The real-life restaurants in New York City that the ones in GTA IV are based on. http://edlevineeats.seriouseats.com/2008/04/food-and-restaurant-screenshots-from-grand-theft-auto-4.html

For more than 20 years since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, scientists have been debating the underlying physical mechanism for this exotic phenomenon, which has the potential to revolutionize the electrical power distribution network.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/77/71A47/index.xml?section=science

Linking spiral arms, two large colliding galaxies are featured in this Hubble Space Telescope view, part of a series of cosmic snapshots released to celebrate the Hubble’s 18th anniversary. Recorded in astronomer Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 272, the pair is otherwise known as NGC 6050 and IC 1179.http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080430.html

A look inside the Tsunami Factoryhttp://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/inside-tsunami-factory

The McCain-Clinton gas holiday proposal is a perfect example of what energy expert Peter Schwartz of Global Business Network describes as the true American energy policy today: “Maximize demand, minimize supply and buy the rest from the people who hate us the most.”http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/opinion/30friedman.html?ex=1367294400&en=0588e238277893d6&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg

A majority of members of the Rockefeller family called on Exxon Mobil Corp. to look beyond the oil and gas industry and invest in alternative energyhttp://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/050108dnbusexxonrockefellers.b4874c03.html

The lack of confidence in the flagging economy has been spurred on by rising gas and food prices and weakening job prospects. As a result, “a widely watched measure of consumer sentiment [reached] a five-year low, a private research group said Tuesday,” according to the AP.http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/articles/consumer-confidence-reaches-five-year-low-51547.aspx

Last week a federal magistrate judge ordered the Bush administration to answer some pointed questions about its failure to preserve White House emails as required by federal law. Ars examines what the law requires, what the White House has done, and what the rest of us should do about it.http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost-e-mails.ars

NEW YORK - The for-sale listings on the online hub Craigslist come with plaintive notices, like the one from the teenager in Georgia who said her mother lost her job and pleaded, “Please buy anything you can to help out.” Or the seller in Milwaukee who wrote in one post of needing to pay […]

South Africa led efforts to block the dispatch of a UN envoy to Zimbabwe yesterday as the UN Security Council met on the election stand-off for the first time. Diplomats said that South African opposition to a UN mission meant that the next step would probably be a public meeting of the 15-nation Security Council […]