Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 8, 2003 at 10:11:41 PM CEST
Blue Ketchup
Nicole Seese squeezes the new 'Stellar Blue' ketchup by Heinz, over her onion rings before trying the condiment from an advance release bottle while at the Quaker Steak and Lube restaurant in Cranberry.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 8, 2003 at 6:06:39 PM CEST
Toilet Training Goes Faster If Time is Right
Study finds little benefit in starting before 27 months Starting to toilet train your children before the age of 27 months probably isn't a good idea because it takes longer and offers no real benefit, a new study says.
Happily, most parents seem to know that already, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found. In their study of 378 parents of toddlers, the average age when intensive toilet training was started was 28.7 months.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 8, 2003 at 6:02:36 PM CEST
Dealer Won’t Sell $2M of French Wines
Michael Zeiger has over $2 million worth of French wines in stock and he won’t sell a single bottle. Moreover, he says the idea is catching on among fellow wine merchants. "When this whole thing started with Iraq, and France started objecting to all of this and not cooperating with the United States, I decided to write to my suppliers and tell them I’m very unhappy with the decision and I’m not going to sell French wines right now.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 8, 2003 at 5:39:16 PM CEST
80 Million Bees Released In Fatal I-95 Crash
A truck carrying bees overturned on Interstate 95 Monday, killing the driver and releasing millions of bees in Brevard County, according to Local 6 News.
Officials said that Conrad Cramer, 82, somehow lost control of his truck and rolled it on its side just north of County Road 407.
The crash released 80 million bees onto the Interstate 95 median.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 8, 2003 at 5:29:03 PM CEST
Hummer’s folding bike was designed for the military
What: A new military-style mountain bike from Hummer has a folding system developed for paratroopers.
It looks and rides like a regular bike, but folds up to the size of a large camping backpack.
Quick: In just 30 seconds, using a quick-release lever and no tools, the aluminum Hummer Tactical Mountain Bike can be converted into a 3-foot by 3-foot by 1-foot pack.
Use: Designed for extreme off-roading. The manufacturer, The Montague Corp., supplies the military’s bikes.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 7, 2003 at 4:15:45 PM CEST
Media Watchdogs Caught Napping
In the run up to a conflict in Iraq, foreign news websites are seeing large volumes of traffic from America, as U.S. citizens increasingly seek news coverage about the coming war.
"Given how timid most U.S. news organizations have been in challenging the White House position on Iraq, I'm not surprised if Americans are turning to foreign news services for a perspective on the conflict that goes beyond freedom fries," said Deborah Branscom, a Newsweek contributing editor, who keeps a weblog devoted to media issues.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 7, 2003 at 3:03:20 PM CEST
1 in every 142 U.S. residents was in prison or jail
The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails last year topped 2 million for the first time, driven by get-tough sentencing policies that mandate long terms for drug offenders and other criminals, the government reported Sunday.
The federal government accounted for more inmates than any state, with almost 162,000, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the Justice Department. That number includes the transfer of about 8,900 District of Columbia prisoners to the federal system.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 7, 2003 at 2:41:44 PM CEST
Detecting disinformation, without radar
How to tell genuine reporting from an article manufactured to produce the desired propaganda effect? The war in Iraq provides us plenty of interesting samples for a study of disinformation techniques.
Take the article "Basra Shiites Stage Revolt, Attack Government Troops", published on March 26 in The Wall Street Journal Europe. Using its example, we will try to arm readers with basic principles of disinformation analysis that hopefully will allow them in the future to detect deception.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 5, 2003 at 10:25:01 PM CEST
Hemp bill not without criticism
Some say growing the plant for industry could hamper police investigations. Industrial hemp could be Oregon’s next cash crop if lawmakers sign off on a bill that got a hearing before the Senate Agricultural Committee Friday. But opponents say hemp plants are difficult to distinguish from illegal marijuana plants.
They also worry that cultivating hemp could inhibit police investigations of people growing pot.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 5, 2003 at 10:22:22 PM CEST
1001 things to do with Liquid Nitrogen
In the course of studying physics one is officially taught that liquid nitrogen is simply (and mainly) used to cool things down to 77K. But everybody who once has observed students in practical courses "working" with this stuff knows that this is not true. My intention is now to tell the truth about what is really done with liquid N2 before its remains are taken and used for cooling.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 3, 2003 at 4:07:56 PM CEST
Man Loses Job, Wins $1 Million Next Day
A day after losing his job, Michael Maxim got a surprise that should make unemployment easier to bear: a $1 million lottery win. Maxim purchased a $5 scratch ticket Saturday, the day after he accepted a voluntary layoff from the Fitchburg Parks Department in hopes of sparing a coworker's job, he said.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 2, 2003 at 1:26:18 PM CEST
Airport trouble for Saddam son's ex-double
A former double of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's feared elder son Uday says he was treated "like dirt" by immigration officers who refused him entry to Britain at the weekend.
"Honestly, I never had this before," 39-year-old Latif Yahia, who survived nine assassination attempts while impersonating Uday, said of his detention at Birmingham airport after arrival from Germany.
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