Aug 2 2008
Can anyone tell me how the process of extracting oil from solid rock could be defined as either efficient or renewable? I was struck by a story in the Department of Energy office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s weekly electronic...
Aug 2 2008
A judge Friday ruled in favor of a nude dancing club owner charged with violating Iowa’s indecent exposure law.
Aug 2 2008
Another interesting result from the survey: 48% of consumers don’t see McCain or Obama as having a particular advantage when trying to work with the auto industry to bring more fuel efficient or plug-in vehicles to the market in the future.
Aug 1 2008
A mechanical brass calculator used by the ancient Greeks to predict solar and lunar eclipses was probably also used to set the dates for the first Olympic games, researchers said on Wednesday.
Jul 31 2008
Ota Benga, a member of the Batwa people of the Congo, spent 12 years in tormenting exile: After being sold to an American missionary, he was put on display at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair,
Jul 30 2008
The use of Tasers by city police is under heightened scrutiny after a man who threatened to jump off a pedestrian bridge above Interstate 70 was instead severely injured in a Taser-induced fall.
Jul 29 2008
Singer Chris de Burgh will stage a concert in Tehran with an Iranian band in late November, the first such concert in the country in nearly 30 years, an Iranian satellite news channel reported on its website.
Jul 29 2008
Few legal battles have been more exotic than the lawsuit tried over the past five years in a steamy jungle courtroom in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest.
Jul 29 2008
The British business tycoon Richard Branson has unveiled an aircraft in the US that will be used for his project to launch tourists into space.
Jul 29 2008
President Bush on Monday approved the execution of an Army soldier who terrorized Fayetteville, N.C., for months in the late 1980s and was eventually convicted of raping and killing four women, and raping and attempting to kill another.