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Cadbury can't be that surprised by Kraft's interest. Ever since U.S. chocolate giant Mars picked up chewing-gum maker Wrigley for $23 billion in 2008 - overtaking Cadbury to become the world's biggest confectioner in the bargain - analysts have held up the British firm as a compelling target...
One of the things people fear is that it's going to produce black holes. If it did produce black holes, they'd be extremely small ones. Black holes aren't like a vacuum cleaner, sucking everything in and getting bigger and bigger. A small black hole actually caves in...
A U.S. Army bomb-disposal unit has three people: an intelligence officer, the specialist who covers the scene with his rifle and the staff sergeant who walks up to the device and tries to turn it off. The movie opens with the report of one such device on a Baghdad...
Though I am exceedingly squeamish, when my son was born, I was shocked that I saw only the beauty of childbirth. Until the placenta came out. There are many normal human reactions to seeing a placenta, ranging from screaming to vomiting to warding it off with a cross. For those...
That, at least, had long been the conventional wisdom, but in recent years, scientists have come to learn that by some measures, the solar system fairly sloshes with water. Mars, we now know, was once as wet as Earth and still harbors ice and perhaps liquid water. The moon is...