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It's beginning to get very difficult to crash a car. People still do it, of course, and in large numbers, but the manufacturers are not making it easy. Just to dent one of the current crop of safety-conscious cars would require a destructive imagination or strong alcohol and sleep deprivation.And if you wanted to total the thing, you'd probably have to redefine the concept of recklessness and do something like compose text messages while driving in the dark on the M1. But what kind of fool would try that?Even rolling a car over demands far more effort from the contemporary driver. A mass of tests and trials, computer simulations, technological advances and competitive adaptations mean that modern cars enjoy a more adhesive relationship to the road than their more airborne predecessors, so that it's often not enough simply to drive fast and turn the steering wheel in the old-fashioned way.Nor is standard incompetence or failure of hand-eye coordination any more likely to cause serious d

It's beginning to get very difficult to crash a car. People still do it, of course, and in large numbers, but the manufacturers are not making it easy. Just to dent one of the current crop of safety-conscious cars would require a destructive imagination or strong alcohol and sleep deprivation.And if you wanted to total the thing, you'd probably have to redefine the concept of recklessness and do something like compose text messages while driving in the dark on the M1. But what kind of fool would try that?Even rolling a car over demands far more effort from the contemporary driver. A mass of tests and trials, computer simulations, technological advances and competitive adaptations mean that modern cars enjoy a more adhesive relationship to the road than their more airborne predecessors, so that it's often not enough simply to drive fast and turn the steering wheel in the old-fashioned way.Nor is standard incompetence or failure of hand-eye coordination any more likely to cause serious d

Stephen Strasburg, the nation's hottest collegiate pitcher, pitched visiting San Diego State (29-17) to a 5-0 nonconference win over Santa Clara (15-26) Friday night. Strasburg went eight innings to run his 2009 record to 10-0, striking out 12, walking two,...

[media=352] BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a dramatic example today of what one dedicated person can do to change the lives of people in need. Fred de Sam Lazaro revisits a story he reported 10 years ago about an Irish Catholic nun who is a school principal in Calcutta, India. Her name is Sister Cyril Mooney. Sister [...]

After blowing a four-run lead in the middle of the game and falling behind by five runs, the Yankees rallied for four runs in the eighth and won it with two in the ninth, in the most memorable game to date at the new Yankee Stadium.

Jorge Posada hits a two-run single in the ninth inning off Brian Fuentes, and the New York Yankees rally from a five-run deficit to beat the Los Angeles Angels, 10-9.

An anonymous reader sends a link to a blog post by David Eaves discussing how the ease of finding information on the web affects how we analyze history. '... nothing is different per se — the same old research methods will be used — but what if it is 10 times easier to do, 100 times faster and contains a million times the quantity of information? With the archives of newspapers, blogs and other websites readily available to be searched, the types of research once reserved for only the most diligent and patient might be more broadly accessible.' As an example, he points to an almost 10-year-old article detailing the events surrounding the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which some believe was a significant contributing factor to the current financial crisis. of this story at Slashdot.

A strange film with a somewhat morbid theme, that of a 10-year-old boy obsessed with taping the old folk in the home run by his parents in order to find out what happens when they die who forms an off-centre friendship with a newly-arrived old man.

AMD will be webcasting a live audio stream of their annual shareholder’s meeting on Thursday, May 7. The webcast is said to have “forward-looking and other material information discussed during the presentation”. The live broadcast will be available for replay within an hour or so, and for 10 days thereafter. The live webcast can be [...]

Stuttgart - Flavia Pennetta of Italy did it again to Jelena Jankovic, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, on Friday as the Serbian title holder crashed out of the Porsche Grand Prix quarter-finals. The 14th-ranked Pennetta clinched the comeback upset win in 1 hour 58 min...