29/12/2005

Online holiday shopping soars

Online holiday sales jumped this year, with one prominent survey reporting a 30-percent increase over last year's cybershopping.

Famed oncologist dies of cancer

One of the best-known oncologists in the country lost his own fight with cancer this week, dying of melanoma at the age of 47.

Terror enters India's IT community

Late evening on Dec. 28 terror finally struck Bangalore, India's IT sector hub. A masked gunman opened an indiscriminate fire on a group of delegates at an international conference on the peaceful campus of Indian Institute ...

Bullied children abuse alcohol

A new study out of Oregon indicates children who are bullied in middle school are more likely to abuse substances in high schools.

Chandra looks back at the Earth

In an unusual observation, a team of scientists has scanned the northern polar region of Earth with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The results show that the aurora borealis, or "northern lights," also dance in X-ray light, ...

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