By LINDA GANNELL
WARWICK-ON-EDEN, England
Birds sang in the drawing room of Val Marriner’s home, Warwick Hall in Cumbria, but they were not coming from the garden. It was the sounds of Mrs. Marriner’s cellphone ring providing the idyllic touch.
An American from Worcester, Mass., Mrs. Marriner bought Warwick Hall in 1998 with her second husband, Nick, […]
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By DENISE GRADY
Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a drug that may eventually be used to treat children with a severe and fatal type of muscular dystrophy.
In its first test in humans, a safety study in just four boys, the drug enabled patients to produce an essential muscle protein that is missing in Duchenne’s […]
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By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Google must face a Wisconsin company’s lawsuit over a toolbar feature that generates Web links from search data, a federal appeals court decided in a ruling posted on Wednesday.
The United States Court of Appeals for the federal circuit in Washington revived part of a lawsuit filed by HyperPhrase Technologies, throwing out a […]
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By KATIE HAFNER
It was 2 o’clock in the morning but in the subterranean retailing mecca in Midtown Manhattan, otherwise known as the Apple store, it might as well have been midafternoon.
Late one night shortly before Christmas, parents pushed strollers and tourists straight off the plane mingled with nocturnal New Yorkers, clicking through iPod playlists, […]
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By MARCI ALBOHER
TO its true believers at small businesses, it is a low-cost, high-return tool that can handle marketing and public relations, raise the company profile and build the brand.
That tool is blogging, though small businesses with blogs are still a distinct minority. A recent American Express survey found that only […]
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By LYNNLEY BROWNING
A civil court has ruled that a popular tax-avoidance scheme known as Son of Boss was abusive and any deductions claimed for it were invalid, an important victory for the Internal Revenue Service in its battle against questionable tax shelters sold to wealthy individuals.
The decision, by the United States Court of […]
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