Kremlin Secures Price Controls On Food Items Before Elections
The Russian government on Wednesday signed an agreement with major food producers instituting temporary price controls on basic products....
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Hard-Driving Percussion And A Grande Dame Too
Driving, off-kilter, powerful rhythms, heavy on the percussion, were the common thread in a rather odd concert by the Juilliard Orchestra, led by Anne Manson, on Thursday night....
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China: A Move To Restrain Prices
China raised the interest rate on mortgage loans to 1.1 times the nation’s benchmark lending rates and increased the minimum down payment on apartments intended for investment in an effort to cool sur...
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$100,000 Settles Claim Of Fraud
The former controller at U.S. Foodservice, a unit of Dutch supermarket operator Royal Ahold, has agreed to pay a civil penalty to settle accusations that she participated in a fraud....
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With New Law, China Reports Drop In Executions
China reinstated a requirement that every death case be reviewed and approved by the country’s highest court....
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Science News

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star
2007-12-20 05:30 - Walter H. G. Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., has found devotees across the country with his online lectures.

Essay: Darwin’s Era, Modern Themes: Science, Faith and Publication
2007-12-19 06:01 - ?Trumpery,? a play that opened this month in New York, explores a period teeming with religiosity and controversy.

Observatory: A Comet Is Missing, So Spacecraft Will Go to NASA’s Next ...
2007-12-19 06:01 - NASA has given its Deep Impact spacecraft a new mission.

Observatory: Whales Are Tasty, but Bone-Eating Worms Might Not Discrim...
2007-12-19 05:30 - Even without mouths or guts, the worms of the genus Osedax feast on the bones of ?whalefalls,? carcasses on the seafloor.

Observatory: A Clearer Muddy Story: Fast-Flowing Water Can Form Deposi...
2007-12-19 05:30 - New findings suggest that fine clays may be deposited by relatively fast-flowing water.

Cosmic Clash
2007-12-19 05:30 - Astronomers have released an image of what looks like galactic warfare.

Signs of TB in Ancient Skull Support Theory on Vitamin D
2007-12-19 05:30 - Scientists have found evidence of a peril that human ancestors encountered in their migrations out of Africa: tuberculosis.

Findings: Why Nobody Likes a Smart Machine
2007-12-19 05:30 - We and our machines are about to go through a rocky transition as the machines get smarter and take over more tasks.

Laws of Nature, Source Unknown
2007-12-19 05:30 - Which came first: the order or the universe? And can science ever supply an answer?

The Way We Live Now: Our Decrepit Food Factories
2007-12-17 05:30 - What sustainability is really about.


 
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