Divorce Cambodian style

And you think American divorces are weird!"(CNN) -- A Cambodian couple who separated after 40 years of marriage may have taken things too literally when it came to splitting their assets: ...

If America Is an Empire, then Why Is Gas So Expensive?

"If America Is an Empire, then Why Is Gas So Expensive? Imperial considerations. By Thomas F. Madden America has become an empire. Everyone says so. This is a surprise to most Americans, since few imagined that they were building such a thing. But, as historians such as...

Researcher Easily Steals Thousands of Identities

Sometimes security begins at the most simple level."A researcher performing social engineering exploits on behalf of several U.S. banks and other firms in the past year has “stolen” thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. Joshua Perrymon, hacking...

CDC expert gets West Nile bug

Lyle Petersen, director of the division of vector borne diseases at the CEnters for Disease Control and Prevention, was infected with West Nile virus while collecting his mail.  As one of the world's most preeminent experts on the virus, he had a suspicion that the...

Mustard Feud in Germany gets Physical

"Germans Pummel One Another In Mustard Feud Muenster, Germany May 27, 2008"It's about the sausage" is German idiom meaning that the matter at hand is really, really important. But two men from the city of Muenster took the saying literally, engaging in fisticuffs over a...