Air Force Research Laboratory donates equipment to college (Antelope Valley

Air Force Research Laboratory donates equipment to college (Antelope Valley Press)
This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press on Saturday, September 17, 2005. LANCASTER - Antelope Valley College officials know better than to look a gift horse in the mouth, so they accepted $75,000 worth of high-tech equipment from the Air Force Research Laboratory on Friday afternoon.

Central Chronicle--Editorial (Central Chronicle)
SB Rane: Petrol prices are hiked in spite of general outcry against it. The minister tries to convince the inevitability of the hike but people do not agree.

His work stoppage over (Boston Globe)
Adam Hyzdu was tossing a football around in Mesa, Ariz., when the call came. The Red Sox needed an outfielder, and Hyzdu, whose season with Triple A Pawtucket ended more than a week ago, was summoned from the land of sun and fun and was at rainy Fenway last night for the game against the Athletics.

ASU sets up supercomputer (The Tucson Citizen)
MESA - Better designs for airplanes and automobiles, super-hard materials, transistors the size of molecules and better weather forecasts are among the developments that could emerge from a supercomputing center that opened yesterday at Arizona State University.

True "Freedom to Farm" solution to farming crises (The Illinois Leader)
I will not argue with Joyce Morrison when she claims that some farmers are hurting financially, but her suggestion that we may run out of food or become totally reliant on foreign farmers for our food is patently ridiculous [ MORRISON: It's a long row to hoe (September 14). Prices are low in America because our production is high. Decades of farm subsidies and other programs to help inefficient

Color them whimsical (TimesLeader.com)
I t used to be that a toilet plunger had a simple wooden handle with a plain rubber cup on the bottom. Now you can buy a plunger with a theme, one with a trinket-filled handle and complementary cup, for example, or a more exotic version, with a plush, leopard-skin cover.

Dead man makes for juicy scandal in Brazil (Chicago Tribune via Yahoo! News)
The evidence linking Jonas de Pinho to the political corruption scandal riveting Brazil was solid. But then, so was the man's alibi.

Watch out for flood of damaged vehicles (CNN.com)
A car dealership lot sits partially submerged in floodwaters in New Orleans on Saturday September 10. 1. Check the vehicle's title history. water and grit.