World champion Tyson Gay ran the fastest 100 meters of all-time to win the American Olympic trials on Sunday, a wind-assisted 9.68 seconds. The victory put Gay into his first U.S. Olympic team but the wind speed of 4.1 meters per second deprived the 25-year-old of a world record.
Jamaican Usain Bolt holds the world record of 9.72 seconds. The previous best time under any conditions was a wind-assisted 9.69 seconds by Obadele Thompson of Barbados in 1996.
“WALL-E,” bolstered by near-unanimous critical praise, sold an estimated $62.5 million of tickets in its first three days, said Pixar’s Walt Disney Co parent.
Her previous record for a live-action movie was 2005's “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” which opened to $50 million. The General Electric Co-owned studio said “Wanted” ranks as the third-highest opening for an…
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A woman trying to make “manure bombs” using stockings, slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked, German police said Friday.
“One of them slipped into the manure tank, right into the cow muck,” said a spokesman for local police. “The other one helped her out. We found their clothes in a field. One seems to have run off completely naked, the other in her…
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Posing as a pro-coal organization, activists infiltrated an industry conference yesterday. At a booth and in official conference materials the Greenpeace team promoted a fake url that redirects readers to www.coal-is-dirty.com. They also distributed asthma inhalers and business cards declaring their phony front group is a joke, as is clean coal.
The conference managers did take the precaution of adding security because of Greenpeace's reputation for confrontational, disruptive tactics, they said. The muscle was used once, to eject one Greenpeace member.
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Disturbing new trend emerging among the male of the species these days: the deep V-neck T-shirt. We’re not talking about the ratty white Hanes with the yellow-stained armpits that your dad used to wear while cleaning the garage. No, this is a far more insidious epidemic, recognizable by its long, deep V, supple fabric, and retro color schemes.
“I think as recently as 15 years ago, the standard was if a guy made a lot of money he was successful, period. That's not the case anymore. Now guys are being held to the same standards that women have been held to forever. Women are now…
And to think - so many women burned theirs. Shame, shame. Jessica saved herself where any normal man (or 1960s feminist) would have died a cold, lonely death. Three cheers to the mighty brassiere!
No word on what happened to that “friend,” but we’re glad to report Jessica has been rescued - thanks to a little bit of Yankee ingenuity. After losing herself in bad weather, she fell off a cliff and (stop…
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Rising oil prices are not just affecting the price of gasoline, but the whole petrochemical industry. The oil price rise is driving up business costs and getting passed through to consumers. The high price of oil is also driving small and mid-sized plastic molding companies out of business.
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By Lizbeth Diaz TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. motorists are risking rampant drug violence in Mexico to drive over the border and fill their tanks with cheap Mexican fuel, some even coming to blows over gas shortages and long queues. The gap…
“It's worth taking the risk even with the violence,” said a retired California engineer named Terry, who declined to give his surname, as he filled his red Ford pick-up truck in Tijuana, over the border from San Diego. “I…
The details of what goes on in there are tightly guarded, but we’ve got a key.
Ambient marketing allows a business to create brand recognition without necessarily pushing their products. One excellent example is the Dancing Grass Vans of London. Owned by renegade smoothie makers (and brilliant marketers) Innocent,…
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A rare form of tuberculosis is sickening a growing number of Hispanic immigrants in Southern California, particularly children.
Health officials suspect the disease is being imported from Mexico in the form of illegal cheese.
This particular strain of TB is caused unpasteurized dairy products often referred to as “bathtub cheese.”
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