In 1997 musician David Bowie sold asset-backed securities, called "Bowie bonds", which awarded investors a share in his future royalties for 10 years. They were bought for $55 million!
In 1997 musician David Bowie sold asset-backed securities, called "Bowie bonds", which awarded investors a share in his future royalties for 10 years. They were bought for $55 million!
Physicians order CT scans for a number of different reasons including searching for and assessing: tumours, cysts, kidney stones, and bone injuries. Without CT scans, surgeons would have to perform many needless operations.
Inside the donut-shaped machine, a number of X rays are taken, each producing a small slice of the image that doctors need. When passing through dense tissue such as bone, the beams are weak and appear white in the CT images.
But what did it mean? The first breakthrough came when archaeologist Dr. Steve Bourget discovered a collection of bones at one of the most important Moche huacas.
Many stunts were extremely dangerous. In the Bond film ‘Live and Let Die’ (1973), stuntman Ross Kananga walks on crocodiles to get across a river. The last crocodile bit his foot!
The James Bond films were famous for stunts. In ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ (1974), Bumps Willard, as James Bond, drives a car off a bridge and turns it over in the air.
James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 in "Goldfinger" was hot. His Aston Martin V12 in "Die another Day" was hotter -- he could make it invisible. But the hottest will be the Aston Martin DB10 in "Spectre" coming out in Nov. 2015.
A power outage cut electricity to millions of people up and down the American southwest, prompting some residents to bond in ethereal fire lit settings.
Plenty of players benefit, or suffer, from the notion of clutch. No one would declare Willie Mays’s career a failure for his low postseason batting average, but Barry Bonds was dogged for much of his career because of it.
These days employees are expected to be available around the clock. If you take time off or don't work long hours you're seen as uncommitted, and can get left high and dry when bonus time comes around.
For some reason, maybe it had something to do with the imaginary waterspouts full of sharks sucked out of the Pacific Ocean, “Sharknado” became a bona fide social media phenomenon.
For some reason, maybe it had something to do with the imaginary waterspouts full of sharks sucked out of the Pacific Ocean, “Sharknado” became a bona fide social media phenomenon.
These days employees are expected to be available around the clock. If you take time off or don't work long hours you're seen as uncommitted, and can get left high and dry when bonus time comes around.
These days employees are expected to be available around the clock. If you take time off or don't work long hours you're seen as uncommitted, and can get left high and dry when bonus time comes around.
These days employees are expected to be available around the clock. If you take time off or don't work long hours you're seen as uncommitted, and can get left high and dry when bonus time comes around.
These days employees are expected to be available around the clock. If you take time off or don't work long hours you're seen as uncommitted, and can get left high and dry when bonus time comes around.
NASA's Mars rover has made it's first major discovery, and it's one for the ages. Water once coursed over the now bone-dry surface, a finding based on the presence of rounded pebbles and gravel near the rover's landing site.
Studies show that watching your friends and family in stressful situations can loosely synchronize your heart rates, a strong manifestation of human bonds.
Moviegoers settle in for what they believe is a coming attraction for a driver behind the wheel. Just then, everyone in the theater gets a text message and many look down to read it. What happens next chilled me to the bone.