'Tele-transporting' to Paris' Champs Elysees
The official Champs Elysees website this summer is offering virtual travelers what it says is a technologically groundbreaking walk along one of the world s most celebrated avenues.Though not quite…
Password management eases with Net storage
Do you use your kids names? Your pet s? Your favorite color? We all use some dumb passwords that are too easy to guess.Worse, we use the same ones for…
Chocolate cuts death rate in heart attack survivors, finds study
Heart attack survivors who eat chocolate two or more times per week cut their risk of dying from heart disease about threefold compared to those who never touch the stuff,…
Quest Means Business: Clear skies ahead?
I have decided to forsake markets, economics and the great recession this week. It's August, and the northern hemisphere is starting its month-long holiday, so I am turning my attention…
Inflation down from last Ramadan, but food prices yet to cool off
CAIRO: Last year, Egyptians tread anxiously into Ramadan as inflation hit a record high of 23 percent in August 2008 in the lead up to the holy month. Food prices…
Maridive's net profit up 67 pct
Maridive & Oil Services posted a net profit of $26.5 million during the second quarter of 2009, a 67.4 percent year-on-year growth from $15.8 million. Revenues totaled $61.8 million, up…
THE REEL ESTATE: On "The Hangover" and John Hughes
The HangoverIt seems that every summer, Hollywood manages to churn out one bona-fide R-rated comedy to atone for every hoax it hoodwinked world audiences with. Last year, that comedy was…
Kidneys for Sale?
PRINCETON: The arrest in New York last month of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, a Brooklyn businessman whom police allege tried to broker a deal to buy a kidney for $160,000, coincided with…
Where do good intentions lead us? A civilian action plan for advancing peace
OFRA: Many people claim that Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip was a unilateral attempt to promote peace. In my opinion, it constituted a bilateral act of war. After many…
The Normalization of Fatah
RAMALLAH: Fatah, the leading guerrilla movement within the Palestine Liberation Organization, has moved one step closer to becoming a normal political party. Its just concluded sixth congress was held for…