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Swire Pacific 2009 Profit More Than Triples
Swire Pacific 2009 Profit More Than Triples
Bank Of China Mulling Hong Kong Share Sale: Report
Bank Of China Mulling Hong Kong Share Sale: Report
Thai February Consumer Confidence Index 78.4 Vs In 79.3 January
Thai February Consumer Confidence Index 78.4 Vs In 79.3 January
Asian Stocks Reverse Direction After Chinese Data
Asian Stocks Reverse Direction After Chinese Data
OPEC Upgrades '10 Oil Demand Forecast,Warns On Recovery
OPEC Upgrades '10 Oil Demand Forecast,Warns On Recovery
Shell Says No Longer Selling Gasoline To Iran
Shell Says No Longer Selling Gasoline To Iran
Australia Closes Capital Gains Tax Trust Loophole
Australia Closes Capital Gains Tax Trust Loophole
Art
Myra mistaken
The illustrious Sir Norman Rosenthal, former exhibitions secretary at London's Royal Academy (RA), ...
Name that painting
Have art historical references become the new brand-name-dropping? First rapper Jay-Z stuffed the ...
Rights battle over Polaroid sale
LONDON. A group led by a former US magistrate judge has launched an 11th hour campaign to prevent ...
More than a set of prints
I should start by revealing my connections with the Polaroid Corporation. I organised the first ...
Ikea adds culture to shopping experience
LONDON. Global giant Ikea Retail Estate is planning multi-million pound commissions by major ...
The silence of the Degas scholars
A secret battle is being waged over a previously unknown group of plasters of all Degas’ known ...
The link to Degas
Some may say that it sounds too good to be true that a full set of Degas sculptures should be ...
World
Nigerians Recount the Night of Their Bloody Revenge
The police have arrested about 200 people in Jos, where this week dozens of herdsmen slaughtered hundreds of people in a brutal act of sectarian retribution.
Chile’s New President Enters a Changed Political Landscape
The aftermath of the earthquake may give the country’s new right-wing government a chance to entomb the ghosts of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Spy Chief in Pakistan to Stay On Another Year
An unusual extension for Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha may pave the way for a longer term for the head of the army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who was set to step down this year.
Einstein's Theory of Relativity On Display
For the first time, the complete, original manuscript of the theory of relativity, profoundly human and surprisingly moving to examine, has been put on display in Jerusalem.
Barcelona Journal: Trumpeting the Catalan Language, by Law, in Small Type on the Big Screen
A local bill requiring that at least half the copies of every film from outside Europe be dubbed in Catalan is the latest attempt to assert Catalan culture.
Palestinians Hold to Plan for Indirect Talks With Israel
Palestinian leaders meeting with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. condemned a decision by Israel on new housing, but still spoke of participating in peace talks.
Sport
Peppers' humble beginning
Throughout his tenure with the Carolina Panthers, whether he was in downtown Charlotte or near his property on ritzy Lake Norman, Julius Peppers marveled at a consistent pattern. ‘‘I would see people every day,’’ Peppers said, ‘‘and most of them weren’t even from Charlotte. ‘‘People leave home and do their own thing. That’s something I wanted to experience.’’ That freedom, however, was begrudgingly granted.
Bradley skips fact: He stunk
Rick Morrissey: The saying goes that you can't truly understand a person until you've walked in his shoes. The problem is that Milton Bradley was born wearing moon boots, and he's so far out there that if you did try to live his life for a day, there's a decent chance you'd end up hurtling helplessly through space.
It's Guillen's kind of club
It'll be Ozzie Guillen's type of players this season, Guillen's style of play, Guillen's butt on the line if it all goes wrong. And he isn't distancing himself from the bull's-eye. The White Sox manager was in the dugout Wednesday afternoon embracing the idea that this could all fall back to him.
Sharp's second best in OT
Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville outlined his criteria for what he's looking for in his No. 1 goaltender a day before his team hosted the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night. The looked-for characteristics and tendencies included:
SPORTS WIRE: Wolves' Chelios, 48, gets NHL call from Thrashers
The Atlanta Thrashers on Wednesday recalled 48-year-old defenseman Chris Chelios from the Wolves of the American Hockey League.
It's Guillen's kind of club
It'll be Ozzie Guillen's type of players this season, Guillen's style of play, Guillen's butt on the line if it all goes wrong. And he isn't distancing himself from the bull's-eye. The White Sox manager was in the dugout Wednesday afternoon embracing the idea that this could all fall back to him.
Bradley skips fact: He stunk
Rick Morrissey: The saying goes that you can't truly understand a person until you've walked in his shoes. The problem is that Milton Bradley was born wearing moon boots, and he's so far out there that if you did try to live his life for a day, there's a decent chance you'd end up hurtling helplessly through space.
U.S.
Questions about research slow efforts to tackle climate change
Leaked e-mails, punctured arguments lead to closer scrutiny of climate science.
Half of Kansas City public schools to close
The Kansas City school board is closing nearly half of the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat.
Minority births expected to outnumber white births soon
Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become ...
Suit grows out of florists' law
Four are fighting Louisiana's required testing and licensing. The state is the only one with the rule.
Miss. prom canceled after lesbian's date request
A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring ...
Science
Reaching for the Stars When Space Was a Thrill
It was "Mad Men" meets "Flash Gordon." The years from 1957 to 1962 were a golden age of science fiction, as well as paranoia and exhilaration on a cosmic scale. The future was still the future back then, some of us could dream of farms on the moon and heroically finned rockets blasting off from alien landscapes. Others worried about Russian moon bases...
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Red Grouper Operate as Underwater Architects
Red grouper are known for a few key characteristics--their hue, which can range from pink to bright orange; their tastiness, whether they're grilled or sautéed; and their predation method, in which they ambush fellow sea creatures and swallow them whole...
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Women Who Drink Tend to Gain Less Weight
Women who drink moderate amounts of alcohol don't gain as much weight in midlife as those who abstain, a study has found. However, drinking should not be heralded as a new diet, said the authors and alcohol abuse experts...
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Minorities More Likely to Suffer Alzheimer's Disease
As deaths from heart disease and many types of cancers have dipped, living longer is putting more people at risk for Alzheimer's disease, the brain-wasting condition that a new report shows African-Americans and Hispanics are particularly vulnerable to as they grow older...
from USA Today
Nanometre 'Fuses' for High-Performance Batteries
Minuscule tubes coated with a chemical fuel can act as a power source with 100 times more electrical power by weight than conventional batteries...
from BBC News Online