NEW YORK – Nineteen members of a street gang accused of menacing their neighborhood have been indicted on murder and other charges as acts of terror, believed to be the first use of the state’s anti-terrorism law against a gang.
The events that have transpired since 9-11-01 have deeply effected this country and the rest of the world. People living in fear. Government hiding in the shadows. Terror and Abuse of power. I’ve put together this collection of articles to remind us of what has transpired and what effects will resonate into the future due to these last few years… these YEARS OF TERROR!
WASHINGTON – People will die because of ABC’s “inaccurate and irresponsible” report on the club drug Ecstasy, Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd, said in a letter to the network’s president.
GW Pharmaceuticals and Bayer HealthCare, Pharmaceuticals Division – Canada have announced that GW has submitted a New Drug Submission for Sativex?, a cannabis-based medicinal extract product, to Health Canada.
Scientists said yesterday they have found evidence that a huge meteorite or comet plunged into the coastal waters of the Southern Hemisphere 251 million years ago, possibly triggering the most catastrophic mass extinction in Earth’s history.
(CNN)—The ultimate thrill ride could be closer to reality.
Aircraft designer Burt Rutan and his firm Scaled Composites took a giant leap early Thursday toward becoming the first private company to send a person into space.
Scaled Composites, funded by Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen, set a new civilian altitude record of 40 miles in a craft called SpaceShipOne during a test flight above California’s Mojave Desert.
The firm is one of 24 companies from several countries competing for the X Prize, which will go to the first privately funded group to send three people on a 62.5-mile-high suborbital flight and repeat the feat within two weeks using the same vehicle.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lemurs, once believed to be cute but basically stupid, show startling intelligence when given a chance to win treats by playing a computer game, U.S. researchers say.
May 10, 2004 ? Teleportation always used to seem so simple. All it took was a quick call to Mr. Scott, and Star Trek’s Captain Kirk would be beamed up from the cheap-looking scenery of some alien planet and materialize on the Starship Enterprise.
European researchers at a security conference in Switzerland last week demonstrated computer-based techniques that can identify blacked-out words and phrases in confidential documents.
TROY, N.Y. (Reuters) – Playing video games is no longer just a pastime of young boys. Now it’s also homework for American college students.
NEW YORK—No matter how many dots he eats, Pac-Man never pukes.
TEMPE, Ariz.—Computers, for all of their computational muscle, do not hold a candle to humans in the ability to recognize patterns or images. This basic quandary in computational theory ? why can computers crunch numbers but cannot efficiently process images ? has stumped scientists for many years.
The acceleration of the expansion of the universe places limits on future developments in technology according to two US cosmologists. Lawrence Krauss and Glenn Starkman of Case Western Reserve University have shown that the acceleration could put a fundamental limit on the total amout of information that can be stored and processed in the future (arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404510). They also calculate that Moore’s Law will remain valid for no more than 600 years—although workers in the semiconductor industry are more pessimistic and think that the famous law will break down in the next decade or two.
Today is different: You’re speaking to a psychiatrist ? not in a sterile, fluorescent-lit hospital, but in a residential office on a peaceful, tree-lined street. You suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and you’ve talked for hours in this very room, but always skipping the violent chapter that keeps you up at night, giving you flashbacks and causing you to feel estranged from your loved ones. Now an emergency room doctor and nurse are stationed inside the house. You’ve brought an overnight bag. Today, you’ve been given 125 milligrams of Ecstasy, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll finally be able to face your demons.
Zlin – As soon as spring breezes turn warm, armies of Czech teenagers grab their sleeping bags and head to the wooded hills of the country’s Moravia region.