Chinese General Threatens Use of A-Bombs if U.S. Intrudes – New York Times BEIJING, Friday, July 15 – China should use nuclear weapons against the United States if the American military intervenes in any conflict over Taiwan, a senior Chinese military official said Thursday. “If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to…
Month: July 2005
Puppets Speak for White Band in Pakistan
OneWorld South Asia Home / News / News:Today’s Headlines – Puppets Speak for White Band in Pakistan Puppets Speak for White Band in Pakistan New Delhi Though the scheduled launch of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty’s (G-CAP) White Band campaign was delayed in Pakistan due to torrential rains and thunderstorms, the campaigners more…
Real Women Seek Dates, Must Love Technology – New York Times
Real Women Seek Dates, Must Love Technology – New York Times The women here – these daters – look familiar. You know the type. Trim, breezy, frank, supremely at ease making confessions to cameras. They’re recognizable anywhere now: reality-show Jens and Amys, spirited representatives of that plucky work force that dutifully fills the girls’ slots…
To Eat in Laos – New York Times
When I was in Laos, I loved the food. Great bread, lots of tomatoes, and good beer. To Eat in Laos – New York Times ROM my seat at an outdoor table at the Café Ban Vat Sene I had a privileged view of the afternoon’s civic unrest. The traffic on the main street of…
SPACE.com — Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel
SPACE.com — Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel Think Star Trek: You are here. You want to go there. It’s just a matter of teleportation. Thanks to lab experiments, there is growth in the number of “beam me up” believers, but there is an equal amount of disbelief, too. Over the last few years, however, researchers…
Ghosts, poverty dim glow of Malawi president
Ghosts, poverty dim glow of Malawi president – Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Ghosts, poverty dim glow of Malawi president CHILOBWA, Malawi (Reuters) – A year into his presidency and Malawi’s Bingu wa Mutharika is confronted by ghosts, poverty and possible impeachment. Ghosts were reported to have temporarily ousted him from his $100 million (56.8…
Big Island Visitor Mugged Twice In Minutes
Big Island Visitor Mugged Twice In Minutes – Yahoo! News Big Island Visitor Mugged Twice In Minutes 1 hour, 51 minutes ago A 50-year-old man from Connecticut was mugged twice within minutes while walking in Kailua-Kona early Wednesday morning. Derrick Schull was walking along Alii Drive at about 3:25 a.m. when a group of men…
Farting Preacher
Bobo…thanks for sending this juvenile humor my way. I found this…funnier than hell. Videos: Watch a Video – BlogTelevision.net Watch a Video Farting Preacher II: Fart Harder
Pot on the head
Woman arrested after husband hit with pot Police arrested a 30-year-old woman after she allegedly struck her husband in the head with a pot early yesterday while he was sleeping. The victim, 45, had been arguing with his wife at about 2:30 a.m. and then went to bed at their Kalihi Street home, police said….
Granny grows tired of prostitution at age 63 –
Granny grows tired of prostitution at age 63 – Yahoo! News BERLIN (Reuters) – A Berlin grandmother who has worked the city’s diplomatic quarter as a prostitute for the last 49 years plans to retire when she turns 64 next year, according to Germany’s Bild newspaper. Even though prostitutes were forced to leave the area…