News Elevated to More Stately Ground
The Newseum, which highlights the essential relation between a free press and democracy, is to have a new, expanded home on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.
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Jack the Ripper, Master of Arts
According to Patricia Cornwell, renowned crime novelist, the Jack the Ripper case has been solved, thanks to DNA evidence pointing to a man of art and refinement.
Virtual Rock Paper Scissors
What explanation is needed? The most basic form of computer driven time wastage.
Turn Off Active Scripting
GreyMagic Software has released a report detailing security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer versions 5.5 and 6. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to steal private local documents, steal cookies from any site, forge trusted web sites, steal clipboard information or even execute arbitrary programs. Until Microsoft releases a security patch, GreyMagic suggests that users browsing with affected versions of IE turn off Active Scripting.
Perhaps Malthus Wasn't Right...
As reported recently by CNN, people are -- literally -- taking over the planet, covering 83 percent of habitable land. Want more? Read the source upon which CNN relied, provided by the World Conservation Society.
40 Years After...
On this date 40 years ago the US found itself involved in the Bay of Pigs. But what happened at the end of the conflict? Look at several declassified documents to see how Washington and Havana tried to calm tensions.
An Academic Looks at the TV Soap Opera
Michael Intintoli is a retired professor from Temple University who wrote a book that takes a critical appraisal of the soap opera and its place in American society. The entire book, containing chapters such as Guiding Light as a Socially Constructed Reality is available at this site for general perusal.
The Cruising Life
Everyone has dreamed of quitting their job, buying a sailboat, and sailing around the world. This site documents the two year, 20,000 mile, 23 country journey of four people who lived their dream. The great photos of exotic destinations will have you making an offer on their 37-foot catamaran, which is now for sale.
Up From the Ashes, Alexandria's Great Library Restored
Thirty years and hundreds of millions of dollars in the making, Alexandria, Egypt once again can boast of its world class library, the largest and most advanced in the entire Arab world.
How do you write Hobbit in Cyrillic?
The Russian census, the first since the end of the Soviet era, has run into difficulties. Hostility to pollsters has taken forms ranging from simple non-cooperation to claims by Russians to being Hobbits, Elves, or citizens of Middle-Earth.