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...minimum. Palin doesn't see it that way. "We're taking our country back, and we're starting right here in Nevada," she told the Searchlight crowd, many of whom chanted for her to run for President. For Palin, health care's passage was not the end of a long battle but the start of an entirely new war. And she sounds more than happy to lead...
...scientists called it the highlight of their career. On March 30, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smashed together two proton beams. Each was moving with an energy equivalent to 3.5 trillion electron volts, for a combined 7 trillion--a new world-record energy level. The victory was a long time coming for CERN, Europe's nuclear-research group, which for 15 years has pumped $10 billion into the setback-plagued project. The experiments are expected to reveal much about the nature of the universe, including other dimensions, dark matter and the Higgs boson, the particle that could explain...
...What They're Missing in the Bay of Bengal: A tiny tropical island has vanished--and we're not talking about the final season of Lost. Long the focus of a dispute between India and Bangladesh, New Moore Island, a 1.4-sq.-mi. speck that once sat several feet above sea level, has been claimed by climate change instead. Regional sea levels have risen dramatically over the past decade...
Unpaid internships have long been a mainstay for students who get academic credit in lieu of a paycheck. But in the Great Recession, with the unemployment rate hovering near 10%, job-search sites like CareerBuilder and Monster.com are reporting increases in the number of postings for internships. And more and more college graduates and even middle-aged professionals are willing to work for free in hopes that it will help them land a paying gig. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...with both parts sharing intellectual property and the brand name. Jha will oversee the mobile-device and television-set-top-box businesses. Brown will run the rest, which the company calls Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Networks, a name that could only have been fashioned by engineers. "I've long advocated that these were two distinctly separate companies," Brown says. "The split will mean renewed focus, improved innovation, better customer satisfaction and increased employee engagement...