US Military Equipment Built with Counterfeit Parts
Posted: 5/22/2012 12:35:00 AM
A yearlong investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee has identified more than 1,800 cases of counterfeit electronic parts from China being incorporated into complex U.S. military hardwa…
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The Economy Ahead: Slightly Less Sluggish
Posted: 5/21/2012 3:22:00 PM
The economy will grow at a sluggish pace for the rest of the year, even as the outlook brightened slightly from a similar forecast made in early February, the nation’s business economists said Mon…
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Want World Peace? Try Super-Smart Farming
Posted: 5/21/2012 12:02:00 AM
A lot depends on the world’s ability to expand agricultural production over the next 30 years. As the grain price spikes and resulting food riots of 2008 and 2010 attest, nothing less than geopoli…
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Facebook: Overhyped, Overpriced, and You May Own It
Posted: 5/18/2012 12:05:00 AM
Everybody is ogling the fortunes being made from the investors and owners cashing out at Facebook -- Mark Zuckerberg: $1.1 billion, Goldman Sachs taking out nearly the same, and Peter Thiel of Pay…
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Weather-Related Disasters on the Rise
Posted: 5/17/2012 12:03:00 AM
If you don’t have enough to worry about with the stock market sagging and the economy in the doldrums, ponder these facts: The U.S. just experienced the hottest 12 months since the National Weathe…
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