Technology keeps marching on and with new advances – such as the Google/Fiat partnership to bring the driverless car to the mass market – Canadian officials are worried driverless cars will lead to a greater increase in sex while in those cars, according to experts at the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCE) and reported by Raw Story....
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A celestial event – so rare it happens just 13 times in a century – is going to have all eyes looking skyward beginning Monday, May 9, ABCNews reported Wednesday. Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, will begin to transit the sun beginning at 7.12 a.m. ET, the report said ... The astronomical event, where the planet will transit across the face of the sun, will take 71/2 hours ... ET, according to NASA....
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich will end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Wednesday, making Donald Trump the party's presumptive nominee. Three campaign officials who spoke to The Associated Press said the Ohio governor plans to announce his decision in a statement from his home state later Wednesday. The officials spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to disclose Kasich's decision ... ---....
WASHINGTON — May 1 was an important date for a lot of families. It's the day that many colleges require deposits as a declaration that a student will enroll in the school. Thus, May 1 was also the day that many students and their parents decide to weigh themselves down with debt for decades ... Protect your financial future ... Stop ... Drop ... And although he will be attending UMBC, the community college wasn't a so-called "safety school." ... ....
News that Don Zimmerman retired Monday after 23 years as UMBC coach means the Retrievers have joined Princeton and Jacksonville as Division I programs searching for new leaders. Asked what he is looking for in Zimmerman’s successor, UMBC athletic director Tim Hall said. "I think somebody who has... ....
Don Zimmerman, one of the longest-tenured coaches in Division I lacrosse and the architect of three NCAA championships, announced Monday afternoon that he will retire as UMBC’s head coach effective July 1, 2016. “It was a difficult decision,” Zimmerman, 63, said in a phone interview. “I love to... ....
Nate Lewnes (St. Mary's) tied a UMBC record with 10 goals and led a late rally, but No. 5Albany (12-2, 6-0 America East Conference) scored with 15 seconds left in overtime for a 15-14 victory over the Retrievers (4-10, 1-5) in men's lacrosse. Lewnes tied Jason Smith's mark set against Colgate... ....
Izaiah Brown anchors the Scarlet Knights to victory in its heat. PHILADELPHIA - Rutgers stormed its way into the men's 4x400 Championship of America race by winning its heat in 3.09.77 at Friday's 122nd Penn Relays at Franklin Field. . Rutgers received an electrifying anchor from freshman Izaiah Brown, who took the Scarlet Knights from 4th to first ... 29 UMBC 3.16.36 Niko Coaxum, Darrius Oxley, JamalCody, Erick Soetje CA 5....
- Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning of game two and facing a doubleheader sweep, the Lehigh softball team scored four runs in the frame to take the second game of the twinbill with UMBC by a 4-1 score to earn the split ...UMBC's Kim Puccio limited Lehigh to two hits while the Retrievers pushed ahead two seventh inning runs to take the opener 2-0 ... UMBC is now 20-26 ... Dani O'Neill's first inning RBI double gave UMBC a 1-0 lead....