NASA sends shuttle back into space after long pause – Yahoo! News APE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – NASA successfully launched space shuttle Discovery on Tuesday after a 2-1/2 year struggle to rebuild the shuttle program following the fatal Columbia accident. The shuttle, carrying seven crew members, soared into slightly hazy skies, leaving behind a trail…
Month: July 2005
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Spoof of Bush Wins Faux Faulkner Contest
ACKSON, Miss. – A scathing parody that likens President Bush to the “idiot” in William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury” has won this year’s Faulkner write-alike contest — and touched off a literary spat. Organizers of the Faux Faulkner competition are accusing Hemispheres, the United Airlines magazine that has sponsored the contest for…
Library leader questions Patriot Act -Kafka-esque
Books by Kafka, Orwell, Camus, etc… WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The president of the American Library Association has one word for the USA Patriot Act’s so-called library clause — “Kafkaesque.” “It’s very reminiscent of the ’50s and the ‘red scare’ where people showed up at libraries trying to find which political books professors had read, because…
A Window into Early Epidemiology
Times Argus: Vermont News & Information A window on early 19th-century medical care July 24, 2005 By Mark Bushnell Joseph Gallup was looking for answers. As a prominent Vermont doctor during the early 19th century, Gallup had witnessed wave after wave of diseases sweep across the state, killing hundreds and some times thousands of Vermonters…
The Observer | Comment | Ruaridh Nicoll: Clowns and coppers
The Observer | Comment | Ruaridh Nicoll: Clowns and coppers There were some surprising faces among last week’s anarchist army. On Edinburgh’s Princes Street, an ancient lady with a white bun tied tight on top of her skull was weaving in and out of the Black Blocers and crusty Clowns, bowing and bobbing like a…
UK's Nasa hacker breaks his silence – Security Strategy – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
UK’s Nasa hacker breaks his silence – Security Strategy – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com UK’s Nasa hacker breaks his silence ‘There’s an extra-terrestrial conspiracy going on’ Add Comment Printer Friendly Email Story By Jo Best Published: Monday 11 July 2005 The British man thought to have hacked into 53 US government agencies’…
Canada Wins Award for Stupidest Country
National Post NATIONAL POST canada.com Entertainment Canada wins dumbest government at World Stupidity Awards; Bush wins one award Canadian Press Saturday, July 23, 2005 MONTREAL (CP) – The Canadian government secured a surprise win Friday, beating out such luminaries as Iran, North Korea and the United States, for the dumbest government of the year at…
local6.com – News – Naked 'Tickler' Targeting Sleeping Elderly Women
Investigators in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., are warning homeowners about a naked man who has broken into at least seven homes and tickled sleeping elderly women with a feather or fingers, police told Local 6 News. “This is truly a bizarre case,” Local 6 News reporter Tarik Minor said. “A naked man is breaking into…
local6.com – News – Police: Crime-Predicting Computer Works
local6.com – News – Police: Crime-Predicting Computer Works Police: Crime-Predicting Computer Works POSTED: 11:59 am EDT July 22, 2005 UPDATED: 8:57 pm EDT July 22, 2005 YONKERS, N.Y. — A crime-predicting computer apparently works in suburban New York, according to police. Slideshow Officers in Yonkers said the computer helped to identify a pattern of street…