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Scientists say paper battery could be in the works

Electrifying news, you may be able to buy your batteries by the ream, of course I am joking. But this new technology has great potential. Just imagine a newspaper like seen in the Harry Potter films. be come a...

Stanford Band Joe Francis Video: Stanford Mocks Francis

While college football fans are talking about Stanford's upset win over USC, some are talking about the halftime show which featured the Stanford marching band mocking Girls Gone Wild founder and USC grad Joe Francis. During the Stanford Marching Band performance, a stadium...

Allen Stanford Back in Jail after Banged Up From brawl

Alleged mastermind of a $7 billion fraud, Allen Stanford, is back in his jail cell after suffering a mild concussion, broken nose and two black eyes in a prison brawl last week. "Stanford, 59, was injured in a...

Jim Harbaugh Bathroom: John Arrillaga Builds Coach $50,000 Throne

Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh now has the use of a private luxury bathroom and shower thanks to the kindness of donor John Arrillaga. It is believed that Arrillaga paid between $50,000 and $70,000 for Jim Harbaugh's bathroom.  John Arrillaga is a billionaire who has...

Allen Stanford: Billionaire Charged, Could Face 250 Years in Jail

Texan Billionaire Sir Allen Stanford, a prominent financier, has been indicted on a long list of charges. Stanford was taken by FBI officers from his girlfriend’s house in Virginia. The current charges against him...

What Does Allen Stanford Have in Common with Anti-Chevron Group?

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any shadier, I’ve learned that the lobbyist now representing the Amazon Defense Coalition (via Kohn Swift & Graf, P.C.) in its $27 billion lawsuit against San Ramon,...

MSNBC: Condi Rice may have admitted to conspiracy

  " In little-noticed comments Thursday, the former White House counsel for President Richard Nixon John Dean said Thursday that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have unwittingly admitted to...

There Oughta Be A Law

Just when you thought it was safe, once again our Government proves it is one big revolving bed. Once again "we the people" are just an annoyance to the power elite. Who cares what we think and need. They will do...

Stanford surrenders his passport, but is nowhere to be seen

Allen Stanford has surrendered his passport to the US Government, although he is still laying low and is no where to be found." Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has surrendered his passport in keeping with a court order, a spokesman for the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

Stanford Financial Group $8 Billion 'Massive Fraud' Indictments

Three executives of the Texas based Stanford Financial Group, including bank head Robert Allen Stanford, have been handed a series of indictments by the Securities and Exchange Commission surrounding an $8 billion...

Are Major Oil Suppliers Manipulating the Price of Oil?

Suppose that major suppliers in the oil industry are the manipulative speculators. Two Stanford students explained how in the article 'Are Oil Prices Rigged?' in Time Magazine, last August 22, 2008, (Ari J. Officer studies financial mathematics at Stanford University....

The end of steroids? New device enhances performance in the palm of your hand

New technology out of Stanford gets you to put gloves on instead of taking them off when things heat up.  Two biologists, Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller have designed a device called “the glove” that cools...

Q&A: Stanford financial economist Darrell Duffie discusses government takeove...

Since the government announced its takeover plan of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stock markets in the United States and around the world have rallied and mortgage rates have dropped. But the latest turn in the...

England declare ODI team for India tour

"England’s selectors have named a 15-man squad for the Stanford Super Series and the seven-match one-day tour of India that gets underway in November, with Ryan Sidebottom earning a recall after an injury disrupted season. He comes in to replace Tim Bresnan, although will...

Google Turns Ten

Stanford University students Sergey Brin and Larry page submitted a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine"..." In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale...

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