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<description><![CDATA[Apple touched up its line of laptop computers Tuesday with a minimal nod to the economic turmoil that might push consumers to be more frugal...]]></description>
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<title>Legislators probe executive compensation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The financial crisis has sent executive compensation to the top of legislators' agendas, with presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain agreeing shareholders could use a bigger megaphone.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Leaders of the Group of Eight major industrial countries said Wednesday they will meet "in the near future" for a global summit to tackle the financial crisis.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Abbott Laboratories Inc. said Wednesday its third-quarter profit jumped 51 percent, led by sales of the arthritis medication Humira and a steep increase in sales of stents and other heart-related devices.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Expanded U.S. Border Patrol operations in Washington state have created friction between the agency and a farmers organization, underscoring the debate over immigration versus the labor needs of the state's agricultural industry.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[India, Brazil and South Africa on Wednesday asked rich countries to hear their voices on how to manage the unfolding global financial crisis without jeopardizing the development of emerging economies.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[India, Brazil and South Africa on Wednesday asked rich countries to hear their voices on how to manage the unfolding global financial crisis without jeopardizing the development of emerging economies.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The world's top economies should hold a global summit this year on reforming the world's financial system, British and French leaders declared Wednesday.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday set out his plan to reform the way the world's banks are governed, saying governments need to work together to stem the reckless and inappropriate lending that has destroyed confidence in financial markets.]]></description>
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<title>Bush: Economy will return `better than ever&#x27;
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<description><![CDATA[President Bush says the bank rescue plan is limited because federal ownership of businesses is not good for the United States.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Coca-Cola Co. reported its profit rose by double digits, weathering a volatile third quarter in which consumers felt pressured by economic uncertainty.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Delta Air Lines Inc. will scale back international growth plans in the coming months and is prepared to cut more domestic capacity if needed to weather the global financial crisis that has intensified in recent weeks, executives said Wednesday as the carrier reported it swung to a loss in the third quarter despite a rise in sales.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The global financial crisis has cost Grace Varghese, 50, a day trader in India's high-tech hub of Bangalore, more than $50,000.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The European Union slapped a euro60.3 million ($82.9 million) fine on the importers of Dole and Del Monte bananas Wednesday, claiming they operated an illegal banana cartel.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[EU leaders endorsed a euro1.7 trillion ($2.3 trillion) continent-wide emergency bailout for the banking sector at summit talks Wednesday, and turned to debate other measures to prevent the global financial crisis from stalling the economy.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Kroger on Wednesday confirmed its earnings guidance for the year and said a key sales measure is trending higher, even as U.S. consumers are cutting back on spending.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Iceland's central bank slashed official interest rates by 3.5 percentage points on Wednesday as it warned that the collapse of its banking system will lead to a "very sharp" contraction in the Nordic nation's economy.]]></description>
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<title>Paulson defends government intervention
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<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday he expects improvement in the condition of the economy over time but that there will be "a bump in the road" along the way.]]></description>
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<title>Paulson defends government intervention
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<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday he expects improvement in the condition of the economy over time but that there will be "a bump in the road" along the way.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The following recalls have been announced:]]></description>
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<title>Schwab 3Q profit falls, still beats estimates
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<description><![CDATA[Charles Schwab Corp. reported Wednesday its third-quarter earnings fell sharply from results that included a big gain a year ago, but still topped analysts expectations. The ongoing financial market turmoil weighed on the retail brokerage's assets under management.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Former Siemens AG chief Heinrich von Pierer will give up his supervisory board seat at Germany's largest steelmaker, ThyssenKrupp AG.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Starbucks Corp. plans to add more lower-calorie versions of its ready-to-drink bottled Frappuccinos to store shelves next year through its joint venture with PepsiCo Inc.]]></description>
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<title>Study highlights safety of drug-coated stents
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<description><![CDATA[Boston Scientific Corp on Wednesday reported data showing that its drug-coated stents are no more dangerous than older bare-metal stents for patients who have just suffered a major heart attack.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Toyota says it's out to prove a tiny car can be top-notch with its new iQ "ultra-compact" that's just a bit smaller than 3 meters (10 feet) but offers quality safety features, mileage and handling.]]></description>
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<title>Ukraine seeks IMF assistance amid economic crisis
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<description><![CDATA[Ukrainian authorities have asked the International Monetary Fund for help in stemming a financial crisis in the country, the organization said Wednesday.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Wells Fargo said Wednesday that third-quarter profit fell 23 percent as it took hits on investments in troubled finance companies and increased its credit reserves, but results were better than analysts had expected.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Commissioners in Alabama's most populous county voted against filing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history Tuesday and the federal government refused to guarantee the county's $3.2 billion sewer bond debt.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. plan to ease the credit crisis by investing in banks retraces steps taken during the Depression by an agency that accomplished its mission - but became a sprawling bureaucracy that dissolved amid fraud and corruption allegations.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[With the collapse of revived contract talks after barely two days, a strike that shut down Boeing Co.'s commercial aircraft plants Sept. 6 appears likely to continue well into November and possibly longer.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety of contaminants often found in tap water, according to a study released Wednesday by an environmental advocacy group.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The federal budget deficit soared to $454.8 billion in 2008 as a housing collapse and efforts to combat the economic slowdown pushed the tide of government red ink to the highest level in history.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration's latest effort to resolve the financial crisis embraces an approach it had resisted just a few weeks ago.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The chief executive of the Procter & Gamble Co. reassured shareholders Tuesday that the company is well-positioned to weather the nation's economic storm.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[CEO LOOKS LONG TERM: A.G. Lafley, chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble Co., told shareholders that despite the nation's current economic volatility, he is confident about the consumer products maker's long-term prospects.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Labor unions and mine operators on Tuesday criticized proposed federal rules to expand drug testing to include more than 116,000 coal miners, asking for sweeping changes to the proposal or for it to be dropped.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The government's efforts to crank open the credit markets have led to some mild improvements in lending rates and Treasury bill yields. But it will probably take months, and perhaps a few years, before lending returns to healthier levels.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[For all the thorny free-market issues raised, the big U.S. intervention in banks does have precedents - from wholesale wartime takeovers of entire industries to the seizing of hundreds of failed savings and loans in the 1980s. Most nationalizations have been temporary, but some endure, like Amtrak.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Federal aviation officials are investigating whether air traffic controllers violated federal rules by rerouting four airliners to test the skills of a controller-trainee.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Rather than face a second trial, the former chief executive of Enron Broadband Services pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of wire fraud.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Russian state-controlled energy company Gazprom said Tuesday a group of senior executives visited Alaska to discuss energy projects as the gas export monopoly seeks to expand its presence abroad.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Genentech Inc.'s third-quarter profit rose 6.7 percent on rising sales of key cancer drugs, the biotechnology company said Tuesday, matching Wall Street's profit forecasts.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Grain prices fell sharply Tuesday after Wall Street's failure to extend the previous day's massive rally prompted investors to pull money out of commodities.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Health care giant Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday posted a 30 percent jump in third-quarter profit and beat Wall Street expectations, mainly because the year-ago results were weighed down by a $745 million restructuring charge.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The children of Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. faced off in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday in a dispute over their mother's personal papers that could derail a lucrative book deal.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Major elements of the government's revamped $700 billion package to rescue the financial system and help homeowners facing foreclosures on their mortgages:]]></description>
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<title>Meltdown 101: Will government stake in banks help?
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<description><![CDATA[Will the government's plan to pump billions of dollars into banks - in exchange for an ownership stake - help resolve the financial crisis?]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In the midst of historic volatility on Wall Street there is a continuing trend of blacks saving and investing less than whites, according to a survey released Wednesday. The difference is attributed to various social and cultural reasons such as getting less exposure to personal finance concepts and advice.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Are your pages invisible? They may not be to you, but they could be to search engines if you haven't published a proper sitemap. A sitemap is a simple document that tells search engines where to find your content, which of your pages are more important than others, and how often to check back for new content. They're easy to create using free tools, so get started today.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[By connecting a single neuron to an external machine, scientists help a temporarily paralyzed monkey regain partial use of its hand. The machine bypasses the area that was blocking brain signals and connects the brain directly to the arm muscles.
    
    
    
    
      
  

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<description><![CDATA[The DMCA, which John McCain supported, doesn't let YouTube consider fair-use rights before taking down a campaign video with potentially infringing content, the site's top lawyer tells the McCain campaign.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[The first beta release of the next Firefox browser has several improvements over its predecessor, including faster JavaScript performance, better searches within the "awesome bar" and support for bleeding-edge web standards. But it's not quite fully baked just yet.
    
    
    
    
  


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<title>Restructuring Broadband Fees Could Raise Yours</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The FCC is pushing a major overhaul of the fee structure used by phone companies when connecting each others calls, raising fears that the telcos will pass additional costs along to customers, causing a jump in their monthly bills.
    
    
    
    
  


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<title>What&#x27;s a Supercar? It Does 200 MPH, Corners Like Cling Wrap, Attracts the Law.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wild Horses The definition of supercar varies widely, but three elements remain constant: speed in the neighborhood of 200 mph, cornering like the light cycles in Tron, and the ability to attract a parade of local law enforcement. You should buy a couple.







	1 // Ferrari F430
	

	$186,925, ferrariusa.com
	

	While there really is no such thing as an entry-level car from the famed scuderia, Ferrari's bottom-of-the-line F430 is a great choice for hedge-fund jockeys itching to blow their first bonus. Its remarkable balance makes even nervous novices feel like experienced racers, but if you should accelerate beyond your pay grade and find yourself sideways, the F430 snaps back into line when you blip the throttle.
	

	Wired: One of the best-handling cars ever made. Slick-shifting clutchless automated manual transmission (optional) saves you from stalling out in front of your date. Sweet exhaust note will quickly become your favorite song but isn't loud enough to necessitate cockpit yelling.
	 

	Tired: A measly 4 mph shy of joining the 200 club.
	

    




	
Tricked-Out Treats
	Time to cut the begging and go 21st century on your confection-acquisition with some performance-enhancing Halloween gear.&mdash;Rick Broida
	
				
ATN Night Scout Night-vision specs will help you find the Smarties at the bottom of your stash&mdash;and complete your Rainbow Six costume.
				

				$649, atncorp.com

				
Skorpion Multi Terrain Skates Strap these on and glide effortlessly over...

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<description><![CDATA[It's no secret that Apple's computers cost more than PCs with similar specs. But Apple's disclosure of its sales figures and estimated market share at a press event Tuesday raises new questions about exactly how much money the company is making off each new Mac purchase.
    
    
    
    
      
  

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<title>Burning Question: How Much Computer Security Is Enough?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Put down that money order and step away from the Internet, sir. You could blow your kid's college fund on computer security doodads: biometric password protectors, remotely erasable hard drives, GPS tracking &mdash; every day, there's some new and irresistible offering for the paranoid. But what do you really need to protect your computer? Less than you think.



The gospel is familiar: An antivirus program paired with anti-spyware/malware measures will shield your PC from just about anything. In fact, the marketing of those products is so good that security apps are about the only software people still expect to pay for. But the best stuff doesn't cost a dime. Programs like AVG and Ad-Aware are free, and they won't hit you up for upgrades like the big security suites.



Those guardians are fine for Grandma's Gateway, but the truly savvy eschew them altogether. Even the most well-meaning program bogs down your box. And it's not hard to dodge infection; just abide by the basic tenets of Internet common sense: Don't click on mysterious email attachments, don't bother with the free pr0n, Ch3@p Vi@gr@, and Nigerian millions, and never open .exe files. Email is still one of the biggest infection vectors, so be cautious and use a good webmail service like Gmail, which automatically scans your messages. Don't leave your computer online when you're not on it. Beware of anything that immediately asks for personal information. Don't reuse passwords.



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<title>Oct. 15, 1900: Boston Embraces the Sound of Music</title>
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<description><![CDATA[1900: Boston's Symphony Hall, an acoustical marvel in its day and still regarded as one of the world's great concert halls, opens with an inaugural concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  


Unlike most American concert halls, which tend to favor a wider, fan-shaped configuration, Symphony Hall was built along European lines &#151; deep, narrow and high. The architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White modeled the Boston hall after Leipzig's Gewandhaus (which was destroyed during World War II).


But the architects also did something unprecedented: They hired Wallace Clement Sabine, a young assistant physics professor from nearby Harvard, to act as acoustical consultant. For the first time ever, scientifically proven acoustical principles were applied to concert-hall design. On the basis of Sabine's work, the hall was built using brick, steel and plaster, with wooden flooring the only soft material used. 


The side balconies are narrow to avoid trapping sound, and &#151; to help focus it &#151; the stage walls are banked inward. The architects also carved niches into the walls and topped the hall with a coffered ceiling, which, in acoustical terms, guarantees nearly every seat the optimum aural experience.


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<description><![CDATA[President Bush signs legislation Monday creating a copyright czar, a cabinet-level position on par with the U.S. drug czar. Here's your chance to nominate who you think should assume the newly created post.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[The first beta release of the Firefox 3.1 browser was made available to testers and early adopters on Tuesday. This release includes substantial performance improvements and better web standards support. The final browser is due early 2009.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[Gotham Chopra's new imprint mines an ancient Sanskrit text, re-imagining the Ramayana for a colorful comic that could become a 21st-century movie.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[We feel the need ... the need for speed. Your internet may be chugging along fine, but armed with a few networking shortcuts, your browser can roar. It doesn't matter what network connection you're using, there are a few tweaks you can use to streamline your uploads and downloads. Soon enough, you'll be leaving tire tracks on the information superhighway.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[No outsider spends more time tracking the labyrinthine ways of the National Security Agency than James Bamford. But despite three books on the U.S. government's super-secret, signals-intelligence service, even he gets lost in the maze.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[Until Monday, the U.K.-based spam fighters at Spamhaus had an extensive profile of "Master Splynter," the assumed identity of the FBI agent who took over the cybercrime trading post DarkMarket. Was it all part of a cunning plan to establish a back story for a crime lord who never existed?
    
    
    
    
      
  

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<description><![CDATA[Legislation dreamed up by MySpace and authored by John McCain requires registered sex offenders to report their e-mail addresses to a national database available to social networking sites. Pedophiles are quaking in their boots.
    
    
    
    
  


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<title>First Look: OpenOffice 3.0 Is a Free Replacement for MS Office on Mac</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest release of the free and open source OpenOffice suite is the first to offer native support on the Mac OS X desktop. It's also the first version with full support for Microsoft's new OOXML file format.
    
    
    
    
      
  

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<description><![CDATA[Only two of the five alt-fuel vehicles that attempted to scavenge the fuel they needed to Escape from Berkeley made it to Sin City. The winner made the trip in 1,418 minutes.
    
    
    
    
  


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<title>Reason No. 37 Why TV Networks Are Screwed: The Credit Crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The television networks are up against a perfect storm: Ratings stink; piracy is rampant, as viewers migrate to the web; and now, thanks to this little credit crisis, advertisers are expected to cut ad spending or cancel buys.
    
    
    
    
      
  

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<description><![CDATA[Bonobos, considered by scientists to be a relatively peaceful species, are observed killing and eating monkeys in the wild. The chimp-like primates have a female-led society, but apparently aren't free of all aggressive behavior.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[The USGS creates video simulations of earthquakes on the Hayward fault in the San Francisco Bay Area. Scientists think that fault will likely have the next big quake in the region.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[Repeatedly stung by copyright law, the McCain campaign petitions YouTube to revamp its DMCA take-down policy, urging the site to consider fair-use rights before removing McCain campaign videos.
    
    
    
    
      
  

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<title>Live Blog: Apple MacBook Event 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What will be announced at Apple MacBook Event 2008? New MacBooks? Sure. Redesign of the MacBook Air? Possibly. A new Apple Cinema Display? Not outside the realm of probability.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[As crazy as it sounds, Gulfstream and NASA are working on a supersonic jet that eliminates the windshield in favor of high-def cameras and an LCD screen. Funny thing is, it works.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, just about every car that rolls out of a showroom features iPod and Bluetooth connectivity as automakers finally figure out that people love gadgets.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[I don't scare easily. It's not a machismo thing: I'm just not exactly unnerved by the monsters-in-the-closet scenarios that get recycled so often in horror-themed videogames.
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<description><![CDATA[Last fall, Danger Room's Sharon Weinberger agreed to be a guinea pig in a demonstration of the Pentagon's controversial "pain ray." She was told the weapon was safe. But newly-obtained information shows that the pain ray's operators were dangerously undertrained -- exposing test subjects "to unconscionable risks."
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[Only a few thousand West African chimpanzees survive in the Ivory Coast — a small fraction of the 10,000 who lived there two decades ago, and at the time accounted for half of the world's population. News of such a decline would be saddening in any species. But should we feel more concern for the chimpanzees than for another animal — as much concern, perhaps, as we might feel for other people?
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[This 11th hour "leak" is supposedly a fully assembled new MacBook Pro, expected to be announced today by Steve Jobs at the Apple event. It tallies pretty much completely with the previous shots we've seen of the upper case, with the recessed, chiclet keyboard, magnetic latch and in/out ports arrayed along the left side. Apple's one button mouse obsession? Over.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[Forget hands-free -- this is call-free. Aegis Mobility, a Canadian software company, says it has developed software that will detect whether a cell phone is moving at car speeds. When that happens, the software will alert the cellular network, telling it to hold calls and text messages until the drive is over.
    
    
    
    
  


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<description><![CDATA[Early adopter brands have further differentiated their products and won consumer affinity by adopting green strategies in their brands and packaging. But risks are many says Affinnova's Steve Lamoureux.      Commentary--On every progressive brand managers short list is a sustainability initiative. In just a few short...]]></description>
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<title>Workout for brain just a few clicks away</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers at UCLA studied people doing Web searches and found that it sharpened the memories of middle-aged and older people.  CHICAGO--Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.      Researchers at the University of California...]]></description>
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<title>Starcraft II splits into trilogy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At Blizzcon 2008, Blizzard revealed that rather than a single real-time strategy game, Starcraft II will now be released as a trilogy.  ANAHEIM, California--For many, this morning's keynote address from Blizzard president Mike Morhaime at Blizzcon 2008 was a bit anticlimactic. After revealing Starcraft II, World of Warcraft: Wrath...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Many users, especially of Apple, found Opera's latest version 9.6 unpleasant on the eye. But the company says its next major update will be prettier.  The next major release of Opera for the desktop will be 'prettier' than the current version of the browser, claims the company.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Enterprise web 2.0 costs set to plunge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet, according to a new report from Forrester.  Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet.   According to a new...]]></description>
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