Capt. Kevin Aandahl, the spokesman for U.S. transportation Command, said that the evacuation operations in Haiti were suspended Wednesday. The military were flying Haitian earthquake victims with spinal cord injuries, burns and and other more serious wounds to Florida. That was stopped after Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida asked the federal government to shoulder some [...]
In America, it turns out, they do believe it. Millions of them. Calorie restriction to prolong life is big news over there. At least in the coastal states. In the middle, they’re still too busy deep-frying Christmas puddings to care. Calorie restrictors don’t just starve themselves willy-nilly, of course. Otherwise you might well ask why [...]
There’s a bit of shock in the golfing world today. The PGA Tour season’s not even a month old, and we’ve already got our first major controversy. Phil Mickelson has played exactly 18 holes, and he’s smack-dab in the middle of it. At issue are new club groove rules that went into effect on Jan. [...]
Denver Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups has now turned his attention from Dallas to the sun and beaches of Mexico. After being in the NBA All star teams for the past several years, he has now been snubbed. While many of the NBA’s top players will convene in Texas for the Feb. 14 All-Star Game, Billups [...]
Serena Williams has won her second Australian Open Championship following her victory last year, and ending Justine Henin’s hope for a Grand Slam title returning from her retirement with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 win this Saturday. It was a very emotional win for Williams. She has now tied with Billie Jean King as the 12th [...]
January 30, 2010 | Posted in
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1. The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old The energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago – it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once [...]
January 6, 2010 | Posted in
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