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California's department of transportation is testing a GPS dispatching system on a tow-truck fleet in the San Francisco Bay area. University of Wyoming scientists plan to use GPS technology in a tracking collar for studying the migration patterns of elk. And by combining GPS with computerized maps, engineers are developing electronic road atlases that, installed in car dashboards, could one day enable a visiting motorist to negotiate Los Angeles' freeways without ever making a wrong turn...
...priest Bartolome de las Casas. Las Casas, who wrote voluminously on the Spanish colonization of the New World, was not a mariner, and his version is filled with errors that have caused endless dispute over such basic matters as Columbus' course on his historic sail and where his little fleet made landfall. Candidates for this honor include San Salvador, Grand Turk, East Caicos, Semana Cay, Conception Island and half a dozen others. In these, as in a myriad other matters, we still don't know enough about Columbus and never will...
This drive is one of the few attributes of Columbus that all the surviving sources agree on. It was clear to the crew of the Santa Maria as the little fleet was pitching and rolling west in 1492, with no land yet in sight and mutiny brewing. According to Las Casas' account, some of the men argued that "it was great madness and self-inflicted manslaughter to risk their lives to further the mad schemes of a foreigner who was ready to die in the hope of making a great lord of himself." They planned to pitch him overboard...
...bidders for Amoskeag Bank Shares and BankEast--two Manchester, N.H. commercial banks--are Fleet, KeyCorp of Albany and First New Hampshire Banks of the Bank of Ireland, sources told The Globe...
...Fleet is expected to try to acquire all five troubled banks' bad loans, perhaps with the intent of using an in-house company, Recoll Management, to unload troubled assets, The Globe reported...