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• African Queen sails again, six decades after appearing in Bogart film

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • I saw it in the Florida Keys in the 1980's, it looked like it would never go again. Its great to see it revived.

• Are USDA assurances on mad cow case 'gross oversimplification'?

  Wed May 2, 2012
  • The cow got sick from something. Hoping that it was some sort of spontaneous case is wishing for a miracle. They need to test animals entering the meat supply just as great britain does and not sell out to meat producers.

• 5 things we learned in Zimmerman bond hearing

  Sat Apr 21, 2012
  • Therehas been no evidence shown, just people making up what stories they think might have happened. Politics are the biggest reason for a trial.

• Wal-Mart hushed up vast Mexico bribery case

  Sat Apr 21, 2012
  • In many countries, the culture of bribery is just the normal way of getting things done. You have to pay bribes as a matter of course. This may very well be the case, and as nasty as it sounds, companies do not have much of a choice if they want to do business in a country like that.

• San Francisco's 'world rudest waiter' restaurant Sam Wo shuts after 100 years

  Sat Apr 21, 2012
  • We used to go to a small hole in the wall Restaurant in Seattle beck in the 1960's and 1970's called Tai Tung.

• How will North Korea cope with its rocket failure?

  Thu Apr 12, 2012
  • Does anyone not believe that a US missile was going to be shadowing it with cameras going full tilt? Thats been done many times during the cold war, and can be done anytime the US wants. Its never publicized, but it happens.

• North Korea rocket breaks up after much-touted launch

  Thu Apr 12, 2012
  • They would blame the CIA for doing it, but then they would have to give the US credit, so they will just claim it was successful.

• Owners of some Remington shotguns, rifles claim pattern of inadvertent discharges

  Wed Apr 11, 2012
  • With all these people having problems, can anyone actually demonstrate it? If its repeatable, one out to be able to show it to firearms safety people.

• School bans girl with cerebral palsy from using walker

  Thu Mar 29, 2012
  • I think that the mother does not have a Doctor's or physical thearpist approval for the child to safely use the walker. At home, the child presumably has constant supervision, a soft carpeted floor, and home furnishings padded or without projections or sharp edges.

• A different kind of 'invisibility cloak' can serve as heat shield

  Tue Mar 27, 2012
  • There is no such thing as a free lunch. The heat must go somewhere. Heat pumps have been used for meny years. If one spot is cooled, another gets hotter.