J.L. (Judy) Smith became the sole caregiver for her three-year old grandson, Marcus, when his mom and dad were both deployed in the U.S. Military. Smith's tour of âdoodieâ was six months, one week, three days, and seven hours long. Reporting for Doodie is her humorous, honest, poignant, and irreverent account of that period.
I'm about to finish reading The Predator State, by James K Galbraith, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in economics, trade, social policy, political economy, economic development or markets at all.
The R-Class has had a rough life. Not only did it suffer from odd, disproportionate styling, but Mercedes-Benz never really marketed the vehicle the way that it should have, choosing to position it as a "sports tourer," rather than the obvious upscale family hauler that it is.
As a way of improving the efficiency of electric power distribution, many utilities are looking at the deployment of so-called "smart meters" that, in addition to their basic function of measuring the amount of electricity consumed, are also networked computers.
The US Food and Drug Administration does not want Rotarix, the rotavirus vaccine, to be used because it contains porcine circovirus 1 DNA. If complete copies of the circovirus genome were present, would they constitute a potential threat to recipients? Put another way, is circovirus DNA infectious?
Possession tells the story of Jess, a workaholic wife to artist Ryan, with a work-related past involving her ex-convict brother-in-law Roman. Her world is turned upside-down after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law in comas, but her life is thrown into a tailspin when Roman wakes up thinking he is his brother.
We have in our possession the 2011 Mustang 5.0 V-8 and 3.7 V-6, and although our drive impressions and test numbers are embargoed until Monday morning, we can tell you what we discovered after our trip to the dyno this morning.
This weekend is sees the second race of the 2010 F1 season take place in Australia. In the leadup the Financial Times has run a story on the slowdown in F1 sponsorship, with reporters Christian Sylt and Carloine Reid noting a drop of $115 million from last year.
Take a look at the Facebook Fan Pages of some brands and what you see is not a pretty picture. Oh, the numbers look good, but when you dig a little deeper a different picture emerges. Walls filled with off topic conversations at best, vile language and real antipathy for the brand at worst. What happened?
The persistent dearth of women scientists has been researched, contested and speculated upon in recent years, with study after study interpreting this paucity as born of bias, biology or some combination of both. But amid this understandable concern about why so few women succeed in science, another significant question is often neglected: how the few women who have succeeded managed to do so.