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A Fee That Can Actually Make You Money?

Other Sciences / Economics

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Short-term redemption fees protect and boost returns for long-term mutual fund investors.


FCC to propose revamping Universal Service Fund (Update)

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- Federal regulators trying to bring high-speed Internet connections to all Americans will propose tapping the government program that now subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural areas.


New research counters risky image of popular financial investments

New research counters risky image of popular financial investments

Other Sciences / Economics

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- They have been called "financial weapons of mass destruction" and blamed for a number of catastrophic losses and bankruptcies. New research by a finance professor at Virginia Tech's Pamplin ...


Methods for abandoning old drugs in favor of new must be improved

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Decisions about which drugs to abandon to fund new treatments recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) are inconsistent and may be contributing to the postcode lottery - one of the key ...


Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles (AP)

Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime ...


A sheep dog watches over merino sheep as they search for feed on a dry property near Parkes in rural New South Wales

Australia 0.7 degrees warmer over past 50 years: scientists

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (20) | comments 39

Australia's top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.26 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as "significant evidence" of climate change.


NASA Breaks Ground on New Deep Space Network Antennas

NASA Breaks Ground on New Deep Space Network Antennas

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, Feb. 24, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications.


Wild cheetahs have been seen in the Iona region in southern Namibe province, home to Angola's biggest national park

Cheetahs return to Angola's south

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wild cheetahs have returned to southern Angola for the first time in decades, having disappeared during decades of civil war, a researcher said Friday.


PayPal plans to double staff in Asia (AP)

PayPal plans to double staff in Asia by year's end

Technology / Business

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- PayPal, the online payments unit of Internet auction site operator eBay Inc., plans to double its staff in Asia to 2,000 by the end of the year.


A report card on DFID: The Lancet calls for a post-election independent review to protect its successes and fix its prob

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The lead Editorial in this week's Lancet focuses on global health within the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID)—its mixed successes and failures to date, the challenges it faces with the possib ...



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