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Couldn’t you just put your clippings directly into your virtual shopping cart? Well, you could if e-commerce pioneer iBuying.com were around when you did your weekly shopping. In this column, I’ll answer the question…
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More than 80 years after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his famous 1944 State of the Union speech and more than 50 years after a Montana-born sculptor first set out to commemorate the wartime…
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Fred Page, the man suspected of pulling a team of 14-plus men from the sunken Australian mine in PNG’s Mount Hagen, was a US Navy veteran who had once been recommended for a lifetime…
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Eight months after they met in Paris, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are officially engaged. During the couple’s whirlwind romantic trip to London this past weekend, Timberlake reportedly popped the question during a hike…
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One of the most exciting developments in green energy is an electricity grid that harnesses the power of sunlight. So when researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found a new source of cobalt…
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Study: Stillbirths in the United States High, But Regionally Different A new study finds that stillbirths in the United States are on the rise, and a new set of findings reveals disparities in pregnancy…
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There’s a new hope for struggling families in Iowa who may have a missing loved one — they may have a very close relative close by. KCCI reported a 90-year-old great-grandson of “The Great…
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Ford says it plans to create its own computer chips for vehicles, moving away from Texas Instruments. The decision has the potential to save the company money, according to CEO Mark Fields. “The cost…
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Photo Just in time for Arbor Day, researchers from Yale and Ohio State Universities have released a study that quantifies and compares to some degree the impact of urban forest loss on climate change….
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Pfizer is striking a deal with drug distributor Global Pharmaceuticals to give developing countries affordable access to Pfizer’s blockbuster painkiller, oxycodone, particularly in Africa. The deal is aimed at putting less expensive versions of…
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