read this Q & A from the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory’s Hurricane Research Division. “Q: Should I tape my windows when a hurricane threatens? A: NO! It is a waste of effort, time, and tape. It offers little strength to the glass and NO protection against flying debris. After the storm passes you will spend many a hot […]
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin was visiting a hospital in Smolensk, 250 miles west on Moscow, when an unsuspecting doctor inquired after the former president’s health. Putin, 58, promptly whipped his shirt and tie off to reveal a nagging shoulder injury, the result of a morning spent on the exercise mat, and instructed traumatologist Viktor Petrachenkov to take a closer […]
Hurricane Irene is rapidly gaining strength in the Bahamas and is set to make her way up the East Coast, possibly reaching New York as early as Sunday evening.
Hurricane Irene strengthened to a major Category 3 storm over the Bahamas on Wednesday with the East Coast in its sights.
Princeton Review, a Massachusetts-based educational services company, for its new book, “The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 edition.” interviewed 122,000 students at 376 top colleges to rate their schools and describe their campus experiences.
Magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Saturday. The quake, which struck at 3:55 a.m. local time on Sunday (12:55 p.m. EDT on Saturday), was centered 38 miles southwest of the town of Port-Vila and was quite shallow, at a depth of 25.2 miles. The Pacific Tsunami […]
Reality star Kim Kardashian(30) and NBA star Kris Humphries(26) wedding is today.
Turkish warplanes attack PKK targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday, military sources said, hours after a rebel attack in southeast Turkey killed a dozen soldiers. The air raids came hours after reports of an attack by Kurdish guerrillas on a military convoy in southeastern Turkey. Eleven soldiers were killed in the ambush in Hakkari province’s […]
Ricky Martin finally talked about his boyfriend, Carlos Gonzalez on VH1’s ‘Behind the Music‘. Although he still makes the ladies go gaga, he doesn’t have to pretend anymore. In an exclusive episode of the “Behind the Music” television series on VH1, the singer who announced last year that he is gay, dismissed reports that his romance with […]
In a GOP field crowded with presidential hopefuls questioning Muslims’ loyalty and promising to crack down on Muslim religious sharia law in America, Texas Gov. Rick Perry enters the race with a distinguishing calling card: a historically good relationship with Muslims in his state.