| Computer interaction gets some humanity
We are a network of excellence, so our main goal was to create a viable and sustainable community for HCI research, explains Benoit Michel, manager of the SIMILAR project. That covers a broad range of areas human-to-human interaction via a computer, or straightforward human-computer interaction, or one person interacting with many others, supported by a computer, or many people interacting together.
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February 2008
Eliot Spitzer explaining after this moring's ABNY breakfast that his "budget for one New York" unity message isn't an attempt to undercut the Senate GOP's argument that upstate will be ill-served if the Democrats take control of the chamber because it will be dominated by downstate interests. Spitzer insists this all-for-one theme is nothing new, and said he's been talking about since his "very first moment as governor," adding: "I've said to the public, 'We need to view this as one entity, one family...This is all of us together." .
Mets' Martinez proud of domination during PED era
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Pedro Martinez knows his place in the Steroids Era. "I dominated that era and I did it clean," he said. "I can stand by my numbers and I can be proud of them." No longer the No. 1 pitcher on his staff, Martinez reported to spring training Thursday with the New York Mets and soon was asked about baseball's doping scandal. The three-time Cy Young Award winner said he hasn't paid much attention to the fallout from the Mitchell report, and he didn't watch Roger Clemens testify before Congress on Wednesday. But Martinez said he'll probably get caught up on his computer now that he's in camp. Martinez did have some pointed words, however, for the reporter who once called him a prima donna. "I have a small frame and when I hurt all I could do was take a couple of Aleve or Advil, a cup of coffee and a little mango and an egg -- and let it go!" he said.
Uranium boom hits home for small Colo. town
NUNN, Colo. -- Jean Hediger can stand at the edge of her organic wheat farm and look west to the Rockies, east toward this speck-in-the-road town and straight ahead into what she sees as her worst nightmare.A Canadian company's plans to establish a uranium mine just across the two-lane county road from Hediger's farm has triggered a bitter tug-of-war with residents of this fast-growing region about 70 miles north of Denver who fear the risk of contaminated water and other health problems. "How do you farm organically next to a uranium mine?" Hediger asks. "It's pretty darned scary, isn't it?"Powertech Uranium Corp. Chief Executive Officer Richard Clement insists the firm's closed-system mining process, in which a solution of oxygen and sodium bicarbonate is injected to recover the uranium, is safe."There's a lot of misinformation out there about nuclear, about uranium, about radiation, about the effects of mining," he said.
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