Archive for August, 2011
Man nabbed at airport with snakes in his pants
By Manuel Rueda MIAMI | Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:15pm EDT MIAMI (Reuters) – Never mind ants in your pants, what about snakes and tortoises? That’s what authorities at Miami’s international airport said they found inside the trousers of a passenger as he tried to board a flight for Brazil. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration [...]
German city introduces "tax meters" for prostitutes
BERLIN | Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:21am EDT BERLIN (Reuters) – Prostitutes in the German city of Bonn must carry a ticket purchased from a new parking meter-like machine while working the streets or face hefty fines from tax authorities in a scheme launched Monday night. In Germany, ladies of the night pay income tax [...]
Dutch mull bringing the mountain to them
By Greg Roumeliotis UTRECHT, The Netherlands | Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:03am EDT UTRECHT, The Netherlands (Reuters) – What started as a joke about creating an artificial mountain in the utterly flat Netherlands may actually be feasible. This was not what semi-professional cyclist-cum-journalist Thijs Zonneveld had expected when he posted a column on a popular [...]
Kids of 9/11 get a voice on TV as 10th anniversary looms
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES | Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:23pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lucas Brody was just 10 years-old when he watched the Twin Towers fall to the ground one block from his New York home on September 11, 2001; Caitlin Langone was 12 when her police officer dad died that day [...]
Bilingual Language Learning Study: Benefits to Exposing Children to More Than One Language in Their First Year of Life
REDLANDS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Children are like sponges at learning a second language and that ability can be developed before they begin to walk. “Impact of second-language experience in infancy: brain measures of ?rst- and second-language speech perception” The results from the longitudinal study “Bilingual language learning: An ERP study relating early brain responses to speech, language [...]
