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Mon. October 06, 2008

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Take US Back to the Future

Harvard Crimson
October 6, 2008

By ADAM R. GOLD It's rare for physics to make the news, but somehow the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator run by the CERN laboratory on ...

Federal funding for scientific research has dropped significantly since the surge of interest in biomedical research at the beginning of the decade. ...

I believe in women this year

Dagens Nyheter
October 5, 2008

The chemistry Prize is usually the hardest one to guess, especially since the Nobel Committee for Medicine rewarded RNA interference two years ago. ...

On Monday the Karolinska Institute present their pick for the Medicine Prize, on Tuesday it's the Royal Academy of sciences' turn with the Physics Prize, ...

Scientists see fewer rocks than expected in solar belt

Taipei Times
October 5, 2008

The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) - a cooperation project between Academia Sinica's Institute of astronomy and Astrophysics, ...

... the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Institute of geophysics and Planetary Physics, ...

Credit, recession fears slam Wall Street

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:19:08 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slid for a fourth straight day on Monday, leaving the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, on fears the global economy was hurtling into recession despite government efforts to contain the fast-spreading financial crisis.

Crisis hammers stocks, U.S. urges unified response

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:31:34 -0400

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Governments around the world grasped at new measures to contain the fast-spreading credit crisis on Monday but stock, bond and commodity markets saw investors betting on deepening uncertainty and a sharp global downturn.

BofA earnings tumble, cuts dividend; to raise $10 billion

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:52:22 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp, the largest U.S. bank, on Monday reported a 68 percent drop in quarterly earnings, halved its dividend and said it would seek to raise $10 billion in additional capital.

Wachovia, Citi, Wells Fargo to halt litigation

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:06:41 -0400

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wachovia Corp and suitors Wells Fargo & Co and Citigroup Inc agreed on Monday to halt all litigation until noon Wednesday in hopes of deciding the winner of the troubled North Carolina-based bank.

McCain, Obama unleash another round of attacks

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:21:12 -0400

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama warmed up on Monday for a potentially crucial debate by unleashing another volley of personal attacks on each other's character in an increasingly ugly White House race.

Eli Lilly bids $6.5 billion for ImClone

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:59:45 -0400

BOSTON/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co has agreed to acquire ImClone Systems Inc for $6.5 billion, outbidding Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and potentially bringing to a close one of the most colorful corporate sagas in biotech history.

Oil drops 6 percent to below $88 on demand concerns

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:43:21 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil dropped more than 6 percent to below $88 a barrel on Monday as a global market rout churned concerns that faltering fuel demand could slow further.

Russia says U.S. on dangerous path over arms control

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:28:07 -0400

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States is upsetting the nuclear arms balance by failing to offer a fully-fledged replacement for the START arms control treaty when it expires next year, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Fed to boost auctions, pay interest on reserves

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:44:37 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Monday announced a series of steps to funnel massive amounts of liquidity through clogged credit markets, including boosting the sizes of cash auctions and offering banks interest on reserves.

Sen. Stevens on tape: "might serve time in jail"

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:56:26 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Ted Stevens told an oil-executive friend, in recordings played on Monday at the Alaska Republican's corruption trial, they both risked going to jail -- but he didn't think it would come to that.