Merrill Lynch In Line For Windfall Over Tobacco Deal
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Bush Names New F.T.C. Chairman
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Goldman Runs Risks, Reaps Rewards
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Watchdog Confirms N. Korean Nuclear Shutdown
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Three Asian Banks Share $13bn Mortgage Risk$
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Science News

Birder of Paradise
2008-03-10 05:30 - Jonathan Rosen takes a poetic, philosophical approach to his favorite outdoor activity.

Shuttle Is Set for an ?Exciting Mission?
2008-03-10 05:30 - The shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to light up the skies over Florida early Tuesday, kicking off a busy 16-day mission to the International Space Station.

Gauging Age of Universe Becomes More Precise
2008-03-10 05:30 - Two additional years of data from a NASA satellite have narrowed the uncertainty in the age of the universe by tens of millions of years.

Grand Canyon Still Grand but Older
2008-03-08 06:01 - By dating mineral deposits inside caves along the canyon’s walls, geologists now claim the canyon’s formation began 11 million years earlier than previous estimates.

Mathematics Explains Mysterious Midge Behavior
2008-03-08 06:01 - A simple equation can describe the boom-and-bust cycle of the midge population around Iceland’s Lake Myvatn, researchers have found.

Books of The Times: Heard the One About the Farmer’s Ethanol?
2008-03-08 06:01 - Robert Bryce mounts a savage attack on the concept of energy independence and the most popular technologies currently being promoted to achieve it.

Recreation Fees Rising in Wake of Fires? Costs
2008-03-08 05:30 - Federal land agencies are imposing new fees and increasing existing ones at recreation sites in the West.

Nobel Winner Retracts Research Paper
2008-03-08 05:30 - A team of scientists including Linda B. Buck, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has retracted a scientific paper after the findings could not be reproduced.

Loggers Invaded Butterfly Haven, Photos Show
2008-03-08 05:30 - The images show fresh clear-cutting in unique forest reserves in central Mexico where large colonies of monarch butterflies roost for the winter.

Court Questions Planned Oil Project in Canada
2008-03-07 05:30 - The Federal Court of Canada has ordered an environmental review panel to take a second look at the greenhouse gas implications of oil sands project in Alberta.


 
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