Health Highlights: Jan. 13, 2014 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Nine Womb Transplant Patients Doing Well: Swedish Researchers Nine women who received ...
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Facebook on Monday confirmed that it has grabbed a hold of Branch, a social network that focuses providing online forums for insightful conversations. Terms of the deal were not released, but some reports estimated the price at $15 ...
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International Exposition Company, producer of the 2014 AHR Expo in New York City, January 21-23, announced that $12,525 will be donated to the Youth Action YouthBuild (YAYB) organization based in New York City’s East Harlem community. ...
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The average price of gasoline was $3.346 Jan. 10, the highest U.S. price in 12 weeks, according to Lundberg Survey Inc. The price represents an 8.41-cent increase in the three weeks since the last survey, Lundberg said in the data ...
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New solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in the US reached a record 4.2GW during 2013. Since 2012, the US market has grown 15%, making it the leading solar market outside the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, according to Solarbuzz. Solar PV ...
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The natural gas distribution companies serving the Northeast U.S. met near-record demand for natural gas in the period from January 2 to 8, 2014. The extreme cold weather throughout the Northeast (as well as much of the U.S. and Canada) ...
Private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co. has acquired a minority stake in Top 100 company Arhaus here. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Arhaus was founded in 1986 by CEO John Reed and his father, Jack Reed, and operates 46 stores ...
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In the week ending January 11, 2014, farmers and ginners in India held to their cotton without any fear of downtrend, says a weekly report on cotton market trends released by S. Ajay Kumar & Company. During the week, cotton market ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new GATEWAY report entitled Pedestrian Friendly Outdoor Lighting. Recognizing that pedestrian lighting has different criteria for success than street and area lighting, GATEWAY followed ...
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YRC Worldwide's truck drivers and other employees, represented by Teamsters Union, have rejected a proposal to extend the current labour contract to 2019. Members voted over the past several weeks and ballots were counted Thursday. The ...
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IBM faces a puzzle that might give even the world's greatest detective pause: How to grow its "Jeopardy"-conquering Watson supercomputer into a $10-billion business within a decade. The company hopes to boost Watson's profit-making ...
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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Two years ago, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote a much-discussed piece on the ...
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The United Steelworkers (USW) supports the unanimous affirmative vote by the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to keep existing "orders" on OTR tires imported from China. According to the union, the decision ...
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Major food companies are keeping their word by removing 6.4 trillion calories from the U.S. marketplace in an effort to promote healthy weight, a new report says. The report, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), a ...
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There's long been concern that certain drugs taken to control seizures might be unsafe for use by pregnant women, due to potential effects on the fetus. Now, new British research suggests that the drug levetiracetam does not pose a major ...
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