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7:50: Nearing game time, some interesting Sader facts Troy has enlightened me on. Holy Cross: 1947 NCAA Champions, lost to Bucknell in Patriot League championship two years ago, won in 2005 and 2007, going to the NCAA tournament both years, and they where a lot of purple. Final fact...
One of the few points of difference between the Labor Party and the Liberal-National government is over whether Australia should ratify the Kyoto Protocol, thereby committing the nation to reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions. Labor leader Kevin Rudd calls climate change "the moral challenge of our generation" and says...
Embedded in the BPro is a sensor that picks up pulsations from the artery in the wrist and translates them into blood-pressure readings. Ting leases the BPro to doctors, who charge patients $80 a day to use it--a fee split with Ting.
The other fearsome exchange rate, of course, is between the euro and the dollar. The euro has taken the brunt of the dollar's depreciation--the greenback has dropped more than 30% against the euro over the past two years. Naim foresees U.S. competitors grabbing European market share "and a...
It's a wonder Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma still has a political career. Since 2005, he has been sacked as Deputy President of South Africa, tried and acquitted of rape and embroiled in a corruption scandal over defense contracts. He is uneducated, has somewhere from two to six wives (he refuses...