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Cost-cutting Yahoo to close offices for holidays

Technology / Business

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(AP) -- Yahoo says it will close its offices from Christmas through New Year's to help save money. The cost-cutting move ends a year in which Yahoo's revenue declined for the first time since 2001.





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Senate Democrats clear hurdle on health care bill (AP)

Health Care bill clears key Senate test

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 6

(AP) -- Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all ...


Argonne advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline

Argonne advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created 20 hours ago | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- In excess of seven million barrels of gasoline are consumed by vehicles in the United States every day. As scientists race to find environmentally sound solutions to fuel the world’s ever-growing ...


We now know that the brain controls the formation of bone

Medicine & Health / Research

created 50 minutes ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The brain acts as a profound regulatory centre, controlling myriad processes throughout the body in ways we are only just beginning to understand. In new findings, Australian scientists have shown surprising connections between ...


Would a Google purchase of Yelp draw regulatory interest?

Technology / Business

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google Inc.'s reported plans to acquire local-listings service Yelp may face difficulties, with regulators attuned to the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's established dominance of the Internet-search and advertising ...


Temp workers not stuck in jobs and earn more than regular employees

Other Sciences / Economics

created 20 hours ago | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rather than being trapped in dead-end jobs, many people hired by temporary help agencies actually earn higher hourly wages and are better educated than permanent employees, and move quickly between temporary ...


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Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...


Social networking changing the way we travel (AP)

Social networking changing the way we travel

Technology / Internet

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(AP) -- Isahrai Azaria is heading to Austin, Texas, in February, and thanks to Facebook, she already has 40 acquaintances, an invitation to go water tubing, and a line on the best vegetarian lunch place in ...


EPA, Army Corps urged to consider separating Great Lakes, river basin

Space & Earth / Environment

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The once-radical idea of somehow plugging the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to stop the flow of unwanted species from spilling between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin is quickly picking up political support.



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