Timothy Zahn is known for novels of military science fiction featuring complicated characters who often face moral dilemmas, generally involving conflicts between human and alien cultures. He often focuses on seemingly impossible situations--uninhabitabl...

(Yanjingshe) Rock band Founded in the spring of 1989 by four women musicians in Beijing, Cobra began as a cover band playing English-language pop/rock songs and popularized versions of Chinese folksongs. Their debut appearance at the ‘Concert of...

A cobra (pronunciation (help·info)) is a venomous snake of family Elapidae, of several genera, but particularly Naja. (Non-cobra elapidae include the taipans, brown snakes, tiger snakes, fierce snakes, coral snakes, mambas, and sea snakes.) Cobras...

In parts of rural Malaysia, the string used to fly a kite is coated with ground glass. When a kite is flown, it is inviting others to a kite fight. The fliers usually do not know who owns the other kites. They do...

Byline:Kimberly Lankford, Kiplinger Washington Editors I will lose my job in a couple of weeks, and I learned from human resources that I could continue my health insurance through COBRA but that I would probably be better off going out on my...

When Carroll Shelby raced cars in the 1950s, he kept a nitroglycerine pill under his tongue just in case his heart couldn't keep pace with the speed of the competition.Shelby, whose very name epitomizes high performance in racing and production cars, wanted to win at...

Since the dawn of the new millennium, there have been more new vehicles for sale than customers eager to buy them. That's why we've seen steady escalation in rebates, cut-rate leases, and every manner of employee, relative, loyalty, and other trumped-up discount deals. But I...