Zhu Zhu Pets: The Video Game Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:00:00 -0500 If you just can't get enough of Zhu Zhu Pets, the hit toy hamsters for young children, wait til next year. Activision, the company that created the extremely violent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, plans to release a video game version. More E-Mail Woes For BlackBerry Users; But Service Appears To Be Coming Back Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:00:44 -0500 BlackBerry hit by another outage. FAA Looks To Technology To Train Air Controllers Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world's busiest airport, serving more than 90 million travelers last year. But it faces one problem shared by airports across the country: finding capable people to manage its air traffic. A new program could help solve the problem.
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Villaraigosa retools his second-term message to focus on jobs Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 L.A.'s unemployment is 13.4%, meaning 259,000 people are out of work. In response, the mayor plans to target three sectors for job growth: biotechnology, clean technology companies and entertainment.
Whether talking about electric cars or his much-promised "Subway to the Sea," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has reworked his message during his second term to focus on a single overriding goal: jobs.
Rabbit ears make comeback in digital TV era Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Southland viewers are finding they can get nearly three times as many channels as they once could with an antenna. And best of all, they're free.
On a recent winter night, while neighbors strung their Baldwin Park homes with Christmas lights, the Lams and their three children sat in front of a television set with rabbit ears sprouting out of the top.
Build-a-Bear takes heat for global-warming webisodes Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Conservative bloggers are calling for a boycott of the company. Executives say the series, in which Santa is warned the North Pole could melt before Christmas, was intended to inspire children.
First, Chicken Little warned children that the sky was falling. And now Build-a-Bear Workshop has warned children that the North Pole could disappear before Christmas.
CumInCAD - A cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information about over 7.100 records from journals and conferences such as ACADIA, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SiGraDi, CAAD futures and others. All papers include full abstracts. Full texts, in PDF, of some 4.400 papers are also available.
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