Earl Bockenfeld: MiscelleousEverything else.Robot race ends without a winner- March 14, 2004 Robot race ends without a winner $1 million prize goes unclaimed BARSTOW, California (AP) -- A $1 million race across the Mojave Desert by driverless robots ended Saturday after all 15 entries either broke down or withdrew, a race official said. Two of the entries covered about seven miles of the roughly 150-mile course while eight failed to make it to the one-mile mark. Others crashed seconds after starting. The race ended just before 11 a.m. after the final four competitors were disabled,...http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/03/13/darpa.race.ap/index.html Woman Uses Sex Act As Manslaughter Defense- March 4, 2004 Woman Uses Sex Act As Manslaughter Defense Perhaps if they would just check the look on his face.... A woman charged with causing a fatal car crash in 1999 says that she couldn't have been behind the wheel because she was performing a sex act on the driver at the time. Heather Specyalski, 33, was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the crash that killed businessman Neil Esposito. Prosecutors allege that she was driving Esposito's Mercedes-Benz convertible when it veered off the...http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/03/sex.defense.ap/index.html Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth: Love Her, Hate Her- March 1, 2004 Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth: Love Her, Hate Her "I'm going to crush my competition and I'm going to enjoy doing it."--Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth Turns out that Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the controversial star of The Apprentice, honed her annoying ways while on Vice President Al Gore's staff. And the result was a carbon copy of the reaction she's received on the Donald's show: Some love her; some don't. "The traits she displays on the show she displayed to us," says a disgusted...http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040308/whispers/8whisplead.htm |