The web's leading gossip outlet, TMZ.com, today published the name and photo of a 14-year-old boy whom the site reported has allegedly been the victim of a sex crime.
The gerbil that has run the Retort's servers for several years died. A new gerbil with four times the processing power and eight times as much memory has been purchased from The Planet. The upgrade is currently taking place and
At the request of the White House, General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan resigned last night as head of the government's premier contracting agency, ending a tumultuous tenure in which she was accused of trying to award work to
A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women. Three islanders from Lesbos -- home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between
For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia's throne.
Australian Opposition leader Troy Buswell broke down in tears at a press conference and admitted he sniffed the chair of a female Liberal Party staffer.
An 83 year old steel worker, Robert Schaeffer, who lives in Pennsylvania, played a slot machine in Atlantic city just before the bus he was traveling in was about to leave. His last minute decision to play was pure luck,
Author and St. Olaf alumna '77 recently returned to campus to read from her new book, The Sorrows of an American. She set aside a few minutes during her visit to answer questions about book tours, living in New York
The longtime 'Trek' author discusses his latest projects, his start in the business, the end of the S.C.E. line of novels and his thoughts on 'Star Trek XI' with TrekToday.
Interesting article in the Washington Post on the consequences of pushing for more ethanol in gasoline. Keeps the price down for cars (good for votes) and makes farmers richer (the "corn lobby" is very strong in the US). Link: Siphoning...
