NTSB Seeks Order Banning Use of Cell Phones by Train Operators

"September 16, 2008- Ever since the news that teenage train enthusiasts were text messaging the train engineer at the time of the train crash in Chatsworth, the NTSB has sought an order banning the use of cell...

STUDENT RETURNS O'S PRAYER NOTE

" The yeshiva student who took Barack Obama's personal note to God from the Western Wall in Jerusalem has gone public - sort of - to apologize. With his face obscured and his identity given as "Aleph," the first Hebrew letter of his name, the young man told Channel 2 TV...

Scans reveal lost gravestone text

"Illegible words on church headstones could be read once more thanks to a scan technology developed in the US. Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University are making high resolution 3D scans of tombstones to reveal the carved patterns in the stone. A computer matches the...

Return to the Dark Side

Light pollution has been a hot topic in New Zealand lately with local councils encouraged to do whatever is needed to reduce or minimize this visual intrusion during the dark hours of our day. New Zealand is now...

101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less

"The pleasures of cooking are sometimes obscured by summer haze and heat, which can cause many of us to turn instead to bad restaurants and worse takeout. But the cook with a little bit of experience has a wealth...

Contentious Caravaggios emerge from the royal storeroom

 In recent times there has been a lot of discourse that normalizes the Royal Family as just a regular family. Still, it's moments like this - finding two Caravaggios stowed away someplace -where you really...

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