"LOS ANGELES Oberto Sausage Co. is launching its first national advertising this week with a television-oriented campaign by independent Ground Zero, according to Tom Ennis, vp of marketing. The "Don't be a sidekick. Eat like an alpha" campaign uses comedic situations...
I was able to catch the billowing smoke on video, albeit actually far from the incident."Fire of still undetermined origin hit several houses inside a squatters' compound in Makati City and snarled traffic in the...
I was in bed with the flu yesterday, or sure thing I would have been there too: This past weekend saw the annual Santa Con Pub Crawl in NYC (and around the country, too). Drunk Santas, Rasta Santa, about a million...
"In short, Opera 9.5 alpha is: * Performance * Full history search * Improved site compatibility * Access for everyone * Improved platform integration * Preview of...
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A complete, well researched, extraordinary article on the use of U-238 radiological weapons by the USA in the field, and the macabre, expanding death sentence it imposes not only on millions of people around the...
"It's not just the muscles, or the confidence, or the chiselled cheekbones. Nor is it the flashy sportscar or the charming arrogance. No, the charms of the alpha male -- the guy who stands out above lesser mortals --...
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Although it's not intended for public consumption, a new build of Firefox 3 Alpha 5 (code name Gran Paradiso) is available for download from Mozilla. In this release, add-ons created for Firefox 2 may not work. For end users, Firefox 2 remains the latest public version. The...
Taking a page from Google's Searchmash experiment, the Yahoo Alpha search engine provides neatly organized results from the web, Flickr, Yahoo Answers and other sources.
Specifically, Alpha generates a dynamic search-results page with
modules that can expand or collapse. A...
"What is Photo Pattern Recognition (PPR)?
PPR is the ability to render a still photograph into an algorithm discernable identification symbol that then can be used for all of the cellphone applications that are being...
The Life mobile phone gets rid of all the usual multimedia razzmatazz and bells’n'whistles in preference for a no-nonsense, back-to-basics handset that should prove simpler to use for the technologically challenged.
A Fort Lauderdale student and a fellow studentfrom Jacksonville are going to prision for under Florida's new anti-hazing law. "A Florida judge said she wanted to send a message with the state's first prosecution under a new felony hazing law.
Circuit Judge Kathleen...
"After your man whups his pals on the basketball court or nails an important deal at work, he's likely to crave an uninhibited quickie against a wall or a lusty shag anywhere there's a smooth surface. The reason? His alpha instincts are taking over."
"Every time you turn around it seems there's another rah-rah story about the rise of the "alpha earner" wife -- women who bring home most of the bacon while their husbands happily shuttle the kids to and from soccer practice.
I am just such an alpha female, apparently -- as...
"The Secretary of State and the Defense Secretary were often at cross purposes. Finally rid of her nemesis, however, Secretary Rice is left to clean up on her own.
Three and a half years ago, as the U.S. prepared for war with Iraq, Condoleezza Rice went to President Bush with...