November 12, 2021

Volunteers endure bed-rest study

Tuesday, March 22, 2005Volunteers began a 60 day bed-rest marathon on March 19 to study simulated weightlessness effects on women astronauts. The study, Women International Space Simulation for Exploration(WISE), is conducted at the MEDES Space Clinic in Toulouse, France. The 12 women, selected from 1600 applicants hailing from France,Great Britain, Germany, Finland, The Netherlands, Poland […]

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November 11, 2021

Stanstead Airport Hotels With Airport Views

Read An Opinion On: Automated Parking Solutions Brisbane Submitted by: Rebecca J It s a rare and specific pleasure to sit in a fancy hotel restaurant at twilight and watch the planes arrive and depart from the airfield. As I m sure Alain de Botton has probably pointed out, there s something otherworldly about stopping […]

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November 10, 2021

UK PM’s speechwriter awaits sentence

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 An English lawyer has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice. He faked a legal judgment and sent it to a father who was pleading in Taunton family court to be able to remain involved in his child’s upbringing. The lawyer, London barrister Bruce Hyman, now awaits his sentence. The […]

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November 8, 2021

Barry Bonds guilty of obstruction

Thursday, April 14, 2011 Barry Bonds, a United States baseball player, has been found guilty of one count of obstructing justice for giving an evasive answer to a federal grand jury under oath when asked whether he had ever received drugs necessitating a syringe. The judge declared a mistrial on three other obstruction of justice […]

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November 5, 2021

Turkey mourns flotilla dead

Friday, June 4, 2010 Funerals and prayers for nine activists, who died in Israel’s Gaza flotilla raid, were held in Istanbul on Thursday. Tens of thousands attended the funeral of the nine Turkish nationals, including one teen of dual U.S.-Turkish citizenship. The coffins were draped in Turkish and Palestinian flags. There was widespread anger from […]

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November 2, 2021

New ‘Star Wars’ film to be released in August

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 George Lucas has announced that there will be one last Star Wars movie to end the saga, but it won’t have any actors visible. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated film is scheduled to be released into theaters on August 15 of this year. “I felt there were a lot […]

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