The Polls Shift Toward Obama

Anxious poll watchers didn’t have to wait until 1 p.m. Monday to get the results of Gallup’s obsessively followed daily presidential tracking poll. That’s because Bloomberg Businessweek‘s Ira Boudway got ahold of them and published them early. The story they tell is the same one being reflected in other tracking polls: late movement toward President Obama.In...

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Bomb shakes Damascus, opposition holds unity talks

AMMAN (Reuters) – A bomb exploded near army and security compounds in Damascus, Syrian television reported, and fractured opposition groups seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad began unity talks abroad to win international respect and arms supplies.The 50-kilogram (110-pound) bomb, near a large hotel in a heavily guarded district, was described...

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EU boosts radio spectrum for superfast mobile services

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission is to release a swathe of radio spectrum to give mobile and internet companies more space for rolling out faster fourth-generation (4G) wireless services.Monday’s announcement means an extra 120 MHz of spectrum will be available for 4G from 2014 at the latest to try to accommodate a sharp rise in the use of...

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The Dark Art of Political Polling

How could a Gallup Organization survey published a week before the election show Mitt Romney up by 5 percentage points, while a CBS/New York Times poll from the same period put him 1 point behind President Obama? Even professional poll watchers don’t know.New technologies such as e-mail blasts have made it possible to field polls cheaply—and...

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Brazil’s ‘pop-star priest’ gets mammoth new stage

affiliate marketing SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil‘s “pop-star priest” is already packing in the crowds at the newly opened mammoth sanctuary that he built for his campaign to stem the exodus of faithful from the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America’s biggest nation.Brazil still has more Catholics than any other country in the world, with...

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Bwin.party revenue hit by German tax rules, poor poker

affiliate marketing LONDON (Reuters) – Bwin.party Digital Entertainment, the world’s largest listed online gaming group, said a new gaming tax in its core German market and a big drop in poker sales pushed net revenue down 10 percent in its third quarter.The firm said on Friday net revenue in the three months to October 31 fell to 175.7...

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Anorexic Bakes to Gain Control Over Food

affiliate marketing Camilla Kuhns of Kirkland, Wash., makes the best cookies in the world. Ask anyone but her.Kuhns is a 29-year-old anorexic with a penchant for baking. She has never tasted one of her own confections. Her younger brother, Seth, samples dough and final products to let her know if anything is off, and her mother, Ilene,...

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A Rising Tide of Natural Disasters

affiliate marketing The number of natural disasters since 1996 costing $ 1 billion or more doubled compared with the previous 15-year period.Note: Damage numbers represent the 2012 Consumer Price Index cost adjusted value except in the case of 2012 estimates; Data: NOAA, IHS Global Insight; Bloomberg affiliate...

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High-Tech Ways to Save on Home Energy Costs

affiliate marketing My home energy bills keep going up — and I don’t imagine I’m alone. But in addition to the usual solutions like “turn down your thermostat” and “switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs — or better yet, LEDs”, I’ve discovered some high-tech tools that help save energy — and money.The Department of Energy estimates...

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How Computational Models Are Improving Medicine [Video]

affiliate marketing Click here to view the video High-resolution electromechanical model of a heart; courtesy of N. Trayanova affiliate marketing The more we learn about cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s, the more vexingly complex they seem–and the more elusive their cures. Even...

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