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Intel Body Count: 10,500 Jobs
The struggling chipmaker will eliminate around 10 percent of its workforce -- most cuts coming in management, marketing and IT -- as part of its biggest restructuring since the mid-1980s. Copyright Claim Erases 'Here Comes Another Bubble' Parody Video From Y
A creative clip titled "Here Comes Another Bubble" gets popped due to a copyright claim from an unnamed third party. Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Lea
This report released in August 2007 provides data and analysis about CEO compensation and the CEO-worker pay gap. Also include comparisons of compensation for U.S. business leaders with other U.S. leaders and European business leaders, and proposals for change. Opens directly into a PDF document. From the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." Newer, Simpler Fixes Restore Corroded Pipelines
Researchers are taking the guesswork out of repairing corroded oil and gas pipelines. Historically, engineers repairing corroded pipeline segments have not had much guidance in regard to measuring the effectiveness of their choice of repair materials. Is There A Developmental Component To The Risk For Depression?
Psychiatrists remain divided as to how to define and classify the mood and anxiety disorders, the most common mental disorders. Authors of a new study explain that their findings support a proposed "fetal programming"model for depression and anxiety, which posits that prenatal stress may result in permanent maladaptive changes to the developing fetal brain. ... LII: This Week's Batch, February 24, 2005
"The dalgyte or rabbit-eared bandicoot, the brush-tailed bettong, the fat-tailed dunnart": you read about it here in LII New This Week!Also browse sites related to Hunter S. Thompson, North Korea, Darfur, iPods, pigs, patents, mincemeat, marsupials, best books, oldest humans, Slavs, slavery, swine, Nixon, and a detailed map of Springfield, USA. In More New This Week , find a baker's dozen times two of yet more porcine sites, opera, and much more. Bon appetit from the LII team: librarian-editors Karen, Wendy, Jennifer, Maria, Pat, Tom, Charlotte, and Jerry, and our 100-and-change contributors. Molecule Blocks Gene, Sheds Light On Liver Cancer
New research shows how a particular small molecule blocks the activity of a cancer-suppressing gene, allowing liver cancer cells to grow and spread. This molecule is a microRNA, a recently discovered class of tiny molecules used by cells to help control the kinds and amounts of proteins they make. More than 250 different microRNAs have been discovered, and several have been linked to cancer. Feb. 20, 1962: Yank in Orbit
John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. The space program really takes off after this. Compiled by Tony Long. UCSB Researchers Discover That The Cell's Endosomes Use A Surprising T
Cells have developed a surprising transportation system for their endosomes, according to research published today in Physical Review Letters, "Dynamics and Spatial Organization of Endosomes in Mammalian Cells."
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