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Religious Accessories banned in French Schools

Jacques Chirac has declared that France ‘must outlaw Islamic head coverings, Jewish skullcaps, and other obvious religions signs in schools and regulate them in the workplace.’ according to the Star-Ledger. A ban on wearing conspicuous religious insignia such as head scarves, large crucifixes or Jewish skullcaps in public schools will likely be in place by ...

Outsourcing jobs to India

Salon.com has an interview with venture capitalist Ravi Chiruvolu where he claims that outsourcing to India isn’t just a cost saving measure, but a competitive necessity. More and more of our competitors will be doing [outsourcing], and all it takes is one or two to pull that model off, and they will have a cost ...

Pay College Athletes?

Tien Mao mentioned an ESPN report on the gift bags distributed at some of this years bowl games. Both Husker and Spartan players will receive an Oakley 2.0 Crush watch, a wool letterman’s jacket with both the Alamo Bowl logo and the team logo and finally, a blue, red and yellow Alamo Bowl throwback jersey. ...

Sony Robot Runs

A Wired News article details Sony’s accomplishment. Sony’s walking robot already knows a few hip dance steps and can kick a miniature soccer ball. Now, it can jog — a new trick that developers say is ingenious because it requires the machine to jump off the ground, if only for a fraction of a second.

SpaceShipOne Breaks Sound Barrier

Space.com reports that SpaceShipOne has managed it’s first successful powered test flight. On the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers flight, it seems to have marked the first successful supersonic manned flight by a non-governmentally sponsored effort. Quite an accomplishment for a privately funded effort. Seems like the X-Prize competition has served to motivate quite ...