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Analysis: Fed Bashing On Rise In Face Of Anger Over Wall Street Bailouts, High Unemployment (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding. Former Fed chairman William...
Peter Pratje says orangutans in Sumatra are threatened by pulp and paper companies Sumatra, Indonesia (CNN) -- This is lesson one of jungle school here in the forests of central Sumatra, one of the few places where orangutans...
Sixteen Chinese scientists will start an exploration mission of the Mekong River on Nov. 26, exploration team head Tao Baoxiang said here Friday. Huo Mingyuan, chief scientist, said the 20-day exploration aims to get to know...
China Mobile, the country's largest wireless carrier, is coming under pressure to shut off access to pornography through its cell phone network. The move comes as online sites accessible only through mobile phones are becoming...
New modeling work to be presented at Fluid Dynamics Conference WASHINGTON, D.C. November 13, 2009 -- At the upcoming 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics in Minneapolis, Adam...
A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of motion into...
By Robert S. Boyd McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — A whirlwind of activity is underway to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world. Six years...
China-U.S. relationship that by large was entering a period where our focus would be more and more on global issues, said U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman on Friday. Huntsman made the remarks at the Forum for America/China...
Los Angeles - It's thought to affect as many as one in five veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, more than 1.8 million US troops have fought in Afghanistan or Iraq. One autumn morning,...
A statement released by Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said that it will shed about 330 jobs in Finland and Denmark as part of a streamlining of its vast research and development operations, Reuters reported....
