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Rule on Shots Forces Some Students Off Maine Campuses

By KATIE ZEZIMA

PORTLAND, Me. — Hundreds of students at the University of Southern Maine have been barred from its campuses here and in nearby Gorham over mumps vaccinations.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued an emergency order that full-time or resident students at the campuses — 5,996 people — must have […]

Nokia Pushes to Regain U.S. Sales in Spite of Apple and Google

By MARK LANDLER
ESPOO, Finland — When Google announced plans in October to revolutionize the software of cellular phones, few were more eager to hear the details than the industry veterans at Nokia. They still are.
“We’ve seen an announcement,” Nokia’s chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, said with more than a hint of sarcasm. “Conceptually, we […]

In-flight e-mail and instant messaging on JetBlue

Author : Abdul-Salaam Masheer […]

MySpace gears up for more music with Transmissions

Contributed by: Antony Bruno
Source: REUTERS
DENVER (Billboard) - Hoping to broaden its relevance to the music industry in the face of increasing competition from other social networking sites, MySpace will roll out a suite of services and initiatives as part of what company officials are calling MySpace Music 2.0.But a new policy at […]

Shuttle Atlantis launch scrubbed a 2nd time

(Agencies)

Cape Canaveral - NASA called off Sunday’s planned launch of the space shuttle Atlantis after a gauge in a fuel tank failed for the second time in four days.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is seen at pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., December 8 2007. NASA managers are meeting to determine if they will launch Atlantis […]

Butt out, smokers tell Nova Scotia town Bylaw would ban smoking on city streets

HELEN MORRIS

CanWest News Service

 
The small town of Bridgewater, N.S., is considering a bylaw that would ban smoking on all town property, and that has smokers there telling municipal officials to butt out of their business.
Yesterday, about 60 smokers mounted a protest on a provincially owned bridge - one of the few places where the ban […]

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