For the Americans who do take time away from their Memorial Day barbecues and road trips to consider the purpose of Monday’s holiday — honoring our nation’s war dead — the first thoughts will likely be of misty-eyed, gray-haired men standing at attention for fallen comrades from wars long ago. But at a time when [...]
We just digitized a most interesting item for the CHC Books Digital Collection which is sure to delight both the intellect and taste buds: a 19th century cookbook for Cuban and Spanish cuisine. The title of this cookbook, which was published in Havana in 1857, is itself a mouthful: Nuevo manual del cocinero cubano y [...]
Of the 57 million global deaths in 2008, 36 million, or 63%, were due to noncommunicable diseases. The four main NCD are cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic lung diseases. The burden of these diseases is rising disproportionately among lower income countries and populations. In 2008, nearly 80% of noncommunicable disease deaths — 29 million [...]
So when you see the term “Smooth Jazz” what music do you hear. I’m sure “Kenny G” comes into mind and that same “Melodic Beat” over and over, of what sounds like an automated electric drum. Over and over, every song has that beat and only the saxophone or trumpet varies. It’s the format for [...]
Any way you slice it, Tea Party freshman Sen. Rand Paul scored a major victory Thursday, as Senate leaders announced he would get a vote on two of his amendments to the terrorism surveillance law known as the PATRIOT Act, before final passage of a four-year extension of three provisions of the law that are [...]
Have you ever heard of Nikola Tesla? Or maybe you have heard of the invention of AC (Alternate Current) generator. I heard of him and have been learning much more of his work with electricity and with his mechanical ingenuity. All those interesting and so-called weird experiments he conducted. But even more disappointingly, the ones [...]
On Sunday May 22, 2011, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured an image of the rainfall rate in the supercell thunderstorm that generated the deadly twister that struck Joplin, Missouri. TRMM is a satellite that is managed by both NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, and monitors rainfall rates in the tropics. It’s [...]
ROBOT arms are whirring again. Nissan’s engine factory in Iwaki, which was pummelled by the earthquake that struck Japan in March, returned to full operation on May 17th. Carlos Ghosn, the car firm’s Brazilian-French boss, joined hundreds of workers in a rousing cheer. Yet despite heroic efforts to repair and rebuild, Japan’s car industry is [...]
JOPLIN, Mo. — Rod Pace, manager of the medical helicopter service at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin had just finished payroll paperwork Sunday evening when he decided to stay an extra 15 to 20 minutes to let the menacing weather pass. From the second floor, he watched the storm approach. The swirling rain [...]
Discovery’s Storm Chasers explain why and how there have been so many killer tornadoes this year in an all-new world premiere special: “Tornado Rampage 2011″ on Sunday, May 22, 2011, at 9 PM (ET/PT) on Discovery Channel…Watch Videos
(CNN) — This just in: Doomsday is doomed. And the world is still here. After months of warnings and fear, the Day of Rapture, as predicted by apocalyptic Christian broadcaster Harold Camping, passed without apparent calamity. Judgment Day was to have started at 6 p.m., but as darkness fell on many parts of the world, [...]
BUTTE LAROSE, La. – The final wave of holdouts has mostly packed up and left this Louisiana town as water from the swollen Atchafalaya River has inched toward their homes, with their frustration and hope painted on signs posted outside. “Nothing left worth stealing,” read one. “Stay strong. Believe,” urged another. “Our hearts are broken, [...]
On this 109th anniversary of Cuban Independence, we honor the patriots who took Cuba’s initial steps toward freedom. The spirit and values that drove Cuba’s Independence movement still live on among the country’s pro-democracy leaders who have demonstrated increasing boldness and courage as they risk their lives each day in defense of Cuba’s founding principles. [...]
Artful politician that he is, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has a keen sense for not just his strengths but also his potential weaknesses — though few would be quite as blunt in saying so. Considered the Socialist party’s leading candidate for president of France, Mr. Strauss-Kahn identified three threats to his aspirations in an interview with the [...]
TOKYO—After spending weeks to resolve a massive Internet security breach, Sony Corp. Chief Executive Howard Stringer said he can’t guarantee the security of the company’s videogame network or any other Web system in the “bad new world” of cybercrime. Mr. Stringer’s comments in a phone interview Tuesday, ahead of a New York roundtable discussion with [...]
By any historical measurement, Pres BO’s immigration speech was one of the most cynical ever delivered by a president. Unfortunately, too many Hispanics, and specially “mexicanos” are so uninformed about BO and his total disregard for meaningful immigration reform. Worse than that, Pres BO is working on the assumption that “hispanos” are stupid or willing [...]
Efficiency is a problem with today’s solar panels; they only collect about 20 percent of available light. Now, a University of Missouri engineer has developed a flexible solar sheet that captures more than 90 percent of available light, and he plans to make prototypes available to consumers within the next five years. Patrick Pinhero, an [...]
As the nation hits a milestone few, if any, would celebrate, with the Treasury maxing out its legal borrowing limit for the federal government, lawmakers continued to grapple with ways to shrink the size of the U.S. debt in order to garner enough votes to approve an increase in the U.S. credit limit. But an [...]
The argument du jour for opponents of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) programs to promote democracy in Cuba is that they violate the island’s “sovereignty” by advocating “regime change.” The latest congressional manifestation of this opposition comes from U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who announced last week [...]
