May 6 2008
As the old saying goes: the suit makes the man; never will this maxim resonate so well, than when referring to bionic exoskeleton suits. They’ll not only make you the man, they’ll make you superhuman.
May 6 2008
Farmers in Ethiopia are better off now than they were four years ago, in part due to better-than-average rains and rising grain prices globally. But there’s another reason: Africa’s largest beneficiary of foreign aid has shifted from food...
May 5 2008
The 21-year-old actress is set to play an old schoolmate of America Ferrera’s character Betty Suarez on the show’s May 22 season closer, according to the trade paper Variety.
May 5 2008
Microsoft’s failed attempt to buy Yahoo will send it searching for new allies and likely see Yahoo’s share price plummet, leaving Internet giant Google the big winner, analysts said. Microsoft announced Saturday that it had given up its...
May 3 2008
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone – and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our...
May 2 2008
Your first line of defense against laptop theft is to secure the machine with an actual, physical lock. Though serious thieves won’t be deterred by one of these small cable locks, trying to break one may prove enough of a hassle to deter casual...
May 2 2008
THE history of the cocaine trade between Andean countries and the United States over the past 30 years shows that no sooner have police and customs officials become adept at spotting one smuggling method than the drug-traffickers come up with a new one....
May 2 2008
The Bolivian government headed by President Evo Morales faces a tough challenge as an autonomy referendum proposed by the Santa Cruz provincial government, possibly the first in a row, will take place Sunday. The provincial government’s push...
May 2 2008
Iran could develop nuclear bomb technology this year - at least a year earlier than previously thought - an Israeli cabinet minister has warned. Shaul Mofaz, a former defence minister and military leader, said in a speech yesterday that Iran could have...
May 2 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has implied Arab states could do more to help the Palestinians. Without singling out specific Arab states for criticism, Ms Rice said they should focus on how much they can do - not how little - for the...