MP3 … For more than 20 years, the mantra in Washington has been “more, not less” when it comes to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the expansion of homeownership. But in light of the financial …
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Multinational companies in China need to consider new strategies to manage Gen Y employees, now half of China’s working-age population. … Read more
Microbes could soon be used to convert metallic wastes into high-value catalysts for generating clean energy. … Read more
A book geek to the end, I grasped an old leather-bound Shakespeare tome from a thrift shop, smelled it creepily, and wished I could bottle and wear its scent forever. … Read more
Globalization hasn’t spared the painters of Montmartre, who are as much a part of Paris as the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. They are increasingly finding themselves in competition with reproductions from China being sold …
Large scale, cost-effective stem cell factories able to keep up with demand for new therapies to treat a range of human illnesses are a step closer to reality, thanks to a scientific breakthrough involving researchers …
As the world becomes more densely populated, the connections between us are expanding in ever more intricate ways. How does this affect us in business and in life? And how can we make the most …
Created by researchers at MIT’s Senseable City Lab, Seaswarm employs a conveyor belt of absorbent, nanowire mesh. The specially deigned mesh can suck up oil on the water’s surface and then process and dispose of …
Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory that has been the basis for the consumer electronics revolution. …
Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation’s success by its productivity — instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against …
US networking giant Cisco has made an offer to acquire Internet communications firm Skype, technology blog TechCrunch said. … Read more
If a conservative is a liberal who just got mugged, then an advocate of government intervention in the economy is nothing more than a free market believer who just realized that China dominates an industry …
As the world’s biggest maker of computer chips, Intel Corp. can’t afford to ignore its huge blind spot in mobile phones. Eighty percent of today’s personal computers use Intel processors. But Intel is absent in …
The worst floods in Pakistan’s history already have swept through the nation’s most important breadbasket provinces, destroying cotton and corn crops, vegetables and orchards, and leaving many people in need of emergency food. … …
Against the backdrop of a clampdown on visas by the US and growing antagonism towards foreign workers and immigrants in that country, Infosys Technologies, India’s second-largest IT services firm, is mulling an ‘extreme offshoring’ model …
A city’s size no longer is the key factor in building vibrant local economies, according to a study by a Michigan State University sociologist. Zachary Neal found that although America’s largest cities once had the …
Experienced professionals aren’t the only workers struggling to find jobs. In July, 51.1 percent of Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 years old were unemployed, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau …
In early July, Princeton University economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman dropped an economic bombshell, warning us we’re in the early stages of a depression. In turn, some of his economic brethren privately …
In this lighthearted, serious look at America’s economic ills, Robert E. Wright not only identifies the problems of our current economic conundrum but also proposes new, intriguing solutions. Avoiding the partisanship that is so prevalent …
The 2008 financial crash and the shift of power from west to east raise questions about the future of capitalism. Robert Skidelsky appraises the latest thinking, from a-Joon Chang, Anatole Kaletsky and Ian Bremmer. … …
The engineer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the US is currently finalising designs for a series of turbines that could be used to harness the immense energy of the Gulf Stream, flowing deep in the …
Long a favourite of lovers and honeymooners, a Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in the wired age by drawing young men and their virtual girlfriends. … Read more
During its decades of rapid growth, China thrived by allowing once-suppressed private entrepreneurs to prosper, often at the expense of the old, inefficient state sector of the economy. Now, whether in the coal-rich regions of …
To end world hunger: It’s a popular answer by beauty queen contestants and corn producers, but is it really an attainable goal for agriculture? People interested in “urban farming” think so. A search on Google …
China issued export quotas for 30,258 tonnes by the end of July, down 40 percent compared to last year, following a nationwide campaign to consolidate the sector and clamp down on illegal production. China has …
Globalization is changing the food we eat, the way we communicate and, increasingly, the way we go to college. Nearly 3 million students were enrolled in universities outside their borders in 2009, a 57 percent …
It weighs in at more than 60 kilograms, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim down to nothing. Oxford University Press, the publisher, said so many people …
Biofuels companies from the U.K. to Brazil and China are buying up large swaths of Africa, causing deforestation and diverting land from food to fuel production, the environmental group Friends of the Earth said. Across …
Will the heat wave and drought that have created so much havoc in Russia cause the leadership in that country to take climate change more seriously? The answer is important not only for Russia itself …
Consumers could be buying even smaller iPods, cellphones and computers in less than a decade as new research from McGill University suggests nearly invisible nano-particles will transform everyday electronics. .. Read more
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