Giant Group is involved in the double drive-thru hamburger restaurant business through its equity investment in Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. ("Checkers").Co. develops, produces, owns, operates,...
THE CONVENIENCE stalls that were found along five-foot ways and under staircases of shop houses are a dying breed. Fondly called Mama stalls, they are run by Indian "uncles" who managed to make a living selling everything from condoms to toy xylophones. They are sure to have the daily newspapers...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The ongoing parade of new airsoft guns now includes a spittin' image of one of the most interesting centerfire semiautos of recent years--the 5.7mm model Five-seveN produced by giant Belgian arms manufacturer FN. Introduced in the mid-1990s, the polymer-framed Five-seveN was meant as a handgun companion...
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Plastic made the impossible possible. During much of the 20th century shooters had two choices, a .45 ACP Colt 1911 with a 7-shot magazine or the 9mm Browning and its 13-rounds. Both of these great semiautos had their highly vocal supporters--and detractors. One could have the...
In an image provided by NASA, the Cassini spacecraft's narrow- angle camera captures Saturn's moon Mimas beneath the rings of the giant planet. Mimas, 246 miles across, is the innermost of the planet's major moons. The images were acquired on Sept. 4, 2007, with Cassini approximately 1.7 million miles from...
Moonfleet 11.15AM MORE4 This minor entry in Fritz Lang's oeuvre is based on J Meade Falkner's children's novel. A 10-year-old boy is sent to live on the Cornish coast with a rakish 18th-century smuggler Stewart Granger, and they get into scrapes together while hunting...
Business in brief TRANSPORT AIG, the ailing US insurance giant, has offloaded its stake in London's City Airport to its joint venture partner for an estimated 250m. The New York-based insurer has sold its 50 per cent stake in the airport to Global Infrastructure Partners. Selling...
Analysis It was the charge of barbarism that finally made Sir Michael Rawlins crack. The phlegmatic chairman of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence Nice is used to fielding brickbats over unpopular decisions to restrict access to cancer treatments and other drugs on the NHS. ...
When it comes to the best months of the year to watch sports, September is pretty tough to beat. To begin with, the pennant races in baseball will be in full swing for the entire month, so pick a game, any game, and it probably has meaning. Not to mention...
Responsive Solutions, St Petersburg, Fla., provider of world class web to print and online marketing automation systems, has announced that Boncraft has selected RSI Lite+tm as the best solution for an economical entry-level web to print system with an easy upgrade path to additional online marketing automation services. ...
During what may well have been bodybuilding's most formative decade--the 1970s--fearsome giants made regular appearances in the hardest of hardcore gyms. Elusive as they were brutal, they brought agony to even the strongest of men and yet were welcomed by those hardy souls, if not weekly, then monthly. Some of...
Grocery giant plans to offer mortgages and current accounts Tesco has said the banking crisis has helped pave the way for it to launch mortgages and current accounts, as it posted underlying pre-tax profits up by 10.3 per cent to 1.45bn for the six months to...
*US Congress rejects crucial $700bn bailout plan amid extraordinary scenes in Washington *More banks succumb to the credit crisis as Bradford & Bingley's nationalisation is confirmed and giant Belgian bank is rescued by Europe's Central *US stocks suffer biggest ever one-day fall as Pounds 64bn is wiped off the value...
Business News In Brief MINING The chief executive of Lonmin, the world's third-biggest platinum producer, has stepped down just days ahead of a decision by suitor Xstrata about whether it will launch a formal takeover bid for Lonmin. Ian Farmer, Lonmin's chief strategic officer, is to...
Business News In Brief TELECOMS Mobile phone giant Vodafone has promoted two directors to run its emerging markets division and appointed a new UK chief executive, in the latest move by chief executive Vittorio Colao. Earlier this month, Vodafone said it would separate its emerging markets...
A federal judge in Honolulu has dismissed a lawsuit trying to stop the running of a giant particle accelerator outside Geneva, dodging the issue of whether it could actually cause the end of the world. The judge, Helen Gillmor, said in her ruling Friday that the court...
Capital Research Group Partners, Inc. and CapitalResearch Group, Inc. (CRG&P) have filed a $13 Million arbitration caseagainst Genesis Pharmaceuticals (OTCBB: GNPH), formerly Genesis TechnologyGroup or GTEC. Genesis Technology is currently a wholly owned subsidiaryof Genesis Pharmaceuticals (OTCBB: GNPH), now operating as GenesisHoldings. Since 2003, CRG&P, through a myriad of...
BASEBALL'S PLAYOFFS arrive this week, and even though the A's and Giants are skipping this fall's festival, here are 20 reasons to pay attention: No. 1: They're a welcome escape from the hubbub about why Lane Kiffin was fired by the Raiders, as well as the eventual...
Market Report THE CREDIT crunch took another bite out of the FTSE 100, which registered its eighth-worst session on record. The blue-chip index lost 269.7, or 5.3 per cent, to 4,818.77, while the mid-cap FTSE 250 slumped 481.51 points to 7,792.93 as the...
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