Palangkaraya Post

AP – When DaimlerChrysler announced in 2006 that it planned to bring the Smart Fortwo micro car to the United States after nearly a decade in Europe, gas prices had reached about $2.80 a gallon. Now, Americans are paying more than $4 a gallon at the pump, SUV sales are plummeting and consumers are hungry [...]

The sunny view here amid the palm trees and rag tops has the Dodgers coming to understand Joe Torre and Torre getting them, the only explanation for a July that has seen six wins and 36 runs in seven games, because it couldn’t possibly be about back-to-back series against the Houston Astros and San Francisco [...]

As the New Year rolls out one of the questions I frequently get asked is, “what’s going to happen this year in terms of new technology?”
Beats me — but here are a few guesses.
If you’re a Mac user the next two weeks will offer a definitive view of the direction Apple will be taking for [...]

A rendering of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which, when ready in 2014, promises to offer “the biggest movie ever.”
A project to build a digital camera of cosmic dimensions on a mountaintop in Chile has received a $30 million boost from a pair of software moguls and philanthropists.
Charles Simonyi, formerly of Microsoft and now chief [...]

A new study has found that taking excessive doses of a common vitamin, niacin, in an attempt to defeat drug-screening tests may be fatal.
Niacin is easily available as an over-the-counter vitamin supplement. As a vitamin, the daily recommended intake is 15 milligrams, but niacin is used in much larger doses to treat vitamin deficiencies and [...]

Sex, cheating husbands, AIDS … That’s the talk at Havana’s Aphrodite Beauty Parlor and it’s enough to curl your hair.
The salon — located in Cerro, a dense urban district with the fourth-highest incidence of HIV infection on the island — is really a store-front health center in disguise.
Hairdresser Leticia Santa Cruz, 43, came up with [...]