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...spin-offs soar. Look out for junky companies created to separate legal liability or off-load debt from the parent. And some carve-outs simply don't make good stand-alone companies, like Barnesandnoble.com and other dotcoms that are really just brand extensions designed to cash in on the Internet bubble. Such IPOs may get a lot of attention, but that's not where you find the big money...
...Senate remains overwhelmingly skeptical of a treaty that would inevitably prove costly to the nation of whom it requires the greatest cuts, and against that background U.S. negotiators are trying to find ways of easing the load required by the treaty. Although it has been agreed that countries such as the U.S. will be able to buy polluting "rights" from countries that produce less than their limit of carbon gases to cover inevitable shortfalls in achieving U.S. targets - in other words, pay other countries to increase their own cuts - that could still prove to be a costly solution...
However, if Harvard's data network slows suddenly while a student is downloading a website, the student simply has to wait an extra second or two for the page to load. If the same were to happen during a telephone call, some part of the conversation would not get through or would be delayed to such an extent that normal conversation would be difficult. In fact, studies have found that delays of more than a half a second in voice conversations would render VOIP essentially useless...
...curtain of dangling burlap strips, it looks like Bob Marley has joined a militia. My doe's head may be spinning around like something out of The Exorcist for all I know. I can't see through the dreadlocks. The driver may not know whether to lock and load or call a priest. But he's still watching. Go ahead, tough guy. Show some courage...
They tested the ability of Remune to boost the immune response of HIV-infected people by reducing the patient's viral load because "it showed some activity in the lab," Cheng said...