IAC Posts Earnings Below Expectations
The company cited lower revenue at its HSN shopping channel and unexpected weakness at its Ticketmaster box office service as reasons for the disappointing results....
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Segolene Royal Sticks Knife Into Lover In Election Revenge Book
Seven months after her defeat by Nicolas Sarkozy, Ségolène Royal settles scores with her fellow Socialists in a book today, blaming colleagues and her former partner for her failure to win...
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Market Week: Shopping And Not Dropping
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Dyson, Former Lord Mayor And Head Of Sainsbury’s Lead Business Honours
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Embracing melody and dissonance, volubility and concision, Ms. Crispell and her partners produced an elevated art of fluctuations....
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Science News

NASA Delays Shuttle Launch
2007-12-07 05:30 - NASA officials delayed the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis for at least 24 hours today following problems with a pair of fuel sensors.

Q &a : Trunk Line
2007-12-06 06:01 - How keen is an elephant’s sense of smell, and where in the trunk is it handled?

Trunk Line
2007-12-06 06:01 - How keen is an elephant’s sense of smell, and where in the trunk is it handled?

In the Future, Smart People Will Let Cars Take Control
2007-12-06 05:31 - Smart cars will never be infallible, but they just have to be better than the drivers who now cause more than 90 percent of traffic accidents.

Inveterate Wanderer: An Intercontinental Salamander Family
2007-12-06 05:31 - A genetic analysis offers an explanation for a strange geographical distribution of salamanders.

Ceremonial Objects From West Africa With Blood in the Patina
2007-12-06 05:31 - Researchers have found blood on seven of eight Dogon and Bambara objects from Mali, all dating from the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

Chimps Exhibit Superior Memory, Outshining Humans
2007-12-06 05:30 - Young chimps outperform adult humans in a memory test, a Concentration-like game using numerals on a computer screen, new research suggests.

Stuck on Coal, and Stuck for Words in a High-Tech World
2007-12-06 05:30 - On climate change, scientists are running out of metaphors in pressing the public to act.

Shuttle to Put European Module in Space
2007-12-06 05:30 - The space shuttle Atlantis is poised for a Thursday launching to the International Space Station on an 11-day mission that will make the orbital outpost more international.

Crossing a Threshold on Energy Legislation
2007-12-06 05:30 - Congress is poised to act on the first bill to increase vehicle fuel efficiency significantly since 1975 and on the first economywide bill to address global warming since scientists raised the alarm in the late 1980s.


 
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