AP - Many decades ago, cost-conscious Henry Ford turned to hydroelectric plants to power his car factories like the one by the Great Miami River, near this Cincinnati suburb. That assembly plant is long gone, but the power plant and the technology behind it isn’t.
AP - Zeng Yawen’s outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.
AP - Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida.
AP - Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts are safely back on Earth.
AP - Laptop, cell phone and iPod owners tired of having their devices run out of charge after a few hours have been patiently waiting for the next portable power source to arrive.
LONDON (Reuters) - A report in the Sunday Times that Microsoft Inc is in talks with Yahoo Inc to buy the U.S. internet company’s online search business for $20 billion is “total fiction,” according to a key executive cited by an influential U.S. blog.
AP - Zeng Yawen’s outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.
AP - A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.
AP - High wind and a stormy forecast are preventing space shuttle Endeavour from landing in Florida, but NASA officials are considering using a backup site in California.
The numbers for which everyone’s been waiting for with bated breath are finally in: Retail sales estimates for yesterday, the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Most outlets are reporting that Black Friday sales this year were up about 3 percent over 2007, to a total of $10.6 billion. …