Facing a federal criminal investigation and a deadline that originally was tonight to tell all under oath to anti-doping authorities or lose his last chance at reducing his lifetime sporting ban, Lance Armstrong now may cooperate.His apparent 11th-hour about-face, according to the U.S. Anti Doping Agency (USADA), suggests he might testify under oath and give full details to...
Feb
06
Today on New Scientist: 5 February 2013
Labels: World Engineering light: Pull an image from nowhere A new generation of lenses could bring us better lighting, anti-forgery technology and novel movie projectors Baby boomers' health worse than their parents Americans who were born in the wake of the second world war have poorer health than the previous generation at the same ageNew 17-million-digit monster is largest known prime A distributed computing...
911 call: 'He says he killed two guys'
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Bodies were found "lying on the ground, covered in blood"The ex-Marine faces murder charges in deaths of veterans Chris Kyle and Chad LittlefieldRouth's family called cops in 2012; he was mad because his father planned to sell his gun"He told me that he's committed a murder," sister of suspect tells 911 operator (CNN) -- The 911 caller, her voice quavering, says she's terrified...
Sandy storm victims react to proposed home buyout
Labels: Health (CBS News) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - One hundred days ago, the Northeast was hit by a left hook from superstorm Sandy. This week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed spending $400 million to buy up and demolish thousands of those homes, so the property can be turned back into wetlands. Homeowners have mixed feelings about the proposal. For 11 years, Joe Monte worked two jobs and spent weekends renovating...
Lance Armstrong Under Criminal Investigation
Labels: Business Federal investigators are in the midst of an active criminal investigation of disgraced former Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, ABC News has learned.The revelation comes in stark contrast to statements made by the U.S. Attorney for Southern California, Andre Birotte, who addressed his own criminal inquiry of Armstrong for the first time publicly on Tuesday. Birotte's...
Feb
05
Challenge unscientific thinking, whatever its source
Labels: World Science may lean to the left, but that’s no reason to give progressives who reject it a “free pass” IF SCIENCE could vote, who would it vote for? Ask scientists, and a clear answer comes back: science leans to the left. A 2009 survey conducted by Pew...
"Promoting marriage & parenthood" central to keeping S'porean core
Labels: Technology SINGAPORE: Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Grace Fu has spoken about what it means by keeping the Singaporean core at the heart of the country's population policies.She made the comments on day two of the parliamentary debate on the White Paper on Population and Land Use Plan.Ms Fu said promoting marriage and parenthood is central to maintaining a strong Singaporean core.And allowing...
Police: Suspect said he had PTSD
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Routh told his sister he'd killed two men, "traded his soul for a truck," an arrest warrant saysThe ex-Marine faces murder charges in deaths of veterans Chris Kyle and Chad LittlefieldRouth's family called cops in 2012; he was mad because his father planned to sell his gunThe 25-year-old told police he had PTSD, was hurting and his family didn't understand Read a version of this...
Signs of runaway heat seen in Dreamliner batteries
Labels: Health TOKYO An investigation into a lithium ion battery that overheated on a Boeing 787 flight in Japan last month found evidence of the same type of "thermal runaway" seen in a similar incident in Boston, officials said Tuesday. The Japan Transportation Safety Board said that CAT scans and other analysis found damage to all eight cells in the battery that overheated on the All Nippon Airways 787 on Jan....
Sarai Sierra's 2 Young Boys Don't Know Mom's Dead
Labels: Business The two young sons of slain New York mom Sarai Sierra are under the impression that their father has gone to Turkey to bring their mother home - alive.Sierra, whose battered body was found near a highway in Istanbul over the weekend, was the mother of two boys aged 9 and 11.Steven Sierra, who went to Istanbul in search of his wife after she disappeared nearly two weeks ago,...
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