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- Largest 25 U.S. Charities For 2012
- Billionaires Dominate List Of The Biggest Charitable Gifts Of 2012
- 6 Big Data Quotes of 2012
- UN slaps sanctions on DR Congo rebels
- North Korean leader reaches out to S Korea
- Will A Court Ruling Usher In Off-Label Promotions?
- The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette: What We Know So Far And What It Needs to Succeed
- Test Drive: 2013 Honda Accord Really Satisfies
- U.S. Sailors Sue Japanese Over Radiation
- Excess-profits tax on defense contractors during wartime is long overdue
- Top Afghan negotiator optimistic over peace prospects
- The Mother of All Money Charts
- Test Drive: 2013 Jaguar XJ Gets All Wheel Drive, And It's Great
- U.N. chief names East Timor's Ramos-Horta envoy to Guinea-Bissau
- Senate report on Benghazi lets Obama off hook
- 2013: A Turning Point for Semiconductors
- More BS for "Butter in Bangladesh" Fans
- Top Afghan negotiator optimistic over peace prospects
- U.N. chief names East Timor's Ramos-Horta envoy to Guinea-Bissau
- North Korean leader, in rare address, seeks end to confrontation with South
| Largest 25 U.S. Charities For 2012 Posted: 31 Dec 2012 05:11 PM PST Once again, United Way tops the annual Forbes list of the largest U.S. charities. Find out what other organizations made the list. |
| Billionaires Dominate List Of The Biggest Charitable Gifts Of 2012 Posted: 31 Dec 2012 05:11 PM PST Billionaires, led by Warren Buffett, account for most of The Chronicle of Philanthropy's list of the largest charitable gifts announced by individuals in 2012. Community foundations and public institutions were big beneficiaries. |
| Posted: 31 Dec 2012 04:34 PM PST Big Data (Photo credit: JD Hancock) "The data fabric is the next middleware"–Todd Papaioannou "This is the time to be super aggressive"–Chris Lynch "…once the database is big enough, it will also let parents compare their baby with fellow users' babies of the same age and gender. Rogati imagines that this crowdsourcing will provide [...] |
| UN slaps sanctions on DR Congo rebels Posted: 31 Dec 2012 09:27 PM PST Security Council blacklists two rebel groups -M23 and FDLR - responsible for war crimes in conflict-ravaged eastern DRC. |
| North Korean leader reaches out to S Korea Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:06 PM PST In surprise New Year speech broadcast on state media, Kim Jong-un calls for an end to confrontation with Seoul. |
| Will A Court Ruling Usher In Off-Label Promotions? Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:59 PM PST A recent appeals court ruling a sales rep's First Amendment rights were violated by FDA regulations that prohibit off-label marketing, but experts say the pharma industry is unlikely to pursue more aggressive marketing until the issue winds its way through the courts. |
| The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette: What We Know So Far And What It Needs to Succeed Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:57 PM PST Chevrolet has been tight-lipped about details on the 2014 Corvette. But there are a few things we do know, and others things we can expect, given the pedigree of this 60-year-old sports car. |
| Test Drive: 2013 Honda Accord Really Satisfies Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:52 PM PST The new Honda Accord drives better and more quietly than its predecessor. But the midsize sedan has poorly designed controls for the stereo, navigation and climate system, which is a letdown. |
| U.S. Sailors Sue Japanese Over Radiation Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:31 PM PST Eight U.S. sailors filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo utility that operates the Fukushima nuclear power plants, charging that the company lied about the high level of radiation in the area where the carrier USS Ronald Reagan was carrying out a humanitarian mission after the tsunami-triggered reactor crisis. |
| Excess-profits tax on defense contractors during wartime is long overdue Posted: 31 Dec 2012 08:07 PM PST No one can safely predict what will happen in 2013, but here are a few things I would like to see occur when it comes to national security. My most radical idea — and it should have been done 10 years ago — is for an excess-profits tax on defense contractors while we have troops fighting overseas. As I have often noted, Afghanistan and Iraq are the first U.S. wars in which taxes were not raised to pay for the fighting. Instead, the cost has been put on a credit card. Read full article >> |
| Top Afghan negotiator optimistic over peace prospects Posted: 31 Dec 2012 09:32 PM PST
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| The Mother of All Money Charts Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:14 PM PST Randall Munroe, the XKCD.com physicist cartoonist turned essayist & artist does some amazing work. His cartoons started out with stick figures telling science jokes, but now he works large - physically and in concept. One of his cartoons scrolls so much that it would take 46 feet of paper to [...] |
| Test Drive: 2013 Jaguar XJ Gets All Wheel Drive, And It's Great Posted: 31 Dec 2012 03:01 PM PST Jaguar set out to make its first all-wheel-drive XJ sedan handle as well as the rear-wheel drive version, and it succeeded. |
| U.N. chief names East Timor's Ramos-Horta envoy to Guinea-Bissau Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:49 PM PST
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| Senate report on Benghazi lets Obama off hook Posted: 31 Dec 2012 07:38 PM PST Homeland Security Committee finds intelligence agencies, not White House, are responsible for "talking point" changes. |
| 2013: A Turning Point for Semiconductors Posted: 31 Dec 2012 02:28 PM PST 2013 will be a turning point for the semiconductor market. Growth will return from negative numbers (a decline of as much as 5% in 2012) to positive (up to 10% revenue growth in 2013.) Investors who understand this will be able to properly navigate the timing of their semiconductor investments [...] |
| More BS for "Butter in Bangladesh" Fans Posted: 31 Dec 2012 02:28 PM PST If you Google the phrase "Butter in Bangladesh" you find pages of people talking about a gag paper from 1994, called "Stupid Data Miner Tricks: Overfitting the S&P 500". It grew up to be a chapter in the Nerds on Wall Street book, and the 4 minute 12 second video [...] |
| Top Afghan negotiator optimistic over peace prospects Posted: 31 Dec 2012 09:32 PM PST KABUL (Reuters) - A top Afghan peace negotiator said he was cautiously optimistic about prospects for reconciliation with the Taliban and that all sides now realized a military solution to the war was not possible. |
| U.N. chief names East Timor's Ramos-Horta envoy to Guinea-Bissau Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:49 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday named Nobel Peace prize laureate and former president of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, as his special representative to Guinea-Bissau, a West African nation that has become a narcotics hub. |
| North Korean leader, in rare address, seeks end to confrontation with South Posted: 31 Dec 2012 06:41 PM PST
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