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Feed SubscriptionCruises lead strong revival of New Orleans tourism
Mark and Glenda Dodd of Panama City Beach, Florida, could have booked a Mexico-bound cruise out of Miami, but on Monday they stood among hundreds of other passengers lining up to board the Carnival Cruise Line ship Elation in New Orleans.
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Time slowed to a crawl as my little Nissan Sentra approached the BMW in front of me. With a pronounced crunch, one bumper smashed into another
Read More »Buildings And Vehicles That Pulse With "Blood"
How would you feel if parts of your home, your car, or the airliner you were flying in had blood flowing in artificial veins and arteries? Nicely chilled is the answer
Read More »Rules of the Road: Using the Science of Persuasion When Buying a Car
It served nobly, though it was not a Plymouth Valiant. It took me to new places, though it was not a Ford Explorer
Read More »World’s Most Advanced Crowd Simulator Predicts How People React In Emergencies
MassMotion puts a large, intelligent, 3-D crowd into a building's design and finds out where you need bigger doors or more escalators. Humans react in a seemingly irrational manner during emergency evacuations; sometimes, people even get trampled in the process. But what if architects and developers could predict how large crowds might move through their buildings in the event of an emergency--and then tweak the designs to ensure that everything runs smoothly
Read More »Temperature Tantrum: James Hansen Speaks Out, Gets Busted, and Now Sues to Stop Global Warming
What more can a scientist trying to save us do? You're on a train and you receive information that leads you to believe that a flood has weakened the scaffolding of a rail bridge ahead
Read More »Antarctic cruise ship runs aground
The Polar Star cruise ship ran aground Monday en route from Antarctica to Argentina. None of the passengers onboard were injured.
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