Feud over Archie ends : Archie to wed

The brunette Veronica has finally done it. The 41 year love triangle between Betty – Archie – Veronica is now a history. Always indecisive Archie finally makes up his mind to wed Veronica and has proposed her. This is quite an event, for Archie fans. Betty fans should be furious because, I always felt Betty [...]

2009 Election : A $3 bn Celebration

India’s National Election Spreads $3 Billion Around – NYTimes.com
Candidates and parties spent $3 billion on everything, including transportation, advertising, celebrity endorsements and cash bribes over the course of the campaign, according to economists and political analysts. In comparison, the last United States presidential campaign cost an estimated $2.4 billion.
The campaign, which will wrap up Saturday [...]

Dead-Man switch in locomotives

I found this interesting…
Observatory – Absence of Chemicals Signals an Ant’s Death – NYTimes.com
Locomotives and other equipment often include a fail-safe mechanism known as a dead-man switch. If the operator lets go of the engine throttle for more than a prescribed amount of time, for example, the locomotive will shut down — the assumption being [...]