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Strasbourg, which means "city of the roads," has been a major trading post since Roman times. This has brought great wealth and cultural variety - Goethe studied at the university, and printing press inventor Johannes Gutenberg lived here for 20 years - but also unwanted visitors. During the 5th century, Attila the Hun prised the city from the Romans. More recently Strasbourg was ceded to France after the 30 Years War, handed over to Germany in 1871 and returned to its previous rulers after World...
...metal frame gives the skates extra stability, and the front wheels pivot to the side to make turning easier. You use ski poles to help push yourself along. "I wanted people to experience the sensation of skiing without having to drive three hours to get to the snow," says inventor Jamie Page, 30, a mechanical engineer and outdoor enthusiast...
Toronto business partners Ian McDonald and Kerry Knoll and a lawyer friend, John Cocomile, had a novel idea. Patent suits are so expensive to litigate that if investors put up money to help independent inventors defend their rights, the inventors would probably be willing to share any award. The three were right on the money. The shareholders in their company, Patent Enforcement & Royalties, which trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange, are entitled to 50% of a $3 million January verdict against Land O'Lakes for infringing a New Yorker's patent of a low-fat coffee creamer. Three weeks...
...Segway vehicle is a great idea! If inventor Kamen's vision of cities free of automobile traffic comes true, won't this be a much better world? Less pollution from car emissions, fewer traffic jams. Imagine this in Bangkok! Maybe we should start thinking about providing parking lots for Segways right now. SUMMER KHOO Johor, Malaysia...
...Theodore Roosevelt." He completed his annus mirabilis by meeting Anne Morrow, whom he would marry in 1929. They would seek privacy, especially after their son was notoriously kidnapped and murdered in 1932, but both would remain lifelong celebrities--she as an author, he as a continuing aviation pioneer, an inventor who contributed to the artificial heart, an airline consultant and an advocate of sometimes controversial political views...