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A Cowlike Dinosaur Comes Into Focus

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

It has been 60 years since French paleontologists found the dinosaur’s bones in Saharan Africa, and 10 years since Paul C. Sereno of the University of Chicago began assembling a more complete skeleton. Only now has his team recognized the plant eater’s peculiar anatomy and foraging behavior.
The researchers reported yesterday that the […]

Consumer Prices Grow Moderately As Low Housing Costs Offset Energy

By BRIAN BLACKSTONE
November 15, 2007
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer prices stayed under wraps last month as contained housing and clothing prices offset a big jump in energy costs, suggesting that higher oil prices haven’t yet filtered into underlying inflationary pressures.
The data should provide some comfort to Federal Reserve officials worried about the potential inflationary impact […]

Dell Buoys a Rival by Offering Sun’s Operating System

By LAURIE J. FLYNN

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 — Dell and Sun Microsystems, longtime rivals in computer servers, said Wednesday that Dell would sell Sun’s Solaris operating system, giving Sun a lift as it tries to expand its software business.
The collaboration comes as business customers are increasingly demanding a simpler approach to deploying and maintaining technology.
Analysts […]

Sony makes most of Wii shortages

Sony is taking advantage of Nintendo Wii shortages and a recent price cut of the PlayStation 3 to double weekly sales of the console in the US. Sony boss Howard Stringer told the Associated Press news agency: “It’s a little fortuitous that the Wii is running out of hardware.”
Two weeks after the price cut Sony […]

Gas-free cars will soon hit streets

By Ken Bensinger
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 15, 2007
Coming soon to a freeway — or driveway — near you: cars that don’t need gasoline.
American Honda Motor Co., Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. announced plans at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday to put alternative fuel technology vehicles on the road in California […]

Merrill names NYSE chief Thain as new CEO

Posted on : 2007-11-15 | Author : Reuters

(Corrects timing of ONeals departure in 2nd paragraph) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co Inc on Wednesday named NYSE Euronext Chief Executive John Thain as its new CEO, a move that acknowledges it needed an outsider with a Goldman Sachs pedigree to repair an image […]

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