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Bill Cosby, who headed America's favorite family in the 1980s on "The Cosby Show," doesn't think much of today's wildly popular reality TV clan, "The Osbournes." "All of you [media] need to stop with this Ozzy Osbourne," the legendary comedian said in an interview that airs tonight on "Access Hollywood" (WNBC/Ch. 4, 7:30). "This is a sad, sad family. It is a sad case. The children are sad and the parents are sad. And this is not entertainment." "The Osbournes," which chronicles the home life of the addled heavy metal rocker, his wife and two of their children, became a...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Chinese scientists have developed atomic reactors to provide heating and desalinate sea water, by burning used fuel from nuclear power stations under normal pressure. Insiders say that the breakthrough is significant for the world 's most populous country which now faces water shortages. A cooperative memorandum of the project was signed Thursday in Dalian between the coastal city of Yingkou and China Beida Jadebird Group, a Beijing-based high-tech company. Professor Tian Jiafu, chief engineer of the group, described it as a more economic and safer way to apply nuclear power. "What...

OWASCO - A retired state trooper and former restaurateur was hurt Wednesday night after his pickup truck hit two large rocks and overturned in a grassy field. John Angyal, of the 3800 block of East Street in Skaneateles, was driving on Oakridge Road toward Melrose Road when he was apparently distracted by a bee buzzing inside his car. He told police he was swatting the bee when his car swerved off the road. Eyewitness Josie Vozga saw Angyal's vehicle hit a large rock near a driveway. "Then he went into the air, and hit that rock," Vozga said, pointing to...

OK, caption this, but before doling out the snide remarks ask yourselves whether these two politicians are laughing at some joke they just made or if they are laughing at the electorate. They sure look chummy to me.

The trouble with President Bush's phrase “axis of evil” is not its bluntness or simplicity, but short-term inaccuracy and long-term irrelevance. North Korea is a vestige of the Cold War on track for the dustbin of history, Iran is run by crazy mullahs who will eventually be eased out (or thrown out) by a restive young population bent on reform, and Saddam Hussein, while a threat, is weaker than in 1991; most importantly, none of these had anything to do with 9/11. It's time to hit the nail on the head: the evil that flourished in Afghanistan and struck us...

C A N B E R R A, June 17 — In a world breakthrough out of the realms of Star Trek, scientists in Australia have successfully teleported a laser beam of light from one spot to another in a split second but warn: don't sell the car yet. A team of physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) announced today they had successfully disembodied a laser beam in one location and rebuilt it in a different spot about one meter away in the blink of an eye. Project leader Dr Ping Koy Lam said there was a close resemblance...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Administration sources tell CNN that two U.S. Air National Guard F-16s were not able to intercept a small plane that violated restricted air space around Washington until more than 10 minutes after the Cessna 182 passed near the White House.</p>

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - It's the familiar refrain of Grumpy Old Men: Kids these days. No discipline. Got things way too easy. This wasn't a group of retirees lounging around a coffee shop, though. These were five of golf's all-time greats — Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Gary Player and Tom Watson, who have 212 PGA Tour victories and 51 majors among them. The targets of their barbed comments: today's PGA players — except Tiger Woods. "I think Tiger's the most disciplined player out there," Nicklaus said Tuesday at a news conference before the Children's Mercy Hospital...

<p>When huge, nameless, faceless corporations try to impose "linking policies" upon webmasters who want to point to the company's site, people usually react in a predictable way. They get mad, they spitefully put up dozens of policy-violating links, and they bemoan, once more, the fact that some folks still don't understand that if you don't want to be linked you shouldn't be on the Web.</p>

Media - News Releases Board of Inquiry Presents Its Final Report OTTAWA – The Tarnak Farm Board of Inquiry (BOI) presented its Final Report this morning to General Ray Henault, the Chief of the Defence Staff. The Board was investigating the April 17 fratricide accident that killed four, and injured eight, Canadian soldiers serving with the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI) Battle Group in Kandahar, Afghanistan. “Since the presentation of our Interim Report, we have focussed much of our attention on what had transpired in the air and on writing the Final Report,” said General Maurice...

In a discovery that could greatly reduce the size and cost of computer chips, Princeton researchers have found a fast method for printing ultrasmall patterns in silicon wafers. The method, described in the June 20 issue of Nature, could allow electronics manufacturers to increase the density of transistors on silicon chips by 100-fold while dramatically streamlining the production process. Packing more transistors onto chips is the key to making more powerful computer processors and memory chips. Researchers in the lab of electrical engineer Stephen Chou used the new technique to make patterns with features measuring 10 nanometers -- 10 millionths...

Northwest: Airlines to seek approval for eye-scan check-ins EAGAN, Minn. (AP) Northwest Airlines and other major carriers plan to ask the Transportation Security Administration in July to allow them to test a check-in system using cards with encrypted eye scans, company officials said. Northwest hopes the ``registered traveler'' would give its frequent flyers a faster way to get through security, said Dirk McMahon, senior vice president of customer service. ``If the TSA approves, Northwest will use its employees to start the pilot program at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport by fall,'' McMahon said Wednesday. If the test program succeeds, Northwest would...

By Rudi Williams American Forces Press Service NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, June 20, 2002 -- Strong winds churned up white caps across Guantanamo Bay June 18 as an Air Force Reserve C-141 Starlifter streamed in for a landing carrying 28 suspected al Qaeda and Taliban members headed for in-processing and detention at Camp Delta here. Arriving under tight air and ground security, the 28 brought the total of captured enemy combatants to 564 on the southeast tip of Cuba, about 400 miles from Miami. It also marked the second time in two days that detainees arrived here. A plane...

RAMBAN, June 19: The Border Security Forces (BSF) today gunned down three commanders of Hizbul Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment (HMPPR) in a fierce gun-battle at village Nausingha in Gool area of Ramban police district. Three slain commanders were holding an important ‘strategy session’ in a hideout in Nausingha where they were eliminated after two hour long gun-fighting by the jawans of BSF’s 102 battalion, official sources here said. They said the BSF personnel got an information last night that HMPPR commanders were meeting in a hideout at Nausingha to chalk out their ‘operational tactics’ in Gool area in a bid...

<p>There's a forum tonight in our nation's capital to discuss the benefits (and I hope, the pitfalls) of international cooperation in space.</p> <p>There are two traditional arguments for it. The first is that cooperation in space promotes cooperation on other levels, and promotes world peace in general. The second is that it saves money and makes projects affordable that wouldn't be if carried out alone.</p>

In order for life to emerge, both peptides and nucleic acids must have appeared under "prebiotic" conditions. Despite numerous efforts, the formation of these macromolecules without the help of modern synthetic reagents has not been achieved in a laboratory. Now, for the first time, researchers have proposed a mechanism by which the formation of peptides could have occurred under prebiotic conditions. Reporting their findings in the July issue of the UK Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) journal Polymer International, they describe a molecular engine mechanism which could have taken place on primitive beaches in the Hadean age. (The Hadean began...

Phibada Opera Troupe Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- The Phibada Opera Troupe is the famous opera troupe, which adapted "the sea of blood", an immortal classic masterpiece created by President Kim Il Sung in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, for a revolutionary opera. The troupe is based on the picturesque bank of the River Taedong. Its predecessor North Korean Opera Troupe was founded in Juche 35 (1946). The troupe was the first art organization to start creating the five revolutionary operas "the sea of blood," "the flower girl", "tell the story, forest," "a true daughter of the party"...

MOSSES The moment of truth had come for Mary Surles. Before her was a steaming saucepan containing a knotted white cloth and an amber brown liquid that had been boiling for a few minutes. Surles lowered a silver serving spoon through the steam and brought some of the liquid to her mouth. The next moment, her eyes brightened. Her left index finger pointed triumphantly toward the ceiling. The liquid that had just passed Surles' personal taste test was a homemade tea. It also was a home remedy, ready to be used, as Surles has used it countless times in her...

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The euro rose to its highest level against the dollar in more than two years Thursday, climbing above 96 U.S. cents as traders dumped the greenback over fears about the growing U.S. trade deficit and wobbly stock market. The currency reached 96.45 cents in afternoon European trading, its highest since March 2000, when it traded at 96.53 cents. New figures that showed the U.S. trade deficit at a record dlrs 35.9 billion in April helped push the euro up from levels just below 95.60 cents early in the day. "That was the spike that took it...