| Hydrogen study fuels possibilities
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - As Jim Flanagan makes his rounds in a white Ford van, his electrician tools in the back, the vehicle seems no different from any other in the maintenance fleet at Pennsylvania State University. That all changes when he stops for a fill-up. Every day, at a service yard across the street from the football stadium, Flanagan pulls up to a slender white pillar and connects a sturdy metal nozzle to his gas pipe. In this case, the word gas is literal. With a loud mechanical hum, the nozzle dispenses a blend of natural gas and the lightest element on earth: hydrogen. Hydrogen has been spoken of for years as a key to cars of the future. Now, in a very limited way, it seems the future is already here. Besides Penn State - home to more than 100 engineers, chemists, physicists, and others studying the gas as a transportation fuel - a handful of institutions are starting to use hydrogen in their vehicle fleets.
June 2006
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Web site serves up mayhem near club
When it didn't stop, she used her still camera to document what she could. But when her front window was smashed in 2005, Kozan got a little more active. Mostly out of fear for her life, she put video cameras in her front window. "I figure what goes on inside their doors is their business," said Kozan, who described herself as part of the hippie generation. "But when something is happening in the street, that's a whole different thing." What she caught on tape has since become Lakeandhalsted.com, a slick Web site dedicated to "documenting Chicago's Lake & Halsted neighborhood." The sights and sounds of the fights and scuffles -- with a warning about offensive language and violence -- are all captured. It's an urban journal of sorts, with dates and entries like "Gang Street Fight" and "Girls and Guys Fighting." .
Richard Roberts: God said to resign
Richard Roberts told Oral Roberts University students Wednesday that God spoke to him last Thursday — and told him to resign.
Students cheered and cried as Roberts spoke for a few minutes at the school's chapel service Wednesday, five days after he resigned as the school's president.
Roberts said that God told him to step down.
He said he initially resisted the instructions, but God told him that if he would resign, the school would be blessed ‘‘supernaturally.''
Roberts resigned Friday. On Tuesday, Yukon businessman Mart Green promised the school up to $70 million, more than enough to erase the school's debt.
Roberts was under pressure to step down after three former professors sued ORU and alleged excessive spending on the part of the Roberts family.
Feces, fleas, bees found in home
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