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What flies 700 mph and costs $58M? New private jet

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:54:01 GMT

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What flies 700 mph and costs $58M? New private jet

Gulfstream Aerospace on Thursday unveiled plans to build the largest, fastest and most expensive private jet for delivery starting in 2012.

Gulfstream said its new G650 will be capable of flying nearly 700 mph, faster than a Boeing 747. It will seat 18, have a full kitchen and bar, and offer individualized entertainment, satellite phone service and wireless Internet access during the flight.

Passengers will be able to sip a cocktail at 51,000 feet, its maximum altitude, the company says.

"The G650 is in a brand new market by itself," said Gulfstream President Joe Lombardo.

At a base price of $58 million, it will cost about $10 million more than its predecessor, Gulfstream's G550. With a flying range of more than 8,000 miles, it will be capable of whisking heads of state, CEOs and other VIPs from New York to Tokyo or Buenos Aires non-stop.

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Teacher's high standards help kids tackle math

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:24:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These are the kind of teachers we need in our schools!

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Teacher's high standards help kids tackle math

GREENVILLE, Ala. — Failure is not an option in Linda Jarzyniecki's math classes. If Jarzyniecki needs to give a pep talk or threaten to call parents to get the job done, then so be it.

"Students come into my class hesitantly," says Jarzyniecki (Jar-za-NEEKY), or "Mrs. J.," who teaches advanced algebra, trigonometry and calculus at Greenville High. "I want to challenge my students, but I want them to experience some success so they don't become discouraged and they remain in mathematics."

Mrs. J. faces challenging demographics. Greenville High is a school with about 750 students in a rural central Alabama town of about 8,000. The median income for a family of four is about $25,000 a year, according to Census figures, and 69% of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Tags: education, teaching, teachers, math

Hopes rise for finding alien Earths

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:41:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I would say they should have another article one reading "hopes rise for finding aliens on earth"

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Hopes rise for finding alien Earths

Dust readings indicate terrestrial-style planets could be more common

Between 20 and 60 percent of the sunlike stars in our galaxy's disk could harbor a diverse collection of rocky planets like Earth or Mars, scientists say.

BOSTON - Rocky planets like Earth could be found around most sunlike stars in our galaxy, new research suggests, further raising hopes that scientists will someday find E.T. or at least primitive life beyond our solar system.

The finding is based on an analysis of dust around 309 stars with masses comparable to our sun.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was able to detect the heat that radiated from the dust, "not unlike the smoke you'll see rising from chimneys around here in the Boston area on a cold day," said researcher Michael Meyer of the University of Arizona.

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Bond babe is into skin

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:52:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is one reason why I Love Europe and their open minds.

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Good nudes!

Bond babe is into skin

Eva Green, James Bond's new honey, is comfy with nudity.

The new Bond Girl is Green, Eva Green - and she's no shrinking violet.

The 25-year-old French brunette bared it all in an erotic drama, "The Dreamers," and her steamy sex scene with Orlando Bloom in "Kingdom of Heaven" was reportedly so hot it had to be pruned.

"Nudity is not a big thing with Europeans, but it terrifies Americans," Green said in a recent interview.

Now the producers of the Bond franchise are banking on Green to sizzle as the vampy Vesper Lynd in "Casino Royale" opposite the first blond Bond, Daniel Craig.

"She brings to the complex role of Vesper an exciting combination of enigmatic and seductive beauty," producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said yesterday.

Green was en route to Prague, where the filming of the 21st Bond movie was underway.

Green, however, wasn't Columbia's first choice. She got her shot after more established stars like Angelina Jolie, Thandie Newton and Charlize Theron passed. And she reportedly had to overcome stiff competition from "Wicker Park" beauty Rose Byrne and Olivia Wilde from "The O.C."

The Paris-born daughter of French actress Marlène Jobert and Walter Green, a Swedish dentist, Green joins a sexy sorority of former Bond girls such as Halle Berry, Kim Basinger and Teri Hatcher.

Green said she gets more nervous doing interviews than taking off her clothes, which she did with relish in "The Dreamers" for Bernardo Bertolucci, who also directed the notorious "Last Tango in Paris."

Green also has a healthy disdain for working out.

"I'm French and I'm lazy, which means I smoke and I don't exercise," she told the Calgary Sun last year. "This is the body I was given."

Originally published on February 18, 2006

Tags: europe, culture, social, nudeness, nude, movies

Nude teens raise eyebrows

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:08:24 GMT

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Nude teens raise eyebrows

BRATTLEBORO, Vermont (Reuters) - Some have appeared naked in a downtown parking lot. Others rode their bicycles or simply strolled the streets in the nude.

Teenagers in the quaint Vermont town of Brattleboro are raising eyebrows this summer with brazen displays of nudity.

So far they haven't been arrested or ticketed: public nudity isn't illegal in the town of 13,000 people, unless it's done to arouse sexual gratification.

Vermont has a live-and-let-live tradition, allowing skinny-dipping and nude sunbathing. Brattleboro, the first permanent English settlement in the state in 1724, is home to a community of writers, artists and musicians as well as transplanted entrepreneurs from Boston and New York.

Tags: teenage rebellion, vermont, nuist colony, teens

3-Year-Old Solves Rubik's Cube

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:42:56 GMT

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How do you say "incredible" in Chinese? This 3-year-old girl from the People's Republic just stuck it to us and all Rubik's cube whiz wanna-bes. She can solve her super mind boggling toy in 114 seconds and she proudly demonstrated her ability during a live show. And while the little genius is probably unaware of her skill's significance just yet, the Guinness World Record folks surely are ... we bet they'll come calling soon enough.

3-Year-Old Solves Rubik's Cube

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Rookie plumber's $12m blunder

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:37:59 GMT

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Rookie plumber's $12m blunder

April 18, 2007 10:41am

A 17-YEAR -old rookie plumber has burned down a £5 million ($12 million) waterside mansion in southwest England, after a soldering task during his first day on the job went horribly wrong.

The historic mansion in Kingswear, Devon, was undergoing a £2 million renovation when a fire ripped through the eight-bedroom house overnight.

In just minutes it burned it down to the ground.

It is thought the fire started after polystyrene insulation caught alight from the flame of a blow torch.
The plumber was working for a firm of sub-contractors.

John Howes, of the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, said the plumber was "very upset", according to the Daily Mail newspaper.

"It appears at this stage that this was an unfortunate plumber who was soldering in the roof space of a large building, which was undergoing total renovation".

Tags: amazing, plumber, rookie, bad day, first job, entertainment

Storm whips paraglider to heights of 32,000 ft

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:42:19 GMT

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Storm whips paraglider to heights of 32,000 ft

A champion paraglider described today her terror at being flung to a height greater than Mount Everest by a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia.

Ewa Wisnerska, 35, was sucked so high that she blacked out and became encased in ice.

“You can’t imagine the power. You feel like nothing, like a leaf from a tree going up,” she told Australian radio.

Wisnerska, from Germany, was preparing for the 10th World Paragliding Championships above the town of Manilla in New South Wales when the storm struck on Wednesday.

With terrifying speed she was whisked from 2,500 ft to an estimated 32,000 ft in about 15 minutes.

A 42-year-old Chinese paraglider, He Zhongpin, was also caught in the storm and died, apparently from a lack of oxygen and extreme cold.

Tags: storm, incredible, amazing survival, paraglider, parachuting, extreme height

Vehicles ice skate on Oregon roads - 15 car collision video

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:53:59 GMT

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15 car collisions caught on tape by KGW viewer

January 16th, 2007

KGW viewer Derek Porter captured on video a series of cars sliding out of control and colliding from his Portland home.

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Tags: collision, video, portaln, snow, ice, weather

Nipple covers, hair and other red carpet secrets

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:08:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Crazy!

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Nipple covers, hair and other red carpet secrets

POSTED: 2:13 p.m. EST, January 12, 2007

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- With Hollywood's awards season under way, fans will see plenty of stunning gowns, sculpted bodies, flawless skin and camera-ready coifs on red carpets around town.

What they won't see are the industrial-strength girdles, silicone nipple covers, fake hair and skin treatments beneath those flawless facades.

Stylists work overtime during the six-week stretch from the Golden Globes to the Oscars, and it typically takes a team to ready stars for their stroll down the red-carpet runway. Some of Hollywood's most-coveted image experts took time out to share their best style secrets with The Associated Press.

Tags: hollywood, star, golden globes, entertainment, dressing up

Cat saves baby's life

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:17:22 GMT

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Cat saves baby's life

Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:26pm ET

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman said Saturday.

"The cat is a hero," Cologne police spokesman Uwe Beier said. "Its loud meowing got the attention of the homeowner and saved the baby from suffering life-threatening hypothermia. The homeowner opened door to see why the cat was making so much noise and discovered the newborn."

Beier said the boy was taken to hospital at 5 a.m. on Thursday, when overnight temperatures fell toward zero, and had suffered only mild hypothermia. He said there was no indication of what happened to the boy's mother.

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Tags: cat, baby, cat hero, smart animals, amazing story, life, birth

Condoms 'too big' for Indian men

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:07:41 GMT

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Condoms 'too big' for Indian men

By Damian Grammaticus
BBC News, Delhi

There is a "lack of awareness" over condom sizes

A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.

The study found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international standards for condoms.

It has led to a call for condoms of mixed sizes to be made more widely available in India.

The two-year study was carried out by the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Over 1,200 volunteers from the length and breadth of the country had their penises measured precisely, down to the last millimetre.

The scientists even checked their sample was representative of India as a whole in terms of class, religion and urban and rural dwellers.

It's not size, it's what you do with it that matters

Sunil Mehra

The conclusion of all this scientific endeavour is that about 60% of Indian men have penises which are between three and five centimetres shorter than international standards used in condom manufacture.

Tags: condoms, india, population

EXCELLENT READ: Why Our Hero Leapt Onto the Tracks and We Might Not

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:30:10 GMT

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Why Our Hero Leapt Onto the Tracks and We Might Not

MAYBE some people are more hard-wired for heroism than others. Like, for example, Wesley Autrey, the man behind a stunning rescue last week in a Manhattan subway station.

People wondered, because they had asked themselves, “Could I have done what he did?” and very often the answer was no. Mr. Autrey, 50, a construction worker and Navy veteran, leapt in front of a train to rescue a stranger who had suffered a seizure and fallen onto the tracks. He covered the stranger’s body with his own as the train passed overhead. Both men lived.

Tags: brain, neurons, rescue, diversity, race, actions, train

Intruder Tries To Exorcise Devil From Actor

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 05:14:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I guess we could say the offender is just a Christian Extermist

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Drake Hogestyn (File Photo: 1994)

Intruder Tries To Exorcise Devil From Actor

Oregon Man Pleads No Contest

POSTED: 8:31 am EST January 5, 2007

LOS ANGELES -- An Oregon man has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and entering private property without permission after bursting into the Malibu backyard of "Days of Our Lives" star Drake Hogestyn.

A judge also granted Hogestyn a restraining order against Carl Raymond Cheney.

Hogestyn, who plays John Black on the popular soap opera, said he was on a ladder on New Year's Eve when Cheney ran at his daughter screaming, "Where is he? I will cast him out." Court documents said Cheney was clutching a a bible and was trying to exorcise the devil from the actor. He was recalling an episode of the soap about demonic possession, the documents state, adding that the intruder also grabbed Hogestyn's wife and pushed her backward.

Hogestyn intercepted the intruder and he and his son restrained the man with duct tape until police arrived.

"I grabbed him by the hair, spun him around, delivered a right cross to the chin that sent him down the stairs," the actor said.

"This sick person Carl Raymond Cheney believed that Satan was in me and that he was the Christ," he wrote.

Cheney was released on his own recognizance and ordered to stay with his father. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 6.

Tags: religon, entertainment, media, actor, exorcisim

Man rejects first penis transplant

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:41:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not sure I would want a used one as a transplant. Who knows where it had been

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Man rejects first penis transplant

Ian Sample, science correspondent
Monday September 18, 2006
The Guardian

Doctors spent 15 hours attaching a 10cm penis to the 44-year-old patient after the parents of a brain-dead man half his age agreed to donate their son's organ.

The procedure, described in a case study due to appear in the journal European Urology next month, represents a big leap forward in transplant surgery; it required complex microsurgery to connect nerves and tiny blood vessels.

Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove the penis two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said. An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.

Tags: penis transplant, china, psychology