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By Yoram|2021-05-19T01:17:52-06:00February 20th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments
  • Foxconn Plans to Lift Pay Sharply at Factories in China. See also Pressure, Chinese and Foreign, Drives Changes at Foxconn
  • Florida Set for New Cut in Spending on Colleges
  • Building Self-Control, the American Way: Sandra Aamodt, a former editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, and Sam Wang, an associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton, are the authors of “Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows From Conception to College.”
  • How Companies Learn Your Secrets: The manager didn’t have any idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it was addressed to the man’s daughter and contained advertisements for maternity clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again… On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”
  • Lending Your Car to Strangers (for Cash)
  • Find My iPhone
  • Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Winner in Physiology-Medicine, Dies at 97
  • Taking a Spin in an Electric BMW
  • Scientists Find New Dangers in Tiny but Pervasive Particles in Air Pollution
  • 60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked. Feel good story of the day.
  • Models underestimate future temperature variability; food security at risk, about David Battisti
  • A Rate Sleuth Making Rental Car Companies Squirm. About AutoSlash
  • Embracing the Mothers of Invention, about Kickstarter
  • U.S. to Share Cautionary Tale of Trade Secret Theft With Chinese Official. Yikes.

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