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Apple's Tower of Power: New Mac Pro Has 8 Processor Cores Standard
It's got eight -- count 'em -- eight core processors. The new Mac Pro comes standard with up to 3.2-GHz and can drive up to eight 30-inch displays. The Great Race
Website for the centennial celebration in 2008 of the 1908 New York to Paris automobile race. "In a re-run of that milestone event, the 2008 Great Race will depart New York City on 30 May 2008 and travel 35,000 km (22,000 miles), to Paris, France and finish on 2 August."Features background about the original race, and details about the 2008 race, including a listing of race participants and vehicles. From the race promoters. Hybrids: First Responder Dangers
Safety experts say first responders should be trained to deal with high-voltage battery systems and undeployed airbags in a crashed hybrid. In Autopia. Godzilla Conquers the Globe: Japanese Monster Movies in International
This website offers a virtual tour of a 2004 exhibit on the Japanese film genre known as kaijū eiga (monster movies). The exhibit feature movie posters, film programs, lobby cards, and other materials from several countries for Godzilla and other monster movies. Include descriptions of the items and images of related items such as Japanese bestiaries. From the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University. Lawrence and the Cyclotron
Exhibition about physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence, whose "invention of the cyclotron, an accelerator of subatomic particles, won him the Nobel Prize in 1939."Features biographical information, photos, and information about topics such as Lawrence's development of the Radiation Laboratory (or "Rad Lab") in Berkeley, California, and science during the Cold War. Includes a bibliography and related links. From the American Institute of Physics. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Mathematical Model Predicts Spread Of 'Super-bug'In L.A. County Jail
Researchers have developed a mathematical model that mimics a particularly nasty and ongoing outbreak in the Los Angeles County Jail (among others) of the flesh eating bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. Novel Treatment Of Premature Ejaculation
Premature ejaculation (PE) is defined as "persistent or recurrent onset of orgasm and ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation before, on, or shortly after penetration and before the person wishes it."The psychological elements of distress and dissatisfaction may account for the traditional view of PE as a psychological condition. Protein Key To Organ Growth
When amounts of a small protein called TCTP (translationally controlled tumor protein) are reduced in the cells of fruit flies, they are smaller than normal, indicating that the protein plays a major role in the growth and proliferation of cells.
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