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In 1991 , a new talent burst2 on the F13 scene. Michael Schumacher quali¬fied 7th in his Jordan, but suffered clutch4 failure when leaving the line. However, he had been noticed by Benetton boss Flavio Briatore, and Schumacher took another driver's place in the team at the following race .

In 1992, Schumacher scored his first win by beating the might5 of the far superior Williams' drivers which was a brilliantly judged performance.

In 1994, Schumacher was given a potentially championship winning car, the Benetton B194, Senna was gunning for6 the championship himself , having recently joined Williams. Tragically however, Senna was killed by incident, and Schumacher took over the reigns as the top driver in F1 .

He won the first four races of the 1994 season, and was pulling away from his rivals in the standings, when he was disqualified from the British GP for over-taking Hill on the warm-up lap7. Eventually, Schumacher won the Title after a controversial collision with Hill in Australia. His greatest win of the year was in Monaco, in the most difficult circumstances. Schumacher won by nearly a minute from Brundle (his former team-mate who was then in a McLaren).

In 1997, Schumacher and Villeneuve were fighting for the Title. Schumacher had scored 5 wins including his greatest performance at a wet Monaco. In a race where less than half the field finished, Schumacher was nearly a lap a-head of the pack, including his fast-improving team-mate, Irvine. In Japan, Schumacher and Irvine had beaten Williams hands-down with a superb tacti¬cal performance.

Villeneuve had been thrown out of the race for not slowing down for a yellow flag, but was later reinstated. Villeneuve, Ferrari reckoned, probably will get any points docked, so Schumacher might be punted off the track. Irvine was instructed to get past Villeneuve, hold him up, and let Schumacher win, and

that is exactly what he did.

Schumacher's car developed technical problems and was slowing, and Ville-neuve was closing fast to take the lead. Villeneuve tried to pass, but Schuma-cher was closing the door. If he had moved to cover his line a second earlier, he would have forced Villeneuve to back off, but as it was, there was a collision, and Schumacher was out. Villeneuve was the champion, and Schumacher had to wait another year for a chance at the Title.

Schumacher was looking great in 1998. Six wins had put him into contention for the Title. Michael is tough, we all know that, and we all know what to expect in races. Schumacher had scored a stunning hat-trick8 in Canada, France and Britain, where he won on the wrong side of the pit wall (the first time this had ever happened) I

It was the most bizarre end to a race in living memory that Schumacher out-foxed all the opposition Hungary with a strategy, which enabled him to take an astounding victory9. In Japan, Schumacher could have won his third title, but he stalled on10 pole position (officially due to a faulty device in the clutch mechanism). He finished second in the Championship again.

In 1 999 , Ferrari seemed to have got everything right and it seemed as if Michael might finally regain the Title. Irvine got his first win in Australia, fol-lowed by brilliant Schumacher wins at Imola and Monaco, but then came the fateful British GP. Michael's Ferrari's brakes failed on the first lap, and he smashed into the wall, breaking his right leg badly.

Irvine and stand-in11 driver Mika battled against McLaren, scoring two wins and some podiums, until Michael (some say reluctantly) returned, at the now legendary first Malaysian GP. Schumacher dominated the event, taking pole by nearly a second, and holding off Hakkinen throughout the event. Ultimately however, it was Hakkinen who ended up champion for the second time.

Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Ju-dah, and made a raid on Lehi. lOThe men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us. " 1 iThen three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and they said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then have you done to us?" He replied, "As they did to me, so I have done to them. " They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines. " Samson answered them, "Swear to me that you yourselves will not attack me. " They said to him, "No, we will only bind you and give you into their hands; we will not kill you. " So they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the spirit of the LORD rushed on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. IsThen he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men. leAnd Samson said,

"With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men. "

When he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and that place was called Ramathlehi.

It is a big improvement on the candle, but it works essentially the same way, by heating something until it glows. This obviously is not the most efficient way to produce light; some 90 percent of the energy consumed by incandescent bulbs is wasted as heat, and the filament burns out after six to 12 months of normal use. A fluorescent bulb, which produces light by the excitation of phosphorous atoms coating the inside of a glass cylinder, eliminates these drawbacks. But the tubular model, used in most offices never really caught on in homes. "Compact" fluorescents that screw into ordinary sockets have recently become available, but even they are too big to fit some fixtures and cannot be used with dimmer switches. Last week a small California company announced that it had solved these problems. By next year, it plans to market the "E - (for electronic) Lamp," a bulb that will be completely interchangeable with incandescents, use a uarter as much energy, and last a decade or more.

The secret is a tiny radio frequency generator in each bulb transmitting energy to a surrounding cloud of mercury gas and, in turn, to the fluorescent coating. The principle is not new, the breakthrough lies in shielding the bulb to avoid interference with other electronic devices, especially televisions and radios. Since any ordinary substance that blocks radio waves would also be opaque to light, the solution must be ingenious. Unfortunately, Intersource Technologies , which developed the bulb with backing from Ohio - based American Electric: Power Co., the nation' s second largest utility, isn' t saying how it' s done.

This ingenuity comes at a price. Like compact fluorescents, E - Lamps should cost around $ 15 per bulb at first, less as they go into mass marketing. But counting the cost of the bulb and the electricity to run it a 25 watt E - Lamp should save around 20 cents a week compared with a 100 watt incandescent, and give the same amount of light. There are some 1.5 billion light sockets in the United States'; each incandescent that is replaced by an E - Lamp would save an estimated ton of carbon dioxide from -electrical generating stations over the life ef the bulb, a small step toward reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

And with the North American economy finally showing signs of life, auto industry officials are betting that this is the year many of those browsers will finally become buyers. Those who do will likely find that their new vehicle has a feature their old one lacked: an air bag. An estimated 90 per cent of all new cars sold in North America in 1994 will be fitted with a driver's-side bag, and more than 50 per cent will have a passenger-side bag as well. The added protection that such equipment provides was graphically illustrated by a horrific collision in Toronto earlier this month between a Ford Taurus and a Chrysler Neon. According to a police officer, four of the nine people injured in the crash "would have been dead for sure" were it not for the fact that both cars had air bags.

But what many people do not know is that air bags them-selves can cause injuries. The most common problems are scrapes and bruises, which can result when a rapidly inflating bag, travelling at speeds of up to 300 km/h, slaps a driver or passenger on the face or upper body. In a small number of other cases, drivers have suffered broken bones because their hands or arms were in the path of the inflating bag: for example, resting on the steering wheel hub that houses the air bag. The experts' advice: sit as far back as is comfortable, and keep your hands on the steering wheel rim. Another important tip is to avoid using a rear-facing child safety restraint in the front seat of a car with a passenger-side air bag. As the bag explodes,it can push firmly the child restraint into the back of the seat.

According to the preliminary results of a study in Miami, survivors of crashes involving air bag equipped cars sometimes suffer severe lower-extremity injuries, including broken feet and ankles. The worst injuries were sustained by people who were

not wearing a seatbelt. In collisions, they tended to slide under the air bag pushing their legs or knees into the instrument pan-el.

The U. S. government has passed legislation making double air bags essential on all 1998-model domestic and import cars. But there is no law requiring them in Canada, in part be-cause Transport Canada says the cost of enforcing such a regulation would outweigh its benefits. The department's research showed that a driver using an air bag in combination with a seat-belt was 10 per cent less likely to die and 25 per cent less likely to suffer a nonfatal injury than a driver using a seat-belt alone. However,an air bag used on its own provided only about half as much protection from death or injury as a seatbelt.

Meanwhile, the industry is continuing to look for ways to make driving safer. While today's air bags provide protection in head-on collisions, scientists are seeking ways to reduce injuries from side-impact crashes. That presents a new set of problems. Because a car's door provides less protection than its front end, a side-impact bag would have to inflate even faster than a conventional air bag. Car manufacturers are also trying to deter-mine the best location for a side bag: in the door itself, on the centre pillar or on the side of the seat. Side-impact bags will be available on some cars beginning this fall.

The next step is to develop technologies that can sense ac-cidents even before they happen. Viano said that GM is current-ly experimenting with radar, infrared and ultrasonic sensing de-vices that could trigger a side-impact bag to inflate a split sec-ond before impact. Similar devices could warn drivers not to back up or switch lanes when there is a risk of an accident. After all, the best way to survive an accident is to avoid it in the first place.

Protests at the use of animals in research have taken on a new and fearful character in Britain with the attempted murder of two British scientists by the terrorist technique of the pre-planted car bomb.

The research community will rightly be alarmed at these developments, which have two objectives; to a-rouse public attention and to frighten people working in research with animals. The first need is that everything should he done to identify those responsible for the crimes anti to put them on trial. The Detence Research Society has taken the practical step of offering a reward

of $ 10 000 for information leading to those responsible, but past experience is not encouraging. People are unlikely to be tempted by such offers. The professional police will similarly be controlled by the usual problem of finding a needle in a haystack.

That is why the intellectual community in Britain and else where must act more vigorously in its own defence. There are several steps that can be taken of which the chief one is to demand of all the organizations that exist with the declared objectives of safeguarding the inter¬ests of animals that they should declare clearly where they stand on violence towards people. And it will not be enough for the chairmen and chairwomen of these organizations to utter placatory statements on behalf of all their members. Theses people should also undertake that it will be a lest of continuing membership in their organizations that members and would be members should declare that they will take no part in acts of violence against human beings. Even such undertakings would not be fully effective; people, after all, can lie. But at least they would distinguish the organizations entitled to a continuing voice in the dialogue with the research community about the rights of animals in research from the organizations that deserve no say.

But now native rice wine finds itself competing for market share with western-style fruits of the vine.

Both foreign traders and local producers have in recent months observed a spectacular rise in the popularity of vine in China, at least in the country' s more prosperous and cosmopolitan cities and coastal regions. There are several reasons for this. One has been a sustained effort by the Chinese Government to limit the use of staple grains for things as frivolous as spirits or beer. Another has been a lot of reports filtering in via Hong Kong and Taiwan, citing scientific findings about red wine' s good effects on health in general and virility in particular. Don St Pierre, who imports western wines to China, says that his red wines outsell his whites by 20 to 1 , leading him to conclude that Chinese drinkers are indeed choosing their beverages with good health in mind.

Mr. St Pierre is toasting increases in sales of 25% a month Carl Crook, another importer, recalls that, when he began selling wine in China four years ago, his clients were mainly " well-heeled and desperate expatriates". His company, Montrose, now sells more than 1000 cases a month and expects sales to double this year, despite taxes and duties which add 121% to the price of imported wines. Its catalogue ranges from cheap Californian wines selling wholesale for 69 yuan per bottle, to Chateau Lafite-Rothchild.

Domestic producers are also cottoning onto the joys of the grape. A few Chinese wineries are increasingly successful, in both international competitions and the domestic market. The Huadong Winery in Qingdao ( a city still more famous for its beer) has also fielded a successful chardonnay. Local bottling of foreign wines, local production, and if they materialize, long-rumored cuts in tariff duties may soon help bring the joys of wine to greater numbers of Chinese.

When inventor Dean Kamen appeared on U.S. TV on December 3, 2001, to unveil his latest innovation, no one knew what to expect. Code-named 'IT' and kept top secret, Kamen's most recent invention had been a source of intense speculation and media hype for months leading up to its debut.1 Given the frenzy and excitement, a letdown was almost unavoidable. When TF turned out to be little more than a motor scooter, many publicly expressed their disappointment. On closer examination, however, even Kamen's critics had to admit that the vehicle was an engineering feat.

The Segway Human Transporter looked more like a small lawnmower2 than the next step in motorized transportation, but it did boast3 some interesting features. The two-wheeled vehicle was designed for a single rider who would stand upright over its single axle and navigate using a set of handlebars resembling those on a bicycle. Riders controlled the Segway's speed and direction by shifting their weight, and thanks to gyroscopes4 that kept the vehicle upright, there was no danger of falling down or being knocked over. Electrically powered, the Segway could travel over 15 miles on a single charge and reach speeds up to 12 mph.5

Although the Segway may not be a threat to its four-wheeled cousin in terms of comfort or speed, it was meant by its inventor to "be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy." Ambitious plans for any inventor, 20 but maybe not so unrealistic for a man with Kamen's vision and determination.

A college dropout and self-taught engineer, Kamen already held over 100 patents for his inventions when he developed the one he hoped would revolutionize short-distance travel. While still in college, Kamen started 25 developing the medical devices that made his name,6 eventually turning the modest R&D7 firm he founded into a multi-million-dollar technology leader.

After creating innovations like the world's first portable insulin pump8 for diabetics, Kamen shifted focus to the challenges faced by wheelchair users. In his view, the problem wasn't ineffective wheelchairs, but rather that the 30 world was designed for able-bodied people. The inventor's high-tech solution to this was a robotic wheelchair known as IBOT that could go up and down curbs, traverse sand and gravel, and even climb stairs. This robot ended up paving the way for the Segway.

While creating IBOT, Kamen realized that the same technology could just as easily benefit people with full mobility. From there, it was a matter of developing a computer "that acts like your brain," a gyroscope "that acts like your inner ear," a motor "that acts like your muscles," and wheels "that act like your feet." The end product was a machine that answered the prayers of anyone who has ever suffered sore feet, bemoaned9 the time it takes to walk downtown, or simply been too lazy to walk around the block to the corner store. Not everyone welcomed the Segway's arrival, though.

Some complained it was too expensive, while others said it would further undermine the average American's fitness. A Japanese inventor even accused Kamen of stealing the idea for the Segway from him.

The ancient Greeks created a list of the Seven Wonders1 of the World. They chose these creations for their size and beauty. Read this information and take an ancient tour!

The Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza

Built: 2560 B.C.

Almost 100,000 people worked for twenty years to build this tomb.2 It is made of over two million stones. Each weighs over 900 kilos. It is the only ancient wonder that still exists.

The Hanging Gardens at Babylon

10 Built: around 600 B.C.

A king built these gardens on an artificial mountain for his queen. He planted beautiful trees and flowers on it.

The Temple of Artemis3 at Ephesus4

Built: around 550 B.C. 15 This was one of the largest temples of its time. It had 127 columns that were about 18 meters high. Most of the temple was made of marble.5

The Statue6 of Zeus? at Olympia8

Built: around 45,0 B.C.

This statue stood in a teniple in Olympia, Greece. It was made of

ivory, gold, and other precious metals.9

The Mausoleum10 of Halicarnassus11

Built: around 350 B.C.

This royal tomb looked more like a beautiful building than a place for the dead. It was made of white marble and was almost 42 meters high.

The Colossus of Rhodes12

Built: around 282 B.C.

This colossal statue of the Greek god Helios13 was 36.5 meters tall. Many compare the^ Statue of Liberty to it.

The Lighthouse at Alexandria, Egypt

Built: around 270 B.C.

This building was the tallest of its time. It was 122 meters in height! Ships could see its light for miles.

In a program conducted in North Carolina by Craig Ramey and his associates, pregnant women with IQs averaging 80 were recruited for a study. After their babies were born, half of the infants were cared for during the day at an educational day-care center and half were reared at home by their mothers. Both groups of children were given medical care and dietary supplements, and their families were given social services if they requested them.

At the age of 3, the children who attended the educational day-care center had significantly higher IQs than did the home-reared children. This difference was likely due to the decline in the IQs of the home-reared children during the period from 12 to 18 months of age. By the time the children were 5 years old, 39 percent of the home-reared children had IQs below 85 but only 11 percent of the educational day-care children had IQs this low. In the most recent evaluation of this project, positive effects of educational day-care on the intellectual development and academic achievement of the children were evident at age 12.

Some parents, such as those in Ramey's study, have difficulty providing an adequate environment for the intellectual needs of their infants. Once these difficulties are a recurring part of the family system, changing efforts probably will be more difficult and costly. Early intervention in the family system is directed at changing parental adaptive and responsive functioning so that permanent negative effects are minimized.

In another investigation, the Infant Health and Development Program, early intervention with low-birth weight children revealed that both home visitation and an educational child curriculum improved the children's IQs, decreased behavior problems, and improved the home environment. The intervention was more effective with mothers with low educational attainment than those with high educational attainment, more effective for African American than White children, and effective for most at-risk children.

Intervention programs have the most positive effects on children's well-being when they (a) begin as early as possible, (b) provide services to parents as well as to the child, (c) have a low child-teacher ratio, (d) have high parental involvement, and (e) have frequent contacts. In one review of family intervention studies, intervention was more effective when there were eleven or more contacts between the intervener and the family. While eleven sessions is a somewhat arbitrary number, it does indicate that a certain duration of contact is necessary for intervention success.

But those donations could divert support from other nonprofit groups that already were facing uncertain finances because of the economic slowdown. For example, donations have dropped sharply in recent weeks at St. Vincent de Paul Society, even as the Phoenix charity has seen a tripling in the number of requests by hard-pressed Arizonans for help with food, rent and utilities. "We hope people remember the needs of local charities and continue to help at home," said Terri Wogan, the society's community-relations director.

The Arizona Humane Society felt a donation drop of more than 20 percent in September, and reservations are down for a key fund-raising dinner. "We're getting a sense that a lot of people don't want to attend a gala," spokeswoman Kim Noetzel said. Jim Losi, president of the Charles Schwab Corp. Foundation in San Francisco and a member of 21 charity boards, believes many non-profit groups could go under. "There already was a little slowdown in giving as a function-of the economy," said Losi, whose group funnels donations from Schwab employees in Phoenix and other areas to non-profit causes worldwide Now, in the wake of the terrorist attacks, a lot of non-profit groups "could wind up suffering," he said.

Yet despite obvious concern for some groups, it's too early to conclude that most nonprofit groups will be hit hard or overall donations will fall. The Heard Museum in Phoenix hasn't noticed any impact on fund-raising. An early barometer for the Valley of the Sun United Way points to a 3 percent uptick in donations this year. The American Heart Association also is seeing increases in some donation measures. "We're sensing a philanthropic mood across the country," said Chuck Reyman, the group's marketing vice president for Arizona and three neighboring states.

Indeed, the historic pattern on giving in the United States during times of shocks and slowdowns is encouraging. Donations have increased in 39 of the past 40 years, according to a new study by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. The lone exception came in 1987, when the stock market tanked and tax reform in 1986 affected the timing of certain donations, said Patrick Rooney, the center's director of research.

Nor have annual giving rates varied all that much. Americans boosted their donations at an average annual rate of 7. 6 percent over those four decades, according to the Indiana University study, including 5 percent on average during recession years. Last year, when the economy began to sour, donations still rose 6. 6 percent. Also, donations invariably continued to rise even during years of past major shocks, ranging from Pearl Harbor and the Cuban missile crisis to the Arab oil embargo. "Americans are very philanthropic," Rooney said. "Even in times of crisis and recessions, giving usually continues to rise. "