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Looks like Carl Icahn did show up to his first Yahoo board meeting, though it appears he wasn’t able to get much done. The new board, which also includes former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi and former CEO of Nextel Partners (S), John Chapple, reportedly met Tuesday and decided as a first course of business to [...]

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With the current financial distress in the states quickly spreading to other industries, it’s inevitable that it will effect the software industry as well. The worsening U.S. economic situation has already inspired Forrester Research to lower its expectations for U.S. and global IT spending in 2008.

No surprise, then, to hear Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer [...]

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Here’s why you might be worried: Burning oil, coal, gas, wood or other organic materials uses molecular oxygen, the O2 we breathe, to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and release energy. This reaction, better known as combustion, also pairs each broken-off, positively charged carbon atom with two negatively charged oxygen atoms, forming carbon dioxide, or CO2.
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In late 2005, cardiac researcher Doris Taylor revived the dead. She rinsed rat hearts with detergent until the cells washed away and all that remained was a skeleton of tissue translucent as wax paper—a ghost heart, as Taylor calls it. She injected the scaffold with fresh heart cells from newborn rats. Then she waited.
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