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NEW YORK, Nov. 20 -- Financier and arts philanthropist Alberto Vilar and his business partner Gary Tanaka were found guilty Wednesday of a scheme to steal $20 million from clients of Amerindo Investment Advisors, which made and then lost billions of dollars for investors in...(more)
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ROMP—or Remotely Operated Mobile Platform—is a poor man's version of an iRobot battlefield bot. Instead of fancy tracks and miniaturized sensors, these ROMPs seem more like sophisticated all-terrain RC cars rigged with consumer cameras. Until you meet the older brother, of course, the weaponized WROMP with...(more)
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Reuters - U.S. mobile service provider Sprint Nextel Corp said on Friday that the president of its CDMA business unit, John Garcia, is leaving the company.
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AP - A spokesman from Greece's Merchant Marine Ministry says pirates have released a Greek-owned chemical tanker that was hijacked in September and that the crew is safe.
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AP - Iraq's parliament has resumed debate on a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact that would keep American troops in the country for up to three more years.
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AFP - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will join other major Japanese carmakers in making further cuts to production and jobs to cope with the global economic downturn, press reports said Saturday.
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AFP - Tibetan exiles on Saturday backed continued negotiations with China to try to achieve autonomy for the region, after the Dalai Lama asked followers to review the troubled policy.
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AFP - Leaders of the Pacific rim are set to meet to chart ways to boost trade despite turmoil in the global economy, as aspiring powers China and Russia bid farewell to US President George W. Bush.
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The University of Maryland's "white opera" is a tease. Each fall, the university's opera studio puts on a production with colorless muslin costumes and no orchestra -- it's also called the "piano opera," though for Benjamin Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," there were bells and...(more)
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We let Stephen Colbert and all of his "truthiness" come into our homes, but how well do we know this man, this faux anchor from Comedy Central's late-night hit "The Colbert Report"? Well, we can glean this: He seems to have a thing for certain...(more)
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- While many Americans sleep off the effects of oversize turkey dinners, Glenn Murphy will mingle with holiday hordes at an outlet mall. Murphy, chairman and CEO of The Gap Inc., said he and other executives are assessing whether the retail industry's "doorbuster"...(more)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The start of the holiday shopping season crept earlier into Thursday as retailers lured shoppers to stores and online ahead of the traditional Black Friday kick-off....
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