"Toyota Motor Corp., the world's third-largest automaker, plans to use gasoline-electric hybrid engines in all vehicles by 2012 to increase fuel efficiency and reduce tailpipe emissions, an executive said. "

Toyota plans all gas-electric vehicles by 2012

"Quinn Blackwood is a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, Goblin, a spirit from a dream world that Quinn cant escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. Read an excerpt of Anne Rice Farm, below."

Blackwood Farm

"Imagine if, instead of having 1 monitor attached to your computer, you had 100 monitors attached to your computer. Then imagine that each of those monitors could display different windows and applications that you were running so that you could dedicate a monitor to different parts of how you will use your computer to accomplish your work. Then imagine that any time you want you could bring one of those monitors right in front of you so that you could easily access the different windows and applications on each monitor. "

CodeTek Studios, Inc.

"All but 1 percent of U.S. stock mutual funds lost money in the third quarter, the worst performance in at least four years, according to a survey released Monday."

In third quarter, 99 percent of stock funds lost money

"George W. Bush and his henchmen stole the presidency. They threw thousands of innocent people into prison without even charging them with a crime. They're gearing up to invade Iraq without bothering to come up with a substantial justification. Now some Democrats and progressive Americans are asking the unthinkable about an administration they increasingly believe to be ruled by thugs and renegades. Did government gangsters murder the United States' most liberal legislator?
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Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) may have been a hard line conservative, but had Wellstone died during his watch you wouldn't have heard liberals asking whether the Gipper had had him offed. Bush is different. Asking mailmen to spy on ordinary Americans, creating military tribunals for anyone deemed an "enemy combatant," locking prisoners of war in dog cages, spending a decade's worth of savings in six months, allowing journalists to die rather than provide them with help in a war zone, smearing Democratic politicians as anti-American, invading sovereign nations without excuse--these are acts that transgress essential American reasonableness. A man capable of these things seems, by definition, capable of anything. "

THE (POSSIBLE) ASSASSINATION OF PAUL WELLSTONE

"The Bush administration is preparing to charge Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and more than a dozen members of his inner circle with crimes against humanity if Baghdad falls, The Washington Post reported officials as saying Saddam and his sons Uday and Qusay top the list of potential suspects, along with government officials Ali Hassan Majeed and Izzat Ibrahim, the newspaper said, adding U.S. officials and human rights groups believe the individuals could be charged with genocide or crimes against humanity. "

Report: U.S. Readies War Crimes Charges for Saddam

Plagued with ongoing back problems, Bell, 57, will name guest host George Noory, 52, as his successor during his overnight radio show, "Coast to Coast AM." "

Radio Legend Art Bell to Announce Retirement

"Apple's "continued technical disadvantage" -- which we assume means the race for computer processing speed -- against Intel is expected to force it to adopt x86 technology by the end of 2003, according to a new report by Giga Information Group Inc., a global technology advisory firm. "

Apple prediction...

Report: Apple will go Intel next year

"Apple has released the x86 version 6.0.2 of Darwin, the FreeBSD-based core of Mac OS X. You can download the bootable ISO on Apple's site"

Darwin 6.0.2 for x86 Released

"It's not clear whether Saddam uses e-mail or even knows how to operate a personal computer. But scores of people write to him each week at press@uruklink.net, the e-mail address listed on the official homepage of the Iraqi presidency since at least October 2000. "

Saddam Hussein's email account hacked!