Frontier Silicon Wins New Funds
TECHNOLOGY Frontier Silicon, a privately held British silicon chip supplier, has secured £16 million of extra funding led by a new investor, Mitsui Private Equity, part of the Japanese conglomer...
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New Court Ruling Bolsters Barclays In Enron Battle
Barclays and other banks that are still fighting Enron-related lawsuits won a significant victory last night when America’s highest court ruled that investors could not sue third parties f...
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Halliburton Profit Rises
The oil field services company said its emphasis on Middle Eastern markets contributed to a nearly 5 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit....
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Intervention, Hailed As A Concept, Is Shunned In Practice
Three years after the United Nations adopted a groundbreaking resolution to help it intervene to stop genocide, it has not helped the organization end the violence in Darfur....
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Japan Resists Call To Apologize For War Practice
The U.S. Congress is considering a demand that Japan apologize for its use of sexual slaves during World War II....
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Science News

Scientists Find Active Volcano in Antarctica
2008-01-22 05:30 - Heat from a volcano could still be melting ice and contributing to the thinning and speeding up of the Pine Island Glacier, according to a report by the British Antarctic Survey.

Unintended Consequences
2008-01-21 05:30 - Why do well-meaning laws backfire?

New Rocket Has Problem With Vibration
2008-01-21 05:30 - NASA is working to solve a potentially dangerous vibration problem in its next generation of launching vehicles.

Damaged Landscape Can Still Be Helpful, Researchers Say
2008-01-20 06:01 - Researchers say that coastal landscapes somewhat disturbed by development can often still adequately perform ’services? like storm protection.

Oil Demand, the Climate and the Energy Ladder
2008-01-20 06:01 - Jeroen van der Veer, Royal Dutch Shell’s chief executive, offers his views on the energy challenge facing the world and the challenge posed by global warming.

Researchers Challenge Water-Flow Model
2008-01-19 05:30 - Some are challenging earlier ideas about how water naturally flows because the streams studied then were not ?natural archetypes? but rather the artifacts of 18th and 19th century dam-building and deforestation.

Climate Talk’s Cancellation Splits a Town
2008-01-18 06:01 - A talk by Steven W. Running, a Nobel laureate and climate researcher, was canceled in Choteau, Mont., a small farming and ranching town.

Latest Flyby Gives New Views of Mercury
2008-01-18 06:01 - NASA’s Messenger spacecraft has captured a new view of the planet Mercury.

Madagascar: A Spectacular Last Hurrah
2008-01-18 05:30 - A species of self-destructing palm trees that flower once every 100 years and then die has been discovered in Madagascar.

Australia to Pick Up Seized Activists
2008-01-18 05:30 - Australia said that it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese vessel.


 
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