report published in the current issue of the journal Science,
amphetamines administered in conjunction with finger stimulation can
increase a fingertip’s sensitivity by 23 percent.
The enhanced sense of touch only lasted about 24 hours, the team reports,
but additional stimulation raised it again.
The United States moved up to 7th place in the just-released UN Quality of Life Index. The UN rankings include life expectancy, education, health, income, poverty and the environment.
Norway ranked first, followed by Iceland, Sweden, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States.
Among the 175 countries ranked, the bottom 25 are in Africa. Sierra Leone ranks last, with an average life expectancy of only 34 years. Details…..
MONTPELLIER, France (AFP) – According to police, a 22-year-old shopper
fabricated barcode labels on his home computer, and by using them to
replace the originals was
able to acquire goods for a fraction of their real prices.
Police said a store clerk spotted him as he was affixing the home-made
labels on boxes containing garage-door motors, costing 2,000 euros
apiece. The young man, whose identity was not given, allegedly had re-priced
the motors at 160 euros.
Once
again, the department of defense is on the cutting edge of 21st
century democracy. After the debacle in Florida, it was
clear to most modern-minded voters that the day of on-line elections
was overdue.
No longer. The DOD has just awarded a
contract to IT consulting firm Accenture, to develop an on-line voting
system for American servicemen and women to vote in the 2004 Presidential
elections, wherever in the world they might be (the possibilities
are endless).
We may all be voting on-line soon. Accenture will support the DoD’s
Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) in the a Secure Electronic Registration
and Voting Experiment (SERVE), which Congress has mandated as way to
improve voting opportunities for Americans. Read more from Internet.com
Explanation: Dramatic prominences can sometimes be seen looming just beyond the edge of the sun.
A solar prominence is a cloud of solar gas held just above the surface by the Sun’s magnetic field. The Earth would easily
fit below the prominence on the left.. The above image in false color was taken on June 1 from Stuttgart, Germany with an amateur telescope and camera.
Every year, 2,000 to 10,000 trailer-sized containers fall off cargo ships
and into the ocean. As container ships get larger, insurers and scientists
are investigating whether design flaws cause them to roll out of control
in rough seas. The ocean subjects ships to six different pushing and rotating
forces.
So littered is the ocean with container flotsam that two scientists now
track ocean currents based on where shoes, toys, and doll heads wash up
on shore.
During the week, Redcar’s Seacroft Hotel is a conventional bed and
breakfast, its 13 centrally-heatedrooms offering colour TV, tea and
coffee making facilities and wash basins.
But on certain weekends, it becomes the Sexcroft – advertising itself
as "the North-east’s first ‘Swingers Hotel’".
As a result of the RIAA’s heavily publicized lawsuits against users of file-swapping software — illegal downloading has increased!
“Anytime you get media attention, you get people interested to try it out,” said Michael Weiss, chief executive of Streamcast Networks Inc., which developed Morpheus.
Adobe Systems Inc. has begun testing online activation of its Photoshop 7.0 application in Australia as a way of stemming the illegal use of its software. If the pilot is successful, and so far it is, the developer plans to begin using software activation in the United States later this year or early next, beginning with Photoshop and then expanding to other apps.
Seems the latest rage in Japan is full re-enactments of scenes from
The Matrix: Reloaded. They love getting dressed up as their favorite
characters, especially the quirky "Agent Smith".
How odd that they all want to emulate American movie stars in an exercise
requiring 100 identical clones….
