Romanian Commercial Bank to launch smart cards in early April

Tuesday, March 22, 2005Starting from April 4, the Romanian Commercial Bank (Banca Comercial? Român?, or BCR), the country’s largest bank, will launch a smart card system for all its ATM network as well as its point-of-sale terminals in more than 5,000 stores across Romania. While the system will be enabled to work with these cards from April, the smart cards […]

How Heating And Air Conditioning Affect Quality Of Life In Urban Settings

Click Here To Find Out More About: Air Conditioner Maintenance In Maitland Submitted by: Adrianna Notton Heating and air conditioning affect the quality of life in urban settings because human beings are extremely vulnerable in these places. Nature has evolved wonderful protection for animals and birds that have not been bettered by mankind . But in our own built environments […]

Texas representative proposes to outlaw ‘sexy’ cheerleading

Saturday, March 19, 2005 Houston, Texas representative Al Edwards proposed a bill last week to ban “sexually suggestive” cheerleading in Texas high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools. The movements typical to cheerleading are sexual, said Edwards, and send out the wrong message, especially as youth should be encouraged to be more reserved where sex is concerned. The penalty for […]

Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans graduate students

See the discussion page for instructions on adding schools to this list.Tuesday, September 13, 2005 NAICU has created a list of colleges and universities accepting and/or offering assistance to displace faculty members. [1]Wednesday, September 7, 2005 This list is taken from Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students, and is intended to make searching easier for faculty, graduate, and […]

Car crashes into house in Suffolk, UK, seriously injuring man

Sunday, March 24, 2013 A male driver has been hospitalised with serious head injuries after the car he was in crashed into the corner of a house in Suffolk in the east of the United Kingdom. Members of the fire service attended the incident scene, which occurred in the Carlton Colville district of the town of Lowestoft, approximately seven minutes […]

Toyota poised to recall 270,000 Prius vehicles

Friday, February 5, 2010 Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported that Toyota is poised to recall 270 thousand gas-and-electric Prius vehicles (model ZVW30) sold in the US and Japan between May and December 2009, due to a flaw in the car’s anti-lock braking system. Takayuki Fujimoto, a transport ministry official, said the government has yet to receive a recall notice from Toyota. […]

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi moves to drop Lockerbie bombing appeal

Saturday, August 15, 2009 Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was revealed today to have requested his second appeal to be dropped. Al-Megrahi was convicted of planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, which detonated as the aircraft flew over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 killing all 259 people on board and eleven more on the ground. Megrahi had been offered transfer to […]