Marvel joins forces with UN for comic book

Picture it: Spiderman and the X-Men are battling an international foe responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. They can't do it alone, so they call upon...the United Nations? Well, yes--at least, that's...

Lost In Translation

US dairy industry slogan "Got Milk"  Spanish translation read "Are You Lactating?"    Certainly, US brand recognition has become familiar to consumers across the globe, but product slogans when...

Montreal, by Wikipedia

"Formerly the largest metropolis of Canada (a distinction acquired by Toronto in the mid-1970s), it is the second-largest French-speaking city in the Western world after Paris. As of the 2006 Canadian Census,...

I had this happen with my myspace account shortly before getting hacked; I no...

"DNS addresses are text-strings like www.citibank.com. The Internet’s routing infrastructure doesn’t know anything about DNS addresses. Instead, a DNS address must be translated into an IP address before data can be routed to it. Your browser translated the DNS address...

Israel's lost 40 years

"Israel's lost 40 years Since the Six-Day War, the country's future has been consumed by the problems of the occupation. By Meir Shalev, MEIR SHALEV is the author of "A Pigeon and a Boy," to be published in the U.S. in October, and a columnist for the Israeli daily Yediot...

Catholics claim blog spreads BBC ‘slander’

ROME - Italy’s leading Roman Catholic newspaper lashed out at bloggers on Saturday for spreading “slander” by posting a BBC documentary that alleged a Church cover-up of child sexual abuse.The documentary aired on the BBC in October, but never in Italy. The bloggers...

Document details 'US' plan to sink Hamas by Mark Perry and Paul Woodward

This story is complex and should be read in its entirety.q url="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IE16Ak04.html"]the US press has failed to pick up on either the Majd or Haaretz story and has ignored the existence of the White House program aimed at undermining the...

Al Qaeda video taunts Bush, Iran, Shiites

"CNN) -- A new video from al Qaeda No. 2 man Ayman al-Zawahiri addresses the issue of setting a timetable for withdrawal of troops from Iraq. The video introduces an interview with al-Zawahiri, and his words are translated into English, with subtitles superimposed throughout....

'Oil is about profit' - New Iraq Oil Law Leaked

I am pretty sure we saw this coming (of course some people still are holding on to the line that the US had no interest in Iraq's oil), but it is being leaked that the US government is setting up a pipeline to funnel...

A Prosthetic Arm That Acts Like a Real One

"Patients use nerves left intact after amputations to control prosthetic limbs. A new technique that capitalizes on remaining nerves allows amputees to intuitively control their prosthetic limb, providing them with a much better level of control than traditional...

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