| Design team taps WKU student
A college senior from Western Kentucky has been selected to work on a global design project to create a wind-powered water purifier to benefit impoverished areas that lack electricity. Zach Pearl, who is studying mechanical engineering at Western Kentucky University, is part of the five-member team contributing to the project from around the world. "Something like this could possibly be used where there isn't a safe source of drinking water," Pearl said. "This could save lives." The research is still in early stages, he said, but the group is using computer-generated conceptual drawings to examine the possibility of harnessing wind power. It's not Pearl's first attempt to design a water purification system. Last year he was part of a team that created a water purification system powered by pedals on a bicycle.
Accidentally Into the Loan Wars
From the standpoint of 20,000 feet, I can see how [UNC officials] might think they have done a good thing," says O’Leary, past president of the National Direct Student Loan Coalition. "But this ignores campus decisions about what’s best for their own students, and in the long run this may not be good for North Carolina students." She and others also note the close ties between the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority, which guarantees loans provided by the nonprofit College Foundation of North Carolina. Rhinehardt rejects any assertion that Bowles or other North Carolina officials are aiming to harm direct lending; Bowles, after all, was chief of staff to President Clinton, who pushed the create the program in his first term.
MSG and Aspartame - A Personal Story
There is a bill being considered at the Hawaii State Legislature that would ban aspartame. This will come to a vote on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. It doesn't look good. Quoting an email from Dr. Betty Martini: "Although Rep. Josh Green sympathized with supporters who have been affected by the artificial sweetener aspartame, he was unable to immediately pass a bill that would ban the artificial sweetener aspartame in food products without concrete evidence showing a connection between aspartame and medical ailments. We can't take numerous amounts of products off Hawaii store shelves without evidence of a connection, he said." I’ve been a television news reporter for 34 years and I have won the Hawaii Medical Association Distinguished Medical Reporting Award five times.
NATO troops deployed to Kosovo
SERBIAN President Boris Tadic warned of ethnic unrest if Kosovo unilaterally declares independence, as a NATO commander said extra forces were being deployed to the Serbian province. "Unilateral moves will prompt a response. This will not lead us to peace," said Mr Tadic, the day after last gasp talks between Kosovan and Serbian leaders in Austria collapsed ahead of a December 10 deadline. "Such action... would lead us from one impasse to another," he said from Ankara, where he is on a two-day visit. He added: "Serbia does not want war." The commando of NATO-led troops in Kosovo said 90 US soldiers had been deployed to reinforce 2800 peacekeepers already positioned across the Serb-dominated north of the province in case violence broke out.
David Jones denies corporate paedophillia claims
MARK COLVIN: There's a furious row between the retailer, David Jones, and the think-tank, the Australia Institute, over a report which accused big stores of "corporate paedophilia".
The Australia Institute paper accuses the makers of a number of advertising and marketing campaigns of "sexualising" children.
But several companies identified in the report have strenuously denied the charge. And the Australia Institute says David Jones has threatened to sue.
Kathryn Roberts reports.
KATHRYN ROBERTS: The standoff between retailers and the Australia Institute has escalated with the Institute's Executive Director Dr Clive Hamilton making this allegation.
CLIVE HAMILTON: David Jones rang me this morning demanding that the Institute remove all references to David Jones.
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