World shares fall on credit fears

"World shares fall on credit fears Analysts say markets will remain volatile in the near future Markets have faltered in Friday trading, a day after markets in the US and Europe suffered heavy losses amid fears of a global credit crunch. In morning trade the London FTSE 100...

Coffee may slow memory declines in women: study

Another score for America's favorite morning beverage. A recent study finds that coffee might help fight age related illness in women. Coffee, shown to be rich in antioxidants, is an $18 billion  dollar...

Oil Hits Record High!

Oil Settles Above $78, Setting Record Tuesday July 31, 8:34 pm ET By John Wilen, AP Business Writer Oil Settles at a Record High Above $78 a Barrel on Inventory Expectations NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil futures settled...

Netflix Is Out in More Ways Than One

Motley Fool earlier today reported that the category-busting movie-rental supplier NetFlix is having its share of problems. Not only is its share price having some difficulties, but its website crashed last night and has still not recovered (as of publication time of this...

Newspaper Downturn Goes From Bad to Worse

The deal for Rupert Murdoch to buy Dow Jones (the publisher of the Wall St. Journal - may have come none too soon, according to an article on -  The Wall Street Journal. This snippett comes via Editor & Publisher but it is an excerpt from WSJ:"Last fall, newspaper...

Barbie goes Babel: Mattel's overseas sales spike

Blame it on globalization, or, even more simply, on the proliferation of American culture overseas in general: Mattel saw an 18% increase in overseas sales--largely due to Barbie and Wheels toys. This occurred...

Shaping a Sustainable Future

"Shaping a Sustainable Future ACF President Professor Ian Lowe, AO + ACF President Professor Ian Lowe, AO Professor Ian Lowe, Spirituality and Sustainability Forum – 6 June, 2007 I begin by thanking His Holiness the Dalai Lama for being in Australia to share with us his...

Wild Tigers Face New Threats by Tiger Farms

Some Tiger populations are in grave danger. Some have already disappeared, some are rebounding. The Tigers of China have a beautiful lady going to bat for them. But there's a catch-22 in one effort to protect the...

Blogging: A Burstable Bubble?

I was gonna post this on my blog, but I kinda don't feel like it.But seriously, I think that blogging as a zeitgeist will definitely have a shelf-life, but purpose-based blogs and serially-updated watchdog sites will live on: basically, blogs with no reason to live will...

BEE Afraid, Be Very Afraid! :: Oblate Spheroid

"Here is an item that is really troubling, in that, we here on Earth do not know what may get to our human population first - famine (lack of food) or disease (animal flu crossover). The bee populations...

People get incensed about injustice

Howard Witt's Tribune story about two girls in trouble, one black and one white, and how they got "justice" in the Texas court system caused a stir that the writer did not anticipate. There are lots of bloggers out there. All different kinds of people. Just because you are...

Stocks Rise Again, But Trade Still Light

"Stocks Rise Again, But Trade Still Light BY JONAH KERI INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 3/20/2007 Stocks rose for the second straight session Tuesday, but another bout of quiet volume dimmed the day's gains. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6%. The index closed near its intraday...

Dow ends down 400 on China market slide

A real bloodbath today:"NEW YORK - Stocks plummeted Tuesday, briefly hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 550 points as Wall Street succumbed to a global market plunge sparked by growing concerns that the U.S. and Chinese economies are cooling and that equities...

America's "failing" youth and the decline of rape

How many times have you heard: "Blame rap music!" "Blame video games!" "It's that damn Rock-n-Roll!" "MTV is the devil!"Maybe not that drastic, but you might have heard something like it. I grew up in a household where my siblings were the generation of my friend's parents;...

Size Matters

Rhincodon Typus can reach up to 18M in length... but it's shrinking.  BBC reports out of Darwin that the average sighting of whale sharks off the coast of Australia are revealing a 2-4m general...

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