July 30, 2007
Mets’ Beltran sits again, but no disabled list
Mets’ Beltran sits again, but no disabled list
Newsday - The starting pitcher usually gets to select the clubhouse music, but yesterday Orlando Hernandez grabbed the remote and switched the plasma TV to the Golf Channel before settling onto the leather sofa. Whatever El Duque - an avid golfer himself
Electrical problem behind massive apartment fire
Houston Chronicle - Katie Standish, who lived in one of the burned apartments with her twins and their father, said she lost a big-screen plasma TV, computers, iPods, cell phones, CDs, and all of her family photographs. “It’s history,” she said. At least nine agencies
China arrests fake drug sellers
ONE News - Police in the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang seized more than 30,000 phials of fake vaccination medicine, including rabies vaccines and a plasma-based protein injection, the People’s Daily said. Much of it was made with starch and water. The 15
Astronaut takes space industry to Costa Rica
Houston Chronicle - Chang-Diaz has built Costa Rica’s first rocket lab and launched a private venture to build a plasma-powered rocket engine to send a spaceship to Mars faster and cheaper than by conventional fuels. He has become a celebrity in Costa Rica, where science