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The 30-year-old the financial director of a computer distributor was kidnapped and forced to help burglars steal computer equipment worth more then $800,000. Police said the daring robbery resembled an MO previously only seen in bank robberies.
This past Wednesday, near midnight, the criminals interecepted the woman near her apartment. She was grabbed from behind and [...]

The powers that be, up and down the line from the President of Con Ed to the President of the United States, were suspiciously quick to declare that there was no evidence or possibility of terrorism involved in the great blackout of ‘03.
How can they be so sure? The only evidence I have heard [...]

30 years ago, Buckminster Fuller came up with a plan to
plug all the world’s continents into the same electrical grid.
Energy companies dismissed the notion as pie in the [...]

TOKYO - Cafe customers giggle as "Medama-man," which
translates as "Eyeball-man," reads
an English newspaper Aug. 13 in Tokyo. Medama-man was part of a "walking
[...]

Tomorrow
at 9 (ET) is the
Discovery Channel show about Nefertiti, legendary beauty of ancient Egypt sometimes called "The
Female Pharoh" for [...]

US courts have held that it is illegal for the police to set up random drug search roadblocks, exactly because they are random. Law enforcement needs a just cause to search a particular car.
Yesterday, however, a Colorado appeals court ruled it is OK for the police to set up FAKE drug search roadblocks, in [...]

The end of a semester is always a bittersweet occasion.
The students are all bitter and the teacher is looking at six sweet weeks
of vacation! No, just [...]

Travel Channel announces a new series: The World’s Best. They should know, I guess. Weekly themes include:
Top Ten Places of Mystery
Top Ten Fun Food Factories
Top Ten Parks for Viewing Wildlife
World’s Best Roadside Attractions
Top Ten Wonders of the West [...]

Last month we reported that Michael Ballou, who teaches “Introduction to U.S. Government” at Santa Rosa Jr. College, was in hot water with the Secret Service for telling his students to write emails to public officials containing the words “kill the president” as a way of getting them involved in the political process. [...]

Possibly inspired by Mike Newman, who last week set
a world blind driving speed record (144 mph), equally
blind Miles Hilton-Barbe is preparing to become the [...]