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Researchers hurt at Ibaraki nuclear facility
At least four researchers suffer internal radiation exposure after an experiment on elementary particles goes awry at a Japan Atomic Energy Agency facility.
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Financial Markets Jan 30, 2013
Upbeat factory data, Caterpillar earnings fail to dig U.S. markets out of hole
Stocks finished Monday mostly lower despite a stronger-than-expected manufactured durable goods report and a nearly 2 percent lift from Caterpillar earnings. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 14.05 points, or 0.10 percent, to 13,881.93. The broad-based S&P 500 fell 2.78 ...
Offbeat Jan 30, 2013
Hitler comedy novel a German hit
Eighty years after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a novel that imagines his return to modern-day Berlin has become a best-seller in Germany, though a comedy about the Fuehrer is not to everyone’s taste. Instead of committing suicide in his bunker on April 30, ...
Digital | TECHNOLOGY Jan 30, 2013
Why the Apple and Facebook empires are destined to collapse
by John Naughton
Nothing lasts forever: if history has any lesson for us, it is this. It’s a thought that comes from rereading Paul Kennedy’s magisterial tome, “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers,” in which he shows that none of the great nation-states or empires ...
