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The Exploratorium, San Francisco’s pioneering hands-on science museum, has a new leader right out of Silicon Valley’s high-tech design world. Directors of the 47-year-old museum said Wednesday that Chris Flink, a partner at Ideo, an Palo Alto international design firm, will become the institution’s new executive director. George Cogan, chairman of the Exploratorium’s board of directors, said Flink’s appointment was the result of a months-long international search for a leader who would “redefine... Читать дальше...

Prices for natural gas will rise by the end of the year due to increasing industrial demand among other factors, US Energy Information Administration (EIA) administrator Adam Sieminski told Sputnik.

Longtime CBS Newsman Morley Safer retires after a career spanning seven decades, unmatched for its impact, scope and style

Joseph Galante, a former member of the Giannini Crew, made a failed deal with the feds to try to avoid jail.

The Bianconeri chief feels that the veteran centre-back deserves recognition as one of the best defenders in the world, as he penned a new deal to stay in Turin

There’s zero reason to apologize for the atomic bombing, which forestalled invasion and saved lives.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A mother bear that mauled a northern Michigan girl as she jogged along a woodsy path nearly three years ago has been killed after mortally wounding a pet dog that apparently was chasing one of…

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan - A mother bear that mauled a northern Michigan girl as she jogged along a woodsy path nearly three years ago has been killed after mortally wounding a pet dog that apparently was chasing one of her cubs, state officials said Wednesday.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A mother bear that mauled a northern Michigan girl as she jogged along a woodsy path nearly three years ago has been killed after mortally wounding a pet dog that apparently was chasing one of…

Move come after delays in the building of the neighbouring Coombs shopping centre.

First generation iPods are listed for up to $20,000.

Millard North girls soccer coach James Abueg calls them “hero runs,” when a defender moves up field to try and help score a goal.

A consulting group on solitary confinement in Nebraska prisons on Wednesday hashed over a set of rules for restricted housing of inmates.

The Lancaster County Visitors Promotion Committee approved four grants worth $41,570 Wednesday that will help pay for improvements to a BMX race track, the State Museum, city disc golf courses and a threshing association’s showgrounds.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The commission that oversees Nebraska's state tourism agency has scheduled a meeting to discuss the job of its embattled director in the wake of a blistering state audit.

The FTC admits it blocked a merger as a way to help ‘large’ firms.

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It doesn't take long to draw up some crisis that could damage the global economy.

China's slowdown, ever increasing emerging-market debt, political instability in the Middle East, and the breakup of the European Union all pose serious risks.

But none of those worries compare to the real danger, according to Joe Quinlan, strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch's US Trust.

He wrote (emphasis added):

They all represent known unknowns—or externalities... Читать дальше...

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I have long been a critic of government inflation statistics. Not so much about their methodology, but because the measure of “average” inflation across the broad economy doesn’t really describe the inflation that the majority of Americans experience. 

I’ve written about that at length in several letters.

Now my good friend Rob Arnott, along with his associate Lillian Wu, presents us with a research paper that lays out what inflation actually looks like for most Americans—and the picture is not pretty. Читать дальше...

It was 14 years and 5,026 shows ago that sisters Shakeera and Meeka Onstead began dancing their sultry numbers in Angela Stabile’s “X Burlesque” at the Flamingo.

Scotland's 129 newly elected MSPs are to be sworn in for the fifth session of the Scottish Parliament.

An accountant arrested for groping a man and masturbating on a flight was sentenced to three years’ probation and fined $1,000.

The military judge and the entire prosecution team in the Sept. 11 war crimes trial should be removed from the case because important classified evidence that would have been helpful to the defense was destroyed, lawyers for the lead defendant said Wednesday.

TEMPE, Arizona - Former Arizona Cardinals receiver Roy Green will be inducted into the team's Ring of Honor at halftime against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, Oct. 2.