World Business Briefing: Libya: Equity Firm Buys Stake In Oil Refiner
The private equity firm Colony Capital agreed to acquire control of Tamoil of Libya for 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion). The Libyan government will retain 35 percent of the company, which operates refi...
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Mugabe Is Using Army In Assault On White-owned Farms
President Robert Mugabe was accused today of deploying his army to invade more than a quarter of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe....
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Seeking Recognition For A War’s Lost Laborers
The largest group of victims of the construction of the ?Death Railway? built by Japan in East Asia six decades ago are some 70,000 Asian laborers who are barely commemorated....
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Lender Said To Be Weighing A Bankruptcy Filing Soon
New Century is still hoping to find a buyer for the company, but the chances for such a deal appear to be dimming....
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World Business Briefing: Canada: Food Manufacturer To Be Sold To U.S. Company
The E. D. Smith Income Fund, a trust that owns a variety of private-label food manufacturing operations, said it planned to sell all of its assets to TreeHouse Foods of the United States in a deal val...
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Science News

Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo
2007-12-26 05:30 - Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.

Ping: Corporate Labs Disappear. Academia Steps In.
2007-12-25 05:30 - A vanguard group of universities is giving corporations greater access to ivory-tower laboratories ? for a price.

Corporate Labs Disappear. Academia Steps In.
2007-12-24 05:30 - A vanguard group of universities is giving corporations greater access to ivory-tower laboratories ? for a price.

Budget Cuts Will Mean Layoffs at Fermilab
2007-12-23 06:01 - The nation’s premier center for plumbing the mysteries of the universe in the tiniest bits of matter is planning to lay off more than 10 percent of its employees.

Japan Halts Plan to Kill Humpback Whales
2007-12-23 06:01 - Japan is dropping its plan to kill humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, the country’s top government spokesman said.

No Joke, Bulb Change Is Challenge for U.S.
2007-12-23 05:30 - When 2012 hits, stores will no longer be able to sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes.

Mars Shot Is Put Off for 2 Years, NASA Says
2007-12-23 05:30 - NASA has delayed the launching of a mission to Mars to 2013 because of an undisclosed conflict of interest involved in one of two final proposals, officials said.

Plan on Airline Emissions Hints at U.S.-Europe Rift
2007-12-22 05:30 - E.U. countries scaled back a proposal to regulate airline emissions, but agreed on measures likely to intensify a battle with the United States over environmental regulation.

Darwin’s Era, Modern Themes: Science, Faith and Publication
2007-12-21 06:01 - ?Trumpery,? a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.

A Comet Is Missing, So Spacecraft Will Go to NASA’s Next Choice
2007-12-21 06:01 - NASA has given its Deep Impact spacecraft a new mission.


 
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