By STEPHEN LABATON
WASHINGTON — The auction for rights to a highly valuable swath of the nation’s airwaves will begin Thursday and is expected to include multibillion-dollar bids from the nation’s two biggest wireless phone companies, Verizon and AT&T, as well as Google.
Although industry executives and analysts agree that Google is unlikely to win any […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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By MIGUEL HELFT
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in an effort to increase its profitability, prop up its deflated stock price and narrow the focus of its sprawling Internet portal to a smaller number of crucial areas, people close to the company said Monday.
The final number of layoffs […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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By AMANDA LEIGH HAAG
When Kurt Hoffman visited Tanzania in the 1970s as a young product-development researcher, he could hardly bear to enter village huts to ask questions.
“I couldn’t stand the smoke, the pain in my eyes and the coughing,” he said. “And yet the women and children were sitting there the whole time,” enveloped […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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By SANA KHALID
Some of the birds flew upside down or threw their heads back between their wings. Some fell out of the sky. Others tried to land a foot or more above the water, or swam in circles when they got there. And then they died.
The birds — eared grebes, ruddy ducks, California gulls […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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By ANDREW C. REVKIN
For 15 years, United Nations talks aimed at fixing a faltering 1992 climate treaty have provided little drama. But at the latest session last month on the Indonesian island of Bali, Kevin Conrad, a young man representing one of the world’s least influential nations, Papua New Guinea, gained a worldwide spotlight […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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Basics
By NATALIE ANGIER
As the candidates have shown us in the succulent telenovela that is the 2008 presidential race, there are many ways to parry for political power. You can go tough and steely in an orange hunter’s jacket, or touchy-feely with a Kleenex packet. You can ally yourself with an alpha male like […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by admin
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