Remembering the Coleco Adam
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Electromagnetic pulse bomb in a beige box This Old Box Technology product failures will always have a special spot in my heart. Perhaps it's comforting to know even when a team of seemingly talented and intelligent people put their heads together â it sometimes only results in a painful, coconut-like thud in the center of the huddle.â¦
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This is the Adam LaRoche the Pittsburgh Pirates expected when they traded with Atlanta to get him last winter. They can only wonder where they would be in the NL Central standings if they had this LaRoche all season.
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By DENNIS PASSA BEERWAH, Australia - &quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin was remembered Wednesday for his &quot;great zest for life&quot; at a public memorial service for the beloved conservationist and entertainer.
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The surviving astronauts of the Mercury 7 offered tribute Friday to compatriot Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper, who died Oct. 4. At a memorial gathering at Johnson Space Center in Houston, former US Sen.
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Friends and family of the late broadcaster Alistair Cooke are attending a memorial service for him.
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Orbach, 69, died Tuesday of prostate cancer. He was known to millions of television fans as been-there/done-that detective Lennie Briscoe on NBC&#39;s popular ``Law &amp; Order&#39;&#39; series.
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It was an emotional reunion. Heck, it nearly brought Zach Johnson to tears. That's the degree of attachment between Johnson and the clubs he used to win the Masters.
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Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Leonard Lindquist, who helped the NFL players organize their first union, died last week. He was 92.
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TV and prankster Jeremy Beadle, who has died aged 59, is remembered by friends and colleagues.
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Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photojournalist famous for his photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street, died Sept. 19 in Manhattan of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). He was 71.
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By Times-News, Burlington, N.C.  Sep. 23--A survivor of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will speak at First Baptist Church of Alamance on Sunday.  Tab Tablock will speak during the 11 a.m. service. A free lunch will follow the service.  The public is invited.
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By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 8--George Becker is returning home.   After decades of leadership in Pittsburgh and Washington D.C., the late steel union leader will be laid to rest Friday in his hometown, Granite City.
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accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
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At home, Eran Kurtzer is a suburbanite with a wife, baby daughter and small insurance agency. But for six weeks a year, 33-year-old Kurtzer is an army major leading a company of paratroopers on patrols through olive groves on the hills of the West Bank.
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By Deborah S. Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 8--In the end, the community came together to preserve its past with an eye toward the future.
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That arm. Oh, yeah, now you're talking. Any discussion of all things Bartolo Colon centers on his powerful right arm, which he first began to whip into shape when he was a kid in Altamira, Dominican Republic, heaving sticks and stones and all available bric-a-brac to bring down coconuts.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep.