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Taken alone, the discovery of these rocket motors doesn't really prove anything. Just like the SA-2 motor found in a scrapyard in Rotterdam. Just like the other scrapped dual-use equipment discovered in junkyards around the world. Just like the sarin-filled artillery round discovered recently. And the other chemical rounds uncovered just before that. And the murder of many Iraqi scientists who were cooperating with US investigators after the invasion. And the burned up computers in a locked weapons research lab. And the rumors of those semi-trucks headed to Syria in the months before the invasion. I mean, this is just...

Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. But he is in for a nasty surprise. The car is fitted with a remote immobiliser, and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again. For now, such devices are only available for fleets of trucks and specialist vehicles used on construction sites. But remote immobilisation technology could soon start to trickle down to ordinary cars, and should be available in the UK in two...

BERKELEY – Only 15 years after University of California, Berkeley, engineers built the first micro-scale motor, a UC Berkeley physicist has created the first nano-scale motor - a gold rotor on a nanotube shaft that could ride on the back of a virus. "It's the smallest synthetic motor that's ever been made," said Alex Zettl, professor of physics at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Nature is still a little bit ahead of us - there are biological motors that are equal or slightly smaller in size - but we are catching up." Zettl and his...

We own a 31' class C motor home and plan to move up to a class A next year. I am interested in Freeper comments/suggestions about some of the class A models similar to the Winnebago Adventurer. Thanks for taking the time to reply.MoodyBluSuburban Philadelphia

Atlanta Motor Speedway Since being purchased by Bruton Smith in 1990, Atlanta Motor Speedway has become an ultra-modern, multi-purpose venue that has raised the bar of excellence. Amenities include a nine-story office/condominium complex, improved parking, over 53,000 additional permanent seats, a road course, a four-color electronic message center, a new ticket office and gift shop.God Bless Our Troops and Our Nation.

    Giant electromagnets to moor ships   10:07 17 January 03 Maarten Keulemans, Amsterdam   The gentle press of a button could soon be all it takes to keep a giant ship secured to the dockside. The port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is getting ready to test an experimental system later in 2003 that will use a series of strong electromagnets built into the quay to moor giant container ships.   The magnetic wharf If it works, they say the system could save them around 5 million Euro a year in labour costs, and speed ships' average turnaround times by...

    Black hole theory suggests light is slowing   13:27 08 August 02 Hazel Muir   One of Einstein's most dearly held concepts - that the speed of light is constant - is looking a little fragile. Physicists in Australia claim there is good reason to think the speed of light has slowed over time. "Einstein would have absolutely hated this," said Paul Davies of Macquarie University in Sydney. "His entire theory of relativity was founded on the notion that the speed of light is an absolute fixed universal number." The physicists' suggestion follows earlier measurements of a key quantity called...