Bears, Colts (Paraglider) are the backdrop for revelers
LUMBERTON - Let the party begin. Today, Robesonians will huddle in bars, homes, churches and other dens to celebrate one of America's pastimes - Super Bowl Sunday, when the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears collide for supremacy.
Thinking Like Henry Ford... And Toyota Commercial aircraft manufacturers are taking a lesson from the auto industry in making their operations more efficient and flexible.
First Word Headlines: There's nothing really new today in the case of Lisa Marie Nowak, the astronaut who went on a 900-mile mission, wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop, in an alleged plot to kidnap and kill a female Air Force captain she saw as a rival to her great love, fellow astronaut Bill Oefelein. But that hasn't kept quippy copy editors from having a field day, sampled ...
Aero-Linx! You can build the "DC-3 of paper airplanes", including upturned wingtips that prevent wingtip vortex, a long tail that gives directional stability.
CRESTED BUTTE - A snow groomer at Crested Butte Mountain Resort died when he either got out or fell out of his Snocat and got pulled under the track. The victim, Chris Mikesell, had grown up in Kansas, then studied at Western State College in Gunnison.
A world-class paraglider survived being sucked into the eye of a deadly thunderstorm over Australia. She landed after reaching altitudes of more than 32,000 feet and surviving oxygen deprivation, freezing temperatures and unconsciousness.
Sydney (dpa) - A German paraglider training for next week's world championships in Australia survived minus-40-degree temperatures when she was sucked up to an altitude at which passenger jets fly.
A German champion paraglider said Friday she did not believe she would survive when she was lifted higher than Mount Everest by a thunderstorm that killed a Chinese paraglider in eastern Australia.
Thinking Like Henry Ford... And Toyota Commercial aircraft manufacturers are taking a lesson from the auto industry in making their operations more efficient and flexible.
First Word Headlines: There's nothing really new today in the case of Lisa Marie Nowak, the astronaut who went on a 900-mile mission, wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop, in an alleged plot to kidnap and kill a female Air Force captain she saw as a rival to her great love, fellow astronaut Bill Oefelein. But that hasn't kept quippy copy editors from having a field day, sampled ...
Aero-Linx! You can build the "DC-3 of paper airplanes", including upturned wingtips that prevent wingtip vortex, a long tail that gives directional stability.
CRESTED BUTTE - A snow groomer at Crested Butte Mountain Resort died when he either got out or fell out of his Snocat and got pulled under the track. The victim, Chris Mikesell, had grown up in Kansas, then studied at Western State College in Gunnison.
A world-class paraglider survived being sucked into the eye of a deadly thunderstorm over Australia. She landed after reaching altitudes of more than 32,000 feet and surviving oxygen deprivation, freezing temperatures and unconsciousness.
Sydney (dpa) - A German paraglider training for next week's world championships in Australia survived minus-40-degree temperatures when she was sucked up to an altitude at which passenger jets fly.
A German champion paraglider said Friday she did not believe she would survive when she was lifted higher than Mount Everest by a thunderstorm that killed a Chinese paraglider in eastern Australia.
