Volle Dröhnung – Lärmquelle MP3-Player in - Q21 WDR Fernsehen -

Autor: Wolfgang Rathgeber

Seit der Premiere des Ipod 2001 wurden rund 42 Millionen von den Mini-Musikboxen verkauft. Musik bis zum Abwinken kann jetzt überall gehört werden. Andere Hersteller sahen diesen Markt, und somit produziert man MP3- Player am laufenden Band, wie Feuerzeuge. Die Hördauer hat sich erhört, passt doch fast die ganze Plattensammlung auf den kleinen Musik-Stick. Fast überall sieht man winzige Kopfhörer in den Ohren junger Leute, die sehr laut abhörend, andere nerven, zum Beispiel in der Bahn. Doch die Geschädigten sind eher die Musikhörer selbst. more....

Libya: Rescind Death Penalty for Foreign Medical Workers - Human Rights Watch

(New York, December 19, 2006) – The death sentences announced today by a lower court in Tripoli against six foreign medical workers for purposely infecting 426 Libyan children with HIV is a gross miscarriage of justice, Human Rights Watch said today. more....

Libya HIV death penalties condemned

-aljazeera.net-
The European Union has criticised a ruling by a Libyan court sentencing to death five nurses and a doctor for infecting more than 400 children with the HIV virus at a hospital.
Johannes Laitenberger, an EU spokesman, said they had yet not decided whether to take steps against Libya, but said he "did not rule anything out" more....

Spacewalk STS-116

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, STS-116 mission specialist, participates in the mission's second of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction resumes on the International Space Station. Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (out of frame), mission specialist, also participated in the spacewalk. more NASA .... and NASA Television....

Local Cooling

More than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted because many of us simply forget to shut down our computers when we’re not using them. If we could just improve the efficiency of how we use our PCs, the savings in energy costs would be over $3 billion! The CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent in energy terms to the gas consumption used by one car. more....