China Mobile profit down on tougher competition
China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone carrier by subscribers, said its latest quarterly profit tumbled 8.7 percent due to tougher competition.
Business
Oct 22, 2013
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App helps students study better
Cramming from a book, making notes or learning summaries. In the past these were about the only ways to memorize your course material. But that has long since changed. Multimedia is the code word. But is it effective?
Education
Jan 12, 2022
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How a currency devaluation in Kazakhstan made the country's poor worse off
It is the job of the government to keep a country's economy in check. But sometimes policies don't work out as planned. Governments often take economic decisions that follow specific political agendas, and these decisions ...
Economics & Business
Aug 19, 2024
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New emissions tests push BMW into profit warning
German high-end carmaker BMW said Tuesday that new stricter emissions tests for cars as well as refits to older vehicles and global trade tensions would leave revenues and profits short of its full-year forecast.
Business
Sep 25, 2018
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Emission targets: If there's a (political) will, there's a way
It seems like a day doesn't pass without the release of yet another study that shows human actions will inevitably increase the Earth's average temperature past a tipping point that will lead to runaway climate change.
Environment
Dec 13, 2018
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The Albian Gap, salt rock, and a heated debate
Salt rock behaves as a fluid and can play a pivotal role in the large-scale, long-term collapse of the world's continental margins. However, the precise way in which this occurs is laced in controversy; nowhere is this controversy ...
Earth Sciences
May 27, 2015
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What makes farmers try new practices?
Change is never easy. But when it comes to adopting new agricultural practices, some farmers are easier to convince than others.
Environment
Mar 14, 2017
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Holding is believing when it comes to shopping for refurbished items, study says
Whatever you call them—remanufactured, refurbished, renewed —used products ranging from electric toothbrushes to cars are one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. economy. New research from Penn State suggests ...
Economics & Business
Jul 13, 2023
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The Humberside funeral home incident shows England and Wales need a better system for dealing with death
In early March 2024, Humberside Police received reports of concerns over "care for the deceased" at a funeral director's in Hull. Two people have reportedly been bailed after the bodies and ashes of at least 35 people were ...
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2024
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