| Saturday Question
I'm almost all the way relaxed and ready to take on the day (as Dr. Laura Schlessinger might say, if you tuned into her program with a relational problem) when I return to work. I appreciate that you folks have played nice today and hope you continue to do so. I also hope you enjoy the nice weather that has moved in on Coeur d'Alene. You can find your next-to-last unattended vacation Wild Card here. .
It's all about location; Even in slump, still big differences in bang ...
It might seem an easy choice. Buy the well-maintained house with seven relatively small rooms, a one-car garage, a cramped yard, red cedar siding that looks pretty good after 50 years and nearly 1,600 square feet of living space. Or the buy the brand-new home with eight soaring, high-ceilinged rooms, a view of a golf course, a two-car garage, central air conditioning, closets the size of small rooms and 2,260 square feet of living space. Of course, the prices vary. The first house — despite its smaller size and age — actually costs more than the second. It's on the market now for nearly $560,000. The second house, which includes a gleaming, modern kitchen, might seem like an incredible bargain at $525,000. So what gives? The new house is part of the Strongwater Crossing development in Salem.
Tata Motors rolls out Nano, the world's cheapest car
India's Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 US car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people. Members of the media look at a newly launched Tata Nano car at the 9th Auto Expo in New Delhi on Thursday. The ultracheap car — $2,500 US — suddenly brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people around the world. (Saurabh Das/Associated Press) But critics worry the car could overwhelm the country's roads and create an environmental nightmare. Company chairman Ratan Tata, introducing the Nano during India's main auto show, drove onto a stage in a white version of the tiny four-door subcompact, his head nearly touching the roof. With a snub nose and a sloping roof, the world's cheapest car can fit five people — if they squeeze.
Xbox is crack for kids
Others set egg-timers or print out ration coupons entitling the bearer to 30 minutes of Club Penguin, the virtual world. Like Madonna, some ban telly but permit movies. Not her own I hope. I don't have the resolve for all this. Just every so often, when I'm sick of their sallow, supine bodies and the way the smaller one clutches the backless remote controls like holy amulets - even taking them with him to the loo in case his brother seizes power - I switch off their favoured doom-porn, Air Crash Investigation or Anatomy of a Grizzly Attack, and try to boot them outside. Only to see them graze idly at the computer instead. It is no small challenge being the in-house Ofcom, diligently monitoring screen minutes: adding a half hour of MSN to Doctor Who and 20 minutes on SuperMario Galaxy.
T-rays, more versatile than X-rays
Terahertz radiation was discovered in 1896. Unless theyre at a temperature of absolute zero (273.160 C), all objects, animate and inanimate, give off terahertz radiation (called T-rays), the heat from molecular vibrations. This black-body radiation is emitted at such low intensities typically less than a millionth of a watt per square centimeter that were unaware of it. Genetic defects behind common human diseases
By Steve Connor
When the human genome was fully decoded at the turn of the 21st Century, one scientist described it as the biggest discovery since the invention of the wheel. It has taken some years for medical research to live up to the initial expectations attached to the deciphering of the human genome.
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