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...While the Pentagon said it had received no prior notice of China's missile test, it added that U.S. space-based sensors "detected two geographically separated missile-launch events" leading to an "exo-atmospheric collision." The event marked the latest outer-space tit for tat between the two nations: in 2007, China blasted one of its own weather satellites to smithereens, generating concern it was perfecting a satellite-killing weapon similar to the one last tested by the U.S. in 1985. In 2008, the U.S. destroyed a disabled spy satellite with a missile fired from a Navy ship, ostensibly...
...thing, because of the rise of Web-based applications. These let you create documents and spreadsheets (Google Apps, Zoho, Microsoft Office Online), listen to music (Pandora, iLike, Lala), edit photos (Piknik, Photoshop.com and check your voice mail (Google Voice) online. "But the pace of innovation in the browser space wasn't keeping up," says Brian Rakowski, director of product management for Google Chrome. "So we decided to start designing a browser from the ground up to see if we could build one that is faster, easier to use and fundamentally more secure." So far, more than 40 million users have...
...never get calls about lack of beds or space, and people who look for [assisted living] aren’t finding them only in places with rich people or big cities,” Wiliams said, pointing to homes in Wisconsin and Florida with only four or five beds as examples of care that “better fit the needs of small communities” that the study may not have considered...
...Each side blames the other. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which owns the Ady Gil and other ships devoted to disrupting Japan's ongoing whaling efforts, said in a statement that the space-age speedboat was "dead in the water" when the Japanese ship, the Shonan Maru No. 2, rammed it. Peter Hammarstedt, the first officer of the Bob Barker, a sister ship of the Ady Gil named after the former Price Is Right host and donor, says that five of the six Ady Gil crew members were on deck waving to the Bob Barker when the whaling ship...
...that the Leader's brand of journalism was salacious. But all agreed that he had brought something totally new to Sri Lankan media. He was threatened, sued and beaten up, and his house was fired at with automatic weapons. Still, he kept going. "I credit him for creating the space for those less courageous than him to work," says Marwaan Macan-Markar, another of Wickrematunge's young hires who now works as Asia correspondent for Inter Press Service. "His regular exposés defined the parameters of free expression in an environment hostile to the media. His murder has seen...