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President Obama this week unveiled a tax-and-spend package that would let businesses write off 100 percent of their investments in equipment and plants through 2011.
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Saskatchewan Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd said he is concerned that a Chinese company would want to overproduce potash and drive down its price.
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An Illinois-based gas distributor has warned officials in at least 12 states that some propane deliveries may have lacked enough of a chemical that gives a distinctive smell to the normally odorless gas.
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Plants can resist bacterial infection by building up toxic metals in their leaves, according to a new study. This is the most conclusive evidence yet to demonstrate how some species benefit from high concentrations of these metals.
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A fire at a plant that makes wood products started with a sawdust explosion that occurred as a loader was working at a storage bin.
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Minutes after a woman was suspended from her job at a Kraft Foods Inc. plant and was escorted out, she returned with a handgun and opened fire.
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(The Company of Biologists) How well do flying fish fly? This is the question that puzzled Haecheon Choi from Seoul National University, Korea. Measuring aerodynamic forces on dried darkedged-wing flying fish in a wind tunnel, Choi and Hyungmin Park discovered that flying fish...
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(Boston University Medical Center) The Office of Naval Research has awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant to a team of researchers from Boston University, the University of Washington, the University of Maryland, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The grant will...
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(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) The 23rd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology covered a wide variety of issues of critical public health concern, such as depression, schizophrenia, addiction, chronopsychiatry and neurodegenerative disorders,...
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Sales of beer have surged by 50 percent in Zimbabwe over the past year amid the misery of daily power and water outages and ongoing economic woes.
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