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Man protests gas prices by selling ad space on his head
2008-04-14 04:24:00
By Jake StumpDaily Mail Capitol ReporterApril 12, DailyMailOne St. Albans man would rather burn ink into his skin than buy another gallon of gas for his 1992 Subaru Loyale.So he's come up with an artistic approach to protest the sky-high price of fuel.James Burns is auctioning off advertising space on his neck and the back of his head on eBay.At the starting bid of $99, Burns says he'll tattoo a company logo, Web site or anything at the winner's request as long as it doesn't contain profanity.Burns, 29, plans to put the money toward a more fuel-friendly set of wheels, a QLINK Legend motorcycle that runs on 80 miles to the gallon."Gas prices are hurting everyone," said Burns, who's married with four children, ages 9 to 12. "They're sticking it to me. I've got kids at home and I'm trying to do everything I can. With the way gas is, we've had to cut back on everything."Burns' full-time job as a chemical operator in Nitro doesn't bring home enough bacon for him and his family...
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Heath Ledger “Controversial” Batman Scene to Be Cut
2008-04-11 12:47:00
One of the key scenes in the upcoming "Dark Knight" movie might get cut due to negative feedback from test audiencesBy Monica Gaza, Entertainment News EditorApril 11, SoftpediaThe upcoming movie in the Batman series - "The Dark Knight" - is set to turn into one of the biggest Warner Bros releases of all times. The cult developed by the Batman franchise and the very positive critical acclaim gained by "Batman Begins", together with Heath Ledger 's remarkable performance as the "psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown withzero empathy" that goes by the name of the Joker, already provide the movie an aura of dark glamor, promising audiences a real feast when it hits theaters in July. However, in the light of Heath Ledger's tragic death in January this year, news got out that a key Joker scene in the movie is about to be cut due to its potentially disturbing character.The scene in question involves Heath Ledger's character the Joker playing dead inside a body bag. Apparently...
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Scientists unveil revolutionary 'racetrack' computer memory
2008-04-11 11:39:00
By Roger Highfield, Science EditorApril 11, Telegraph The prospect of iPods that can hold millions of songs and PCs being able to turn on instantly, rather than taking minutes to "boot up", comes much closer today.A Californian team has developed a new generation of memory that combines the high performance and reliability of solid state "flash" memory, stored in microchips, with the high capacity of the PC's hard disk drive, which is cheap but contains moving parts and is slow.In two papers in the journal Science, Dr Stuart Parkin and colleagues at the IBM Almaden Research Centre in San Jose describe a revolutionary technology dubbed "racetrack" memory, or RM memory.The team believes that it marks a milestone that could lead to electronic devices capable of storing far more data in the same amount of space than is possible today, with lightning-fast boot times, far lower cost and unprecedented stability and durability.Within the next decade, racetrack memory, so named because the...
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Coca-Cola Hunts for Social-Net Formula
2008-04-11 06:26:00
The company's online marketing highs and lows show an old brand learning new tricksApril 11, AdWeekNEW YORK Back in June 2006, a now-famous Coca -Cola video began making the rounds. In it, two men made a geyser out of bottles of Diet Coke and Mentos candies. Coke representatives were not pleased.Later, another Coke-themed video appeared, this time from France, showing young men throwing cans of the soda into the garbage from impossible angles. It was a neat trick, entertaining enough to draw millions of views on YouTube. But this time around, rather than wringing their hands over their brand literally being thrown into the trash, Coke rushed to embrace the consumer-generated content. It even collaborated with the Lyon-based youth to make another video."The biggest takeaway [from the Diet Coke-Mentos video] was consumers own our brands," said Carol Kruse, vp of global interactive marketing at Coke. "We had absolutely nothing to do with it, but we were the beneficiaries. [We] needed t...
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Wealthy woman jumps to death from her £1m flat after insect bite on holida
2008-04-11 03:41:00
April 11, DailyMailA woman plunged to her death from her bedroom window after suffering paranoid delusions caused by a tick bite, an inquest heard.Jan Linton, 56, was bitten when she stayed on a friend's nine-acre estate in France.Within six months she was acting "very strangely" and claimed the police were "out to get her", Westminster Coroner's Court was told.It is believed she had contracted Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness which is notoriously hard to diagnose in its later stages and can cause psychosis and delusions.She died instantaneously from multiple injuries after falling three storeys from a window in her flat in West Brompton, South-West London, in January.Six months earlier she was bitten by a tick while working on land around a house owned by her friend of 20 years, Rhian Bradley.Miss Linton, described as a "very active and independent lady" of private means, stayed on in France until late December when she returned to London to seek medical help for debilitating ...
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Cheney fly fishing with naked lady?
2008-04-11 03:22:00
By staff writersApril 11, NEWS.com.auTHE internet is abuzz with a heated debate as to whether US Vice President Dick Cheney went fly fishing with a naked woman.Since Wednesday, internet blogs and forums have been scrutinising a White House photograph of Mr Cheney, according to newswire MCT.The photo – a close-up of Mr Cheney's face – shows him sporting dark sunglasses and a grin.But it's the reflection in the Vice President's sunglasses which is spilling a lot of cyber ink. Some believe the reflection looks like a naked woman.On DemocracticUnderground.com, one internet user kicked off the debate with the following posting:"Notice anything … interesting … reflected in his sunglasses? Something that has little to do with conventional 'fly fishing'?"On sportsshooter.com, a website dedicated to professional photography, another user came to their own conclusion:"Naked woman? That explains his heart problems!!"Not everyone agreed. Some, including White House staff, could se...
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U.S. financial model can be fixed, Bernanke says
2008-04-11 03:07:00
April 11, ReutersRICHMOND, Virginia - Overseers of the U.S. and international financial system need to quickly put reforms in place to restore confidence in markets disrupted by a global credit crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.The current market unrest complicates the process of making changes aimed at erecting a firewall against future crises, Bernanke told the World Affairs Council, but swift action could soothe jittery financial markets."We do not have the luxury of waiting for markets to stabilize before we think about the future," he said. "Indeed, many of the necessary changes that have been identified -- including increasing transparency, improving risk management, and attaining better coordination among regulators -- could provide important support to the process of normalizing our financial markets," he said.Bernanke spoke as finance ministers and central bank heads of the Group of Seven rich nations gathered for a Friday meeting in Washington...
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Zombie Computers Decried As Imminent National Threat
2008-04-10 08:31:00
By Ryan SingelApril 10, WiredSAN FRANCISCO -- Gangs of thousands of zombie home computers grinding out spam, committing fraud and overpowering websites are the most vexing net threat today, according to law enforcement and security professionals.Today's botnet herders have hundreds of thousands of computers at their command and use technically sophisticated ways to hide their headquarters, making it easy for them to make millions from spam and credit card theft. They can also be used to direct floods of fake traffic at a targeted website in order to bring down a rival, extract protection money or less frequently, used to make a political point in the case of attacks on Estonia and the Church of Scientology.Security pros and government officials are now describing the latter attacks, known as Distributed Denial of Service attacks, as serious threats to national security -- turning packet floods against public websites into the latest face of "cyberwar" hysteria.Hence, the appearanc...
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News Corp., AOL Pursue Yahoo Deals
2008-04-10 06:30:00
Murdoch, Microsoft Consider Joint Bid; Google Ad PactBy MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG, KEVIN J. DELANEY and MERISSA MARRApril 10, Wall Street JournalYahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations, a move aimed at thwarting Microsoft Corp.'s effort to acquire Yahoo, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.But Microsoft is recrafting its assault plan by talking with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, about mounting a joint bid for Yahoo, people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft and News Corp . have yet to reach an agreement on joining forces but one person apprised of the plan described the discussions as serious. Such a deal would combine three of the biggest Internet properties: News Corp.'s MySpace, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo.Negotiating LeverageThe AOL-Yahoo deal under consideration would include the repurchase of some Yahoo shares at a price above Microsoft's offer. Taken together with a...
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Advertisers turn to bleeps to attract viewers
2008-04-10 06:24:00
By Stuart ElliottApril 10, International Herald TribuneIn cartoons, the Road Runner goes "beep-beep." In the advertising world, the popular onomatopoeia is pronounced "bleep-bleep."Advertisers are winking at the contentious issue of content regulation by using bleeping sounds in commercials and video clips. The bleeps mimic how television and radio obscure bad language in live news coverage or taped reality shows.Many times, the bleeps heard in commercials are covering actual expletives, which are written into the scripts solely to be censored.For instance, in a commercial for the New York Film Academy, a crude word spoken by Brett Ratner, who is the filmmaker, is bleeped."We were playing poker and he lost and I said, 'Instead of giving me money, why not do a commercial for me?' " said Jerry Sherlock, director of the academy. "So we made it into a whole joke."In a video clip for Bud Light, titled "Swear Jar," that appears on the bud.tv Web site and sites like YouTube, cast members...
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Trailer: Wall-E
2008-04-10 04:07:00
April 10, MTVDisney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot that travels to the deepest-reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been inhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) has been taking out the trash, and collecting precious knick-knacks in order to stave off the boredom of his dreary routine.MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment News * Release: 6/27/2008 * Director: Andrew Stanton * Starring: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben BurttRead more this news quote
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See "The Door to Hell"
2008-04-09 09:50:00
A human-made disasterBy Stefan Anitei, Science EditorApril 9, SoftpediaIt looks like a crater with a volcanic lava lake, but it is not. It is said that the hell is located underground. In this case, "The Door to Hell " is this site in Uzbekistan,located close to the small town of Darvaz.This phenomenon started during the Soviet times, 35 years ago. Geologists and miners were drilling inside a mine. At a point, the gas buildup impeded any further activity. Employing the normal mindset of the times, the team planned to fire the gas and return when it was totally burned. A huge gas explosion formed the 30 m (100 ft) wide crater. The huge hole engulfed the entire drilling site with the equipment and camps.The fact is that the site has been incessantly burning ever since, and the deposit seems to contain yet a lot of gas to burn. The inhabitants of the area had to be removed meanwhile.A similar situation started 46 years ago in US. The fire set to burn a landfill close to Centralia, a sma...

Empire strikes back as 'Star Wars' creator sues
2008-04-09 04:31:00
April 9, CNNLONDON, England (AP) -- It's a storm in a Stormtrooper's helmet. Lawyers for George Lucas' Lucasfilm Ltd. and a British prop designer faced off in London's High Court Tuesday over rights to the molded white Stormtrooper uniforms from the "Star Wars " films.Standing alongside the bewigged, black-robed lawyers in court was the object of their dispute -- a 6-foot (1.83 meter) tall, helmeted warrior of the evil Galactic Empire. Lucasfilm attorney Michael Bloch called the menacing figure "one of the most iconic images in modern culture."Lucasfilm claims violation of copyright and trademarks by prop designer Andrew Ainsworth, who sculpted the Stormtrooper helmets for the first "Star Wars" movie in 1977. London-based Ainsworth sells replicas of the helmets and armor, which he says are made from the original molds, on his Web site for up to £1,000 ($2,000; €1,300).Lucasfilm won a $20 million (€25 million) judgment against Ainsworth in a California court in 2006, and is s...
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Al-Fayed says accepts Princess Diana verdict
2008-04-09 04:15:00
April 9, ReutersLONDON - The father of Dodi al-Fayed, killed in a Paris car crash with Princess Diana in 1997, said on Tuesday he accepted the verdict of an inquest jury and was giving up his legal attempts to show the couple were murdered."Enough is enough," a teary-eyed Harrods store owner Mohamed al-Fayed said in an interview with ITV's "News at Ten", saying he was abandoning his legal battle for the sake of Diana's sons, Princes William and Harry."I'm leaving the rest for God to get my revenge, but I'm not doing anything any more," he said.An inquest ruled on Monday that Diana and her lover, Dodi al-Fayed, were unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent driving of their chauffeur and paparazzi photographers pursuing them in a Paris road tunnel.Mohamed al-Fayed had accused Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip, Diana's former father-in-law, of ordering British security services to kill her and stop her marrying a Muslim and having his baby.He said he had met his lawyers ...
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Study ties bedroom TV to unhealthy habits in teens
2008-04-08 08:29:00
By Will DunhamApril 8, YahooWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Teenagers with a bedroom television tend to have poorer diet and exercise habits and lower grades in school than those without one, U.S. researchers said on Monday.While many studies have examined TV viewing habits of young people, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health said little had been known about the consequences in particular for older adolescents of having a bedroom TV.They questioned 781 adolescents, ages 15 to 18, in the Minneapolis area in 2003 and 2004. Of them, 62 percent reported having a television in their bedroom.Not surprisingly, those with a bedroom TV were more apt to watch it a lot, clocking four to five more hours in front of a television per week, the researchers said. Twice as many of the teens with a bedroom TV were classified as heavy TV watchers -- at least five hours a day -- compared to those without one.Girls with a bedroom television reported getting less vigorous exercise -...
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'Regional' Nuclear War Would Cause Worldwide Destruction
2008-04-08 08:05:00
By Alexis MadrigalApril 8, WiredThink you might escape the aftereffects of a limited nuclear war that happens on the other side of the globe from you? Think again.Imagine that the long-simmering conflict between India and Pakistan broke out into a war in which each side deployed 50 nuclear weapons against the other country's megacities. Karachi, Bombay, and dozens of other South Asian cities catch fire like Hiroshima and Nagasaki did at the end of World War II.Beyond the local human tragedy of such a situation, a new study looking at the atmospheric chemistry of regional nuclear war finds that the hot smoke from burning cities would tear holes in the ozone layer of the Earth. The increased UV radiation resulting from the ozone loss could more than double DNA damage, and increase cancer rates across North America and Eurasia."Our research supports that there would be worldwide destruction," said Michael Mills, co-author of the study and a research scientist at the University of Colo...
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Olympic torch goes out, briefly, in Paris
2008-04-08 04:41:00
By Katrin Bennhold and Elisabeth RosenthalApril 8, International Herald TribunePARIS: China dubbed its Olympic torch relay the "Journey of Harmony," a 21-nation promotional tour for the most expensive Games the world has seen and for a host nation eager to showcase its rising wealth and diplomatic clout.But what was supposed to be a majestic procession through the French capital resulted in waves of chaos on Monday, as human rights groups used the event to assail China's record on rights and make the Olympic Games an increasingly delicate political challenge for the governing Communist Party.China has spent eight years and tens of billions of dollars preparing to host the Summer Games, which Beijing has envisioned as a kind of coming-of-age party to showcase its rapid growth. But the outbreak of violent unrest in Tibet and a continuing crackdown there by Chinese security forces has emboldened China's critics, a diverse coalition of rights groups whose demands are often ignored in ...
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Real chase Cristiano on the cheap: RON HIJACK THREAT
2008-04-08 04:21:00
REAL MADRID are locked in a battle to hijack Cristiano Ronaldo on the cheap.By DAVID HARRISONApril 8, News of the WorldThe European giants will take advantage of the FIFA ruling enabling them to sign the Manchester United star in 2010 for the remaining two years of his salary — around £10million.And that puts pressure on United to complete new contract talks to keep Ronaldo at the club until 2014 and increase his wage to £140,000 a week.Reports in Spain and Italy are indicating that both Real and Milan will try to trigger the FIFA regulation to snap up the Portuguese winger, who has emerged as the hottest property in the world after his record-breaking season.Real coach Bernd Schuster said this week that Ronaldo was in their sights, though he admitted that he did not think United would sell him at the moment.Read more this news quotephoto by NOTW
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EU allows mobile phones on airplanes
2008-04-08 03:46:00
Plan enables travelers to make, receive calls through onboard base stationApril 8, MSNBCBRUSSELS, Belgium - You can use your cell phone in the skies over Europe as early as this summer under new European Union rules — allowing travelers to stay in touch but also raising the cringe-inducing prospect of being stuck next to a chatterbox at 30,000 feet.Announcing the guidelines Monday, EU officials said they expect several Europe-based airlines to move within the next few months to launch services, effectively making the 27-nation bloc the first region in the world to scrap bans on the use of cell phones in the sky.They insisted that the new rules would not heighten the risk of terrorism or interfere with flight instruments, explaining the system, relying on European GSM technology, has been thoroughly tested and safeguards will be enacted against the terror threat.The United States and many other countries ban the use of cell phones and other mobile devices in the air because of conc...
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Yahoo details plans for new online ad sales system
2008-04-07 08:27:00
By Eric AuchardApril 7, ReutersSAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc on Sunday detailed plans for its forthcoming Web advertising management system that gives its ad sales-partners access to online ad space both on Yahoo and other major sites.The widely anticipated system, known as AMP!, aims to simplify the process of buying and selling online ads for advertisers, ad agencies, fast-growing ad trading networks and Web site publishers.The ad management system seeks to capitalize on Yahoo's strength as a Web site publisher that reaches 500 million Web users monthly and recent efforts to sell ads off of Yahoo through major partnerships or specialized ad-sales networks.The planned advertising system, formerly code-named Apex, is the lynchpin of the company's strategy to reach outside its own base of users and increase its position as the "must buy" location for online advertisers.While the strategy remains in its early stages, AMP! is one of the products which Yahoo management believes will help...
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Bahrain GP: I've let the team down - Hamilton
2008-04-07 04:44:00
April 7, BBC NewsLewis Hamilton said he had failed his McLaren team after finishing 13th in the Bahrain Grand Prix and losing the lead of the world championship.Hamilton made a mistake at the start, dropped to the back after a collision with former team-mate Fernando Alonso and was unable to make up lost ground."I am really disappointed and feel like I let the team down," he said."You need to pick up the pieces and deliver points. I didn't do that. The collision with Alonso cost the race."The 23-year-old Englishman slipped from third to 10th at the start of the race to find himself stuck behind Alonso's Renault.Hamilton tried to get past Alonso on the second lap but instead he went up and over the back of the Spaniard's car, losing his front wing in the process.Some observers suggested Alonso appeared to slow down and give Hamilton a "brake test" but the McLaren driver refused to condemn his former McLaren team-mate."I am always the first to blame it on myself," said Hamilton. "T...
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Teens Name Coke, McD's As Faves in New Study
2008-04-07 04:18:00
By Kenneth Hein and Eric NewmanApril 7, BrandWeekOld school brands still rule among teens, according to a new survey from virtual online community Habbo.From Coca-Cola to CoverGirl, many of the favorite brands of today are the same as yesterday.More than 7,700 U.S. teenagers (ages 11-18) were asked to reveal their favorite brands in an online poll conducted last October and November. The study was organized among teens participating in Habbo.Other veteran brands, like McDonald's, Nike, MTV and Seventeen, also were tops. "These preferences definitely show that investing in brands still matters," said Anastasia Goodstein, founder of Ypulse.com, San Francisco. "Does this mean teens aren't spending lots of time with other lesser-known brands, especially when it comes to media and technology? No. It just means that these brands have succeeded in branding by being the ones teens think of first and foremost when asked."The pervasiveness of these brands helps place them top of mind, accor...
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Clinton's top strategist quits
2008-04-07 03:29:00
April 7, CNNSen. Hillary Clinton's chief presidential campaign strategist is quitting his post amid criticism of his public relations firm's contacts with the Colombian government over a pending free-trade deal, Clinton's campaign announced.Mark Penn and his political consulting firm will continue advise the New York senator's Democratic presidential bid, but Penn will give up his job as chief strategist, campaign manager Maggie Williams said."After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as chief strategist of the Clinton campaign," Williams said.Clinton did not answer reporters' questions about Penn's exit during a campaign stop in New Mexico on Sunday.Penn is CEO of public relations giant Burston Marsteller and is president of Penn, Schoen and Berland, his political consulting firm.Friday, he acknowledged he had met with the Colombian ambassador to the United States earlier in the week in his role as Burston Marsteller's chief to discuss th...

Good News for Bernanke From Bond Market Is Bad News for Rates
2008-04-07 03:09:00
By Daniel Kruger and Sandra HernandezApril 7, BloombergFor the first time since December, the bond market is closing the credibility gap with Ben S. Bernanke and signaling its agreement with the Federal Reserve chairman that an economic collapse has been averted and that interest rates are bottoming.Treasury yields rose 0.33 percentage point on average through April 4 from this year's low of 2.49 percent on March 17, according to Merrill Lynch & Co. indexes. The increase is the first since December, when the Fed cut its target rate for overnight loans between banks and said lower borrowing costs ``should help promote moderate growth.''The Fed's unprecedented support for JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s takeover of New York-based Bear Stearns Cos. on March 16 is restoring confidence in Bernanke, who told Congress last week that ``monetary and fiscal policies are in train that should support a return to growth.'' Yields tumbled to the lowest levels since 2003 in the first quarter...
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ITunes records a sales milestone
2008-04-04 11:51:00
The digital download store overtakes Wal-Mart as the biggest U.S. music seller.By Michelle Quinn and Dawn C. Chmielewski, Los Angeles Times Staff WritersApril 4, LA TimesSAN FRANCISCO -- Apple Inc. has surpassed Wal-Mart to become America's No. 1 music store, the first time that a seller of digital downloads has ever beaten the big CD retailers.Apple sold more albums in January and February than any other U.S. retailer, market research firm NPD Group said Thursday, underscoring how the music industry is on the front edge of a digital media shift that is upending businesses as diverse as bookstores and video game makers.U.S. consumers still buy more CDs than digital downloads, but the gulf is narrowing rapidly. Only five years after launching its iTunes digital store, Apple has dominated the fast-growing download market so completely that it jumped ahead of individual CD sellers such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target."It's a major milestone," said Tom Adams, president of consulting ...
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Mosley calls for extraordinary FIA meeting
2008-04-04 11:05:00
April 4, Sunday Herald MorningInternational Automobile Federation (FIA) president Max Mosley, facing calls to quit over a sex scandal, has called for an extraordinary general assembly of motor sport's world governing body.The FIA said in a statement issued at the Bahrain Grand Prix that Mosley had asked the president of the FIA Senate, Monaco's Michel Boeri, to call the meeting in Paris and at the earliest practicable date.That is unlikely to be in the next week or two, with 222 national motoring organisations from 130 countries on five continents affiliated to the FIA."The full membership of the FIA will be invited to attend the meeting at which the widespread publicity following an apparently illegal invasion of the FIA president's privacy will be discussed," the statement said.Read more this news quotephoto: Max Mosley ... called for an extraordinary general meeting (AFP)
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Naomi Campbell arrested at Heathrow
2008-04-04 05:47:00
Supermodel allegedly spits at police officer after being removed from planeApril 4, MSNBCLONDON - Naomi Campbell was arrested at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 on Thursday for allegedly spitting at a police officer, Sky News reported.Police said a 37-year-old woman was arrested at the terminal on suspicion of assaulting police. The Metropolitan Police spokesman refused to identify the woman, or say whether the incident took place inside the terminal or aboard a plane. He spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with police policy.BAA PLC, the company that runs Heathrow, didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment. British Airways PLC, the terminal’s sole occupant, referred questions to BAA and London police.Campbell’s publicist in Los Angeles, Jeff Raymond, wrote in an e-mail that Campbell was flying to Los Angeles for a Thursday memorial service. He said she checked two bags in at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 with plenty of time to spare and was told they would make t...
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Sex takes 3 to 13 minutes, study says
2008-04-03 13:30:00
April 3, CNNMaybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed.A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life.If that sounds like good news to you, don't cheer too loudly. The time does not count foreplay, and the therapists did rate sexual intercourse that lasts from 1 to 2 minutes as "too short."Researcher Eric Corty said he hoped to ease the minds of those who believe "more of something good is better, and if you really want to satisfy your partner, you should last forever."The questions were not gender-specific, said Corty. But he said prior research has shown men and women want foreplay and sexual intercourse to last longer.Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, cited a four-week study of 1,500 couples in 2005 that f...
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'No Sun link' to climate change
2008-04-03 11:34:00
By Richard BlackApril 3, BBC NewsScientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun's activity.The research contradicts a favoured theory of climate "sceptics", that changes in cosmic rays coming to Earth determine cloudiness and temperature.The idea is that variations in solar activity affect cosmic ray intensity.But Lancaster University scientists found there has been no significant link between them in the last 20 years.Presenting their findings in the Institute of Physics journal, Environmental Research Letters, the UK team explain that they used three different ways to search for a correlation, and found virtually none.This is the latest piece of evidence which at the very least puts the cosmic ray theory, developed by Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark at the Danish National Space Center (DNSC), under very heavy pressure.Dr Svensmark's idea formed a centrepiece of the controversial documentary The Gr...
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Zimbabwe's Mugabe has conceded defeat: report
2008-04-03 09:59:00
April 3, ReutersJOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has admitted to his family and advisers that he has lost the most important election of his 28-year rule, South African financial daily Business Day reported on Thursday.Mugabe lost control of parliament for the first time since independence in 1980 and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said he had also been defeated in a presidential election last Saturday and should concede defeat.Business Day said Mugabe had privately conceded defeat and was deciding if he should contest a run-off vote needed because MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai failed to secure a clear majority."Mugabe has conceded to his closest advisers, the army, police and intelligence chiefs. He has also told his family and personal advisers that he has lost the election," Business Day quoted an unidentified source as saying.The newspaper said hardliners in Mugabe's government wanted him to see the contest through to the bitter end, but t...
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