BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Gigantic dinos 'floated in water'
Sauropods - the largest and heaviest dinosaurs that ever existed - floated in water, according to new claims.
Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | We are all nerds now
Downstairs in the comic-book section, 36-year-old Steven Lewis admits to being a geek, but not a nerd. He explains that there is a crucial difference. "Nerds are highly intelligent but they have no social skills whatsoever. You can't hold a proper conversation with a nerd. Geeks are very intelligent too, but a geek can hold a conversation, and have a girlfriend and an active social life. So I freely admit to being a geek. I have no problem with that label at all."
CNN.com - Student 'sex bracelets' an urban legend? - Dec. 11, 2003
As the story goes, break someone's orange bracelet (or purple, in some cases) and you get a kiss. Red, a lap dance. Blue, oral sex. Black, intercourse. And so on.
Gillette To Leave Historic Premises (from This Is Local London)
When the manufacturing plant is moved, the accompanying offices - which house a further 600 workers - will also relocate, although according to Gillette headquarters this would be "within the local area".
This would leave a question mark hanging over the premises known as Gillette Corner', a listed facade dubbed the "best of the best" Art Deco architecture in the UK by English Heritage.
The shepherds look a little nervous, the angels a little boisterous - it is no different here from hundreds of schools up and down the land as the nativity season gets under way. It is not every school, however, in which Mary will be played by a Filipino Christian six-year-old and Joseph by a Punjabi Sikh seven-year-old.
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