Federal judge rules flood victims can't sue Corps

"Wednesday January 30, 2008, 3:03 PM, By Susan Finch, Staff writer, Times-Picayune Thousands of homeowners who sued the Army Corps of Engineers over flooding of their property when three New Orleans drainage canal levees failed after Hurricane Katrina are out of luck...

Improving Life in Mumbai's Largest Slum

It is difficult not to be daunted by Dharavi. Mumbai’s largest slum – indeed the largest slum in all of Asia – many taxi drivers outside the train station at Mahim junction don’t even want to go there. Finally one agrees, negotiating the narrow streets around the...

Mach 5 designing budget SPL woofer

In the essence of Mach 5’s previous budget oriented drivers, they are designing a reasonably priced SPL woofer. Mark from Mach 5 has commisioned the help of the infamous Loyd Lowry to test the limits (read: kill) of the prototype and find its weak points. Looks like it has...

Information war: Feds close science libraries

"The NASA library in Greenbelt, Md., was part of John C. Mather's daily routine for years leading up to the astrophysicist's 2006 Nobel Prize for shedding new light on the Big Bang theory of universal origin. He researched existing space hardware and instrumentation there...

Street Of Art

"you like to peep out from your car, just to have a look at the new colorful funky big size poster put overnight on the same road that you travel everyday? Take the case of streets where you typically walk through - you would steal a look to see what the funny punch line of...