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Text of Carl Icahn's Letter to Roy Bostock

Carl Icahn released his letter to the Yahoo board Thursday. Here is the full text of the letter: 15-May-2008

New 3Com CEO Mao to Be Based in China

3Com, the U.S. networking vendor now looking to operations in China for a competitive edge, has named a new CEO who will be... 29-Apr-2008

Carnegie Mellon's Robocar Wins DARPA Challenge

A robot racing team from Carnegie Mellon University beat out Stanford University to win DARPA's Urban Challenge, a 60-mile race involving self-guided vehicles. 05-Nov-2007

Jury Orders Woman to Pay $222,000 for Illegal Music Sharing

A Minneapolis woman has been convicted of illegally downloading and sharing copyrighted music over a peer-to-peer network. 05-Oct-2007

Students Take Google as Gospel

Survey shows university students don't seem to question Google's ranking system. 27-Aug-2007

From Around the Web

AS A FOOD EXPERT: Keys to Health: Eat Local Food and Savor

The bumper sticker says it all: "If I am what I eat, than I'm fast, cheap and easy." . . Last year, Americans spent more than a half-trillion...

Are Designer Babies on the Way?

News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it's a step ...

Big Incentive for Fuel-Efficient Vehicle

The X Prize Foundation, best known for its competitions promoting space flights, is offering $10 million to the teams that can produce the most ...

Expanded Food And Nutrition Program Shows $10 Benefit For Each $1 Spent

A program to teach low-income adults about healthy food choices is a good bargain in terms of the health and economic benefits achieved, reports a ...

New chancellor selected to lead Delgado College

Ron Wright, former president of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, was appointed Delgado Community College's chancellor Wednesday by...

Daddy, buy me a clone!

This week, British members of Parliment and members of the Lords will gather for a second reading of a bill to allow genetically-modified (GM)...

We need to measure the quality of teachers

Teachers are the most important members of a society. We could manage without economists, accountants, lawyers, dentists and even doctors. Most...

Lord of the Wings

The dragonfly is an aerial acrobat. It's able to fly fast and slow, backward and forward, and even stay aloft while copulating. Where does the...

'Citizen Scientists' Watch for Signs of Climate Change

Kite-flying Benjamin Franklin was one. So was President Thomas Jefferson, who did important work in archaeology at an Indian burial ground. British...

New whale detection buoys will help ships take the right way through marine habitat

Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have...

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