China's Pingpong Stars Find New Home Teams
Aug 5th, 2008 · All four members of the U.S. Table Tennis team are Chinese. One of the players spends 11 months of the year practicing in China because she says pingpong in the U.S. "is really no good."
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D.C. Band Determined Despite Money Woes ***
Jul 31st, 2008 · It's the middle of summer vacation. But Washington D.C.'s Eastern High School Marching Band is practicing like crazy. Band members hope to play at next week's Pro Football Hall of Fame Festival in Canton, Ohio. Sadly, the band still doesn't have enough money for bus fare.
Anglicans Boycott Meeting, Split Over Women, Gays
Jul 23rd, 2008 · Leaders of the world's Anglicans are meeting in London amid speculation that the church might split. Conservatives argue that there is no place for practicing homosexuals in the church.
'Inconvenient Truth' Opera in the Works
May 30th, 2008 · Al Gore has an Oscar, an Emmy and a Nobel prize, but can he hit the high notes? He better start practicing. An opera company in Milan has commissioned a full-length opera based on Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth.
Panel Shoots Down Wider Ballistics Database
Mar 5th, 2008 · In recent years, some lawmakers and gun control groups have pushed for a national database that would record the ballistics signature of every gun sold in the United States. But a new report from the National Research Council says the database would return too many potential matches to be practical.
GM Official: Hydrogen-Powered Cars Impractical
Mar 5th, 2008 · General Motors and Toyota officials are expressing doubts about how soon people will be driving hydrogen-powered cars. Speaking at an auto show in Geneva, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz indicated that fuel cells are still too expensive to be practical for most consumers.
Book Scrutinizes U.S. Ideas That Led to Iraq War *
Feb 8th, 2008 · Fred Kaplan, author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, says the Bush administration's world view is based on several misconceptions. For one, he says, the administration thought of freedom as a gift from God, without understanding the practical requirements of developing democracies.
Study Boosts Switchgrass as New Alternative Fuel ****
Jan 7th, 2008 · Ever since President George Bush's invocation in 2006 to turn prairie grass into ethanol fuel, scientists have been trying to figure out if the process is practical. A new study bodes well; it finds switchgrass is more efficient to grow for biofuel than corn.
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