The 80-story Dynamic Tower, described as the "world's first building in motion," will also be the first skyscraper constructed from prefabricated units, according to a press statement released by New York-based architect David Fisher's Dynamic Group.

Each floor would be capable of rotating independently, powered by wind turbines fitted between each floor.

"You can adjust the shape the way you like every given moment," Fisher said. "It's not a piece of architecture somebody designed today and that's it. It remains forever. It's designed by life, shaped by time."

Apartments will sell for about $3,000 per square foot, making each unit range in price from about $4 million to $40 million. Work on the tower is to be completed by 2010, according to Dynamic's Web site.

The single-camera half-hour is a high-concept laffer set in the future and focused on the mundane world of a spaceship captain when he's not on a mission. Fox has ordered five additional scripts beyond the pilot.

"We grew up watching shows like 'Star Trek,' anything having to do with the future, and it was always about the adventures they'd go on," McElhenney said. "We thought it would be funny to watch what goes on in between those adventures, when they're waiting for the next big thing to happen. How do they keep themselves busy?"

Pilot is based on an idea that came from "Sunny" writers' assistant Adam Stein; as a result, Stein will get a "written and created by" credit alongside the "Sunny" guys. McElhenney, Day and Howerton are also set to exec produce, along with Michael Rotenberg and Nick Frenkel; RCG, and 3 Arts will produce with 20th Century Fox TV.

"I wish it was less rare that when you get a comedy script, you laugh out loud," said Fox Entertainment prexy Kevin Reilly. "This really felt like a bull's-eye for Fox. It's a concept I've seen developed before badly, many times. These guys nailed it."

Unlike "Sunny," the trio don't plan to star in "Boldly Going Nowhere," which they said will contain characters that greatly vary in age, sex and race.

McElhenney, Day and Howerton -- who christened their company RCG, after the first letters in their first names -- began talking to 20th about a deal before the strike, but such a pact was put on hold during the work stoppage. After the strike was over, "We sat down and wrote the script in two or three days," McElhenney said. "As soon as it was done, we told 20th we had a script idea and asked 20th if the deal was still available, and they said yes."

McElhenney said signing on with 20th also helped avoid any logistical problems in continuing with "Sunny," since that show airs on a fellow News Corp. property. The next 13-episode season of "Sunny" will be shot this summer for a fall bow.

"We didn't want to step on anyone's toes or shoot ourselves in the foot for neglecting our duties on 'Sunny,'" he said. "It's what got us here in the first place, we're proud of it, and our faces are all over it."

Euro banknotes increase in size with increasing denominations, which helps both the visually impaired and the blind. The predominant colouring of the notes alternates between "warm" and "cool" hues in adjacent denominations (see the chart above), making it still harder to confuse two similar denominations for those who can see the colour. The printing of the denominations is intaglio printing, which allows the ink to be felt by sensitive fingers, allowing some people to distinguish the printed denominations by touch alone. Lower denominations (5, 10, 20) have smooth bands along one side of the note containing holograms; higher denominations have smooth, square patches with holograms. Finally, the €200 and €500 notes have distinctive tactile patterns along the edges of the notes: the €200 note has vertical lines running from the bottom centre to the right-hand corner, and the €500 note has diagonal lines running down the right-hand edge.

Although there have been other currencies pre-dating the euro that were specifically designed in similar ways (different sizes, colours, and ridges) to aid the visually impaired, the introduction of the euro constitutes the first time that authorities have consulted associations representing the blind before, rather than after, the release of the currency.

Computers, burglar alarm systems, gas and electricity meters, iPods, telephone exchanges - all are considered food by the flea-sized ants, for reasons that have left scientists baffled.

Having ruined pumps at a sewage facility, the ants are now marching towards Nasa's Johnson Space Centre and William P. Hobby airport, Houston, putting state officials in a panic. "They're itty-bitty things, and they're just running everywhere," said Patsy Morphew, a resident of Pearland, on the Gulf Coast.

She spends hours sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful. "There's just thousands and thousands of them. If you've seen a car racing, that's how they are. They're going fast, fast, fast. They're crazy."

"At this point it would be nearly impossible to eradicate the ants because they are so widely dispersed," said Roger Gold, a Texas A&M University entomologist. He added that the only upside to the invasion was that the crazy rasberry ants ate fire ants, which sting humans during the long, hot Texas summers.

Pest control specialists say that they are inundated with calls from homes and businesses now that the warm, humid season has begun, with literally billions of the ants wreaking havoc across the state. Worse, the ants refuse to die when sprayed with over-the-counter poison. Even killing the queen of a colony doesn't do any good, because each colony has multiple queens.

Kent Brockman: I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

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[Outgoing prime minister Romano] Prodi's tax minister, Vincenzo Visco, often dubbed 'Dracula' by his detractors, said the website was meant to go live in January but was delayed until now to avoid clashing with the campaign for the April 13-14 election.

"It's all about transparency and democracy. I don't see the problem," Visco was quoted as saying on Corriere della Sera's website.

Guido Crosetto, a member of [incoming prime minister Silvio] Berlusconi's party, said the move was the last spiteful measure of the defeated centre left before it hands over power next week. "It's a very strange thing to do on the last day before clearing off," he said.

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It's not as if the report killed any major surprise. Fallon has been the only real candidate for the job since February 2007, when Broadcasting & Cable and the New York Times reported that the former "Saturday Night Live" star had quietly signed a holding deal envisioning just such a gig. Six months later, Peacock latenight chief Rick Ludwin confirmed that Fallon was in line for the job. "I think he'd be terrific, and he is at the top of our short list," Ludwin told B&C.

Then, just two months ago, the Times again reported that Fallon would replace O'Brien and said he would likely begin in February 2009. O'Brien is expected to take off six months or so in between his final "Late Night" and first "Tonight Show."

O'Brien, meanwhile, is still slated to replace Jay Leno has host of "The Tonight Show," despite some media speculation that NBC may be having cold feet. ABC and Fox have made it clear that Leno is welcome to hop to their networks if he wants, while the Times said Sony has offered to give Leno his own syndie berth.

A stunt driver has crashed the car used by movie secret agent James Bond into Italy's Lake Garda during filming of 007's latest movie, Quantum of Solace. The driver was delivering the iconic Aston Martin DBS to the film scene in heavy rain when he lost control around one of the lake's narrow curves.

Italian TV showed the car, reportedly the only one available for use in the film, being winched out of the lake.

Caption from BBC: It is not known how the stunt driver lost control of the vehicle while driving to the film set on scenic Lake Garda.