Nike has back in its possession what the Oregonian calls the company’s “Holy Grail”—the waffle iron that inspired co-founder Bill Bowerman to design his first innovative sole. Bowerman’s son found the relic buried on his late father’s property near Eugene, and the family gave it to Nike. (The company…
Continue reading …Rutgers is going to let students of the opposite sex dorm together for the first time, a “gender-neutral” policy designed to make the campus more accommodating to gay students, reports the Star-Ledger . The move comes in the wake of last year’s high-profile suicide of Tyler Clementi . Students won’t be asked…
Continue reading …The US has listed China’s top search engine—one of the 10 most popular websites in the world—as one of the most “notorious markets” for pirated software and media, Reuters reports. Baidu.com, the most popular website within China, was again singled out by the US trade representative’s office…
Continue reading …The president of Yemen lashed out at the US and Israel today and accused them of secretly controlling the democratic uprisings in the Arab world, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key ally of the US in the war on al-Qaeda and the recipient of billions in…
Continue reading …People whose mothers had Alzheimer’s appear to have a greater risk of developing dementia themselves, reports the Los Angeles Times . University of Kansas researchers studied the brains of about 50 healthy senior citizens over two years and found that those whose mothers had the disease showed the most deterioration, especially…
Continue reading …Just how much information is out there in the Twittersphere? With 50 million tweets per day, or roughly 1 billion words, it would take a single person 10 years to read just one day’s worth, figures Death and Taxes . Going nonstop for 24 hours, a person would probably get through…
Continue reading …The House has passed a bill to cut federal spending by $4 billion and avert a partial shutdown of the government—for two weeks. The measure passed by a bipartisan 335-91 vote that came shortly after Democrats in the Senate said they would go along. The White House had sought…
Continue reading …The nation’s biggest online banking site is on the fritz for many of its 29 million customers. Bank of America officials say it’s not a cyberattack, just a glitch resulting from an upgrade over the weekend, reports the Charlotte Observer . No customer information has been compromised, said a spokesperson. The…
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