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WASHINGTON - Conservatives and voters troubled by abortion and illegal immigration were backing Mitt Romney as he fought for victory in Florida's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday. Lining up behind John McCain's bid were party moderates, Hispanics and the state's numerous older voters. As the two struggled for a triumph that could provide momentum for next week's Super Tuesday voting by nearly half the states, they were dividing Floridians along generational lines, according to preliminary results from exit polls of voters conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks. McCain was doing best among the oldest voters, while Romney's...

SIERRA VISTA — Boys and girls are getting a higher perspective of the Upper San Pedro Valley. On Friday, the Imagine Charter and Our Lady of the Mountains elementary schools brought out 144 schoolchildren to participate in the first day of the annual Sierra Vista Municipal Airport Fly-In and open house, which is intended to introduce aviation to the children. Ryan Sheehan, a fourth-grader at Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic School, looks over the cockpit of a T34A Beechcraft on Friday at the Sierra Vista Municipal Airport. (Ed Honda-Herald/Review) The fly-in, which is sponsored by Sierra Vista Experimental Aircraft...

Die Meistersinger is, by Wagner’s standards, quite a cheerful opera. The action turns on comedy’s staple, the marriage plot: get the hero and the heroine safely and truly wed with at least a presumption of happiness ever after. There are cross-currents and undercurrents that make Meistersinger’s libretto subtle in ways that the librettos of operas usually aren’t. But for once Nietzsche is nowhere in sight and nobody dies; the territory is closer to The Barber of Seville than to The Ring. Yet, in the first scene of Act 3, the avuncular Hans Sachs, whose benevolent interventions smooth the lovers’ course,...

FORT HUACHUCA — Soldiers engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle operations can now wear winged badges to show others they are an important part of the Army, a two-star general said. And the general expects Fort Huachuca will see an increase of pilotless plane training with the returns of Marines before the end of this year, as well as the Army starting training on its larger Warrior unmanned aerial vehicle in the next 12 to 18 months. On Thursday, Maj. Gen. Virgil L. Packett II symbolically pinned three versions of the Army Aviation Crewmember Badges on to the uniforms of three...

CANBERRA: The origin of powered flight in modern birds was in biplane-like dinosaurs living in trees 125 million years ago, according to a new U.S. and Canadian study. "The origin of avian flight has been debated for a century," said co-author Sankar Charterjee from Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, USA. His team claim to have finally settled the long-standing debate, discovering that powered flight developed from dinosaurs that glided down from trees, rather than taking off from the ground. The team, who reported their results today in the U.S. journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, studied fossils...

LONDON (AFP) - Fans have rushed to buy the first "new" Beatles album for a generation -- a radical remixing of some of the group's most famous songs -- more than 35 years after the break-up of the iconic band. "Love", which has the backing of surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, comprises 26 of the Fab Four's hit songs, but many of them mixed together using previously unheard material from the studio. "I hope this will help people to hear Beatles music again," said Giles Martin, son of the group's original producer Sir George Martin who is often...

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Air Force is working to gain complete control of support operations from Coalition forces to add to the maintenance operations already under its charge. Formerly located at Ali Air Base near the city of An Nasiriyah in south central Iraq, the 23rd Squadron has not only changed its location to New Al Muthanna Air Base in Baghdad, but also the focus of its operations tempo. “When the squadron was at Ali base, the training was just on aircraft qualification,” explained U.S. Air Force Maj. Dave Osterhout, Coalition Air Force Assistance Transition Team operations chief. “Iraqi airmen...

See for example this thread first. This is one of the strangest things! Did birds start to fly with four wings? Archaeopteryx to good ole' T. Rex This news just makes Calvin's heart SING!

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney won the Man of the Year title at the GQ magazine awards held in London. Sir Paul was honoured for his latest album and his successful US tour. "Paul McCartney is not only one of our greatest living legends, he's also probably the most dignified," said GQ editor Dylan Jones. Other winners included Extras creator Ricky Gervais, presenter Jonathan Ross and singer Rod Stewart - who was given the outstanding achievement award. Embraced By PublicTop Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson won TV personality of the year, and received his award from Stewart's fiancee Penny Lancaster. GQ...

BAGHDAD, March 3, 2006 – A fully certified aircrew takes flight, and a single air base opens its gates. These feats represent giant steps toward independence and national security to Iraqi airmen training side by side here with U.S. Air Force members. U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Charles Franks observes and instructs Iraqi crew chiefs inspecting a propeller on an Iraqi air force C-130E Hercules cargo aircraft. Franks is part of the Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq, Coalition Air Force Transition Team. The Iraqi trainees are members of the 23rd Squadron, assigned to Al Muthana Air Base on Baghdad...

N.L. premier, ex-Beatle to spar on seal-hunt on Larry KingCBC News March 3, 2006 The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador will be on Larry King Live on Friday night to oppose the anti-seal-hunt views of rock legend Paul McCartney. Danny Williams's appearance on the CNN talk show was to be taped in advance. He was to defend the hunt, which McCartney and his wife, Heather, have been protesting this week during a visit to Prince Edward Island. McCartney, who visited seal pups in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, claimed Thursday that 95 per cent of the seals killed in Canada...

DETROIT -- Red Wings defenseman Jiri Fischer had a seizure on the Detroit bench late in the first period of Monday night's game against the Nashville Predators and was listed in stable condition at a hospital. Fischer was given CPR at the bench by team physician Dr. Tony Colucci before the 25-year-old native of the Czech Republic was removed on a stretcher. The game was called off with no makeup date immediately announced. "His heart was stopped," Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "They hooked up the auto defibrillator and shocked him." Team spokesman John Hahn said Fischer was taken...

When scientists developed an efficient device for emitting light, they hadn't realised butterflies have been using the same method for 30 million years. Fluorescent patches on the wings of African swallowtail butterflies work in a very similar way to high emission light emitting diodes (LEDs). These high emission LEDs are an efficient variation on the diodes used in electronic equipment and displays. The University of Exeter, UK, research appears in the journal Science. In 2001, Alexei Erchak and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated a method for building a more efficient LED. Most light emitted from standard...

Small robotic spy-planes have been developed that use shape-shifting wings to switch from being stable gliders to ultra-manoeuvrable fliers. The articulated wings – with a span of 60 centimetres – were inspired by the way seagulls alter their wing-shape during flight, says Rick Lind, an aerospace engineer at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, US. The robot plane, or drone, has a joint halfway along the leading edge of both its wings. Actuators at this “elbow” joint and at the “shoulder” joint of each wing, where it connects to the fuselage, allow the wing structure to shift from an...

ORLANDO (AP) Hooters of America and a rival restaurant chain are arguing in federal court in Orlando over who has rights to the concept of using scantily clad women to sell food and beer. Hooters of America accuses Ker's WingHouse of Kissimmee of poaching the idea coined when it opened its first sports bar in Clearwater in 1983. A Hooters lawyer says their waitresses are their Ronald McDonald. But Crawford Ker says he based his chain on Knockers, a failing restaurant with an all-female staff in Largo that he took over after retiring from the NFL. A Ker lawyer says...

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WINGED CATS - WHAT ARE THEY? Sarah Hartwell Over the years there have been reports of winged cats, some of whom flapped their wings. Is this a new mutation of cats allowing them to take to the air after feathered prey or does the answer lie in poor grooming or an uncommon hereditary condition affecting the skin? As with the mythical "cabbit" (half-cat-half-rabbit) many would like to believe in winged cats which can fly. There are many authentic cases on file of cats with furry wing-like appendages, and in some cases the ability to move their wings, but as with...

A report recommending hundreds of ways to streamline state government is ready, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will keep it under wraps until lawmakers pass a budget, so as not to derail an agreement, an administration official said Monday. "Essentially, it's complete," communications director Rob Stutzman said of the California Performance Review report due Wednesday. "We don't want people playing politics with it, is what it boils down to. "It deserves more than that, and God knows we'll get out of here a lot quicker this week if we don't give legislators something to play with." The governor did, however, release...

McCartney speaks out against war Sir Paul wrote a song, Freedom, after the 11 September attacks Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has criticised the UK government for being too hasty in going to war in Iraq. "Maybe our government went in too fast with the Americans," he told the weekly Portuguese magazine Visao on Thursday. "It would have been better if the UN had been together," the 61-year-old singer continued. "Now it's become very bloody with Iraq, it's very difficult." The singer, who is currently touring Europe, opens the Rock in Rio music festival in Lisbon on Friday. Sir Paul...

Avalanche Goalie Patrick Roy to Retire By JOHN MARSHALL, AP Sports Writer DENVER - Colorado's Patrick Roy (news) is retiring, ending the 18-year career of one of the greatest goaltenders in NHL history. Roy will make the announcement at a news conference on Wednesday, team spokesman Jean Martineau said. A four-time Stanley Cup champion, Roy leaves as the NHL's career leader in victories with 551 and games played with 1,029. He also is the all-time leader in playoff victories, games played and shutouts. Roy is still considered one of the best goalies in the game at age 37, but he...

 

Shuttle Testing Suggested Wings Were Vulnerable ASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — Studies conducted by NASA over the last four years concluded that damage to the brittle, heat-shedding material on the leading edge of the space shuttle Columbia's wings posed one of the highest risks of a catastrophic accident. The studies focused largely on the tremendous damage that could be caused in the unlikely event that a tiny meteoroid or other bit of orbital debris hit the leading edge of a wing, which is made of a lightweight material called reinforced carbon-carbon. That is still one of the theories about what might...

Every Time A Bell Rings A Balrog Gets Its Wings?I. IntroductionAll of us remember our first time. In popular culture, that statement might be mistaken for being lewd, but around Tolkien readers, it means that time you first opened The Lord of the Rings and found yourself a guest at Bilbo’s party. You became comfortable with hobbits, elves, wizards, and black riders. You threw in some dwarves and Gollum and were well of your way to speaking the language of Middle-earth. After all, you had the professor’s wonderful descriptions to aid you. But in walked a Balrog, and the professor...

Rash of flight credential thefts reaches Midlands By LORA HINES Staff Writer The FBI usually couldn't be bothered with investigating minor break-ins at a hotel. But two room burglaries in Columbia earlier this week have their attention. A couple of weeks ago, airlines were warned by the Transportation Security Administration to watch for people with stolen credentials posing as airline officials. The warning went out after two flight attendants said their uniforms, crew-bag tags, flight attendant wings, flight books, ID cards and a key to an airplane storage compartment had been stolen from their New York apartment. Little else was...

Mayberry's revenge?All right, pundits of Detroit, that will do. You may, in the course of the Stanley Cup championship -- you know, the hockey title your Red Wings were going to win in four straight games -- feel free to make sport of North Carolina accents, or our cuisine, or the fact that we're relatively new to hockey. But when you start messing with Sheriff Andy Taylor and Barney Fife...well, as Barney said once when he was really upset with Ernest T. Bass, "Andy, when I'm riled, look out!" We read, in various accounts of the championship series -- the...