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From YAHOO: Americans wish they had studied more in college, view admissions tests as a necessary evil and would tell their children to finish their degrees rather than follow in the path of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who dropped out, a poll released on Monday showed. Nearly half of the […]
From REUTERS: When Zijin Mining Group threatened to move its headquarters some 270 kms from its home county of Shanghang to Xiamen on China’s southeast coast, a local Communist Party boss rushed to confront the company’s chairman Chen Jinghe. “If you want to move, you’ll have to move the Zijin […]
From the AP: Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States - an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world’s most lucrative […]
From BUSINESS WEEK: My hometown, Mountain View, Calif., has become the unofficial capital of the robotic car revolution. Each day, I seem to run into one, two, or three self-driving Google (GOOG) cars. They’re on my freeways; they’re in my neighborhood; they’re taking my shortcuts. One time, five of the […]
From REUTERS: Shares of Gulfport Energy were in free fall last spring, dropping 55 percent in four months, until the oil and gas producer announced it had drilled its first three wells in the Utica shale formation in Ohio. The Oklahoma-based company’s value has since more than doubled, bolstered by […]
From the DAILY MAIL: No, the world ISN’T getting warmer (as you may have noticed). Now we reveal the official data that’s making scientists suddenly change their minds about climate doom. So will eco-funded MPs stop waging a green crusade with your money? Well… what do YOU think? The Mail […]
From UPI: U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday America must “get off of oil for good” and urged Congress to set up an Energy Security Trust to fund energy research. In his weekly radio and Internet address — recorded Friday at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, where he spoke […]
From HOT AIR: The Health Department will begin implementing routine inspections to make sure eateries, including sit down restaurants and fast food chains, are not selling sugary beverages in servings larger than 16 ounces. Those inspectors will have specially ordered measuring cups to help them enforce the new rule, Deputy […]
From the ASSOCIATED PRESS: Roku is plugging headphones and several other new features into its latest set-top box for streaming Internet video to TVs, a move that amplifies its effort to upstage Apple’s better-selling player. The Roku 3 box going on sale Wednesday also includes a more powerful search engine […]
From CNN MONEY: Italian supercar maker Lamborghini is set to officially unveil a new $4 million model - the Veneno - at the Geneva Motor Show Tuesday, but it seems that some folks in the press just couldn’t wait that long. Images began appearing on the web Monday, before the […]
