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AIG executive resigns over pay limits - Yahoo! NewsA top executive at American International Group Inc has resigned because of pay curbs imposed by the Obama Administration's pay czar, the insurer said on Wednesday. Anastasia Kelly, AIG's vice chairman for legal, human resources, corporate affairs and corporate communications, resigned ...
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Solution to killer superbug found in Norway - Yahoo! NewsAker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner. Look closer, however, at a microscopic level, and this ...
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FAA and taxpayers prop up small, little-used airports - USATODAY.comBusiness-owned airports used exclusively for private planes have gotten $240 million for upgrades, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The money has aided about 50 privately owned airports — many of them little-used — since the mid-1980s, buying items such as runway upgrades, new fences and airplane hangars....
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Jan. 1 Emissions Reporting Deadline Draws Pundits Out of Wordwork · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability ExecutivesWith large emitters scheduled to begin collecting their emissions data Jan. 1, companies are gearing up to ensure their compliance. But that hasn’t stopped critics from ramping up their rhetoric. On Sept. 22, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would require about 10,000 facilities ...
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How Algal Biofuels Lost a Decade in the Race to Replace Oil | Wired Science | Wired.comFor nearly 20 years, a government laboratory built a living, respiring library of carefully collected organisms in search of something that could grow quickly while producing something precious: oil. But now that collection has largely been lost. National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists ...
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Drug-resistant infections lurk in meat we eat - Infectious diseases- msnbc.comRuss Kremer, shown with one of his free-roaming pigs on his farm in Frankenstein, Mo., was gored by the tusk of a boar and got a strep infection that didn't heal even after two months of multiple antibiotics. The answer was flowing in the veins of the boar. The animal had been fed low doses of ...
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Answer Desk: TARP bailout won't die - Answer Desk- msnbc.comTo be sure, the return of the money indicates that the bailout succeeded. Banks are healthy enough to give the money pack, and taxpayers didn’t have to foot the bill for their mistakes. The Troubled Asset Relief Program may have turned out to be a nightmare, but it wasn’t a hoax. Enacted in the ...
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Jonathan Stray » lifeloggingLifelogging + Machine Transcription = Public Reporters’ Notebooks I want reporters to make their notebooks public, because I want news organizations and audiences alike to enjoy the fruits of transparency that the web is bringing to us. There are at least two problems with this idea: these ...
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Career Watch: A professor challenges the conventional wisdom on offshoringAs a serious researcher of the outsourcing phenomenon, you have taken to warning that outsourcing has grave implications for the well-being of the nation. Could you elaborate? Standard economic theory tells us that offshoring could be good or it could be bad for the American economy and standard ...
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U.S. moves to strengthen H-1B enforcementU.S. immigration officials are taking H-1B enforcement from the desk to the field with a plan to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of companies hiring foreign workers during the government's current fiscal year. That would mark a nearly fivefold increase in inspections over the previous year, ...
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