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It was five years coming, but the battery of my ThinkPad R50 finally met its maker. On a recent trip, it conked out after powering the notebook for only half an hour -- three hours short of what I'm used to getting out it. Now it refuses to be recharged at all. Clearly, it's time for a new battery.

It's a fact of life that sooner or later, every laptop battery hits old age. Most do well for between 18 and 36 months, depending on how heavily they're used. Then they slip into a slow decline and lose the ability to take a full charge.

The reason?

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?comma... 

Supermodel Heidi Klum may be married to a rock star, but it seems she has musical ambitions of her own.

The former Victoria's Secret model stripped down to her lacy black underwear to spoof actor Tom Cruise's famous air guitar scene to song 'That Old Time Rock And Roll' from 1980s movie 'Risky Business'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1083315... 

When it comes to medical research on sex, most of the attention is on sexually transmitted disease and sexual dysfunction - Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV/AIDS, impotence and frigidity. From this point of view, having sex is a grim and risky business.