The satellite-based system will monitor the speed
limit and apply the brakes or cut out the accelerator if the driver tries
to exceed it. A government-funded trial has concluded that the scheme promotes
safer driving.
The announcement, originally made on the front
page of the June 12 Observer, quoted Bob Geldof, who said, "Tomorrow
280 million Africans will wake up for the first time in their lives without
owing you or me a penny . . ." Right and I'll wake up as Eminem.
Now that's what I call Progress.
A former top Iranian intelligence official said
the hostage taker in a photograph made during the 1979 U.S. Embassy crisis
is not president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but a militant who committed suicide
in jail
At
the request of a reader, we have put together this page highlighting the fact
that Rumsfeld said there were WMD and then said that he'd never said there were
WMD.
