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Would you eat food cooked in your own urine? Food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water or even peeing on it.
Coke (KO) and Pepsi (PEP) have been trying to pump up flat carbonated-soft-drink sales with new varieties, but the latest — “mid-calorie” colas — might not be the answer.
When Sam Donaldson agreed several months ago to be on HBO’s Da Ali G Show, he thought he was going to discuss media and politics with a British talk-show host.
Prices of consumer electronics products continued to nose-dive in May, with plasma television taking a huge fall, according to pricing data released by NPD Group on Thursday.
If you’ve ever wondered, enviously, how celebrity and fashion-tribe women manage to strut red carpets for hours in sky-high stilettos, here’s one possible secret: collagen injections in the balls or heels of their feet.
Many men feel there’s something missing from their sex lives. And they are likely wholly unaware of some options they may have for improving their — and perhaps their partners’ — time between the sheets.
Forget therapy. Forget sex toys or role playing. Build thee a foreskin, young — or old — man. Men who have been circumcised, who account for about 63 percent of the U.S. male population (the highest rate in the world), have been stripped of some significant sensory ability, say some groups that oppose circumcision.
But all is not lost. Any man with enough patience and persistence, or willingness to endure surgery on his most sensitive of body parts, can acquire a new foreskin and regain some of that sensitivity, foreskin reconstruction advocates say.
More than a decade ago, theoreticians predicted that nitrogen, the major constituent of air, could assume a three-dimensional, polymeric structure. Now, chemists have made this polymeric nitrogen, and they say it might someday serve as a lightweight, high-energy storage material that could outperform conventional explosives, rocket fuels, and even automotive fuel.
Flicking away pesky mosquitoes may be better than swatting the bloodsucking insects, which can risk infections if their body parts are smashed into human skin, researchers say.
Computer glitches would be a lot less annoying if the machines were programmed to acknowledge errors gracefully when something goes wrong, instead of merely flashing up a brusque “you goofed” message.
Babies exposed to sign language babble with their hands, even if they are not deaf. The finding supports the idea that human infants have an innate sensitivity to the rhythm of language and engage it however they can, the researchers who made the discovery claim.
I’m a master’s student in a speech language pathology program and have found that cursive writing does not exist. My nephew is 19 years old and prints. He never learned cursive.
A biotech company that is using prostitutes in its AIDS drug experiments is being accused of exploiting the women and giving them poor education to further its research
Activists Demand Drug Maker Gilead Halt AIDS Experiments Involving Prostitutes
The current spotlight on documentaries, particularly those of the political persuasion, means more movie fans than usual are likely to pay attention to the Best Documentary Feature category during the 77th Academy Awards. But a quirky rule that declares ineligible any documentary distributed on television or the Internet during the nine months after its theatrical release could leave some gaps in the potential nominees.
Travelers are used to removing their shoes at the airport, but one passenger took it a step further and dropped his shorts, airport police said.
Web hosting may not seem like a very exciting business, but it’s one where customer service really matters. Rackspace, a mid-size Web hosting company, considers customer support a fundamental component of its success.
In the next 20 years, organizations of all types will be seeking out dead zones. If they don’t exist, they’ll create them.
AboveNet Communications UK Ltd, a subsidiary of AboveNet Inc., a leading provider of integrated access services to leading edge enterprises, announced today that it has signed a contract with Rackspace Managed Hosting for two diversely routed 1Gigabit wavelengths and IP Transit in excess of 100Mb.
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Thai waiter wears a condom over his head while serving a cocktail as a patron looks on at the Cabbages and Condoms restaurant in Bangkok on July 8, 2004. The restaurant, founded by Mechai Viravaidya, better known as ‘Mr Condom’, aims to educate the public about safe sex. Bangkok will be the host for the upcoming 15th International AIDS Conference from July 11-16
Since its inception, the social-networking service Friendster has taken a militant stance against members posting fake profiles of cartoon characters, political figures, celebrities and bogus people. But now, in an about-face, Friendster is promoting profiles of characters from the new movie Anchorman.
It looks like a fat carrot, but it is actually a banana. And it is so rich in precursors to vitamin A that researchers hope it could prevent children from going blind in the Pacific islands of Micronesia.
A billboard placed this week in the heart of Silicon Valley posed a complex mathematical question that most commuters on Highway 101 would need Google to crack.
Vaccher is one of the 15,000 people the government estimates have been saved by air bags since then-Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole signed an order on July 11, 1984, requiring all vehicles to have driver’s side air bags or automatic seat belts by 1989 and passenger-side bags soon after.
Fort Campbell is bracing for what recent statistics show would be a record number of newborns in a single month.
Contrary to popular belief, people in east Asia are no more genetically susceptible to short-sightedness than any other population group, according to researchers who have analysed past studies of the problem.
Managed Hosting Specialist Named to Prestigious List of Innovators
SAN ANTONIO — July 7, 2004 – Rackspace Managed Hosting, the fastest-growing managed hosting specialist, today announced it was named to the AlwaysOn (AO) Top 100 Private Companies list. AlwaysOn, an open source media company focused on technology and business innovation, and KPMG’s emerging business practice, KPMG 1Start, compiled the second-annual AO100 list. The two groups surveyed more than 1,000 venture investors, investment bankers, top entrepreneurs and executives, who nominated more than 700 companies to determine the AO100 winners. The full list can be found at www.alwayson-network.com.
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Drinking milk may protect against bowel cancer, suggests a new study on the dairy-eating habits of more than half a million people.
David Day has a bounce in his step and a glint in his eye unexpected in someone who makes nearly 400 telemarketing calls a day for less than $200 a month. That’s because he has a coveted job where few exist: behind bars.
Some Twin Cities frequent fliers will have their own fast-track security lane starting Wednesday, but the cost of admission to the pilot program is a background check and a fingerprint or iris scan.
Some retailers are deciding that the customer can be very, very wrong — as in unprofitable. And some, including Best Buy Co. Inc., are discriminating between profitable customers and shoppers they lose money on.
Senior citizens played an important role in the dramatic spread of human civilisation some 30,000 years ago, a study of the human fossil record has shown.
New HIV infections hit a record high last year as the virus continues to outpace the global effort to contain it, according to a U.N. report published Tuesday.
A traffic simulation system is helping drivers by predicting jams on Germany’s autobahn network up to an hour before they happen. The secret of its success is to take into account the way real drivers – and their cars – behave.
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Sony Electronics on Thursday challenged the Apple iPod by unveiling a pair of digital music players, including one with an LCD to display still images.
“The Inquirer is reporting that Microsoft is offering a preview of its new search technology. The search engine preview has a minimalist interface, similar to Google. Microsoft claims over one billion web pages searched, but admits the fact that searching is a little slow. This technology hasn’t yet been incorporated into MSN Search, though the site claims it eventually will be. In related news, the Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft are to improve the regular MSN Search site by removing paid advertisements from regular internet searches, a move that will cost them ‘tens of millions of dollars.’ Are the Search Engine Wars finally upon us?”
The 17-digit codes that identify the origin, make, model and attributes of cars, trucks, buses — even trailers — worldwide will be exhausted by the end of the decade
The speed of light, one of the most sacrosanct of the universal physical constants, may have been lower as recently as two billion years ago – and not in some far corner of the universe, but right here on Earth.
Roses are blue? : The world’s first ‘blue rose’ developed by Japanese brewer Suntory is displayed during a press conference in Tokyo.
Watch out, Apple, another microcomputing pioneer from the 1970s is moving into the digital music business with a portable, hard drive-based music player.