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Feds may upgrade school bus safety rules

Seat backs would be higher

By JAIME SARRIO
Staff Writer

All new school buses will be required to have higher seat backs, and some, shoulder and lap safety belts, if a new rule is approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The regulation would strengthen school bus safety laws in some states, including Tennessee, by requiring lap and shoulder […]

Microsoft plans Russian data center

Posted by Ina Fried […]

Windows XP to get a significant performance boost with SP3?

Posted Nov 27th 2007 3:54AM by Nilay Patel

We’re always a little wary of unconfirmed speed reports derived from beta software — especially when no build number is given — but a Florida shop called Devil Mountain Systems is claiming that Windows XP SP3 will offer a 10 percent speed increase over SP2, going so far […]

Can the Internet really compete with cable TV?

Posted by Declan McCullagh […]

Move Over, ‘Cyber Monday’

Online retailers, bracing for a record holiday season, say their busiest day will come in December’s second week; eBay calls it “Green Monday”
by Catherine Holahan
Two years ago, a group of savvy marketers deemed the first workday after Thanksgiving the biggest online shopping day of the year. But e-tailers have long known that the digital […]

Youths, police clash near Paris a 2nd night

The rioting, touched off by two teens’ deaths, illustrates tensions in France’s immigrant neighborhoods.
By Geraldine Baum, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

PARIS — Dozens of rock-throwing youths battled police for a second night Monday in a suburb north of Paris, illustrating the hair-trigger tension in France’s poor immigrant neighborhoods.
The violence began Sunday in Villiers-le-Bel after two […]