The Civil Rights Act of 1991 (CRA-91) held great promise for protecting workers from discrimination in the workplace. Unfortunately, like many good ideas, CRA-91 had an unintended consequence for employers: it increased the ...
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Jun 15, 2007
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Toshiba Corporation today announced new technology that opens the way to manufacturing powerful ICs for the millimeter-waveband.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jun 15, 2007
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A tiny single-celled organism that plays a key role in the carbon cycle of cold-water oceans may be a lot smarter than scientists had suspected.
Jun 15, 2007
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Small businesses can now easily enjoy the advantages of blade servers thanks to a new offering from IBM. Blade computers integrate servers, storage, networking and applications into one system.
Hardware
Jun 15, 2007
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The world is abuzz with the discovery of an extrasolar, Earth-like planet around the star Gliese 581 that is relatively close to our Earth at 20 light years away in the constellation Libra.
Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2007
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A researcher for Washington University in St. Louis, along with colleagues at the Saint Louis Zoo and Saint Louis University are tracking timber rattlesnakes in west St. Louis County and neighboring Jefferson County. They ...
Jun 15, 2007
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When we think of extrasolar Earth-like planets, the first tendency is to imagine weird creatures like Jar Jar Binks, Chewbacca, and, if those are not bizarre enough, maybe even the pointy-eared Vulcan, Spock, of Star Trek ...
Jun 15, 2007
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African governments were instrumental in inhibiting the growth of their own economies in the late 20th century, according to a decade-long project conducted by African scholars and economists. Robert Bates, professor of government ...
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Jun 15, 2007
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Several U.S. environmental groups are upset concerning a possible link between a pathogenic fungus and genetically engineered eucalyptus trees.
Jun 15, 2007
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Four swarms of Asian bees found in Cairns, Australia, may pose a serious threat to the country's honey bee population.
Jun 15, 2007
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