| Illini fight trying to overcome absence of Pruitt
I swear, this Illini basketball team can wear a person out. I can only imagine what it might be like to be coaching it or playing on it. The latest chapter in this often-puzzling saga started Tuesday night with news that senior center Shaun Pruitt, the team's leading scorer and rebounder, would not play. Pruitt was wearing his warmups but did not participating in shooting drills. And he never got into the game. The reason? We were told it was not academic, not a legal matter and not an injury. Then, after Illinois' 64-58 loss at Ohio State, Bruce Weber had this to say: “As for Shaun Pruitt, it's a team matter, a family matter. It's being handled internally. We hope he has a positive attitude and we get him back involved with us. That's what we're hoping he'll do the rest of the week.
U.S. security turning border into parking lot, envoy warns
WASHINGTON U.S. Customs and Border Protection should review and reduce excessive security measures at the Canada-U.S. line or risk turning it into a parking lot, Ambassador Michael Wilson told the agency Wednesday. Idling trucks on both sides of the border aren't secure or profitable, he said, and fees are being slapped several times on the same products as parts travel back and forth during manufacturing. .
Norfolk Botanical Garden demonstrating conservation method
The small building where visitors buy tickets for boat rides at Norfolk Botanical Garden is now one of the garden displays, rather than simply an adjunct structure. The building's cedar shingles are gone and in their place is a green roof, a living bed of succulents such as sedums and hens and chicks. The year-round roof will be a natural part of the growing season along with all the rest of the garden's plant beds. Come spring and summer, the succulent roof will bloom and hens will produce chicks. Come fall, many will turn a rich red, pink or chartreuse, said Melissa Butler, herbaceous plants curator at the garden. "They are really very pretty in fall," Butler added. But unlike other plants in the garden, pretty is as pretty does for these succulents.
First Look: MacBook Pro: First day, first Lab tests
Our best test result right now: the Universal version of Cinema 4D XL, a processor-intensive rendering application, which was 3.3 times faster on the 2GHz MacBook Pro than on the 1.67GHz PowerBook G4. Unreal Tournament 2004 took advantage of both the Intel processor and the MacBook Pro's seriously upgraded video subsystems to post a frame rate 2.5 times greater than that of the PowerBook G4. These results bode well for use of the systems with Universal versions of professional applications and games. (And keep in mind that other Universal applications will likely get faster over time as they are optimized for Intel processors and increasingly take advantage of multiple processor cores.) Our first Rosetta test on the MacBook Pro was our standard 14-task Photoshop CS2 suite, and the PowerBook G4 completed that task roughly 1.7 times as fast as the MacBook Pro.
Filed under: NFL
-The worst month for sports is what were going through right now. The NBA is hitting the mid-season and there is yet to be any real excitement. You have the NFL that just got over a month ago, and yes, we're all sad because that marks the end of football for another 6-7 months. College Football recruiting is always fun, but we all know that in a sense it is just a waiting game that is boring. We have College Basketball hitting conference schedules real hard which is truely fun to watch, but we then enter the conference tournaments and they mean nothing. MLB isen't even heard of in this month, and NASCAR has qualifying on the week before Daytona. Isen't that just interesting. The month of February is a complete let-down. This month is almost worthless in the world of sports. I mean, the NBA season may be shaping up, but there is another 40 games to be played.
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