The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Telegraph has more good news for Sen. Barack Obama before he gets to London: "Almost a third of Tory MPs willing to publicly express their preferences in the US presidential election are prepared to jettison their party's historic links with the Republicans and back Obama."
Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Several historic buildings around Bel Air may be declared surplus and sold off by the town and county, in efforts to put properties back on the tax rolls and jettison expensive renovation or maintenance projects.
Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Hampton VA (SPX) Jul 22, 2008 - NASA completed a full-scale rocket motor test on Thursday, July 17, to further development of the Orion jettison motor, which will separate the spacecraft's launch abort system from the crew module during launch.
Universe Today (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
It looks like the hardware is gradually slotting into place for the development of the Orion capsule in NASA's Constellation Program. On July 17th, the ultimate "ejection seat" was tested by NASA and rocket contractor Aerojet: The Orion jettison motor. Should there be an emergency during Ares rocket/Orion capsule during launch, the Orion capsule will [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A FEW days before the Federal Government decided to jettison its controversial Niger Delta Summit, the National President of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, expressed his opposition to the idea of a summit, saying it was no longer necessary.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Stress, excess and environmental damage are just some things we might usefully jettison in leaner times, writes .
Aviation India (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
New Delhi: Considering that cost of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) accounts for major part of operational costs and more an aircraft weighs more jet fuel it will conume, airlines are now trying every possible way to reduce in-flight weight and save on fuel. Fuel can comprise up to 50 per cent of operating costs, depending upon the age of the aircraft. Therefore, while international airlines are reducing...
SportsProf (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
1. Jettison the notion that you have to play the All-Star game to a point where you could ruin a participant's season just because Bud Selig thinks that to give the game meaning it has to determine which league gets home field advantage in the World Series. The better solution is to give the league that wins more games in interleague play the home-field advantage. Why? Because that would show, all...
The Frontal Cortex (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Olivia Judson believes that it's time to jettison "Darwinism" from our vocabulary: Why is this [Darwinism] a problem? Because it's all grossly misleading. It suggests that Darwin was the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega, of evolutionary biology, and that the subject hasn't changed much in the 149 years since the publication of the "Origin." He wasn't, and it has. Although several of his...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Bertelsmann plans to further divest itself of struggling book, music and DVD clubs around the world but maintain footholds in several of Europe's biggest markets as part of a broader restructuring to jettison underperforming businesses.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has called on President Umaru Yar'Adua to jettison the proposed Summit on the Niger Delta and instead, embark on massive infrastructural development of the region.
Leftlane (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The redesign is almost complete. Hyundai has finally gone through its lineup to jettison the last remnants of the “Buck Rogers in Outer Space” look. For the early part of the firm’s history in North America, that look characterized the products that were designed mostly in Korea and probably did little to popularize the company’s [...]
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
General Electric Co. said it plans to spin off its entire GE Consumer & Industrial group to shareholders as Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt struggles to raise a slumping stock price.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The developers who want to buy the historic Brodhead Armory on Detroit's east side and convert it into an entertainment venue told the Detroit City Council that they will jettison a consultant on the project because of council concerns about his controversial past.
Seattle Pos (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
More than 90 left-leaning organizations, including several local groups, have joined together to jettison a $25 million advertising campaign aimed at providing health care to every U.S. citizen.
