New Chinese robot car makes 216 mile trip between Changsha and Wuhan in three hours and 20 minutes, with no human assistance.
An added thread of the story is that officials say the intellectual property behind the car was created entirely at China’s National University of Defense Technology.
Israeli Labor MK Benjamin Ben-Eliezer says he and the Prime Minister offered Hosni Mubarak asylum several months ago when visiting him at Sharm el-Sheikh. But Mubarak declined.
“I met [Mubarak] in Sharm el-Sheikh and I told him that it was a short distance and that it might be a good chance to heal himself. I am convinced that the Israel government would have accepted him but he declined [the offer] because he was a patriot,” said Ben-Eliezer.
Ben-Eliezer, who was born in Basra, Iraq in 1936, is said to be close to Mubarak.
Al Jazeera reports overwhelmingly positive response in first few days on cable in NYC.
Cantor: Dear Youngins’, that Medicare thing? Well, we need to talk about that.
