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| Opinion Why I hate museums | | | They're beacons of the cultured world, flogged to travelers like their vacations depend on them -- but their connection to humanity has gone AWOL. |
| Currents | Goods Play Misty for Me | | | Casamista, a portable humidifier, is made of molded satin-textured plastic, has a purifying filter and will fit on top of any water bottle or glass. |
| Gingrich Stay out of Syria | | | News that the United States is considering a military strike on Syria in response to the Bashar al-Assad regime's suspected use of chemical weapons suggests we could soon see an American bombing campaign on the war-torn country. |
| Life, Interrupted A Test of Faith | | | It had never occurred to me that, with all of the progress that has been made in cancer research, none of the standard treatments would work for me. Thats when I learned about something called a clinical trial. |
| ENRC bidders hold 94.5 percent of shares, extend offer | | | LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The founders of Kazakh miner ENRC , bidding to buy out minority shareholders, said on Thursday that a majority of small investors had taken up the offer, taking acceptances to 94.5 percent and all but guaranteeing success. |
| Can Esther Duflo eradicate poverty? | | | Poverty and hunger are two plagues of human society that are usually synonymous with each other. Economist, Esther Duflo, is trying to change that old way of thinking about hunger. Foreign Policy magazine has ranked Duflo as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers," for "Poor Economics," a book she co-authored, which says that the impoverished may be suffering from hunger because of where they choose to spend their money. |
| Bright future for Africa's solar power | | | Africa has plenty of sunshine, but many countries are plagued by power cuts. So could a recent wave of solar power investment solve Africa's energy problems? |
| Norway's Arctic idyll shivers at oil plans | | | SVOLVAER, Norway (Reuters) - Oil companies seeking new Arctic areas for exploration face a battle with environmentalists, fishermen and hotel owners over Norwegian islands where jagged snow-capped peaks rise sheer from the sea. |
| Verizon in talks to buy out Vodafone stake sources | | | LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications is close to buying the remaining stake in Verizon Wireless from Vodafone Group PLC it does not own for potentially $130 billion, according to people familiar with the talks, in what could be the third-biggest deal of all time. |
| Mouse body clock study offers clues to possible jet lag cure | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found a genetic mechanism in mice that hampers their body clock's ability to adjust to changes in patterns of light and dark, and say their results could someday lead to the development of drugs to combat jet lag. |
| Serena 'pumped up' for U.S. Open bid | | | Serena Williams has lost only four matches this year -- and the world No. 1 is hoping her most recent setback can help her become the oldest winner of a U.S. Open women's singles title. |
| CBS ad enlists football stars in bid to end Time Warner blackout | | | Aug 29 (Reuters) - CBS Corp aired ads in three major U.S. markets this week urging fans to switch television providers before the start of the professional and college football seasons to pressure Time Warner Cable Inc to end a month-long blackout over fee increases. |
| Back to school for Loeb | | | Sebastien Loeb was a late starter in motorsport, but the French driver is happy to start all over again in his latest challenge after a decade of dominating the rally world. |
| GMO corn failing to protect fields from pest damage report | | | (Reuters) - Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is supposed to protect the crop from the pests, according to a new report. |
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