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Study shows loss of 15-42 percent of mammals in North AmericaIf the planet is headed for another mass extinction like the previous five, each of which wiped out more than 75 percent of all species on the planet, then North American mammals are one-fifth to one-half the way there, according to a University of California, Berkeley, and Pennsylvania State ...
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Naked access now 38 percent of U.S. trading: report | ReutersA report says that 38 percent of all U.S. stock trading is now done by firms that have "naked sponsored access" to markets, the controversial trading practice said to imperil the marketplace, and which faces a regulatory crackdown. Naked access gives trading firms, using brokers' licenses, ...
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Exclusive: IRS hires hundreds for new wealth unit | ReutersA new Internal Revenue Service unit set up to catch rich tax cheats hiding their wealth in complex business entities is rapidly taking shape with the hiring of hundreds of employees. The IRS high wealth unit, part of a broader effort to combat international tax evasion, is focusing on "the ...
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Snow at Highest Elevations No Longer Pure - Yahoo! NewsThe pure white snow atop the Andes Mountains may not be so pure after all. Scientists have found traces of toxic pollutants called PCBs in snow samples taken from Aconcagua Mountain, the highest peak in the Americas. While the overall PCB levels were quite low, the results show that these ...
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Organizations: sign onto letter opposing secret copyright treaty! Boing BoingA worldwide coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations, consumers unions and online service providers associations publish an open letter to the European institutions regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) currently under negotiation. They call on the European Parliament and ...
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In India, Anxiety Over the Slow Pace of Innovation - NYTimes.comIn the United States and Europe, people worry that their well-paying, high-skill jobs will be, in a word, “Bangalored” — shipped off to India. Even as the rest of the world has come to admire, envy and fear India’s outsourcing business and its technological prowess, many Indians are ...
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EU antitrust chief slams senators on Oracle dealThe European Union's antitrust chief said Tuesday that U.S. senators who pressed her to approve Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. should stop interfering in Europe's affairs and prioritize U.S. health care reform."Is this really more important than fixing your own health care ...
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New Norway power plant uses salt to make electricity - Yahoo! NewsNorway unveiled the world's first osmotic power plant on Tuesday, harnessing the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater to make clean electricity. "While salt might not save the world alone, we believe osmotic power will be an important part of the global energy portfolio," the ...
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Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europegovernment crimes should be disclosed, investigated and punished only when they occur during a time other than the Past.
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Purdue Newsroom — New theory on fairness in economics targets CEO payChief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their "ideal salaries" in 2008, according to a new type of theoretical analysis proposed by a Purdue University researcher to determine fair CEO compensation. "One of the most pressing economic and ...
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