Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance to Display the First Porsche(R) Sports Car (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ATLANTA----Porsche No. 1, the one-of-a-kind, two-seat sports car Dr. Ferdinand 'Ferry' Porsche developed and built after he searched and was unable to find the car of his dreams, makes its North American Concours d'Elegance debut when it joins other notable and historic vehicles August 14th at California's famed Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance....more...Technology & Gadgets (Belfast Telegraph)
Use of the abacus, with its beads in a rack, was first documented in Han Dynasty China in about AD190, but the word dates to much earlier calculating devices....more... Airbus to introduce Middle-Eastern base (Calcutta News)
Airbus has suggested it will shift some of its aircraft operations to the UAE....more... Torture As Official US Policy (Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel)
Post-9/11, torture has been official US policy under George Bush - authorized at the highest levels of government. Evidence of its systematic practice continues to surface. First some background....more... 397 million funding to develop large-scale research facilities throughout the UK (PublicTechnology.net)
The details of a multi-million pound investment programme to develop large-scale research facilities throughout the UK were announced today by the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (DIUS)....more... President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran (Times Online)
President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down, according to a senior Pentagon official....more... |