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...Kindles 1 and 2 helped give trade books a lifeline by wirelessly linking Amazon's online bookstore to the devices and making it easy to buy books. And Kindle 3 will apparently do the same thing for textbooks and newspapers. But what about everyone's favorite periodicals - magazines...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Tuesday morning that the economy is likely to pull out of the recession and start growing later this year. This in itself isn't news - Bernanke has been saying the same thing for months. What's news is that people are starting to believe...
...number of preparatory measures we are undertaking, including the possible decision to produce a vaccine for H1N1. And that will be very important because should we decide to produce one, we want to make sure everything has been put in place that allows that to happen quickly. The other thing we want to do is look very closely and carefully at what takes place in the Southern Hemisphere during its upcoming flu season. How will this virus do compared to the others out there? That's an important question. Will it be mutating, in terms of its resistance? Right...
...thing that I feel most summed her up is that she never backed down from a challenge—be it something huge like her torn ACL in rugby, or something as small as an arm wrestling match,” Radcliffe Rugby co-captain Morgan M. W. Jessee ’09 wrote in an e-mail...
...artists, collectors and museum staff are demanding that Vietnam's art officials come clean. Tiep says the museum's entire collection has been tainted because copies are not labeled. This acceptance of copying has helped devalue Vietnamese art, since collectors are never sure if they are buying the real thing. Tiep accuses the museum of failing to properly display and preserve its collection, resulting in irrevocable damage and loss. "I have had to swallow my tears," says Tiep, who resigned as deputy director two years ago to protest what he claims is mismanagement. "We have a duty to raise...