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...part of the cross on which Christ died. This milder malady is nothing new. In the mid-19th century, British explorers who came to Jerusalem with a shovel in one hand and a Bible in the other used the holy book as a sort of treasure map in the search for proof of Christianity's origins. (See a video of archaeology digging up controversy in Jerusalem...
Even before jan. 12, 2010, life was pretty good for Robin Li. The soft-spoken 41-year-old is the co-founder and chief executive of Baidu.com, the dominant search engine in China, the country with the most Internet users in the world. His stake in the company - started in 1999, five years after getting his M.S. from SUNY Buffalo in 1994 - is worth about $2.8 billion now. That makes him the seventh richest man in China, according to the annual rankings in Forbes magazine. Though he's been a computer geek since his undergraduate days at Peking University...
...schoolgirls, according to Médecins Sans Frontières doctors at a local hospital. Television images showed grim but now depressingly familiar scenes of the charred remains of nearby cars, broken masonry from the school building, scattered books and bags, and rescue workers scrambling through the debris in search of survivors...
...mainstream media today often has another agenda beside the real search for truth,” Ashong said...
...furious." He also heard that while wounded soldiers in Iraq were guaranteed a medevac within the "golden hour," in Afghanistan they could wait as long as 1 hr. 41 min. Gates saw that there were Air Force helicopters sitting on the tarmac at the Bagram base, on call for search-and-rescue missions to recover downed airplanes - something that hadn't happened in years. Why couldn't they be used to evacuate soldiers? It was a classic case of interservice rivalry getting in the way of practical solutions to save lives. Gates insisted that they all ramp up their medevac...