Topic: NEWS english - on January 3, 2007 at 1:23:00 PM CET
Wal-Mart Puts Some Muscle Behind Power-Sipping Bulbs
A compact fluorescent has clear advantages over the widely used incandescent light — it uses 75 percent less electricity, lasts 10 times longer, produces 450 pounds fewer greenhouse gases from power plants and saves consumers $30 over the life of each bulb. But it is eight times as expensive as a traditional bulb, gives off a harsher light and has a peculiar appearance.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 3, 2007 at 12:27:00 PM CET
Official says Britons like getting drunk too much
Attempts to wean Britons away from binge drinking toward a more continental European "cafe style" culture may never work because too many like getting drunk, a cabinet minister said Sunday.
"I don't know whether we'll ever get to be in a European drinking culture, where you go out and have a single glass of wine," Labor Party chair Hazel Blears said.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 3, 2007 at 12:11:00 PM CET
A Billionaire Divorce -- And Not a Lawyer in Sight
Tim and Edra Blixseth spent 25 years building a $2 billion life together.
When they decided to divorce, they spent a single afternoon in the Beverly Hills Hotel, dividing it all up. With just two notebooks and a bottle of wine, the Blixseths -- California real-estate tycoons and founders of the famed Yellowstone Club -- finished the job in a matter of hours.
No attorneys. No accountants. No judges.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 2, 2007 at 10:07:00 AM CET
In the sky! A bird? A plane? A ... UFO?
It sounds like a tired joke--but a group of airline employees insist they are in earnest, and they are upset that neither their bosses nor the government will take them seriously.
A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 30, 2006 at 10:34:00 AM CET
Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007
Here are some predictions for 2007:
Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share
Internet Traffic Doubles
First AT&T, Then Google
A whistle-blower reveals that the National Security Agency has been wiretapping Google for some time.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 30, 2006 at 10:28:00 AM CET
How To: Disable Your Passport's RFID Chip
All passports issued by the US State Department after January 1 will have always-on radio frequency identification chips, making it easy for officials – and hackers – to grab your personal stats. Getting paranoid about strangers slurping up your identity? Here’s what you can do about it. But be careful – tampering with a passport is punishable by 25 years in prison. Not to mention the “special” customs search, with rubber gloves. Bon voyage!
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 24, 2006 at 12:07:00 PM CET
New York Times op-ed article censored by the CIA!
HERE is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central Intelligence Agency ’s Publication Review Board after the White House intervened in the normal prepublication review process and demanded substantial deletions.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 24, 2006 at 10:16:00 AM CET
Schwarzenegger breaks his leg while skiing
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger broke his leg while skiing with his family Saturday morning in Sun Valley, Idaho, a spokesman said.
Schwarzenegger, 59, was taken to a hospital for X-rays and was discharged with a fracture to his right femur, said Adam Mendelsohn, the governor’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 22, 2006 at 11:03:00 AM CET
U.S. to declassify secrets aged 25 and older
It will be a Cinderella moment for the band of researchers who study the hidden history of American government.
At midnight on Dec. 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents will be instantly declassified, including many FBI cold war files on investigations of people suspected of being Communist sympathizers. After years of extensions sought by federal agencies behaving like college students facing a term paper, the end of 2006 means the government's first automatic declassification of records.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 21, 2006 at 11:38:00 AM CET
Skydiver in 12,000ft fall survives
A British skydiver had a miraculous escape when he plunged 12,000 feet into a blackberry bush in New Zealand after his two parachutes failed.
Michael Holmes, 25, from Jersey, was filming a group of other parachutists on the freefall shortly before he crashed into rough scrubland at Five Mile Bay. He sustained lung injuries and a broken ankle.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 19, 2006 at 12:04:00 PM CET
Cartoon legend Barbera dies at 95
Joseph Barbera, one half of the team behind such cartoon classics as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo and Huckleberry Hound, has died, aged 95.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 19, 2006 at 11:17:00 AM CET
Second man held in murders probe
A 48-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of five women found in the Suffolk countryside.
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