WASHINGTON – Could you locate the Cambrian Mountains on a map? Twelve-year-old Bonny Jain could and his knowledge made him the winner Wednesday of the 2006 National Geographic Bee. The eighth-grader from Moline, Ill. won a $25,000 college scholarship by correctly naming the mountains that extend across much of Wales, …
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BERLIN – The newly elected leader of Germany’s main Jewish organization called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a “second Hitler” who should be barred from attending the World Cup in Germany, according to comments published Thursday. Ahmadinejad should not be allowed to set foot on German soil, Charlotte Knobloch said in …
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SAN FRANCISCO – IBM has built a transistor that runs about 100 times faster than current chips, a development that could pave the way for ultra-fast computers and wireless networks, the computing giant said on Monday. Transistors are the basic building blocks of the processors found in everything from supercomputers …
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MANTADIA NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar – High in the rain forest canopy, a lemur with orange, black and white fur leaps among the branches to cries of delight from onlookers below. “It’s brilliant,” said Sonja Debeer, a South African tourist craning her neck to follow the exotic lemur known as a …
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WASHINGTON – A Senate panel on Thursday took up legislation that aims at settling an intensifying debate between the corporations that own the lines that bring Internet service to millions of homes and offices and the companies that enable people to use those services. The outcome could affect the pocketbook …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush on Thursday warned North Korea not to test-fire a long-range missile, saying Pyongyang must tell the world its intentions for any launch. “Launching the missile is unacceptable,” Bush said in an East Room news conference alongside Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Bush said that he and …
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NEW YORK – EarthLink Inc. (ELNK) said Thursday it signed up Time Warner Inc. (TWX) Internet unit AOL and DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV) as buyers of Internet service on the municipal Wi-Fi networks EarthLink is building in several cities. EarthLink will resell access on a wholesale basis to AOL and …
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WASHINGTON – Former Bush administration official David Safavian testified Friday that he believes it was proper for him to give Jack Abramoff advice and information about two government properties the lobbyist was interested in. Safavian’s lawyer, Barbara Van Gelder, asked whether his ex-partner Abramoff, now at the heart of an …
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NEW YORK – Allstate Corp. (ALL), the second largest U.S. auto and home insurer, said on Tuesday it is dropping earthquake coverage for most of its homeowner insurance policies as part of a plan to limit exposure to catastrophes. “When the policies come up for renewal, they won’t be offered …
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NEW YORK – A city teacher convicted of stealing from elderly women tried to take a leave of absence from work to serve prison time in New Jersey without properly reporting his arrest or conviction to the right authorities, school investigators said Tuesday. Thomas Everett will not be welcome back …
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