Latest teen hangout: the nearest gym - Chicago Tribune

Latest teen hangout: the nearest gym - Chicago Tribune
Gaggles of teenage girls rounded the indoor track engrossed in conversation while boys in baggy shorts swarmed on a basketball court below. In a nearby weight room, other young males cracked jokes while strutting among the machines. As he took a

LTTE attacks Sri Lankan Navy detachment in Jaffna - Hindustan Times
The Sri Lankan Army Thursday said that a pre-dawn attack by the Tamil Tiger rebels on a naval detachment in an islet in the northern Jaffna peninsula was repulsed by a joint army-navy counter operation. According to military spokesman Brigadier Udaya

CHARLES COUNTY: Driver Who Killed 8 in Race Crowd Faces an Unrelated - Washington Post
The Waldorf man who plowed his car into a crowd at an illegal street race three months ago in Prince George's County , killing eight people, was arrested last week on an unrelated charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. According to police

Woman in iron lung dies during power outage - Los Angeles Times
A thunderstorm knocked out the power to her home Wednesday, shutting off the massive metal machine that had helped her breathe for nearly 60 years.

Read it and weep, Detroit: Boston's 29-0 when leading 3-2 - CBS News
BOSTON -- They almost gave it away. They tried. They really tried. In an ocean of choke jobs, this would have been the Titanic. In the history of gagging, this game might've been the love child of Greg Norman and Scott Norwood. Rasheed Wallace and

PISTONS NOTEBOOK - Detroit Free Press
Richard Hamilton was a scoring machine in the second half, scoring 16 of his 25 points in the second half. But Hamilton also strained his right elbow in the game's waning moments. X-rays taken after the game came back negative, and Hamilton will

Kleiner's Pick for the Killer iPhone App - MSNBC
Apple won't crank up the hype machine about all the new things an iPhone can do until its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, but here's a small taste of what's in store: finding things to do in the neighborhood when you're at a loss. That's

Monkey think, monkey do: with robotic arm - Reuters
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Using only its brainpower, a monkey can direct a robotic arm to pluck a marshmallow from a skewer and stuff it into its mouth, researchers said on Wednesday. "They are using a motorized prosthetic arm to reach out, grab and bring

Mind-control machine lets monkey think, robotic arm do - Edmonton Journal
In a remarkable experiment, monkeys have used mind control to get a robotic arm to feed themselves fruit and marshmallows. The robot, controlled by the animals' thoughts, reaches out for the treat, removes it from a small peg and then pops it into

A small bite for a monkey a giant leap for mankind - The Independent
Two monkeys have been trained to eat morsels of food using a robotic arm controlled by thoughts that are relayed through a set of electrodes connecting the animal's brain to a computer, scientists have announced. The astonishing feat is being seen as