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Once upon a time the world was one, at least geographically. All land masses on Earth were united in a supercontinent that scientists have named Pangaea. The unity suggested by that idea has been adopted to promote a one-day ...
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MySpace has unveiled a new plan to turn the site into a central storage hub for users' personal data and profile information by allowing them to access and use that information when they visit other websites. The idea is ...
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Critics cried foul last year when a 28-foot sculpture of slain civil rights leader Martin Lurther King Jr., proposed for the National Mall's Tidal Basin, was commissioned to a Chinese sculptor. Now, a powerful arts commission says the colossal ...
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For beer drinkers, it is not just any brewery, but the font of all that is goodness and dark: the home of the dry stout Guinness. Alas, St. James's Gate, the historic brewery in Dublin, will no longer be the ...
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Congress is wading into the network neutrality debate ...
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Just one more thing to worry about next time you're sitting on an airplane. According to a University of California study, ozone levels inside the cabins of some commercial aircraft exceed federal limits, increasing the chance of health problems ...
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Now that Microsoft has left Yahoo twisting in the wind, investors want to know whether to put money into the beleagured Web giant's shares — and the shares of its rival Google. One Wall Street analyst is urging investors to ...
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A semiconductor maker agrees to pay $10 million to settle a stock options backdating case, and one of its cofounders will pony up $500,000 personally. Unlike other cases, however, this one was wrapped up as a civil case, with no jail time ...
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Hollywood may try to capture big business' dirty dealings. But fiction can't compete with real life ...
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Remember Aaron Wider, the R-rated corporate executive? The president of HTFC Corp., a mortgage company, used the f-word "73 times when the opposing side in a lawsuit took his deposition. At one point, Wider said that HTFC stood for "Hit ...
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It's hard to get 16- and 18-year-olds to take you seriously when you're trying to talk about what they plan to do with their lives. Unless, perhaps, you're a hip-hop mogul or a movie maker. So a group called New ...
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Freakin' Sweet happens to be the name of geek idol Seth MacFarlane's new musical revue, but it's also an apt summary of the big deal he just cut with 20th Century Fox TV, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As ...
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With all of the news around Microsoft's abandoned Yahoo bid and its reported courtship of Facebook this week, it's understandable that one rumor managed to slip through the cracks: Microsoft is coming to Brooklyn! Well, Microsoft is talking about coming ...
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Ah, if only government were run as efficiently as a business. It's a remarkably hardy political dream that flourishes in the wake of tales about incompetence, waste, and corruption in the public sector. The invaluable experience of a corporate C.E.O ...
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Shares of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, the soda and beverage spinoff of Cadbury Schweppes, began trading today on the New York Stock Exchange, and, so far, they are lacking in fizz. At midday, the stock, with the ticker symbol of ...
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Much is being made (mostly by the man himself, naturally) of Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" cameo in Iron Man, but the hit Marvel movie is perhaps just as notable for its sophisticated take on how the news media covers ...
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Steve Bailey, senior managing director in loan administration for Countrywide Financial, took the hot seat this afternoon at a hearing by a Senate Judiciary subcommittee probing whether misconduct by loan servicers in bankruptcy proceedings is "fueling" the foreclosure crisis. At ...
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Grand Theft Auto IV publisher Take-Two has filed suit against the Chicago Transit Authority for pulling ads for the game without providing adequate explanation. Take-Two's suit accuses the CTA and its sales agent, Titan Outdoor LLC, of violating a ...
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