Archive for September, 2007
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the practice of stocking articles with keywords in order to achieve a high search engine ranking. There are plenty of reasons to want to be on the first page of a search, the most important is because many people find what they'e looking for ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
China is willing to strengthen bilateral and multilateral cooperation on civilian nuclear energy with other nations, a senior Chinese official attending a meeting on nuclear energy in Vienna said on Sunday.
The peaceful use of nuclear energy was important to the Chinese government, Chen Deming, deputy head of the National Development ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
After nearly a decade of trying, Eli Lilly and Co. has won approval to market a bone-strengthening drug for another use: as a preventive measure to help certain women reduce their risk of breast cancer.
But some critics, including several women's health groups, say the drug's heart risks outweigh its benefits ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
After another 3 - 0 victory Hammers find themselves in the top four of the Premiership, and while the victory over Boro was not as emphatic as the scoreline suggests a win is a win, and when it catapults your club up the table it makes for nice viewing! This ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
With Apple holding a press event in London next Tuesday, expectations are running high that the iPhone will make its long-awaited European debut. But if the iPhone is unveiled next week, will it be in its current form or as a 3G handset? The answer to that question could go ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Five years after the arrest of six young men from Lackawanna, N.Y., questions remain about whether the so-called "homegrown terrorists" are as dangerous as authorities initially suggested. The Jihad Next Door, a book by NPR's Dina Temple-Raston, explores the subject. Temple-Raston discusses the case against the Lackawanna Six with Steve ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
We love low prices, sure, but we frown at the things companies do to get us good deals — like paying low wages. In his book Supercapitalism, economist Robert Reich looks at the divided mind of the consumer and citizen.Reich subtitles his book "The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Leon Fleisher was named a Kennedy Center Honoree today, along with pop diva Diana Ross, director Martin Scorsese and others. The annual award is given out in recognition of lasting contrubutions to the arts in America. The awards will be presented and televised at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the number of Americans without health insurance grew to an all time high of 47 million people last year. That is an increase of more than two million people from 2005. The number of children without health coverage also rose. With health care ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
A new survey shows that an increase in health insurance rates this year is less than the increase last year. But, that's not necessarily good news to the employers or employees who pay the premiums.Every year, the Kaiser Family Foundation asks 2,000 small, medium and large businesses what they're doing ...
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