Microsoft has doubled their reward for anyone who can give them information on a young Canadian boy. Authorities say that he ran away from home after his father took away his Xbox 360 console. 15 year old Brandon Crisp was angry with his father and took off on his bicycle from his home in Barrie, Ontario on October 13th. He was last seen riding east along an old rail line.
Archive for October, 2008
eBay is banning the sale of ivory products on their site starting in December. The International Fund for Animal Welfare as well as other groups have written reports criticizing eBay for not keeping a closer eye on who does business through their site. “In one instance, a user purchased a pair of elephant tusks off eBay for more than $21,000,” IFAW said in a statement.
The online auction house will now be enforcing the ban to cover other things such as jewelry and chess pieces that are made from ivory starting in January. This ban will not include sales of pianos or other such products that are partly made from ivory but are not specifically made from it.
For years we have been told to get off the computers and get outside into the fresh air. Sitting in front of a computer screen and surfing the net all day was thought to make us duller people with straining eye problems. New research may prove this wrong and show the many benefits of surfing the net.