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| Violin Memory strikes sour note in market debut | | | (Reuters) - Shares of flash storage provider Violin Memory , backed by Toshiba Corp , fell nearly 21 percent in their market debut, as investors remain skeptical about an intensely competitive data... |
| Sonar jamming moths hinder hungry bats | | | Sept. 25 - A tiger moth native to the deserts of Arizona has developed a highly evolved sonar jamming system it uses to fend of attacks by hungry bats. The discovery, described in a paper published in the journal PLOS One, could have applications in the design of acoustic deterrents to protect bats from dangerous wind turbines. Rob Muir reports. |
| Billionaire Soros weds consultant in third marriage | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - George Soros, the 83-year-old billionaire investor, philanthropist and supporter of liberal political causes, married for a third time on Saturday, tying the knot with education consultant Tamiko Bolton. |
| Monaco's F1 transformation | | | The most famous race in Formula One -- the Monaco Grand Prix -- brings a change of pace to Monaco's Mediterranean idyll. |
| Pilot has heart attack midair, dies | | | A passenger airline pilot had a heart attack in midair late Thursday, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing, an airport spokeswoman said. |
| Hardware heroes in our gadgets | | | Next time you marvel at the computer hardware in your hand, spare a thought for the tiny transistors contained within. Without them our modern gizmos wouldn't work. |
| U.S. government approves Arkansas Medicaid expansion proposal | | | Sept 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Friday that it had approved Arkansas' proposal to use federal money targeted for expanding the Medicaid health program for the poor to help low-income residents buy private insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare law. |
| The harm that casinos do | | | David Frum says casinos are more than an entertaining diversion. They extract money from those least able to afford it. |
| Out There Stars, Gold, Dung Beetles and Us | | | Its hard to imagine a more humbling connection between the microscopic and the massive than that of a bug who navigates its carefully wrought investment by the light of the Milky Way. |
| New delays hit Obamacare rollout before October 1 launch | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday announced new delays in rolling out President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, saying small business and Spanish-language health insurance enrollment services would not begin on October 1 as planned. |
| Workers at Grangemouth refinery vote in favour of strike action | | | LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Workers at the 210,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Grangemouth, Scotland, and the attached chemical plant have voted in favour of strike action over owner Ineos's treatment of a worker at the centre of a disciplinary action, the union said on Friday. |
| Inside the List | | | Nicholas Sparks, whose Longest Ride enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 1, is receiving help promoting the book from professional bull riders. |
| U.S. farmland market cooling entering key auction season | | | CHICAGO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The red-hot rush for U.S. grain land is cooling after years of record prices, but prime acreage is still attracting top dollar in the heart of the Corn Belt so far this fall, according to land auctioneers. |
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