Despite Loss, Nortel Sticks With Outlook
Nortel, which makes telecommunications equipment, reported a loss of $138 million, or 28 cents a share, compared with a loss of $103 million, or 23 cents a share, a year earlier....
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Music: Brazil’s Musical Mutants Resume Their Strange Trip
After 30 years apart, the band Os Mutantes has reunited, winning over a new generation of pop cognoscenti....
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Panel Rejects Microsoft’s Open Format
A panel of software experts unexpectedly rebuffed Microsoft’s bid to have its open document format, Office Open XML, recognized as an international standard....
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Really?: The Claim: Darker Skin Protects Against Skin Cancer
People with darker skin get deeper tans and burn less quickly than other people, but does that mean better protection against skin cancer?...
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Yossi Harel, Who, Defying British, Brought Jews To Palestine, Is Dead At 90
Mr. Harel renamed the rickety ship he commanded Exodus 1947 and sailed it to legend as a symbol of the righteousness of the mission by Jews to settle Palestine in the face of British opposition....
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