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...

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...

Taiwan's army wants to buy 30 Boeing Apache attack helicopters from the United States, an official said Tuesday, in a deal that would almost certainly roil rival China.Col. Dai Kuang-chao said the military opted for the Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow over Bell's AH-1Z Cobra because...