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...been howling that school e-mail accounts are too small to handle their daily deluge of mail and attachments. To address that problem, a growing number of colleges and universities are outsourcing their e-mail. The companies swooping in to manage student accounts for free? Google and Microsoft. Like search, software and operating systems, campuses are a burgeoning battleground for the tech titans. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...Five Russian naval vessels - reported to include nuclear submarines - have been dispatched to search for the Arctic Sea. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev instructed the country's Defense Minister, Anatoly Serduykov, to "take all necessary measures to locate, monitor and, if necessary, to free the missing vessel," a Defense Ministry statement said. Finnish police have said they are also helping with the search. (Read "Medvedev and Obama: Sunshine in Moscow...
...they're satisfied with their health insurance or who are warning politicians to keep their hands off the current health-care system have never had to buy a health-insurance policy on the open market. After all, the conditions for individuals who do have to fend for themselves in search of health insurance couldn't be much worse than they are now. As one-person (or one-family) risk pools, they have no leverage, premiums are often prohibitively expensive, choice is usually limited and comparing available plans - in the event that more than one exists - is nearly impossible. That problem...
...ensure her children would grow up together as a family after she died. After learning that the liver cancer doctors had detected in July 2008 had become incurable, and knowing that her husband, from whom she was divorced, was unable to care for their children, Picat immediately began the search for a foster family. At first, her quest was seemingly impossible: finding a family with a home close to hers, in her Loiret village of Puiseaux, that would welcome all four kids...
...Whole Foods, the upscale organic grocer that frowns on haggling in its pristine stores, Gault scours the bacon packages in search of one whose sell-by date has come and gone. She finds one and launches into shock-and-awe mode, firing questions at the guy behind the meat counter about possible combo deals that would include an unexpired package. After some back-and-forth, Gault winds up with two $6 packages of bacon for free. In the haggling world, getting free cured meat from Whole Foods is like winning the Super Bowl by eight touchdowns. Check those packages...