Chicago Teenager Burned To Death In Mexico

Published By Lynn On Wednesday, December 28th 2011. Under Headlines Tags: alexis marron, Christmas Eve, guadalajara, jazmin reyes, juan mestizo, Mexico, michoacan state, suburban chicago teenager

Friends and relatives of a suburban Chicago teenager who officials say was murdered over the holiday weekend in Mexico had a memorial in his honor on Tuesday.Prosecutors in Mexico's Michoacan state revealed Tuesday that a burned car holding the remains of 3 young men was discovered on a roadside on ... Read More

Pentagon Says It Will Not Be Tolerated For Iran To Disrupt Oil Route

Published By Lynn On Wednesday, December 28th 2011. Under Politics Tags: admiral habibollah sayyari, fleet spokeswoman, george little, iran's navy, Iraq, Oil, oil shipment, Pentagon, persian gulf, rebecca rebarich, strait of hormuz, US Military, US Navy, vice president mohamed reza rahimi

U.S. military officials gave a warning Wednesday that any move by Iran to interrupt oil shipments at the mouth of the Persian Gulf "will not be tolerated," as Iran threatened for the 2nd day in a row to block the critical passageway.Pentagon spokesman George Little gave a description of the ... Read More

Amazon Knocks Netflix From Top Spot On Survey

Published By Lynn On Wednesday, December 28th 2011. Under Business Tags: AAPL, amazon, amazon.com, amzn, Apple, avon, avp, department store, foresee, JC Penney, JCP, liberty media, Netflix, NFLX, qvc

Online retail giant Amazon.com (AMZN: 173.89, -2.38, -1.35%) knocked off the reeling Netflix (NFLX: 69.20, -1.40, -1.98%) from its spot at the top of an yearly analysis of customer satisfaction among e-retailers.According to ForeSee's 2011 E-Retail Satisfaction Index, overall satisfaction had a rebound to 79 from 78 this year after ... Read More

Study Finds Spending More Time At School May Boost Intelligence

Published By Lynn On Wednesday, December 28th 2011. Under Lifestyle Tags: education system, Intelligence, intelligence quotient, IQ, National Academy of Sciences, Norwegian, researchers, schooling system, statistic bureau, University of Oslo

According to Norwegian researchers, spending more time at school might raise intelligence.The new study research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said that an extra year in the school classroom could boost intelligence quotient (IQ) by nearly four points and that extra schooling had a large ... Read More

Hubble Telescope Finds New Complex Organic Molecules On Pluto Surface

Published By Lynn On Wednesday, December 28th 2011. Under Science Tags: carbon monoxide, Colorado, HST, Hubble Space Telescope, hydrocarbons, methane, New Horizons spacecraft, nitrogen molecules, Pluto, Plutonian hydrocarbons, Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Ultraviolet light

According to a new study, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has found new facts and data of complex organic molecules on the cold surface of Pluto.The space shuttle HST's new finding shows some substances on the surface of smallest planet Pluto that are capturing more ultraviolet light than anticipated. The ... Read More