Thursday, November 8, 2007 What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has been the toast of the literary elite in New York,…
Wikinews Shorts: April 9, 2007
A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, April 9, 2007. Contents 1 Three-year-old New Zealander chokes to death on candy 2 Golf: Zach Johnson wins 71st Masters 3 New York couple taking taxi to Arizona 4 Vocational nurse charged with fatal Houston fire 5 Iran starts industrial-scale production of nuclear fuel The New Zealand Police…
US Senator Robert Byrd dies at age 92
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 Senator Robert Byrd, the longest serving member of the United States Congress, died yesterday at the age of 92. A spokesman for the Democratic Senator from the state of West Virginia said Byrd had been hospitalized since last week. At first he was thought to have been suffering from heat exhaustion…
Retirement Party Ideas And Tips On Retirement Party Invitations
Read An Opinion On: Retirement Village Nsw Lifestyle Homes For Sale Retirement Party Ideas and Tips on Retirement Party Invitations by Dr. Lee Mikal Retirement marks the time by which the kids have full-grown up, money has been saved, responsibilities are few, and a smooth, easy life is waiting for you. After years of move…
IBM partners with Google to produce a corporate desktop search program
Monday, October 31, 2005 IBM and Google have partnered to start production on a desktop search program for corporate users. Previously, IBM’s OmniFind could only look inside standard applications such as Oracle, and Google’s Desktop Search program didn’t have any extensive network capabilites. The end product of this collaboration will allow for searching managed databases,…
US President Bush nominates new surgeon general
Friday, May 25, 2007 Yesterday, United States President George W. Bush nominated James W. Holsinger as the next Surgeon General of the United States. “ Today, I have announced my intention to nominate James W. Holsinger, Jr., to serve as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Holsinger is an accomplished physician who…
Can The Usa And Uk Win The War On Terror?
Read An Opinion On: Family Law Gosford Best Conveyancing Gosford By Davinos Greeno You dont need to be told that after 9/11 the world changed, but does anybody really care or know about the full extent? The War on Terrorism, (also called the Global War on Terrorism) is the name of a campaign with the…
Victorian Premier unveils plan for world’s largest solar plant
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Note: All dollar figures are in AU$ unless otherwise stated. Victorian Premier Steve Bracks and federal Treasurer Peter Costello unveiled the project to build world’s largest solar plant on October 25. The $420 million plant will sit on 900 ha of land and produce 154 megawatts. It will use mirrored panels…
Greenpeace protestors put solar panels on British Deputy Prime Minister’s house
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Greenpeace activists have scaled the house of Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, and then mounted 60 square feet of solar panels on the roof. The four men and four women were highlighting what they believe is Prescott’s failure to make new houses, for which he has responsibility, more energy efficient….
Kiribati acquires international funding for solar power
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Last Tuesday, AusAID Australia and the World Bank’s Global Environment Fund (GEF) reached an agreement to give the government of Kiribati US$5 million (AU$4,779,000, NZ$5,985,000, €3,885,000) to install solar panels around the country capital, located on the Tarawa atoll. According to Business Desk of the Brunei Times, AusAID promised AU$3.2 million…