Aviation History, Part Iii

January 20, 2022 By

Get More Information Here: Align Helicopter Accessories Airships have been proposed as a potential cheap alternative to surface rocket launches for achieving Earth orbit. JP Aerospace has proposed the Airship to Orbit project, which intends to float a multi-stage airship up to mesospheric altitudes of 55 km (180,000 ft) and then use ion propulsion to […]

The Onion: An interview with ‘America’s Finest News Source’

January 19, 2022 By

Sunday, November 25, 2007 Despite the hopes of many University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) students, The Onion was not named after their student center. “People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from,” said President Sean Mills in an interview with David Shankbone, “and when I recently asked Tim Keck, who was one […]

Highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses

January 19, 2022 By

Thursday, August 2, 2007 The Interstate 35W Mississippi River eight-lane bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota has collapsed on both sides of the highway over the Mississippi River during rush hour. Previous reports indicated at least nine people had died, but Minneapolis police revised this to four during a 7:30 a.m. (local time) press conference. Tim Dolan, […]

Energy companies to raise consumer rates

January 19, 2022 By

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Reliant Energy and CenterPoint Energy–two local utilities in Houston, Texas–plan to increase consumer rates in response to increased demand and recent disasters. Reliant Energy is expected to raise rates to effect a 14% increase on a 1,000 kilowatt-hour bill. A typical customer could see an increase up to $20 per month. […]

Advocacy groups complain about 4parents.gov sex-ed website

January 18, 2022 By

Tuesday, April 5, 2005The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) has written a March 31 letter to Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The letter presents a number of complaints about the new HHS website for parents, called 4parents.gov. An additional 145 advocacy groups have signed on to […]

UK PM’s speechwriter awaits sentence

January 18, 2022 By

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 […]

Colon Cleanse And Parasite Removal The Way To Radiant Health

January 18, 2022 By

Get More Information Here: Lunchtime.Com.Au By Maggie Simmons Parasites are mean, selfish and serve only one purpose, to preserve its own population and survive. But the more they grow, the more their host weakens. It is imperative to stop any rising parasite population, you must eliminate any environments that they thrive in and remove their […]

Teaching Intelligent Design: Incumbent Dover PA school board fails reelection

January 17, 2022 By

Wednesday, November 9, 2005 The Dover, Pennsylvania school board became the first to mandate inclusion of Intelligent Design in a public school biology curriculum. For this year’s November 8 election, Republicans fielded a pro-Intelligent Design slate of candidates including some returning candidates who had previously voted to include a statement about Intelligent Design in the […]

China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter

January 17, 2022 By

Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 […]