LYCOS RETRIEVER 
A
built 633 days ago
A student in the neonatal nurse practitioner program here has been appointed to a position as a military consultant to the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General. Heather Dahmer, a captain in the Air Force, is completing her final semester at the School of Nursing and will graduate in April. For the next three years, she will serve as a consultant on neonatal intensive care nursing. Read more in the Newsroom.
Source:
Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide, the United Nations' new envoy to Afghanistan, has been given a "strong mandate" to tackle the country's myriad problems. But from the deteriorating security situation to poppy production, he has an almost Herculean job on his hands. - Sharif Ghalib (Mar 13, '08)
Source:
LONDON, February 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Royal Dutch Shell plc ( NYSE: RDS.A)( NYSE: RDS.B) announces that on 29 February, 2008 it purchased for cancellation 450,000 'A' Shares at a price of 23.79 euros per share. It further announces that on the same
Source:
A number of interactive multimedia encyclopedias incorporating entries written by the public existed long before Wikipedia was founded. The first of these was the 1986 BBC Domesday Project, which included text (entered on BBC Micro computers) and photographs from over 1 million contributors in the UK, and covering the geography, art and culture of the UK. This was the first interactive multimedia encyclopedia (and was ... the first major multimedia document connected through internal links), with the majority of articles being accessible through an interactive map of the UK. The user-interface and part of the content of the Domesday Project have now been emulated on a website.[132] One of the most successful early online encyclopedias incorporating entries by the public was h2g2, which was also created by the BBC. The h2g2 encyclopedia was relatively light-hearted, focusing on articles which were both witty and informative. Both of these projects had similarities with Wikipedia, but neither gave full editorial freedom to public users.
Source:
- At the end of 2007, Ballast Nedam won an order from the Ymere housing association for the construction of a multi-story car park with apartments and residential care units in the Slotervaart district of Amsterdam. The contract price for this project amounts to approximately EUR 13 million.
Source:
An anonymous reader writes "Residents of a southern Israeli town want a real-life laser cannon to protect them against Palestinian rocket attacks. And they're suing the national government, for failing to provide the ray gun defense. The U.S.-Israeli Tactical High Energy Laser project was widely considered to be the most successful energy weapon ever built. But the toxic chemicals needed to generate THEL's megawatts of power made the thing a logistical nightmare. It was scrapped. Now, the residents of Sderot want it back.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
A