Archive for June, 2010

Button : I might save it for silverstone

June 30th, 2010  by  Bud

RAIN lashed the paddock and howling winds rocked the motor homes here yesterday but Jenson Button's million-megawatt smile refused to fade.
The 24-year-old has vowed to end Britain's summer of sporting misery with his maiden3 victory in tomorrow's French Grand Prix.
But, with the British Grand Prix just a-round the corner" , he cheekily added; " I [...]

Elimelech and His Family Move to Moab

June 29th, 2010  by  Bud

The days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and two sons. 2The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the .names of his [...]

How acid is the rain in Zambia?

June 28th, 2010  by  Bud

How does it compare with that in Japan, Missouri, and California? And how do the geography, economy, and climate of a place affect the acidity of its rain?
These are some of the questions that students at the American Embassy School of Lusaka in Zambia dealt with this spring as they joined students around the world [...]

The world's last known case of smallpox(outside an out-break in a Birmingham laboratory) was reported in Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, in October 1977

June 25th, 2010  by  Bud

The victim was a young cook called Ali Maow Maalin. His case becomes a landmark in medical history — for smallpox is the first communicable disease ever to be eradicated.
The remarkable campaign to free the world from smallpox has been led by the World Health Organisation. The Horn of Africa, embracing the Ogaden region of [...]

Deceptive packaging rumpus

June 24th, 2010  by  Bud

It is said that the public and Congressional concern about deceptive packaging rumpus started because Senator Hart discovered that the boxes of cereals consumed by him, Mrs. Hart and their children were becoming higher and narrower, with a decline of net weight from
12 to 10.5 ounces, without any reduction in price. There were still twelve [...]

Computer have been taught to play not only checkers, but also championship chess, which a fairly accurate yardstick for measuring the comiter' s progress in the ability to learn from experice.

June 23rd, 2010  by  Bud

Because the game requires logical reasoning,chess would seem to be perfectly suited to the computer. All a programmer has to do is give the computer a program evaluating the consequences of every possible response to every possible move, and the computer will win every time. In theory this is a sensible approach; in practice it [...]

Halkia1 win sends Athens crowd wild

June 22nd, 2010  by  Bud

ATHENS, Greece—Creek sensation Fani Halkia blitzed to gold in the O-lympic women's 400 meters hurdles on Wednesday to send the home crowd wild.
Halkia raced home in 52.82 seconds to thrash3 Romania's lonela Tirlea-Manolache (53. 38) and Ukraine5's Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova ( 53. 44).
World champion Jana Pittman of Australia, running after a brave battle a-gainst injury, finished [...]

Life Expectations

June 21st, 2010  by  Bud

Where do you think you will be in ten years? How about in fifteen or twenty years? It is difficult to know exactly where you will be, and what you will be doing, but everyone dreams about the future. You might imagine1 the job you will get when you finish school; you may daydream 5 [...]

hat do you think of when you hear the word motherhood

June 18th, 2010  by  Bud

If you are like most people, you associate motherhood with a number of positive characteristics, such as warmth, selflessness, dutifulness, and tolerance. And though most women expect that motherhood will be happy and fulfilling, the reality is that motherhood had been accorded relatively low prestige in our society. When stacked up against money, power, and [...]

Do women tend to devalue the worth of their work?

June 17th, 2010  by  Bud

Do they apply different standards to rewarding their own work than they do to rewarding the work of others? These were the questions asked by Michigan State University psychologists Lawrence Messe and Charlene Callahan-Levy. Past experiments had shown that when women were asked to decide how much to pay themselves and other people for the [...]