France to Be Site of World’s First Nuclear Fusion Reactor – New York Times PARIS, June 28 – France won an international competition today to be the site of the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor, an estimated $12 billion project that many scientists see as essential to solving the world’s future energy needs.
The Complete Bushisms – Updated frequently. By Jacob Weisberg
some of these are too hard to believe and yet…they come out of the president’s mouth.. for example “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 The Complete Bushisms…
Building a Jazz Library
There’s more to jazz than Kenny G and Wynton Marsalis. Jazz Article Center @ All About Jazz Building a Jazz Library
Doctors 'find dead foetus in boy'
Doctors in Bangladesh say they have removed a long-dead foetus from the abdomen of a teenage boy who was complaining of stomach pains. They said the foetus would have become the boy’s twin had it grown normally in their mother’s womb. They said it was a case of an extremely rare condition where two foetuses…
Echoes of Africa
This is so fukn cool…. BBC – Music / Features – Echoes of Africa Introduction Dance music, pop, jazz, rock, rap, blues – there aren’t many genres which don’t carry an element of African ‘DNA’ somewhere in their make up. The music we love has its foundation in a blend of African and European sounds….
Curtains up on risque US statues
Maybe a little bit of T and A is all those uptight sons of bitches need… BBC NEWS | Americas | Curtains up on risque US statues A pair of risque Art Deco statues at the US Justice Department have been quietly put back on show, three years after a mysterious cover-up.
Irishman fails in bee record bid
Irishman fails in bee record bid Philip McCabe Mr McCabe was 150,000 bees short of the 1998 California record An Irish beekeeper has failed to take the world record for attracting the most bees onto his body after managing a 200,000-strong ‘bee beard’. Wearing little more than underpants and goggles, Philip McCabe, 59, failed to…
How to kill a leopard with bare hands
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said Wednesday. Peasant farmer Daniel M’Mburugu was tending to his potato and bean crops in a rural area near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out of the long grass and…
Whale burger on menu at fast food chain
TOKYO (Reuters) – With Japan under fire for plans to expand its whaling program, a fast food chain is offering a new product aimed at using up stocks from past hunts — whale burger. The 380 yen ($3.50) slice of fried minke whale in a bun went on sale Thursday at Lucky Pierrot, a restaurant…
Secret lover to sell Picasso sketches
PARIS (Reuters) – A lover of Pablo Picasso is selling 20 sketches he gave her more than 50 years ago, showing the tender side of an artist often accused of treating women badly. “I have a mission — rehabilitating Pablo,” Genevieve Laporte, 79, told Reuters in an interview before the sketches go up for auction…