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Money – Microsoft Corp posted on Thursday quarterly revenue and a June quarter earnings outlook at the low end of Wall Street expectations, sending its shares more than 5 percent lower.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:50am
Money – Talk about filling up your car! How would you like to have a big rig to fill up every morning? According to Dave Berry, the Vice President of Swift Transportation, the average national price of DIESEL FUEL is now $4.14 PER GALLON, nearly double what it was in 2004.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:49am
Money – Gas prices shot up to yet another record at the pump Thursday, with the national average price topping $3.55, although some analysts said the sharp price increases of recent days are likely to level off soon.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:49am
Money – At the pump, the average national price of a gallon of regular gas jumped 2.3 cents overnight to $3.556 a gallon, according to a survey of stations by AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Prices have risen nearly 14 cents in one week.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:49am
Money – Crude oil prices behave much as any other commodity with wide price swings in times of shortage or oversupply. The crude oil price cycle may extend over several years responding to changes in demand as well as OPEC and non-OPEC supply.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:49am
Science – Reporter Tom Heap sets out to discover if the popularity of bottled water is a triumph of marketing over common sense and challenges consumers to end their love affair with the bottle
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:49am
Science – A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that one of the most intriguing phenomena in condensed-matter physics -- known as the quantum Hall effect -- can occur in nature in a way that no one has ever before seen.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:49am
Science – Researchers have broken ground in understanding how the brain generates this tracking motion, a finding that offers a window, they say, into how neurons orchestrate all of the body's movements.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:48am
Science – Scientists must work harder at making the public aware of the stark difference between good science and "denialist spin".
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:48am
Science – Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:48am
Science – "The White House has, in some cases, compromised the integrity of EPA rules and policies; their influence, largely hidden from the public and driven by industry lobbying, has decreased the stringency of proposed regulations for nonscientific, political reasons."
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:48am
Science – New Zealand's largest glacier is shrinking fast due to climate change and will eventually disappear altogether, scientists said Thursday.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:48am
Science – What the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers did for Mesopotamia, the Nile River did for Egypt. Over thousands of years the people along the Nile had slowly learned to take advantage of the annual summer flood.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:48am
Science – Ever wondered if Fish can Fly?
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:48am
Science – Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before merging back into a single population, a genetic study suggests.
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Voted for on April 25, 2008 10:48am