Jenin music center torched

  Jenin, is a town in the northern part of the West Bank of which Fatah has full control and jurisdiction over with the blessings of Israel. There is a struggle going on in this area between the...

Yo-Yo Ma and Perlman pre-recorded music on Inauguration Day

Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Gabriella Montero and Anthony McGill played a lovely original song for new President Barack Obama on his Inauguration Day, however it has now been revealed that what most of the people...

This Is Not A Normal Recession: Moving on to Plan B

""The Winter of 2008-2009 will prove to be the winter of global economic discontent that marks the rejection of the flawed ideology that unregulated global financial markets promote financial innovation, market efficiency, unhampered growth and endless prosperity while...

Dust Storm Cuts Energy Supply of NASA Mars Rover

A dust storm on Mars has cut into the amount of sunlight reaching the solar array on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, leaving the rover in a vulnerable state.Spirit's solar array produced only 89 watt hours...

Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction

"Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction photo credit: laffy4k New York Times called the possibility of an AIG liquidation “as close to an extinction-level event as the financial markets have seen since the Great Depression.” We keep hearing that the current...

New instruments could provide advanced earthquake warnings

"Although measurement methods have improved enormously over the last few decades, it has remained very difficult to measure changes in the crust that could enable earthquake prediction. Now, the field has...

U.S. exports cigarettes, bras, bull semen to Iran

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. exports to Iran -- including brassieres, bull semen, cosmetics and possibly even weapons -- grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists. ...

Free instruments for poor children

At one time this was the norm in the UK - free music tuition and the use of an instrument with the county of Leicestershire leading the way. Sadly long gone under Thatcher and not reinstated by Blair or Brown....

Mars lander completes first day on Red Planet

" TUCSON, Ariz. - Fresh images sent back by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander during its first full day operating in the Martian northern polar region showed most of its science instruments in good health, mission scientists said."

Berlin Philharmonic Optimistic After Fire

The Berlin Philharmonic are putting their orchestra back together and looking for a new performance venue after a fire in its concert hall yesterday. UPDATE | May 21, 2008"Firefighters have completely...

Surgeons Remove Man's Appendix Through His Mouth

The world’s first appendectomy removal has happened, through a man’s mouth!  The patient was able to return to work just after two days, and only suffered a minor sore throat.  From a...

Night of the Living Fed

"Night of the Living Fed Paul Krugman is writing about The Face-Slap Theory."The scariest thing I’ve read recently is a speech given last week by Tim Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Geithner came as close as a Fed official can to...

The Gulf of Tonkin and the Strait of Hormuz

"An Ominous Non-Event The Gulf of Tonkin and the Strait of Hormuz By ROBERT FANTINA As the U.S. government continues to demonstrate its inability to learn from history, an alarming report from the Strait of Hormuz was broadcast to the world on January 7. The Associated Press...

Bar Codes: Protecting You from Surgical Sponges

Tools left inside your body after surgery? No, thank you. Rather than using tool leashes like theatre lighting crews use, Loyola University Medical Center has turned to high-tech:"Loyola University Medical Center...

Britain awaits the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

Given the low price of carrots, approximately £0.72 Kg. these vegetable instruments make a remarkable sound......."They give the phrase 'playing with your food' a whole new meaning - and now the Vienna...

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