Polls may underestimate Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent, researchers say October 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 85 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Current polls of the presidential election may be underestimating Barack Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent nationally and possibly larger margins in the Southeast and some strongly Republican states, according ... | |
The Panic of '08: What made investors run for the exits? October 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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"In a few months, I expect to see the stock market much higher than today," Irving Fisher, America's most illustrious economist, predicted in the middle of October 1929. Two weeks later, the Dow Jones index fell by 23 percent ... | |
 Scientist warns cash woes 'devastating' to science October 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Famed scientist Richard Leakey warned that the worldwide credit crisis will be "just devastating" to scientific research in coming years, as endowment interest income drops and companies cut donations. | |
Deathways open doors to unexpected cultural practices October 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Cremation, "air burial," grave cairns, funeral mounds, mummification, belief in life after death – death practices sacred to one culture are often considered "odd" or even terrifying by another. | |
Economists: Tough measures needed to cure economic ills October 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- An ailing financial industry is going to need strong medicine to pull out of a deepening credit crunch brought on by risky loans and deregulation, Purdue University economists said Monday. | |
Does it matter if black plus white equals black or multiracial? October 10, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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"Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?" a recent CNN.com headline asks. The question of whether Obama should be considered black or multiracial has been a concern of the media throughout the campaign. | |
'Credit Crunch' Will Hit Retirees in Unequal Ways October 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How severely retirees will be affected by the continuing financial crisis and subsequent "credit crunch" depends to a considerable extent on the kinds of retirement plans they rely on for retirement income, ... | |
Full extent of financial crisis still not known, Purdue expert says October 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The depth of the current financial crisis is unknown partly because most financial institutions don't disclose they are in trouble until after the fact, a Purdue University expert says. | |
Oil, gas, propane? Penn State site compares home heating options October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- That nip in the air means fall is here, and many homeowners are facing a drastically more expensive home-heating season. An energy specialist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences says it's not ... | |
Expert: Flawed corporate watchdog methods helped fuel economic crisis October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Archaic corporate governing systems that failed to ferret out risky business deals helped stoke the nation's deepest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a University of Illinois business law expert says. | |
Breathing second life into language teaching October 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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An international team has developed a wireless virtual reality environment that can help promote language learning and let students practice. The researchers have demonstrated their Collaborative Virtual Reality Environment ... | |
Insider trading: Another glass ceiling? October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Martha Stewart notwithstanding, female executives who legally trade on inside information make nice, tidy profits—but not as much as men in the same positions, say researchers at the University of Michigan's ... | |
 Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Palade dies at 95 October 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Dr. George Palade, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell biology programs in the nation at the University of ... | |
Transparency in politics can lead to greater corruption October 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Why are some countries more prone to political corruption? Viviana Stechina from Uppsala University, Sweden, has investigated why corruption among the political elite was more extensive in Argentina than in Chile during ... | |
 arXiv online scientific repository hits milestone October 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: Half a million e-print postings -- research articles published ... | |
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