Jun 14 2008
Soaring gasoline prices helped drive up U.S. consumer prices in May at the fastest rate in six months, the government said on Friday, but core prices remained tame, easing inflation fears in financial markets. A separate report showed U.S. consumer...
Jun 13 2008
Market, trend and the target – they are the three mainstays upon which, Pierollo’s design cultivates. By entering into shoes of the customers, he digs out ideas that would best suit his concepts, after all, ‘overall design is all about the way of...
Jun 13 2008
Just before the tornado hit, the Boy Scouts were gathering on the porch of a shelter, playing cards and waiting out what many of them thought was just a pelting rain. In a matter of moments, a scout leader, hearing a faint tornado siren, hurried them...
Jun 13 2008
The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered its third consecutive rebuff to the Bush administration’s handling of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, ruling 5 to 4 that the prisoners there have a constitutional right to go to federal court to challenge...
Jun 13 2008
Playing video games for hours on end may be bad for your health, but, according to an Australian study, it doesn’t mean you are a lonely nerd and won’t damage your social skills.The study, by Australian psychology graduate Daniel Loton,...
Jun 13 2008
The technology news site CNET has compiled two interesting lists showing which cellphones give off the most and the least radiation. In publishing the information, CNET editors note the data aren’t meant to imply that cellphone radiation poses a...
Jun 13 2008
The story so far: Apple introduced the iPhone a year ago, and has sold six million of them. Then on Monday, Apple unveiled an improved model that brings faster Internet, G.P.S. and a much lower price to an already well-designed device. Now, this new...
Jun 12 2008
Zimbabwean authorities confiscated a truck loaded with 20 tons of American food aid for poor schoolchildren and ordered that the wheat and pinto beans aboard be handed out to supporters of President Robert Mugabe at a political rally instead, the...
Jun 12 2008
American air and artillery strikes killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers during a clash with insurgents on the Afghan border on Tuesday night, a development that raised concerns about the already strained American relationship with Pakistan. The...
Jun 12 2008
Toyota Motor Corp’s (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research) battery joint venture will start producing longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries in 2009 as it aims to roll out more electric cars over the next few years.Toyota, the world’s top maker of...