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...touch of a button. The speakers and display modules are removable and the jacket is machine washable for easy cleaning. The jackets, which range in price from $500 to $1,000, will be available at select high-end retailers in December. Of course, both companies (not to mention resort operators) expect responsible use of their jackets - screaming out "I'm on the ski slope!" is definitely discouraged. www.burton.com...
...seething center of the angry Crescent City was the Superdome, refuge of utterly last resort for 25,000 people who had waited out the worst of the storm while the sheet-metal roof peeled like fruit, letting the rains pour in. Soon there was no light, no air, no working toilets. Reports came that four of the weakest died that first night. An elderly man, playing cards and seemingly fine, threw himself over a railing inside the stadium and committed suicide, witnesses told TV reporters. Members of the city's EMS team made their way there only to find anarchy...
...daughter of a Protestant minister, Merkel was born in Hamburg and grew up in the East German resort town of Templin. She joined the Young Pioneers, a communist youth group, but focused mainly on her studies. At home, her family talked politics nonstop, but, she said in her autobiography, "it was completely theoretical because we could not change anything." After studying physics at Leipzig University, she began looking for work. Applying for a job at a technical institute, she was approached by the secret police to spy on colleagues. She says she begged off, telling them she couldn't keep...
...that better matches their condition. Some doctors are already starting to use the scans to figure out which of their otherwise healthy-seeming patients need to be taking cholesterol-lowering drugs like statins, and may even be able to decide what to do in marginal cases without having to resort to an invasive angiogram. Patients with a clean scan, on the other hand, can feel confident that they don't need statins or other medication, along with their potential side effects...
...President Bush today took a break from his vacation in Texas to vacation at an exclusive resort in Idaho. Ringo Starr has a busier schedule." --JIMMY KIMMEL...