News tagged with slave trade
Web site links African-Americans to ancestors' voyage
Jan 06, 2009 |
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In a major advance in genealogical research, African-Americans will be able to trace the routes of slave ships that transported 12.5 million of their ancestors from Africa as early as the 16th century.
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Yahoo launches online consumer privacy tool
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(AP) -- Yahoo wants its users to know what it knows about them.
EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health
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(AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment.
Decision soon on closing lock to stop Asian carp
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A decision could come within days on whether to temporarily close a vital Chicago area shipping waterway in an increasingly desperate bid to stop the invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, ...
FTC expands Intel anti-competition probe, sources say
Dec 04, 2009 |
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The Federal Trade Commission has broadened its investigation of Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker Intel beyond the company's competition with Advanced Micro Devices to include at least one other Silicon Valley company, Nvidia, ...
Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...
Comcast-NBC deal shows future is in content
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Comcast Corp. is buying control of NBC Universal from GE largely because Comcast wants to own more movies and TV shows. The point is to give it a position of strength if fewer people sign up for its ...
Web ad group launches privacy education campaign
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A group of leading Internet publishers and digital marketing services on Thursday launched an online campaign to educate consumers about how they are tracked and targeted for pitches on the Web.
New software to simulate future financial crises
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Can economics better predict how banks will react to future credit crunches and their impact on the wider economy? Breakthrough simulation software by European researchers could hold the answers ...
FTC: Children still marketed violent content
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The video game industry is doing a better job at keeping young kids away from violent and other inappropriate content than the music and movie businesses, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission.
A greener way to get electricity from natural gas
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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