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Source: TheStreet.com - 09-06 - Rep. Barney Frank confirms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the subject of a long-rumored government rescue plan, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Source: SEO Journal - 09-06 - The world of SEO is full of abbreviations and acronyms and many people find these confusing. One of the most confusing areas relates to websites (and blogs) and the search engines. Let's clear up a few off these confusions:

Source: SEO Journal - 09-06 - There are many tools in the search engine optimization cabinet, keyword stemming is just one of them. To many website owners, they will be saying, - keyword what?.

Source: IndustryWeek.com - 09-06 - The growth in small business jobs was from the service sector.

Source: Lifehacker - 09-06 - Job listing site CareerBuilder lists seven so-called rules of job hunting that are sometimes necessary to break in order to land a job that's perfect for you.

Source: USATODAY.com Tech - 09-06 - Microsoft kicked off a $300 million marketing campaign Thursday, aimed at improving the image of its Windows Vista operating ...

Source: Prime Newswire - 09-06 - SPOT LLC, the pioneer behind the award-winning SPOT Satellite Messenger, offers a new, inexpensive product that can be valuable to those living in Hurricane zones and other areas as they prepare to face emergencies and natural disasters.

Source: Entrepreneur.com - 09-06 - By gauging where the rapidly changing airline industry is headed, business travelers can map out their flight plans and find the best deals.

Source: NASA Image of the Day - 09-06 - The American flag flies on the NASA News Center grounds at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, giving witness to the passage of space shuttle Atlantis as it...

Source: Inc.com - HR - 09-06 - Hard times at larger corporations are boosting business for small firms, a survey finds.

Source: physorg.com - 09-06 - The Rosetta deep space probe successfully passed close to an asteroid 250 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency said Friday night.

Source: physorg.com - 09-06 - In a place like Silicon Valley, where career prospects often hinge on a person's intelligence and ability to work hellishly long hours, brain doping probably was inevitable.

Source: physorg.com - 09-06 - A computerized reminder system used in community-based primary care doctors' offices increased colorectal cancer screening rates by an average of 9 percent, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System.

Source: The Inquirer - 09-06 - Bye bye bandwidth THE NEXT VERSION OF Apple's Itunes software will include high definition video downloads according to a leak reported by Digg main man, Kevin Rose. Rumours are also rife about new Ipods and even a refresh of the Macbook marque, although none of these whispers of things to come have any...

Source: The Register - 09-06 - Nasty chill provoked reduced fuel flow The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has concluded that the 17 January crash-landing of a Boeing 777 at Heathrow was probably caused by ice within the fuel feed system which restricted flow to the engines.

Source: IndustryWeek.com - 09-06 - Defective fuel pump to blame

Source: IndustryWeek.com - 09-06 - Employers shift cost, move employees into lower-cost plans

Source: IndustryWeek.com - 09-06 - Steps to manage a challenging economy

Source: Newsweek - 09-06 - We know a massage feels good, but it can have a host of therapeutic advantages, too.

Source: Wired News - 09-06 - Throw out your level, your tape measure and your car's speedometer -- the iPhone has apps aimed at replacing all these tools and more.

Source: TIME - 09-06 - After-market conversion kits are expensive, but impatient drivers are snapping them up to get better mileage -- the best option until the electric finally arrives

Source: Wired News - 09-06 - Picasa upgrades its desktop and online components of photo-aggregation and editing tools. Most notably, Picasa Web Albums now has the ability to identify and filter photos by facial recognition. It's a little creepy, but it gives Google's photo software a leg up on the competition by being the first of its kind.

Source: Manufacturing.net - 09-06 - Number of people claiming jobless benefits rose by nearly half a million over the past year, bringing the total to a 10-year high of 2.53 million, Spain's Labor Ministry said Tuesday.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - In the face of technology that will soon be able not only to track an individual's movements but predict them too, people are far too relaxed about protecting their privacy, according to social psychologist Saadi Lahlou, writing in a special issue of Social Science Information on cognitive technologies, published today by SAGE.

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Source: USATODAY.com Tech - 09-05 - Billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad are adding $400 million to a joint biomedical venture at Harvard and MIT.

Source: CNN - Top Stories - 09-05 - Honda Motor Co. unveiled a pure-hybrid concept car Thursday that hopes to go head to head with Toyota's wildly popular Prius.

Source: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - 09-05 - bevy: a group; an assembly.

Source: ManageSmarter.com - 09-05 - Seeking to control costs, enhance service to customers and grow revenue, The Timberland Company investigated ways to streamline communications with its wholesale customers in the US and Canada.

Source: ManageSmarter.com - 09-05 - Have a big meeting or sales presentation to give? Don't let those butterflies get in the way. Turn that nervous energy into your delivery power with these tips from Broadway.

Source: National Geographic News - 09-05 - The deluge, caused by a dam break in Nepal, has destroyed more than 250,000 acres of farmland, killed at least 90 people, and left at least a million people homeless.

Source: National Geographic News - 09-05 - Melting Greenland ice could cause oceans to swell by more than a foot over the next hundred years, according to a study of the ancient Laurentide ice sheet.

Source: Scientific American - 09-05 - There's another island the size of Manhattan, but this one is a newly broken ice sheath off the Arctic Circle.

Source: Scientific American - 09-05 - On September 10, the world's biggest science experiment is set to come online. Here's how it will search for the Higgs boson, dark matter and supersymmetry

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal infections.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new University of Colorado at Boulder study concludes that global sea rise of much more than 6 feet is a near physical impossibility.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - For young children, all states currently require the use of child safety seats, and the minimum age and weight requirements to graduate to seat belts has been increasing over time. A new study in the journal Economic Inquiry reveals that lap-and-shoulder seat belts perform as well as child safety seats in preventing serious injury.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - At 9:19 a.m. EDT this morning, space shuttle Atlantis began its slow trek from Kennedy Space Center's massive Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A, a journey that should take approximately six hours.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - Many older Americans may be shortchanging their golden years by tapping into Social Security too soon, according to a University of Illinois expert who has studied the federal retirement program for nearly two decades.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - In a case-control study, the presence of measles virus RNA was no more likely in children with autism and GI disturbances than in children with only GI disturbances. Furthermore, GI symptom and autism onset were unrelated to MMR vaccine timing.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - Researchers have discovered a new 'trick' that allows HIV to overtake resting T cells that are normally highly resistant to HIV infection, according to a report in the September 5th issue of the journal Cell.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - A Universitĩ Laval research team has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The details of this discovery, which could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic, are published in the most recent issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia University (WVU), researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, can prevent the memory loss that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs sometimes induce.

Source: physorg.com - 09-05 - New research from Rhode Island Hospital found that obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) can contribute to mild neurodegeneration with features common with Alzheimer's disease (AD) - the first study to show that obesity can cause neurodegeneration.

Source: Computerworld News - 09-04 - These terrific add-ons for Mozilla's Firefox make routine tasks easier and increase the browser's power many times over.

Source: NASA Image of the Day - 09-04 - An all-star gathering of legendary American astronauts appeared in Cleveland Aug. 29, 2008 to celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary. John Glenn, the first...

Source: National Geographic News - 09-04 - A long, hot summer has ice shelves on Canada's Ellesmere Island disintegrating at an alarming pace, satellite images show.

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Source: Dictionary.com Word of the Day - 09-04 - immolate: to kill or destroy, often by fire.

Source: Inc.com - HR - 09-04 - More workers are living paycheck to paycheck, a survey finds.

Source: Business Week Careers - 09-04 - BusinessWeek's comprehensive guide to the most important executive recruiters

Source: Prevention Magazine - 09-04 - Challenge your mind with our new brain games

Source: Prevention Magazine - 09-04 - Wise up to errors even smart women make

Source: Discovery Channel - 09-04 - A one-degree rise in ocean temperatures will likely lead a one-third rise in cyclones.

Source: cpsc.gov - Recalls and product safety - 09-04 - Irregularly positioned wires near the computer's hinge and/or a dislodged screw inside the hinge can cause a short circuit and overheating. This poses a burn hazard to consumers.

Source: ManageSmarter.com - 09-04 - The whole concept of personalized URLs (PURLs) and landing pages is still rather new and exotic in the world of cross-media marketing.