A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making the apparent physical reality, in Einstein's words, "Merely an illusion." Like...
I am curious to just how knowledgeable some of your authors are? I am referring to the June Out of the Box article on True Backyard Fun. I totally understand the fun of shooting an air rifle but, where is Mr. Galan's backyard? Every municipality I know of...
TV *Fans of A&E's The Two Coreys can play a "Corey vs. Corey" game on the show's site. Check it out at aetv.com/the-two-coreys/corey-vs-corey-ame/index.jsp. *The first 10 minutes of Comedy Central's new series, Reality Bites Back, are online at comedycentral.com/shows/reality_ bites_back/index.jhtml. It premieres Thursday at...
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, led a GOP attack Thursday against Democratic House leaders, complaining they are refusing to address high oil costs while they piddle instead with minor bills this election year. "We're not dealing with the real issues that affect people," Bishop told the House. "We're...
By mid-afternoon Wednesday, the practice putting green below the all-wood clubhouse at Soldier Hollow was a pretty lonely spot. With half of the golfers in the Men's State Amateur field already finished and the rest already out playing, three guys had the place pretty much to themselves....
LAS VEGAS, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Seeing is believing, right? Criss Angel has made a career of making people "BeLIEve," and will keep doing so in his new collaborative effort with the World Famous Cirque Du Soleil in their new adventure at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in...
TOKYO AFP — Japan's fabulous four in women's wrestling have no illusions that their collection of 19 Olympic and world championship gold medals can be a tempting target for increasingly determined opponents. Saori Yoshida, who defends her 55kg title at the Beijing Olympics, suffered her first defeat in...
SUMMER HOLIDAYS Portugal's south coast isn't just for golf. Kate Simon tours its pousadas to discover a very different landscape What's that on the horizon? A hill topped with a tumble of white cubes. Is it one of those Moorish "white towns", like...
HITLER'S EMPIRE by Mark Mazower Allen Lane, £30, pp.725, ISBN 9780713996814 £24 (plus 2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 As we now know, the unimaginably awful Third Reich did not spring fully formed from Hitler's mind. Its antecedents can be traced to the predominantly upper-class and reactionary...
Mat Collishaw Although Mat Collishaw's latest show (which includes Ultraviolet Garden, right) reflects his continuing interest in the relationship between the real world and its representation, whether in films or photographs, it's far from a purely cerebral exercise. Indeed, for the installation Shooting Stars, he projects Victorian...
My Life In A Column It's my birthday today. It's one of those days when it doesn't feel like it's my birthday. Some days in the year you wake up and everything feels tingly and special. If I'm really honest, tingly and special are not two words...
Jenson Button insists he is as motivated as ever, despite admitting that he doesn't enjoy arriving at his home grand prix with little prospect of winning. Although the trip to Silverstone comes on the back of a more competitive start to the season when compared to last year,...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In May 1970 the United States saw a wave of political demonstrations--demonstrations in favor of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War. The most famous was the hard hat riot of May 8, when Manhattan construction workers beat up hippies and demanded that City Hall raise the...
The icon of the tech world will focus on philanthropy as the company he founded faces turbulent seas. In some respects, this week won’t be terribly different for bill Gates than the previous 1,712 weeks he has spent working full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded as a...
PHILADELPHIA -- Cathy Campbell did a double-take and tapped the brakes when she spotted what appeared to be a pointy-edged box lying in the road just ahead. She had gotten fooled. It was a fake speed bump, a flat piece of blue, white and...
JERUSALEM AFP — The Israeli cabinet gave the green light on Sunday for a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah, even though two soldiers captured by the Lebanese militia two years ago are known to be dead. Twenty-two of the 25 cabinet members voted in favour of the deal under...
WASHINGTON -- Rose Garden 7:40 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. The policy of the United States is a Korean Peninsula free of all nuclear weapons. This morning, we moved a step closer to that goal, when North Korean officials submitted a declaration of their nuclear...
WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush warily welcomed North Korea's nuclear accounting on Thursday, easing trade sanctions and moving to take the "axis of evil" nation off a US terrorism blacklist. Bush stressed that his gesture would only barely dent global pressure over the secretive communist...
CARROLLTON, Texas, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- John C. Sudds, the founder of LeafsOfTalent.com, Inc., has long admired the concept of web-based interviews becoming a premier application for recruiting in the 21st century. Since 2002, Mr. Sudds has shared his highly circulated business plan with many venture capital...
Dermot Weld, the pragmatist's pragmatist, is under no illusions about the task that his best three-year-old colt, Casual Conquest, faces in Sunday's Irish Derby against the pair who finished nearly five lengths in front of him in the original at Epsom, New Approach and Tartan Bearer. "They are two very...
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