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A huge increase in the application fee for oil and gas companies to drill on federal land is unfair and won't speed up review of drilling permits, industry officials said Wednesday.
Rising unemployment and the struggles of the U.S. auto industry were both evident as payroll and benefits outsourcer Automatic Data Processing Inc. reported a slim 3 percent profit rise in its first quarter. Cost controls offset lower revenue.
If you want to get someone to do something, ask them in their right earIf you want to get someone to do something, ask them in their right ear, say scientists. Italian researchers found people were better at processing information when requests were made on that side in three separate tests.
U.S. Drops Funding for Research Into Vehicle Fuel CellsCars powered by hydrogen fuel cells, once hailed by President George W.
Summer Creative Coding Workshops in Vancouver: Processing, Processing, Processing! | blprnt.blgProcessing is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas. Since its simple beginnings at the MIT Media Lab, it has emerged as an invaluable tool for media artists, designers, and programmers around the world.
Pigs boiled alive at Swedish meat plantsLiving pigs have been scalded to death at four large Swedish meat processing plants, according to the National Food Administration (Livsmedelsverket).
One of the brighter spots in the online economy, as least before the stock market dive last fall, is related to game websites.
Blind Man Sees With Subconscious Eye : NPRScientists are reporting the remarkable case of a blind man who can see. More Articles
Scientist Discovers Fungus That Could Fuel A Car Unprocessed : NPRA researcher at Montana State University has found a micro-organism in a plant in South America that could fuel vehicles one day. The unusual fungus contains the essence of diesel, which one could use to run a bus, for example, without processing it at all. More Articles
Web-savvy young make bad jurors because they cannot listen, says Lord Chief Justice Young people brought up with the internet are not used to listening for long periods and would not make good jurors, according to the most senior judge in England and Wales.
The group you've been waiting for!! This is a place for people who love fiber to teach and learn or just show off their stuff. Any fiber is game. Wool, silk, hemp, cotton, etc.
Bamboo, Part I: How do they make it into boards?Seems like every year somebody makes something cool out of bamboo: bicycles, snowboards, laptops, or a thousand other things. But the most common apps we see are slightly more mundane--flooring and cutting boards.
Swine of the times — A mysterious disease afflicts slaughterhouse workersOnce, there was E. coli. Then came mad-cow disease. Now we have the latest in the medical-mystery genre: The Case of the Insidious Pig-Brain Allergy.
Local Carrots With a Side of Red TapeTHE dirt on Richard Ball's farm in Schoharie County is 15 feet deep, rich with minerals and perfect for growing sweet carrots. LESSONS LEARNED New York carrots, like these grown in Schoharie, will be sliced and packed in bags for school meals.
A new community for speech, speaker and voice processing information exchangeA new community for speech, speaker and voice processing information exchange
A better way to make seawater drinkable | CNET News.comResearchers at University of California at Los Angeles have come up with a membrane that can filter salt and impurities out of seawater more efficiently and for less money than current systems, which potentially could help with the world's looming water problems.
Google Offering Free Software PackageGoogle Inc. is making its word processing and spreadsheet programs available for free to all comers on its Web site, marking the Internet search leader's latest effort to provide an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s dominant software applications
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