| Franz's final report says UAH in 'excellent' shape
When Dr. Frank Franz steps down at the end of June as president of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, he will officially become "president emeritus" of the school, under a resolution passed unanimously by UA System trustees meeting on campus Friday. The meeting was the last that will be held at UAH with Franz as president, and he took advantage of the opportunity to reminisce a bit about his 16 years there, recounting battles over budgets and the struggle to turn UAH into the financially sound, internationally recognized university of today. In his final report to trustees on the health and activities of his school, Franz was proud and plain: "The state of UAH is excellent." Although UAB's medical and biological science programs attract the most total federal research and development dollars for Alabama, he said UAH is No.
With a Moo, HLL moves into what was once nearly a Waterloo
MUMBAI: Using bovinespeak, Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) hopes to scoop a larger portion of the ice-cream market from Wednesday. A decade ago, HLL got clipped when Amul entered the arena, emphasising milk-based offerings, while its own Kwality range was made from vegetable oil. Things havent gone right ever since for the then market leader with more than 30% spoils. According to Amul sources, HLL today has just 9% of the ice-cream market, compared to a whopping 37% for Amul. HLL arm Kwality Walls will launch the brand, Moo, on Wednesday, underscoring the FMCG majors stated thrust on the foods business. Currently, processed foods constitute 3% of the companys topline, and ice-creams 1%. The businesses grew at 22.7% and 39.7%, respectively, in 2006 and are two of its fastest-growing segments.
President Attacked Of Fear-Mongering: Terrorist Threat Doesn't ...
Lets check this out: Americans have the worse chance of dying of cancer or losing their lives in auto accidents than getting killed by terrorists. There is no such thing as terrorist threat that Americans should worry about because it doesnt exist. President George W. Bush is just fear-mongering for personal gains. The hue and cry all over the land that Americans will die from terrorist attack is therefore a Republican canard. This attack against the President of the United States did not come from another planet. It is of this planet Earth. It sounds Liberal though because one, Bush is a Republican, and two, it does violence to reason, most likely because the brain is shrinking. By empirical inference, cannonballs of this kind fired by submerged oddballs like torpedoes that home on the President of the United States, not just necessarily against Bush as a target politically motivated attacks that make reason the first casualty are, unless proven otherwise, always coming from the arguments of the Left.
'IEEE Spectrum' wins Grand Neal for ‘Re-engineering Iraq'
As the war rages on in Iraq, economic and political stability will be tough to come by without first reconstructing electrical and communications networks, said Glenn Zorpette, executive editor of IEEE Spectrum, the flagship publication of the IEEE, the world's largest professional technology association.
Zorpette should know. Early last year he spent 11 days in Iraq investigating the struggle to reconstruct the country's electrical grids amid growing sectarian violence. "There's a feeling that the chaos in Iraq is linked to a lack of critical infrastructure, which leads to a lack of economic activity," Zorpette said. "There were several Iraqi engineers who spoke to me, and some of them even let me take their picture, which could have meant death."
Zorpette has been rewarded for his tenacity and his passion for communicating a complicated story.
Smoking doubles eye disorder risk in old age
ISLAMABAD: People who smoke have double the risk of suffering from a degenerative eye disorder that is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, researchers said on Thursday. A study of more than 4,000 Britons aged 75 years and older showed that those who smoke were twice as likely to have age related macular degeneration (AMD) as those who didn't. "Smoking is associated with a twofold increased risk of developing AMD," said Professor Astrid Fletcher, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in a study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. AMD is an illness that blurs the central vision. It affects the macula, or part of the eye that sees fine detail. In the United States alone it afflicts about 10 million to 15 million people. The risk of suffering from the illness increases with age.
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