Frequent Flier: Asleep In Exhaustion, On A Sofa Or On Pavement
Perhaps the worst, and most uncomfortable, place I have ever fallen asleep was in a parking lot in Beirut....
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HD DVD Told: ’you’re Missing The Boat’
Video Ezy and Blockbuster throw their support behind Blu-ray, saying HD DVD is not taking the Australian market seriously enough....
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Bomb Leaves 28 Dead In Algeria
In Algeria’s second terror attack this week, 28 people were killed when a car bomb exploded at a coast guard barracks 30 miles outside of Algiers....
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World Briefing | Africa: Ivory Coast: Bonfire For Peace
President Laurent Gbagbo made his first visit to the former rebel-held north since 2002, when a rebellion split the country. A peace deal five months ago allowed for reunification, and in Bouaké...
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Business Schools Break Tradition In Global Education
California business schools are taking global education to a new level, offering courses that go beyond case studies and collaborating with universities abroad, particularly in Asia....
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Science News

Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline
2008-02-20 05:30 - Two scientists are introducing a concept, which they have patriotically named Green Freedom, for removing carbon dioxide from the air and turning it back into gasoline.

Revealed: Secrets of the Camouflage Masters
2008-02-20 05:30 - After decades of dives, a scientist offers a theory to explain the spectacular deceptions of cephalopods.

As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises
2008-02-18 05:30 - The federal government, contractually obligated to bury the waste, is at least 20 years behind schedule.

South Korea: Give the Dog a Clone
2008-02-17 06:01 - A Seoul-based company says it has received the world’s first commercial order to clone a pet dog, from a California woman who wants to recreate her dead pit bull terrier.

For ?EcoMoms,? Saving Earth Begins at Home
2008-02-17 05:30 - Move over, Tupperware. A new wave of parties is about waste-free lunches and energy-efficient laundry.

Missile Defense Future May Turn on Success of Mission to Destroy Satel...
2008-02-17 05:30 - The order to destroy a disabled satellite before it falls from orbit carries opportunity, but also potential embarrassment, for the advocates of a missile defense program.

In Remote Valley, a Grim Redefinition of ?Fishing?
2008-02-16 06:01 - The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica have become scarce and what can still be caught are often poisoned, a result of man’s impact on the natural world.

Britain: Astronaut Flight Reconsidered
2008-02-16 06:01 - Science Minister Ian Pearson said it was time to reconsider Britain’s 1986 decision not to invest in an astronaut space program.

Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered
2008-02-16 05:30 - Astronomers have found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light years across the galaxy ? the first planetary system that really looks like our own.

U.S. to Attempt to Shoot Down Faulty Satellite
2008-02-16 05:30 - Military officials laid out a plan to shoot down a spy satellite before it tumbles to Earth carrying toxic fuel.


 
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