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...hard to tell what payoff would go to the winning technology provider, says Gordon, nor is it even known who would own the content. There is also the question of whether the various pay-for-content ideas would fly with consumers. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently told British broadcasting executives that charging for online content won't work except for niche and specialist markets. Consumer surveys tend to support those doubts. A Belden Interactive survey released in mid-September found that computer users who said they'd pay for news online would shell out an average of only...
What parent hasn't used candy to pacify a cranky child or head off a brewing tantrum? When reasoning, threats and time-outs fail, a sugary treat often does the trick. But while that chocolate-covered balm may be highly effective in the short term, say British scientists, it may be setting youngsters up for problem behavior later. According to a new study, kids who eat too many treats at a young age risk becoming violent in adulthood...
...face if found guilty - was enough to worry some of the firm's investors. The company's stock fell more than 5% Thursday following the SFO's statement. After a checkered few years, BAE's reputation will likely fare little better. Concern for Britain's national security pushed the British government in 2006 to order a halt to a separate SFO probe into allegations that BAE paid bribes to secure business with Saudi Arabia in the mid-1980s. The inquiry into the $69 billion "Al-Yamamah" arms deals, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted, risked the withdrawal of Saudi cooperation...
...bungled "Al-Yamamah" probe. (Britain's High Court ruled in 2008 that the SFO had acted unlawfully in scrapping the inquiry, a decision later overturned by the House of Lords.) And the prosecution of BAE for overseas corruption would be only the second such case against a British firm. Building contractor Mabey & Johnson was last month fined $10.5 million for similar offenses dating back to the early 1990s. (Read: "The Gulf: An Exquisite Balancing...
...outbreak found that health-care workers might refuse to immunize their children and themselves if they believed the risks of a new vaccine outweighed the benefits, according to a report in the Emergency Health Threats Journal in August. Another study published last month in the online edition of the British Medical Journal found that less than half of Hong Kong's health-care workers said they intended to receive a H1N1 influenza vaccine...