Thursday, October 25, 2007

Superjumbo's first real flight. The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, leaves Singapore for Sydney on its first commercial flight. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map21.html http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map20.html http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map19.html http://www.jumpingdots.com/site_map18.html 9:43:43 PM    comment [] recidivism: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. recidivism: a tendency to lapse into a previous condition or pattern of behavior; esp., into prior criminal habits. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map21.html http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map20.html http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map19.html http://www.jumpingdots.com/site_map18.html 9:42:57 PM    comment [] NASA Offering $2 Million Prize for Lunar Lander. coondoggie writes "If you build it, NASA will not only come, it'll give you $2 million dollars for your troubles. The space agency today said it will offer $2 million in prizes if competing teams can successfully build a lunar lander at the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge at Holloman Air Force Base, in Alamogordo, N.M. Oct. 27 and 28th. To win the prize, teams must demonstrate a rocket-propelled vehicle and payload that takes off vertically, climbs to a defined altitude, flies for a pre-determined amount of time, and then lands vertically on a target that is a fixed distance from the launch pad. After landing, the vehicle must take off again within a predetermined time, fly for a certain amount of time and then land back on its original launch pad." Read more of this story at Slashdot. http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map21.html http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map20.html http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map19.html http://www.jumpingdots.com/site_map18.html [Slashdot] 9:41:57 PM    comment [] Whistle-Blower Finds a Finger Pointing Back. Although whistle-blowers are often celebrated for risking their careers to shed light on corporate wrongdoing, occasionally, someone blows a whistle on the whistle-blower. By BARRY MEIER. [NYT > Business] http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map21.html http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map20.html http://www.myprowealths.com/site_map19.html http://www.jumpingdots.com/site_map18.html 9:40:53 PM    comment []

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