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Dole Food Co.: In the June 10 Section A, a Monday Business stock spotlight article about Dole Food Co. said that Chief Executive David A. DeLorenzo stepped down to run Itochu Corp. He joined Itochu Corp. to run the newly acquired Dole Asia Holdings. Also,...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Baseball, Science and Technology, Colorado Rockies, Sports
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The real IRS scandal
Should you need a license from the government to exercise free speech? The real scandal at the Internal Revenue Service should be seen not as a left-versus-right issue but instead as infringement on the 1st Amendment. The people targeted were political...
Tags: Social Issues, Taxation, Richard Nixon, Politics, Discrimination
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Patents needed for the world's first bionic eye: 255 and counting
It took a lot of time, funding and the work of countless individual researchers to create the world's first bionic eye, which gives some sight back to the blind. How long? Well, the IBM ThinkPad (remember those?) was the world's hottest laptop...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as...
Tags: Obituaries, Swiss Confederation, Scientific Invention, University of California, Santa Barbara, Science and Technology
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When your laptop dies
It happened, as crises do, without warning. I was doing something essential, like trolling online for better and deeply discounted kitchen knives, when suddenly the image on my laptop went from hi-res to out-of-register. Most of the color fell away and...
Tags: FedEx Corporation, Columbia University, Les Miserables (musical), Science and Technology, Electronics
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IBM team uses atoms to create world's tiniest stop-motion movie
This post has been corrected. Please see note at bottom for details.Talk about some tiny pixels: Researchers at IBM have created the world's tiniest stop-motion animation film by using single atoms to tell the story of a boy named Atom and his friend, an atom. The story is cute — Atom and his friend dance...Tags: Science and Technology
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Investors snap up $17 billion in Apple bonds
First came the frenzy for iPhones and iPads. Now there's a scramble for iBonds. Apple Inc. sold $17 billion in bonds Tuesday, a gargantuan deal that ranked as the largest in global corporate history. And even though the securities are paying...
Tags: Employment, American Express Company, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Bonds, Economy, Business and Finance
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In a new film, IBM goes short. Really short.
Talk about some on-screen minimalism. In a bid to “explore the limits of filmmaking,” IBM has created a movie that takes a character and reduces him to his essence—literally. “A Boy and His Atom,” a new stop-motion short...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies
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PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel
Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....Tags: Esophageal cancer, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Science and Technology, Queens (New York City), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CISPA passes House committee, angering privacy activists
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee overwhelmingly passed a cyber-security bill on Wednesday, angering privacy advocates who believe the bill fails to protect critical personal information. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013,...
Tags: Adam Schiff, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Reddit Inc., Politics, U.S. House of Representatives
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How the relationship between employers and workers changed
Decades ago, many workers spent their whole lives at the same job, retiring with a full pension, and maybe even a gold watch from their boss. Now, almost no one works at the same place for life, and there’s much less loyalty between employers...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Employment, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, University of California, Santa Barbara
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