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Greek unions are planning protest marches in the northern city of Thessaloniki against the debt-plagued country's harsh austerity program, before Prime Minister George Papandreou's keynote speec...
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Futuristic ideas for the use of superconductors, materials that allow electric current to flow without resistance, are myriad: long-distance, low-voltage electric grids with no transmission loss; fast, magnetically levitated trains; ultra-high-speed supercomputers; superefficient motors and generators; inexhaustible fusion energy - and many others, some in the experimental or demonstration stages.
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Superconductors face the future
American Security Logistics and AT&T* today announced the availability of a wirelessly connected tracking device that will track the location and ongoing movement of cargo pallet shipments by sending data across AT&T's wireless network.
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American Security Logistics Launches AT&T Connected Tracking Device for Ground Based Cargo Shipments
LOS ANGELES, USA: Ole Ivar Lovaas, a psychologist who developed one of the most widely used therapies for children with autism, and in doing so helped change the treatment and the public perception of the condition, died on August 2, 2010, in Lancaster, California. He was 83.
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Ivar Lovaas, autism pioneer, dies at 83
Model railroading has been a pastime and hobby since the 1840s. Scale models of locomotives, streetcars, tracks, signals, buildings and figures depict locations real and imaginary, and even periods of history. OHIO West Chester Township...
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Model-train mania around the world
A home owner rests after bailing out his house and laying newspapers to soak up excess water from the floor after flooding caused by heavy rain in Singapore. Photo courtesy: AFP.
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eXp Realty opens it's first and only office in Oregon. Being a completely virtual office carries some major advantages for Realtor's and clients. eXp introduces the most generous profit sharing program for agents and low office pay out at $16,000.
Would you know what to do if your business launch coincided with one of the worst economic downturns in history? Meet Camilla Gray-Nelson. Her Irish wit and business grit more than matched the challenges of the marketplace.
Does Facebook Places have what it takes to rule the location-sharing space? Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley doesn't think so. In a recent interview with London's Telegraph, Crowley called Places a "boring service" and not that "great or interesting."
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Scientists are releasing gases and fluorescent particles into Boston's subway tunnels during a test to study how toxic chemicals and lethal biological agents could spread through the subway system in a terrorist attack.
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Subway gas attack simulation studied