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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study has identified four strategies that restaurants use to reap higher wine sales: including the wine list on the food menu and listing prices without a dollar sign. http://www.physorg.com/news179598181.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:30:03 EST news179598181 Uninsured patients in California are unable to successfully obtain information about the cost of medical care at hospitals despite recent state legislation intended to improve price transparency, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news178896720.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:10:03 EST news178896720 (AP) -- The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that help drivers figure out where they are and where to go. http://www.physorg.com/news178644619.html Electronics Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:44:33 EST news178644619 (AP) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news177271650.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:30:01 EST news177271650 Driven by fluctuations in oil prices, and seduced by the prospect of easing climate change, experts are ramping up efforts to squeeze fuel out of a promising new organism: pond scum. http://www.physorg.com/news175412299.html Biology Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:39:23 EST news175412299 (AP) -- An online book special offered by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is turning into a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com. http://www.physorg.com/news174891091.html Technology Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:10:01 EST news174891091 (PhysOrg.com) -- Belief that a national economic recovery is under way boosted Florida`s consumer confidence three points to 74 in September, according to a new University of Florida survey. http://www.physorg.com/news173455999.html Other Sciences Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:10:14 EST news173455999 Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console outsold Nintendo's Wii nearly fivefold in Japan in the three weeks to September 20, helped by the launch of a new cheaper, slim version, a survey said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news173100605.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:40:06 EST news173100605 (AP) -- Consumers visit Amazon.com for deals on products from companies ranging from Apple Inc. to Zenith Electronics Corp. Now, the online retailer wants shoppers to check out stuff that carries Amazon's own brand name, too. http://www.physorg.com/news172671336.html Technology Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:16:39 EST news172671336 Cash for Clunkers may have run out of money, but certainly not gas. http://www.physorg.com/news172156634.html Other Sciences Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:40:13 EST news172156634 As the economy continues to unravel, a series of papers published today assess the effects of the crisis on children's health, education, and rights in East Asia and the Pacific. Crisis for Children, a special issue of the journal Global Social Policy, asserts investments can be made that will not only advance children's rights and break the cycle of poverty, but also safeguard countries' future economic growth and human development. http://www.physorg.com/news171694883.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:22:13 EST news171694883 (AP) -- Few if any of the deals retailers have offered online during the recession have been as good as Best Buy Inc.'s sale price of $9.99 on a 52-inch TV Wednesday. But it quickly turned out the offer was too good to be true. http://www.physorg.com/news169309228.html Technology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:20:55 EST news169309228 Norges Bank surprised most experts by cutting the interest rate by as much as 1.75 percentage points during the final interest rate meeting in 2008. Surprise interest rate changes like this, so-called interest rate shocks, can cause major changes in stock prices.  http://www.physorg.com/news168627482.html Other Sciences Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:20:04 EST news168627482 European travellers will pay less to use their mobile phones while abroad in the EU from Wednesday when new regulated price caps take effect across the 27-nation bloc. http://www.physorg.com/news165590632.html Technology Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:27:09 EST news165590632 American agriculture has become increasingly dependent on foreign sources of natural gas, a key ingredient in the nitrogen fertilizer that farmers use to get high yields of crops such as corn and wheat. http://www.physorg.com/news164537641.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:10:02 EST news164537641 Asked to choose between lower gasoline prices and reduced greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline, 66 percent of Americans in a new online survey chose lower gas prices and the rest said that reducing the emissions that cause climate change was more important. http://www.physorg.com/news162672802.html Space & Earth Wed, 27 May 2009 19:54:07 EST news162672802 South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest computer memory chipmaker, Friday reported a sixth straight quarterly loss due to weak chip prices sparked by a global recession. http://www.physorg.com/news159778380.html Technology Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:53:22 EST news159778380 During these trying financial times, the cost of healthcare and how much we are willing to pay for it is at the top of our economic concerns. The financial value of pain has a wide ranging influence, affecting drug prices and injury compensation. But what about on an individual level - is it possible to place a value on our health, to prevent pain and suffering? University College London psychologists Ivo Vlaev and Nick Chater, and neuroscientists Ben Seymour and Raymond J. Dolan were interested in just how much money volunteers were willing to pay to avoid pain and discomfort. http://www.physorg.com/news159639835.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:24:23 EST news159639835 Just like gasoline, diesel fuel has plummeted in price since last summer after reaching almost $5 a gallon. So now that diesel goes for about $2.25, sales of diesel-powered vehicles, which almost always get better mileage than their gas-powered counterparts, have risen, right? http://www.physorg.com/news159192120.html Technology Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:02:34 EST news159192120 (AP) -- Prices of the most popular brand-name prescription drugs are on the rise even as the economy falters, the AARP says. http://www.physorg.com/news159039025.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:30:54 EST news159039025 (AP) -- Antitrust regulators fined Microsoft Corp.'s German subsidiary 9 million euros ($11.8 million) and said the world's largest software maker illegally influenced retail prices for its Office 2007 programs. http://www.physorg.com/news158592721.html Technology Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:32:40 EST news158592721 (AP) -- Food stamps and child nutrition programs are expected to cost up to $900 million more this year because of increased ethanol use. http://www.physorg.com/news158569963.html Other Sciences Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:13:05 EST news158569963 A new article published in The Milbank Quarterly explores how food prices can affect weight outcomes, revealing that pricing interventions can have a significant effect on obesity rates. This article is part of the March special issue, which includes eleven articles focusing on the topic of obesity. http://www.physorg.com/news156609511.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:39:01 EST news156609511 Diesel made from palm oil, vegetable oil and animal fat in Singapore may soon be powering cars in Europe and North America, Finland's Neste Oil said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news155574633.html Technology Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:11:07 EST news155574633 AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson has a problem: There are way too many Toyota Prius hybrids sitting on his car lots across America. http://www.physorg.com/news155565905.html Technology Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:50:19 EST news155565905 When shopping, we often find ourselves choosing between lower- and higher-cost items. But most people make a choice based on the first digit they see, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news154632886.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:35:16 EST news154632886 Speakers at last week`s AAAS meeting presented abundant evidence that tropical rainforest destruction has accelerated in recent years, at least in part because of the worldwide push to produce more biofuels. http://www.physorg.com/news154625430.html Technology Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:31:08 EST news154625430 (PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has developed a tool to determine what market conditions are needed for ethanol producers to make a profit. http://www.physorg.com/news151172429.html Other Sciences Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:20:29 EST news151172429 Don't fret if there wasn't an HDTV under your tree. (Let's pretend it would have fit.) If you were like me this holiday season, it took considerable effort to get beyond the TV department at the nation's retailers. I was there to shop for others, but boy, those TV prices were tempting. http://www.physorg.com/news149952254.html Technology Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:24:14 EST news149952254 World fertilizer prices began dropping dramatically in late 2008 after reaching all-time highs around April. http://www.physorg.com/news148654546.html Other Sciences Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:55:46 EST news148654546