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How the world's greatest golfer lost his game view story
17 days ago (http://www.newscientist.com/artic...)
Texan Ralph Guldahl went from golf's number one to nobody almost overnight – so what went wrong?
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American family's web photo ends up as Czech advertisement view story
23 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2...)
When the Smiths of Missouri – an all-American family with the regulation two blond children – posed for their Christmas photo...
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Donald Duck, 'modern Sisyphus,' still Germany's darling at 75 view story
23 days ago (http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article...)
The Walt Disney cartoon character Donald Duck is turning 75. He is famous around the world, but no country seems to be quite ...
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No horse required: First electric car view story
2 months ago (http://autos.canada.com/news/stor...)
With hybrid electric cars all the buzz these days, it's interesting to note that Toronto was the first city in Canada and amo...
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What Hank Aaron and Barack Obama have in common view story
2 months ago (http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/040...)
Thirty-five years after Hank defied threats and hate mail to break Babe Ruth’s home-run record Obama is also showing us a dee...
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South Australian police stopping drivers to say 'well done' view story
2 months ago (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27...)
South Australian police have been pulling over motorists just to tell them they are doing a good job, Road Safety Minister To...
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Nielsen families decide what's on TV - The Boston Globe view story
3 months ago (http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/artic...)
1,400 New Englanders decided what you watched last night. Who are they? And why is there growing concern that their views don...
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Dallas Police Department dropping police code for plain English view story
3 months ago (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedc...)
Today, the Dallas Police Department moves to a new plain-language system that's supposed to make communications more universa...
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Colonel Sanders rescued from river after 24 years view story
3 months ago (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200903...)
He was covered in mud when pulled from the river, and had lost both legs and hands, not to mention his glasses. But Colonel S...
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Skylon space shuttle just ten years away view story
4 months ago (http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/new...)
A high-tech spaceplane that takes off from an ordinary runway, and will slash the cost of flying to space, could be just ten ...
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With shift to digital TV, how long can VCRs stay afloat? view story
4 months ago (http://www.mercurynews.com/busine...)
Consumers who have used the devices for years to record over-the-air or cable channels will soon be losing key features as bo...
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Wrong blurb can ruin a novel's future view story
5 months ago (http://www.smh.com.au/news/entert...)
Jones could not have anticipated that her action would become a spectacular own goal that would cause her American publisher ...
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Buran - the Soviet 'space shuttle' view story
6 months ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scienc...)
What became of the Soviet Union's "copy" of the US space shuttle?
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The Internet's 100 oldest dot-com domains view story
6 months ago (http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-b...)
The Internet's been around in some form for decades. It wasn't until the mid-1980s, though, that the Web as we know it starte...
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Man builds electric car in his backyard view story
7 months ago (http://www.wlox.com/Global/story....)
Norman White spent four months and thirty two hundred dollars buying a gas guzzling pickup truck and turning it into a rechar...
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After Obama's win, white backlash festers in US view story
7 months ago (http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/111...)
The election of America's first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to the Southern...
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Presidency Can Feel Isolated, Lonely view story
7 months ago (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Pr...)
President-elect Barack Obama is quickly learning what many former leaders already know: It's lonely at the top.
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Train rolls over man and he survives view story
7 months ago (http://www.al.com/huntsvilletimes...)
Few men can lie across railroad ties and survive when a Chattanooga-bound coal train passes through. Arnold Romine not only ...
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Contact with extraterrestrial life by 2025? view story
7 months ago (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3...)
At a talk on the topic of what it will take to find extraterrestrial life, a senior SETI astronomer predicts it could happen ...
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My Tesla arrives in Los Angeles! view story
7 months ago (http://revengeoftheelectriccar.co...)
My brand new silver all-electric Tesla Roadster sportscar (#23) arrived by truck in Los Angeles yesterday. Shrouded in plasti...

