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A conversation with the author and poker player.
MTV is leading a publicity campaign aimed at adolescents to discourage sending sexually explicit text messages and photos via cell phones.
As a result of the financial crisis and predatory banking fees, more and more people rely on check-cashing services and keep their cash under the mattress.
There is a legal vacuum when it comes to robot interaction with humans so ethicist and scientists weigh in as robotics technology speeds up.
Prolonged debate over Iraqi election law will likely delay the Parliamentary election constitutionally required in January until the end of February.
The Los Angeles diocese of the Episcopalian Church has elected an active lesbian as assistant bishop further dividing the American Anglican congregation.
CIA Secretary Robert Gates admitted that the government has not received credible information concerning Bin Laden’s whereabouts in several years.
Senate Democrats are holding weekend meetings with Obama to eye a public health option that mirrors their own government healthcare package.
The Environmental Protection Agency is set this week to declare carbon dioxide a public danger giving the government legal authority to regulate CO2 emissions.
Scientists believe that plants like the tomato may have discreet methods to trap small invertebrates for nutrition.
A student at the U of Delaware stumbled on a personal letter written by Thomas Jefferson praising a lesser-known delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
“If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.” It’s the thesis of novelist and writer Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals (Little, Brown), and a maxim his grandmother once told […]
Decoding the New Taliban, a book I blogged about once already, will probably find its way into more posts here because of its timeliness, depth, and variety of voices. The […]
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A conversation with the Group Chief Executive of Global Markets and Management Consulting at Accenture.
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Despite the crucial cost cutting that businesses are undertaking in this economic climate, it’s also important to be thinking about tomorrow, says Accenture’s Mark Foster.
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Management consulting expert Mark Foster thinks that businesses need to be poised to tap into new sources of global ability.
Take back Gore’s Oscar, say two Motion Picture Academy members in light of Climate-gate emails indicating undue influence on climate data.
Bolivia’s incumbent president, Evo Morales, is expected to win reelection after nationalizing oil and gas industries and fighting indigenous poverty.
Obama has committed to sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan where the Defense Department estimates there are only 100 Al-Qaeda fighters.
A new study fails to find correlation between increased cell phone use and instances of brain tumors in a Scandinavian sample.