General Motors automobile sales plunge by 45%

25 December, 2017

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009 General Motors Corporation (GM) announced on Wednesday that it saw a 45% drop in United States vehicle sales for its cars in March. Executives from several auto firms, however, said that there was some hope for the auto industry to stabilise, as car sales rebounded in the last week of March. […]

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Category:Health

25 December, 2017

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This is the category for Health. See also the Health Portal. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 15 December 2017: England: Baby born with heart outside body operated on; surviving, three weeks after birth 20 October 2017: Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, scientists say 27 July 2017: Publisher […]

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Category:Architecture

25 December, 2017

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Wikipedia has more about this subject: Portal:Architecture Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Architecture Pages in category “Architecture”

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Building partially collapses in New York City’s Upper West Side

24 December, 2017

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Thursday, July 14, 2005 A building being prepared for demolition collapsed this morning in New York‘s Upper West Side around 9 a.m. EDT. Five people are known to be injured from the accident, as well as one rescue worker who was injured in the aftermath. None of the injuries were life-threatening. The building was a […]

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Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all

23 December, 2017

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Sunday, October 8, 2017 In a study scheduled for publication in the December 1 issue of Forest Ecology and Management, scientists from the University of California, Davis; USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station; and University of Washington have found a way to resolve the conflict that has sprung up between protecting forests from increasingly […]

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Eastern Australia hit by severe storms

23 December, 2017

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Thursday, February 3, 2005 Australia –The whole of the east coast of Australia has been lashed by severe storms in the last 24 hours, with at least one reported death. Wind gusts in some areas reached 110 kilometers per hour, and flash flooding and power cuts were reported from Far North Queensland to Tasmania in […]

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Metal press crushes Illinois worker

22 December, 2017

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Friday, April 1, 2005 A resident of Schaumburg, Illinois in the (U.S.) was severely injured by an industrial punch press machine on Monday. He died an hour later. Elk Grove Village police said William Naras, 48, was operating the machine at a local metal manufacturing plant when he became pinned by an I-beam, or metal […]

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Woman finds human finger in bowl of chili at Wendy’s restaurant

22 December, 2017

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Thursday, March 24, 2005 San Jose, California — A woman eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s restaurant bit into a chewy bit that turned out to be a human finger. She immediately spat it out, warned other patrons to stop eating, and upon recognizing the object as a finger, vomited. “I’m more of […]

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