LONDON - The crashes of two vintage aircraft on consecutive daysat an air exhibition left three people dead and brought the show toan early close. A 1950s De Havilland Vampire with two men aboardcorkscrewed to earth during a display with a De Havilland Sea Vixenaircraft Saturday evening. It came down about 100 yards from astreet of row houses, showering some gardens with debris. Both …
Calgary - The TSX Venture Exchange has granted conditional acceptance of notice of Biopotential Capital Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Osta Biopharma Inc. as its qualifying transaction. Osta is a Montreal-based biopharmaceutical company, which is developing a preonset …
Shares of Seagate Technology plunged Monday after the hard drive maker announced it will lay off 10 percent of its U.S. work force, or about 800 people, in response to economic turmoil.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Seagate said it will disclose details of its restructuring program later this month. Layoffs will affect a broad range of departments, including research and development, the company said.
Spokesman Woody Monroy said Seagate has about 8,000 workers in the U.S., out of …
Humiliating doesn't even cover it.
I need a date. Bad. Real bad. Badder than I have ever neededa date in my life.
Except, of course, for the senior prom. When I was alsodesperately seeking a boy person to accompany me and my bubblingpersonality to a major event. And which, in order to attend (andhave the regulation is-that-all-there-is time), I was finally humbledinto being the inviter instead of the invitee. A fact that scarredboth my mother and me forever. And in truth the humiliation quotientgot even worse. Because not only did I have to ask a boy to take meto my senior prom, but the only boy who would go with me was a boyfrom the junior class.
Ask …
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA gave the shuttle Discovery a majestic Fourth of July send-off and said early signs showed the spacecraft to be in good shape, despite once again being struck by the flying foam that has plagued the program.
The first-ever Independence Day manned launch came after two weather delays and over objections from those within NASA who argued for more fuel-tank repairs.
Shuttle managers said early video images of liftoff showing small pieces of foam breaking away - and one even striking the spacecraft - were not troubling.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said of the launch: "They don't get much better than this."
It was Griffin who …
Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her government's record on Wednesday as it approached its two-year anniversary, even though tension simmers in her right-left "grand coalition" on issues from foreign policy to a proposed minimum wage.
"We have tackled a lot of things and implemented a lot successfully," Merkel was quoted as telling the mass-circulation daily Bild. "Since October 2005, the number of people without work has decreased by 1.1 million; we must continue along this road."
Merkel, a conservative Christian Democrat, took office on Nov. 22, 2005, at the head of an awkward alliance with the center-left Social Democrats _ …
She switched to prepaid wireless.
"Each month, I go online and decide how many minutes I want," said Baker, a 36-year-old financial coordinator for a Chicago dentist's office. "I'm now signed up for $40 a month, including $9.99 unlimited texting and $2.99 unlimited Internet service."
"I can determine whether I want to talk to you or not," said Baker, who changes her Virgin Mobile USA minutes based on "her mood."
"It's really easy to budget," she said.
As the recession lingers, more people, …
