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  • Powerful women join Forbes list Powerful women join Forbes list

    Forbes has listed the world's most powerful woman for 2013 as Angela Merkel. She has become Forbes' number one for the 8th time. This year the list featured 8 heads of state, including the German Chancellor. Other women listed were two new billionaires to the list, women's clothing designer Tory Burch and Spanx's Sara Blakely, who both own their own companies. They were two of 24 ...

  • Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion Amazon ventures into fan fiction promotion

    WASHINGTON - Amazon, the largest online retailer of books, movies, music and games, Friday offered its Kindle e-book platform to fan fiction authors to sell some of their work. Fan fiction is literature inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. Publication outside of blogs and online fanzines is often difficult because of copyright issues. Amazon Publishing has ...

  • Fracking energy revolution begins to rock the world

    FILE - In this March 29, 2013 file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. gas well outside Rifle, in western Colorado. The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The new ...

  • Samsung Debuts The New Galaxy S IV

    People interact with the Samsung Galaxy S IV, March 14, 2013 in New York City. Samsung, the world's largest handset maker, revealed their successor to the Galaxy S III. The Galaxy S IV features a five-inch 1080p screen, a 1.9GHz quad-core processor, a 13-megapixel rear camera and ships with the latest Android version, Jelly ...

  • First Impressions Review Of The Samsung Galaxy S4

    Samsung's Galaxy S4 (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) It might not be moments after the phone is announced, but I finally have a review unit of the Samsung Galaxy S4. I'll be posting a more considered review in two or three weeks time, so this article will focus on my experiences of the Galaxy S4 as it comes out the box, and in the first day of use. I think this is an ...


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Vacancy [DVD]

Vacancy [DVD]

Vacancy is a nastily effective, rough-edged gem of a horror-thriller. Like the sputtering neon sign evoked in its advertising campaign, you keep expecting that it will peter out, but somehow it stays burning right up until the unexpectedly abrupt, yet entirely appropriate ending ... ...

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  • Moon dust gathered by Neil Armstrong discovered in warehouse after 40 years

    (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Marilee Bailey) Several miscellaneous bits and pieces of the first moon mission have orbited back into our field of view lately. In March, it was pieces of the rocket that propelled Apollo 11 spaceward, ...

  • Blackstone Notifies Cohens SAC It Intends to Pull Funds

    May 25 (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen is losing the financial support of Blackstone Group Inc , the largest outside investor in his embattled SAC Capital Advisors, which is yanking much of its client money, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.A pension consultant, in a May 21 letter to clients, said Blackstone has notified Cohen that it intends to "fully ...

  • Military should conduct drone strikes Powell

    WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. drone strikes should be conducted by the military, not the Central Intelligence Agency, and limited to targets that present a real immediate threat to the U.S., former Secretary of State Colin Powell said, according to a report ...

  • Why DOJ didnt need a super search warrant to snoop on Fox News e-mail

    Attorney General Eric Holder, shown testifying before Congress last week, personally approved the controversial search warrant for the contents of a Fox News correspondent's e-mail ...

  • 5 Ways to Ace Your Air Travel This Summer

    (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) People who travel regularly for business absolutely loathe getting on planes during the summer. That's when those "amateur travelers" -- road warrior slang for people who only fly once or twice a year -- take to the skies. Unused to security protocol, determined to carry on the biggest possible duffle, and forgetful about ...

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