XCOR awarded a free ride to one of the Red Tails (Tuskegee Airmen). Le Roy Gillead is almost 90 years old.

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Employing a web application which promotes the use of computer technology in humanities research and instruction, a new Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts allows users to search for manuscripts according to their author, title, language and archiving institution.

During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in the fabric of space and time gave birth to the universe in a hot big bang approximately 13.7 billion years ago.

Employing a web application which promotes the use of computer technology in humanities research and instruction, a new Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts allows users to search for manuscripts according to their author, title, language and archiving institution.

Scientists have investigated a group of proteins which are important for cell division and therefore also for uncontrolled cell growth as occurring during cancerogenesis. Some experiments now lead them to an unexpected trace: they discovered an unknown regulation mechanism of the MEK enzymes, the key elements of the MAP signal transduction pathway.

“It has been drilled into the public by countless magazines, product ads, and television commercials. Vitamin C, pomegranate, resveratrol, coffeeberry: Eat them! Apply them to your face! Add them to your cereal! Surely soaking up bad free radicals must protect you against cancer, no?”

Business Opportunities and Ideas has created a top 100 list of business blogs. Some obvious ones include Seth Godin’s and Fastcompany’s.

Remember David Paszkiewicz, the history teacher who decided to use his public school room as a pulpit? The student who caught him used a tape recorder in case Paszkiewicz denied his behavior–which Paszkiewicz did when confronted by the principal. So rather than fire the dishonest teacher, the school board has decided to ban tape recorders!

President Bush should scrap his unilateral approach and respect religious diversity in his “war on terror” to resolve troubles in Iraq said a Chinese official on Thursday. Coming from an atheist country which only tolerates state-sanctioned religious institutions, isn’t that the pot calling the kettle Communist?