International – Page 289

Engineer makes cooking oil breakthrough

July 10, 2009

A new use for old cooking oil could help cut emissions from building roads, engineers have claimed. Engineer Helen Bailey has developed a process for replacing bitumen, which is normally used in road surfaces to 'glue'...

Transport workers in Japan required to take daily smile scans

July 9, 2009

In an effort to improve “customer relations” a Japanese transportation company is forcing over 500 employees to take a daily smile test measuring the degree and brightness of worker smiles. According to the Mainichi Daily News,...

Former ruling party gains in Mexico elections

July 9, 2009

In Sunday’s congressional and gubernatorial elections in Mexico, the big winner was the formerly ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which with its ally, the Green Party (PVEM) (a rather conservative party not in good standing with...

COMMENTARY A coup is a coup is a coup is a coup

July 8, 2009

The pre-Neanderthal characters who have taken control, at gunpoint, of the government of Honduras are telling us that this was not a coup d’etat, but an orderly legal proceeding against a president who had violated the...

Michael Jackson will live forever

July 8, 2009

It was the white sequined glove, the unending zippers on that red leather jacket, the black penny loafers with the white sparkled socks and the famous moonwalk that shocked the world. These are some of many...