So I got AudioVox’s ExpressR back in April for my birthday, as I am in the car for about 2.5 hours a day. I chose it over the ExpressRC even though that one was newer and fancier (color screen) as the ExpressR has 30 presets, versus something like 10 for the RC. Anyhow, this thing (read more...)

Four of 38 patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have seen the disease disappear following treatment, while five others saw reductions of 50 per cent in their tumours. While the trials were only carried out on patients with blood cancer, it is hoped the methods can be adapted to tackle other cancers. The drug, which could prove cheaper than (read more...)

I know America is far from perfect.  In fact, there’s so much wrong with it that it drives me nuts.  But - I also know that there are a lot of countries that are deliberately making things worse, and in many cases they’d like to see us all in poverty or dead.  Conversely, those countries (read more...)

A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing’s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. White House officials would say only there were “logistical problems” getting clearance to unload the aircraft. The flight crew was told the Chinese were insisting (read more...)

A rich Arab sent his Lamborghini on a 6,500-mile round trip to Britain for a service. The £190,000 supercar was put on a scheduled flight from Qatar to Heathrow – then flown BACK after the oil check. Talk about a waste - one can only hope that this guy’s car is hit with a meteor.  I’m not (read more...)

A new drug halts the devastating progress of Alzheimer’s disease, say British scientists. It is said to be more than twice as effective as current treatments. A daily capsule of rember, as the drug is known, stops Alzheimer’s disease progressing by as much as 81 per cent, according to trial results. Wow. It’s still going to take (read more...)

China will censor the Internet used by foreign media during the Olympics, an organising committee official confirmed Wednesday, reversing a pledge to offer complete media freedom at the games. “During the Olympic Games we will provide sufficient access to the Internet for reporters,” said Sun Weide, spokesman for the organising committee. Anyone who thought China was somehow (read more...)

Bob and Leona Ehrfurth are very sensitive to the possibility that people might think they’re crazy. For the record, they’re not — but they are being driven that way. For two years now, the Ehrfurths have been enduring an annoying, persistent noise in their home — a low, motor-like rumble accompanied by a vibration. They can’t figure (read more...)

The Russian military is considering deploying long-range bombers to Cuba to counter the perceived threat of the US missile defence shield planned to be based in the Czech Republic and Poland, according to Russian media reports Monday. ‘At the moment, there are just thoughts - but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something concrete behind it,’ an (read more...)