US newspaper owners are 'mad as hell'
US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad.
Apr 08, 2009
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Apr 08, 2009
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Japan's Sharp sees deeper net loss
Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp. said that it had fallen deeper in the red than expected in the past year, suffering its first-ever loss due to the economic downturn.
Apr 08, 2009
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Bogus security software growing threat: Microsoft
Hackers are increasingly hiding viruses in bogus computer security software to trick people into installing treacherous programs on machines, Microsoft warned on Wednesday.
Apr 08, 2009
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Do smokers cost society money?
(AP) -- Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer.
Apr 08, 2009
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Russia space capsule carrying US billionaire lands
(AP) -- A Russian spacecraft carrying a crew of three including U.S. billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi landed safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, officials said.
Apr 08, 2009
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Climate change to spur rapid shifts in wildfire hotspots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change will bring about major shifts in worldwide fire patterns, and those changes are coming fast, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis led by researchers at the University of ...
Apr 08, 2009
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Reserves found to be 'effective tool' for reducing fires in Brazilian rainforests
Rainforest reserves - even those disturbed by roads - provide an important buffer against fires that are devastating parts of the Brazilian Amazon, according to a new study by a trio of researchers at Duke University published ...
Apr 08, 2009
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New Mexican health-care program successful at reducing crippling health care costs
Seguro Popular, a Mexican health care program instituted in 2003, has already reduced crippling health care costs among poorer households, according to an evaluation conducted by researchers at Harvard University in collaboration ...
Apr 08, 2009
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Owls' dawn and dusk concerts promote visual communication
Reporting in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE April 8, Vincenzo Penteriani and Maria Delgado of the Estacion Biologica de Doñana, Spain, describe the evolution of white throat badges in association with d ...
Apr 08, 2009
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Wild chimpanzees exchange meat for sex
Wild female chimpanzees copulate more frequently with males who share meat with them over long periods of time, according to a study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...
Apr 08, 2009
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