"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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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"Shaping a Sustainable Future
ACF President Professor Ian Lowe, AO
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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...
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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...
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...
"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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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;...
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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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