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Bluffing Could Be Common In Prediction Markets, Study Shows
Sure you or I have bluffed once in our lives. But how far can people go on doing this so-called white lies (?). In a new study, the University of Michigan suggests that bluffing in prediction markets is a...
Images Suggest Water Once Covered Mars
" Minerals in the soil of Mars show it was covered once by lakes, rivers and other bodies of water that could have supported life, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday." It is believed Mars was once covered by... Welcome to Iraq, the hot new holiday destination
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Bad news for frequent visitors of personalloans.com and others looking for debt consolidation services."A power outage in Vancouver is taking a huge hit on some in the domain industry today. Domain Name News noticed... Eight new nuclear power stations planned for England
The debate on nuclear power is up and running again. Gordon Brown believes that the worls needs to build up to a thousand if we are to meet energy needs and fight global warming and other enevironmental issues. He... Yahoo Wields New Tool to Battle Google
"Yahoo Inc. will introduce a tool for Web developers Thursday that is designed to expand the scale of its struggling search business and help create new competitors to Google Inc. The company said the free tool will allow developers to build customized search services based...Social Bookmarking Can Kill Your StumbleUpon Traffic!
"Social Bookmarking is a good technique for building a large amount of backlinks to your website however, there is a very real danger of it having a very negative effect on your StumbleUpon profile resulting in a loss of traffic or even an account ban!"US criminals target corporate Web sites
US criminals target corporate Web sites, Facebook value drops $11.25bn, Europe votes on anti-piracy laws, and breach at registrar led to ICANN hijack " Large corporate Web sites were heavily targeted by hackers in the early part of this year, according to the threat... China to close plants over Games
China has now ordered that 40 factories be closed in Beijing in the run-up to the Olympic Games, but many are doubtful that it is actually going to make a difference."The plants in the eastern port city of Tianjin... Doctor: Social networking sites skew kids' world view; can be psychologically...
Will generations of kids raised with "online lives" have less grasp of reality and be at psychological risk? Some health professionals see real problems ahead."Children growing up amid the rise of social networking Web sites may have a "potentially dangerous" view of the... More tourism information boxes installed in Danang - Champa Sculpture Museum
Two additional tourism information boxes have been installed in Danang according to the city’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Department."These new boxes will help visitors in the city to easily select tourist... Analyst sees ‘ghost town’ in Inland Empire
"Peter Viles LA Times Wednesday, July 2, 2008 A financial analyst fresh from a tour of construction sites in the Inland Empire is warning Wall Street of a “ghost town” where finished homes sit vacant and additional homes are still under construction. “At several... RI among 41 countries applying for inclusion in UNESCO's heritage list
Indonesia's properties which are inscribed on the World Heritage list are Borobudur Temple, Prmabanan Temple, Sangiran Early Man Site, Komodo National Park, Lorentz National Park, Tropical Rainforest Heritage of...'Traumatized' teachers learn on managing classes
It is not easy to overcome a traumatic feelings" Tears rolled down elementary school teacher Herawati Ahmad's wrinkled cheeks as she told the story of her ill-fated young pupils in Aceh after the 2004 tsunami. ...
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