China: Out of the Fire and Into the Frying Pan

Sep 06 2007

Posted by Jen as Announcements, In the News, News, News Features

Barely recovering from news of their products being contaminated with lead and formaline, comes another issue that creates more heat and tension for China. According to American officials, China has successfully infiltrated their computers in the Pentagon last June. More than a thousand computers had to be shut down in order to go through complete checking and cleaning. Said officials also asserted that they were almost 100% certain that the hackers came from the People's Liberation Army of China since these people had previously demonstrated skills that could pull the act off. Although China has denied any connection with the ...

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Lesson from Beethoven: Lead can kill

Aug 30 2007

Posted by Jay as News

“The Chinese must have done it – killed Beethoven!” No, not really. Beethoven looks grumpy here -- probably the effect of lead in his body.  An Austrian pathologist has revealed that the famous German composer died of lead poisoning at age 57 in 1827. As well know, there’s a global outcry nowadays about the poisonous lead in toys and other products made from China. So, one plus one, the Chinese killed Ludwig van Beethoven? Well, if the German composer bit and munched on a Chinese-made plastic ducky on his bathtub, maybe. Lead was detected from Beethoven’s hair and then, two years ago, in ...

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Galactic Suite: Open for Business 2012

Aug 11 2007

Posted by Jen as Announcements, In the News, News, News Features, Travel, Travel Features

It sounds awfully like a signboard hanging in front of a shop just about to open. Except that it might be electronic, in outer space and have robots as attendants. Well, I'm not sure about the first and third part but this business is definitely going to be in outer space. The Galactic Suite is a project envisioned by company director and former aerospace engineer Xavier Claramunt. A three-day stay is estimated to cost around $ 4 million. Apparently, it's not such a bad deal. The package will reportedly include eight weeks of intensive training at a space camp on ...

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237 reasons for having sex - What’s yours?

Aug 03 2007

Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, News, News Features

Now it can be told: When it comes to sex, men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus. They are from the same planet – the “Lust” planet. Hmm. The facial expressions of these two youngsters in bed seem to show that what they did was "quite cool." An exhaustive recent study made at the University of Texas has debunked the stereotypes that men only want sex for the physical pleasure while women want love. The study compiled a list of 237 reasons why people have sex. Researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly ...

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It’s raining money – literally — in Japan!

Jul 30 2007

Posted by Jay as In the News, News

Holy yen! Like magic, money – real Japanese money – is falling from the sky, filling mailboxes and appearing in restrooms in Japan! A clerk counts bank notes in Tokyo. No, the money did not come from Gringgots bank or from Hogwarts courtesy of Harry Potter :D News reports said on Tuesday that millions of Japanese yen are appearing mysteriously in various places in Japan, spooking many Japanese. Over the weekend, residents of a Tokyo apartment building were baffled after finding 1.81 million yen ($15,210) in 18 mailboxes, a Tokyo police spokesman said. “The money was in identical plain envelopes, which were ...

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Animals with superpowers!

Jul 27 2007

Posted by Jay as Family Features, Featured Articles, News

There’s a cat who can predict people’s death, cats and rats who can sniff out landmines, and a tiny dog who saved a baby from a rattlesnake – these were some of the headlines that grabbed the world’s attention the past few days. For lack of human heroes, the world is seeing animals with superpowers! Oscar, the cat at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, walks past an activity room at the facility. @News item 1: In Providence, Rhode Island, there’s a report about a cat named Oscar who seems to have an uncanny knack ...

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The magical books are flying!

Jul 21 2007

Posted by Jay as Announcements, Featured Articles, In the News, News, News Features

Millions of Harry Potter fans – of course including yours truly and some of the guys here I guess – have cast the “Accio!” spell on the “Deathly Hallows” and the books are literally falling into our hands! Young fans whoop it up after getting their copy of HP7 at a Singapore bookstore on Saturday. According to the latest report, the last book in the Harry Potter series flew off bookshop shelves, in some places at 15 per second, as fans worldwide Saturday rushed to find out whether author J.K. Rowling slays or spares the boy wizard. Bookstores across London stayed ...

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NYT reviews ‘Potter’ ahead of publication

Jul 20 2007

Posted by Jay as Announcements, In the News, News

The New York Times published the first review of the final Harry Potter book on Thursday, two days before its official release, drawing a stinging response from its British publishers. The review, by Michiko Kakutani, appeared in the newspaper's online version overnight, ahead of the official release of the eagerly awaited "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on Saturday, July 21. Bloomsbury, which publishes Harry Potter in Britain, and Scholastic, its US publisher, spent millions of dollars trying to protect the contents of the novel until its official publication. Here's the awesome New York Times review in full. You'll get several ...

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