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Jul 8 2008
Yuji Hirayama and Hans Florine have broken the speed record for climbing the Nose of El Capitan. According to a text message that Florine sent to Chris McNamara of Supertopo.com after the climb on July 2, the time of their ascent was 2:43:33.
Jul 5 2008
She has been labelled a homewrecker for her trysts with an Aussie newsman and the husband of a US Embassy worker. The sultry 60 Minutes reporter and former swimsuit model is in the middle of a scandal involving herself and two of her war zone lovers,...
Jul 5 2008
The search for proof of the existence of UFOs landed Gary McKinnon in a world of trouble. After allegedly hacking into NASA websites — where he says he found images of what looked like extraterrestrial spaceships — the 40-year-old Briton...
Jul 5 2008
Can you guess what is shown in this photo? What is the plume extending upward from the ground? Why is the top of the plume brighter than its bottom? What is the bright object in the lower righthand corner of the picture, and what is the dark,...
Jul 5 2008
The popularity of Facebook and other social networking websites could be creating a generation of children who find it difficult to form lasting friendships and find real life boring, doctors have warned. The fast pace of the online world leave...
Jul 5 2008
The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center. The 47-storey third tower, known as Tower Seven, collapsed seven hours after the twin towers. Investigators...
Jul 2 2008
In a lot of ways, choosing the Bush administration’s 10 greatest moments — disastrous failures, all — is about as pointless as picking out your 10 least favorite hemorrhoids: There are entirely too many of them, and taken together they...
Jul 2 2008
No, they shouldn’t. At first glance the decision to open links in new windows or not depends on the given site and the preferences of its visitors. Visitors of the sites with heavy linking are more willing to have links opened in new windows than open...
Jul 2 2008
Scientists are eagerly awaiting a much-needed facelift planned for the world’s favorite space telescope. This fall NASA astronauts plan to take a final space shuttle trip to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
Jun 19 2008
In his hunt for a new home, Demetrius Stroud crunched the numbers to find out that, with gas prices climbing, moving near an Amtrak station is the best thing for his wallet.Stroud was looking in Elk Grove., Calif. — about 85 miles away from his job in...