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Two games into the season, the Dallas Cowboys defense had allowed nearly 900 yards and 54 points while creating plenty of concern. They were the only team in the league without a sack or a forced turnover.
The world's largest atom smasher broke the world record for proton acceleration Monday, firing particle beams with 20 percent more power than the American lab that previously held the record.
Oprah Winfrey has racked up memorable moments during her long television reign. Some were moving, some embarrassing — to her or others — and a handful became pop-culture landmarks. Here are highlights through the years:
The Sept. 19, 2008, failure of the Large Hadron Collider is costing 40 million Swiss francs ($40 million) to fix and it set back experiments for more than a year. But the world's largest atom smasher has lesser hiccups to contend with:
Scientists running the world's largest atom smasher used the $10 billion machine's accelerator to speed up proton beams for the first time Tuesday, in a step toward experiments about the makeup of the universe.
A woman mistakenly tipped $29,000 by the University of Notre Dame in her catering paycheck will return more than half of the money in $50 monthly payments over the next 28 years.
The Vikings-Steelers and Falcons-Cowboys games combined to help draw record television ratings last Sunday.
Six years ago, Precept Brands chose not to compete with companies making big-bucks wines, instead seeing opportunity in the under-$10-a-bottle market.
Oklahoma State now gets a chance to erase the curse of recent seasons past against Texas.
The "massive ordnance penetrator," or MOP bomb, will be the largest conventional bomb in the U.S. arsenal. It is now undergoing testing and is slated to come on line by mid-2010.
The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete.
Now that's one big foot. Paleontologists in eastern France have reported the discovery of some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, measuring about 1.4 meters to 1.5 meters (4.6 feet to 4.9 feet) in diameter.
For the Minnesota Vikings, a Monday night matchup against the Green Bay Packers is about as big as a regular season game gets.
A crow as black as the branch it's perched on oversees a skeleton forest.
New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode.
Numerous large squid are reportedly washing up dead on the central Oregon coast near Heceta Head.
The unrelenting global troubles confronting Barack Obama are about to converge on him all at once, providing a stern test of leadership for a first-year president who has pledged to "change the world."
A woman who worked catering events for the University of Notre Dame says it was her lucky day when the school tipped her $29,000 in her check. But now the university is suing to get back the money she says she's already spent.
Dan LeFevour has accomplished quite a bit in his college football career, producing more total offense than any player in the history of the Mid-American Conference and leading his team to three straight bowl games and two conference championships.
Wood Selig thought the breakthrough, the moment when football would finally matter at Western Kentucky, would come after the Hilltoppers won the 2002 Division I-AA national championship.
With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall.
Breaking down the best college football game-day experiences.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a reward for information leading to the conviction of whoever illegally shot and killed what officials say was one of Montana's largest grizzly bears.
Flu boosts vaccine businessPresident George Bush's administration three years ago awarded about $1 billion to manufacturers to increase and speed production of vaccines, particularly after the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus.
Largest cruise ship squeezes under Danish bridgeKORSOER, Denmark – The world's largest cruise ship cleared a crucial obstacle Sunday, lowering its smokestacks to squeeze under a bridge in Denmark.
Mark Steyn: Limbaugh bad, Mao good"Rush Limbaugh is so "divisive" that to get him fired Leftie agitators have to invent racist sound bites to put in his mouth.
When, will corporations stop keeping the "gold" and start remembering that they make decisions that not only affect the employee, but all connected to that employee.
San Diego Sheriff deployed military crowd control device at Congressional town hallsAny thoughts?
10 Things You Should Never Say to a Girl With Huge BoobsSo, I have huge cans (pictured). I've had massive breasts since high school, so they're not that big of a deal to me anymore. But I've also heard every dumbass thing that could possibly be said about them.
The Big Bang, simplifiedI loved this video. A good explanation of why people should not be talking about what happened "before" the big bang. Clarifies things nicely.
Citizens United and False Consciousness"The court is considering whether to overturn its previous decisions that restrict unions and corporations from using their general treasuries to influence election campaigns."
New hope for intelligent life on other planetsSpace.com: Intelligent life beyond Earth might not be as dim a hope as many scientists think, according to a new study challenging a widely held anti-ET argument.
Kenny Chesney gives fans a big, besotted holiday Randy Johnson doesn't take kindly to steel drums and flip-flops in his country music. The 30-year-old Frito-Lay sales rep from Lakeland is an old-school outlaw fan, and he has the Johnny Cash shirt and Man in Black action figure to prove it.
Lately, I find myself stewing over the multi-million dollar bonuses that are being thrown around like candy to selfish, thoughtless, insensitive fools who know how to hustle people just right.
Are your Federal Taxes Lower Today?In order to confront the five major problems confronting America we have to provide workable solutions. Words & Promises Do Matter. Missouri Will Show The Way!
Jazz News: Not Your Grandpa's Big BandsBig bands beginning to make as much a stir on the music seen as before World War II.
If Its Too Big to Fail, Is It Too Big to Exist?"Size, we are told, is not a crime," Brandeis wrote.
Does Big Oil really have influence on Fuel Efficiency?A friend directed me to this website because of the MYT engine. It weighs 150 lbs and puts out the same power as a 7.3 Liter diesel. Of course there are the usual line up of conspiracy stories and I cannot say if they are true or false so I will let you decide.....
Big Picture, for those who like seeing the best photos BIGThe latest Big Picture photo blog from Burlington, Vermont. Small, compressed photo galleries be damned!
LeBron James might be the best player in the NBA already, but at age 24 he has few things to learn about sportsmanship and leadership. He hasn't figured out yet how to win the biggest game.
Big Brother Awards Italy 2009Today, the votes of the jurors for the Big Brother Awards Italia 2009(http://bba.winstonsmith.info/ ) is public. The jurors have made their choice on the basis of the proposals sent by all Italians.
Higher MPG More die from H1N1 Economy good and ten bad then good then bad ... Shocking! OB gets folks mad at school! On and on. You know the stuff that we talk about here...Most of it diversion or subversion or is it?
Hall of Fame: Some tough calls must be madeA treatise on the modern day quandary about performance enhancing drugs in the MLB. Note the commenter/inviter who would like to "spit in the face" of juicers.
Number of Americans Viewing Big Government As a Threat has DROPPED.While more Americans fear big government than big business, the number of Americans who fear big government has fallen since December of 2006, while the number of Americans who fear big business has risen.
Auto bankruptcy: What it meansThe auto industry's woes helped shave 1.1% from the nation's gross domestic product in the fourth quarter. Imagine how much worse of an impact there would be if one or more of the Big Three actually goes out of business.
Whitecaps' Fifth Third Burger not for faint of heart - a 4,800-calorie mouthful (With Video)COMSTOCK PARK -- The next item the West Michigan Whitecaps might want to consider selling at Fifth Third Ballpark concession stands is antacids. Or cholesterol medication. That is because their newest menu option is a 4,800-calorie mouthful.
Facebook And Co 'Face Big Brother Monitoring'Millions of Britons who use social networking sites like Facebook could have details of everyone they correspond with monitored by the Government. Under the proposals, the Home Office is considering making the sites keep data about their users' movements
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