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...like sales increase in the fourth quarter was at the low end of its estimate. But Wal-Mart did better than most and its total sales this year will grow 10%, to about $240 billion worldwide in the fiscal year that ends Jan. 31. No company on the planet is bigger. And Wal-Mart is mounting an audacious expansion that could double its sales within just five years. Wal-Mart has 1,300 Supercenters, many of them converted from standard discount stores, offering everything from hardware to groceries and drugs. In some areas, it is placing these...
...Pity of War (1998), he argued that the World War I was a fight Britain should have ducked. In Empire (and an accompanying six-part series on Britain's Channel Four), he charts how, over a span of 300 years, Britain laid claim to a quarter of the planet's land surface and its people. The tale he tells is astonishing - but what really astounds is Ferguson's glowing praise. Contemporary historians routinely decry the Empire's sins; Ferguson celebrates it for dragging the world into the modern age. As an economist, Ferguson is particularly good at explaining...
After detecting about 60 light-dimming bodies as potential planet candidates, the researchers used a series of telescopes to provide clues about which interfering bodies were too large to be planets...
...scientists used the largest telescope in the world, the Keck I in Hawaii, to take the final measurements to determine OGLE-TR-56b was a planet...
This is the first time that the transit technique has actually been used to discover a planet...