Reed Elsevier Buys ChoicePoint For $4.1 Billion
Reed, which owns the Lexis Nexis information service, will acquire ChoicePoint, headquartered in Alpharetta, Ga., a provider of data and analytics to the insurance industry....
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Barnes & Noble 2nd-Quarter Profit Rises
The largest U.S. bookseller said its second-quarter earnings rose 9 percent, boosted by sales of J.K. Rowling’s ’?Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.?’...
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Tennessee Heart Test Is Credited With Saving Lives
Duke Crews seemed healthy until a health screenings administered to all Tennessee athletes found he had a condition blamed for the sudden death of more than a hundred athletes each year....
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Taking Your Presentation, And The Projector’s Utility, To A Whole New Level
With the NewSoft WMS100 Image Wireless Projector Adaptor, up to three computers can control a presentation and display their own screens at any time....
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Want To Save A Coral Reef? Bring Along Your Crochet Hook
This environmental version of the AIDS quilt is meant to draw attention to how rising temperatures and pollution are destroying the Great Barrier Reef....
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Science News

Letters: Iran’s Nuclear ?Enigma? (2 Letters)
2008-05-07 06:01 - To the Editor:.

The College Pressure Cooker (2 Letters)
2008-05-07 05:33 - To the Editor:.

Of God and Darwin (3 Letters)
2008-05-07 05:32 - To the Editor:.

Animal Behavior (2 Letters)
2008-05-07 05:32 - To the Editor:.

Letters: The Downside of Exercise (1 Letter)
2008-05-07 05:32 - To the Editor:.

A Question of Race (1 Letter)
2008-05-07 05:32 - To the Editor:.

Judge Gives Agency Deadline for Decision on Polar Bears
2008-05-05 05:30 - A federal judge gave the Interior Department until May 15 to come to a decision on whether to give polar bears protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence
2008-05-04 06:01 - Daphne Koller’s work has led to advances in artificial intelligence that can be used to predict traffic jams, improve machine vision and understand the way cancer spreads.

Colossal Squid Has Biggest Animal Eyes in World, Scientists Say
2008-05-03 05:30 - Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across ? bigger than a dinner plate.

E.P.A. Proposes New Limits on Lead in the Air, the First Revision in 3...
2008-05-03 05:30 - The agency is under court order to complete a new rule by Sept. 1, because of a lawsuit brought by environmentalists.


 
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