Kevlar saving lives, minimizing wounds in Iraq / Technology first developed in 1965

Kevlar is saving lives and minimizing wounds in Iraq. Notice the four bullet holes in this Royal Marine's helmet.



Update - 4/15/03 - Turned out ths is a hoax - CNN.com - Media fooled over helmet escape

Study Shows Falls Leading Cause of Infant Injury

What's more, nearly 22% of injuries are severe enough to require major medical care.

BBC NEWS | UK | Coming soon (maybe)... non-stick chewing gum

BBC NEWS | UK | Coming soon (maybe)... non-stick chewing gum

From Tiananmen Square to Oxford Circus, a global menace is stalking the unsuspecting: spat-out gum. As the authorities lose their patience, pressure is mounting on gum makers to invent non-polluting chewing gum - or be faced with the clean-up bill.

Lists Free, Time management, Home organizers

Lists Free, Time management, Home organizers - added to the useful section of the sidebar.

Office for schools tempts consumers | CNET News.com

Microsoft is about to make it easier for just about anyone to buy its low-cost Office suite designed for students and teachers.

Los Angeles Times - Editor's Note

Los Angeles Times - Editor's Note

On Monday, March 31, the Los Angeles Times published a front-page photograph that had been altered in violation of Times policy.

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Times policy forbids altering the content of news photographs. Because of the violation, Walski, a Times photographer since 1998, has been dismissed from the staff.

Wired News: Misfired Messages Roil Businesses

Wired News: Misfired Messages Roil Businesses

Times Online - Takoma the dolphin is Awol

Takoma the dolphin is Awol

Takoma, the Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin, had been in Iraq for 48 hours when he went missing on his first operation to snoop out mines.

Update 4/0/03 - he's back

Mirror.co.uk - CHEMICAL SALLY

Mirror.co.uk - CHEMICAL SALLY

In a video shown on Al Jazeera TV, Professor Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash - dubbed Chemical Sally - was seated next to Saddam's youngest son Qusay, 37, who oversees the regime's weapons development programmes.

Buy a Book for the Library - Help the Burlingame Library Recover from the Flood.

Buy a Book for the Library - Our local library suffered a major flood when a water pipe burst over the President's day weekend.

CNN.com - CIA warned irregular Iraqi forces could pose threat - Mar. 27, 2003

CNN.com - CIA warned irregular Iraqi forces could pose threat - Mar. 27, 2003

Blogcritics: What She Really Said

Blogcritics: What She Really Said

If you've been following the Dixie Chicks' saga - and based upon the traffic and comments, in the days just before the war, few were concerned with much else - you know that after Natalie Maines slammed President Bush in London, she apologized the next day.
Well, we have all been led astray: the apology printed on the band's website and in the media was written by some record label hack. This is what she really said:

In Nasiriya, Marines Find an Urban Fight They Didn't Want

In Nasiriya, Marines Find an Urban Fight They Didn't Want

Just trying to lose weight lowers risk

Just trying to lose weight lowers risk of dying.

Olson to marry Pa. CEO, politico

Lute Olson to marry Pa. CEO, politico. Lute Olsen is the coach of the Arizona Wildcats - my alma mater's basketball team.