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Cell phone use may be walking safety risk Champaign, Ill. (UPI) Nov 16, 2009 
A University of Illinois study of pedestrian safety has found using a cell phone while walking can endanger one's health. The study involved people crossing a virtual street while either talking on the phone or listening to music. The scientists said they discovered music-listeners were able to navigate traffic as well as the average unencumbered pedestrian. But users of hands-free cell ... read moreIndia plans fingerprint IDs for billion-plus citizens 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 16, 2009India's 1.16 billion people are each to receive their own identity number under a monumental plan designed to cut corruption and improve distribution of state benefits. The project -- modelled on social security numbers in the United States -- will compile an Internet database of the personal details, fingerprints and photograph of every Indian across the vast and chaotic country. ... more
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At Fort Hood, Obama condemns shooter's 'twisted logic'
Fort Hood, Texas (AFP) Nov 10, 2009US President Barack Obama led a tearful memorial service Tuesday for victims of the Fort Hood massacre, saying "no faith" could justify the "murderous and craven" shootings. Obama's allusion to religion was the strongest official indication to date that the shooter's Muslim faith could have been the motivating factor for suspected gunman Major Nidal Hasan, who is alive in hospital and under ... more Path to good health, less pollution is the sidewalk: report 
Washington (AFP) Nov 9, 2009US pressure groups joined forces Monday to urge authorities to spend more to improve Americans' health and cut greenhouse gas emissions. But it was neither health care reform nor cap-and-trade that they were talking about, but a call for state and local authorities to spend more to make US streets safe for pedestrians and cyclists. Designing towns and cities to make it more appealing and ... more Stasi prison terror still haunts victims 
Berlin (UPI) Nov 6, 2009 When the Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989, Mario Roellig sat in his West Berlin apartment and was sobbing in despair. More than a year earlier the West German government bought Roellig out of an East German prison where he had been detained for trying to flee the communist state. The former political prisoner was since living a relatively happy live in the West. Roellig felt tha ... more Japan's NEC offers eyewear translator 
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 5, 2009Most eyewear improves vision or cuts through solar glare, but a new gadget from Japan may soon sharpen linguistic skills and cut down language barriers instead, inventors said Thursday. High-tech company NEC has come up with a device that it says will allow users to communicate with people of different languages. Shaped like a pair of eye-glasses, but without the lenses, the computer-ass ... more |
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Heavily armed "Borderlands" videogame hits US
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 20, 2009"Borderlands," a videogame brimming with weaponry and battle, hit North America on Tuesday. It takes aim at the rest of the world on Friday. The title developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games combines one-on-one challenges, solo play, and online team options with a wasteland planet setting and lots of guns. "Borderlands" contains automated weapon generating software ... more Parents, care groups venture into children's digital limbo 
Geneva (AFP) Oct 19, 2009Twenty years after the international community expanded the frontiers of protection for children, child carers and officialdom are slowly venturing into uncharted territory: cyberspace. Since November 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has gradually been adopted by 193 countries in a bid to protect children from abuse. But child welfare groups and ... more Oldest Hominid Skeleton Provides New Evidence For Human Evolution 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Oct 14, 2009A Los Alamos National Laboratory geologist is part of an international research team responsible for discovering the oldest nearly intact skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, who lived 4.4 million years ago. The discovery reveals the biology of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date. The 17-year investigation into the discovery of the extremely fragile remains of ... more The Fall Of The Maya: "They Did It To Themselves" 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 14, 2009For 1200 years, the Maya dominated Central America. At their peak around 900 A.D., Maya cities teemed with more than 2,000 people per square mile - comparable to modern Los Angeles County. Even in rural areas the Maya numbered 200 to 400 people per square mile. But suddenly, all was quiet. And the profound silence testified to one of the greatest demographic disasters in human prehistory ... more |
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