By Calvin Palmer
The car goes into the shop for supposedly some minor repair and the mechanic tells you it will be ready in three hours. They always say they will give you a call when it is ready but never do and you end up ringing them.
Then comes the awful news. “We’ve hit a snag,” [...]
September 23, 2008
LHC out of action until spring 2009
September 23, 2008
Emma leaves Hogwarts for university
By Calvin Palmer
Most 18-year-olds with ₤10 million ($17 million) in the bank and a glittering film career ahead of them would probably decided to give university a miss. Not so actress Emma Watson who plays the delightful Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films.
Hermione is depicted as the class swot, geek for American readers, in [...]
September 23, 2008
Gunman kills 10 at Finnish school
By Calvin Palmer
Gunman. School. Ten dead. The first reaction is, where in the United States has this tragedy happened? But crazies exist the world over and the latest one to grab the headlines lives in Finland.
This morning, a 22-year-old man went on the rampage in a vocational school in Kauhajoki, 220 miles northwest of Helsinki, killing 10 [...]
