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Actors union relents in tentative studio deal

Technology / Business

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Screen Actors Guild and the Hollywood studios said Friday they have reached a tentative deal on movie and prime-time TV show productions, capping a yearlong battle that ended with the Guild giving up its fight ...





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Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care (AP)

Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 19, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 9

(AP) -- Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote for historic health care legislation Saturday, putting President Barack Obama's signature issue firmly on a path ...


Survey of young adults finds wide majority support health reform

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

An overwhelming majority -- 88 percent -- of young adults across the political spectrum think it is important for Congress and the President to pass health reform legislation that would assure affordable health insurance ...


Why or 'wine-not' let New York groceries sell wine?

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has developed simulation models to predict the economic implications of selling wine in New York grocery stores. With a new law, the state could reap about $22 million a year.


Soup can reopens mystery of doomed Franklin Expedition

Soup can reopens mystery of doomed Franklin Expedition

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lead levels that are "off the scale" have been confirmed after tests were done this morning on the lid of a soup can dating back more than 150 years. The findings reopen the mystery surrounding ...


Health care loophole would allow coverage limits (AP)

Health care loophole would allow coverage limits

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient ...


A greener way to get electricity from natural gas

A greener way to get electricity from natural gas

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (16) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than ...


Government delays new ban on Internet gambling

Technology / Internet

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.


Denmark: 65 world leaders for UN climate summit (AP)

Denmark: 65 world leaders for UN climate summit

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- Sixty-five world leaders have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December, and several more have responded positively to invitations, Danish officials said Sunday.


Stimulus grant will improve physics arXiv

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stimulus funding will enhance Cornell's e-print arXiv of scientific papers to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work.


Google digital book ambitions hinge on settlement (AP)

Google makes concessions on digital book deal (Update)

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created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- Google Inc. will loosen its control over millions of copyright-protected books that will be added to its digital library if a federal judge approves a revised legal settlement addressing the earlier ...



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