By LOUISE STORY and MIGUEL HELFT
Even as Yahoo tries to stay out of Microsoft’s grip, the company is busy closing acquisitions of its own.
Yahoo said Tuesday that it had paid $160 million to acquire Maven Networks, an Internet company that sells a system for managing advertisements in online videos.
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(Bloomberg News) — American and European astronauts on Tuesday inaugurated the Columbus science laboratory, the newest addition to the International Space Station and Europe’s largest contribution.
The tin-can-shaped laboratory, which cost about $2 billion, was delivered last weekend and installed Monday during a spacewalk. It will expand the range of zero-gravity experiments aboard the station.
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By KATE MURPHY
SOME relationships run aground on the perilous shoals of money, sex or religion. When Shauna James’s new romance hit the rocks, the culprit was wheat.
“I went out with one guy who said I seemed really great but he liked bread too much to date me,” said Ms. James, 41, a writer in […]
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By TARA PARKER-POPE
Americans are spending more money than ever to treat spine problems, but their backs are not getting any better.
Those are the findings of a report in The Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that spending on spine treatments in the United States totaled nearly $86 billion in 2005, a rise […]
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By ANDREW POLLACK
Genentech said Tuesday that a new clinical trial had shown that its best-selling drug Avastin was effective in treating breast cancer, a finding that could increase the chances that the product will be approved for that use.
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By RICHARD SANDOMIR
A crowd gathered early Tuesday afternoon.
A mastiff, Balou, was down.
But it was his prerogative and his pleasure. Balou was laying on his back or side on the cool concrete floor of the crowded benching area at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, receiving love.
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