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Puerto Rican Weather System May Become Storm

By Alice Turner
The National Hurricane Center announced that a weather system off Puerto Rico on Monday still had the potential to become a late tropical or subtropical storm.
A 11 a.m. (EST) statement said today that “regardless of whether the low [pressure system] develops further… it could produce heavy squalls and gusty […]

Mars robot unearths microbe clue

By Jonathan Amos
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Dell tries tablets with Latitude XT

Posted by Erica Ogg 
Tablet computing is a very small pond, and it’s now home to a very big fish: Dell.
The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker is expected to announce the availability of the […]

Voyager 2 proves solar system is squashed

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system’s final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars.
However, Voyager 2 took a different path, entering this region, called the heliosheath, on 30 August […]

Restoration Hardware Q3 Loss Widens On Lower Demand For High-ticket Items

12/10/2007 10:13:22 AM Monday, Restoration Hardware, Inc. (RSTO), a home-furnishings retailer, said its third-quarter loss widened, hurt by a fall in demand for high-ticket items.
The Corte Madera, California-based company reported a loss of $15.19 million or $0.39 per share, compared to a loss of $5.71 million or $0.15 per share […]

Mortgage Pain Hits Prudent Borrowers

By David S. Hilzenrath
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - For a glimpse of the risks that infected the mortgage business in recent years, consider a small slice of what happened at Freddie Mac, the giant home-loan investor chartered by the government to bring stability to the housing market.
Before the era of easy credit, home buyers were ordinarily […]

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