Storm knocks down some web sites, but most stay online

affiliate marketing SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Despite outages at a few well-known web sites and ripple effects that occasionally slowed communications around the country, the Internet came through the massive storm that swamped New York and New Jersey with relatively minor problems.Built for resiliency and buttressed by the adoption...

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‘Homeland’ hits series high, Showtime sets record

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES, Oct 30 (TheWrap.com) – Showtime‘s “Homeland” hit a series high with its Sunday episode — and it helped to deliver a first-time honor for the network, Showtime said Tuesday.With “Dexter,” in its seventh season, inching up 5 percent from last week to score 2.28 million total viewers, Sunday marked the first...

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Sensitive New Sensor Detects Prostate Cancer in Early Stages

affiliate marketing British scientists have designed a prototype of a highly sensitive scanner that can detect diseases such as prostate cancer and HIV in very early stages. They consider their discovery extremely useful in countries where high-tech detection equipment is scarce.The researchers, from Imperial College London, reported...

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NYC Rats: Stronger Than Sandy

affiliate marketing Unprecedented flooding throughout low-lying portions of New York City over the past two days undoubtedly left hundreds—if not thousands—of rats scrambling for their dear lives. According to experts, most of them likely survived. “They’re a jack of all trades when it comes to locomotion,” says Rick Ostfeld of the Cary...

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Hurricane’s death toll rises to 65 in Caribbean

affiliate marketing PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering.Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming in Haiti, which was pelted by three days of constant rains that ended only on Friday. affiliate...

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Steve Jobs’s Secret Yacht Looks Like a Giant iPhone

affiliate marketing RELATED: Should You Buy an iPad 2?Just over a year after Steve Jobs’s death, shipbuilders in Aalsmeer, Holland have finally finished the yacht that the Apple visionary spent years designing — stealthily, of course. Boy, does it look like an Apple product. Her name is Venus. affiliate...

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“Argo” rises above “Cloud Atlas” as Sandy spooks

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Acclaimed Iran hostage thriller “Argo” brought home its first box-office win over a quiet weekend, leading movie charts with $ 12.4 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales as would-be moviegoers hunkered down for Hurricane Sandy.The tally for “Argo,” directed by and starring Ben Affleck,...

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U.S. regulator needs new authority over compounding pharmacies: report

affiliate marketing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration‘s power to regulate compounded drugs similar to those linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak is legally nonbinding and lacks the authority of stringent standards imposed on drug manufacturers, according to a congressional report released on Sunday.The report,...

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Taskforce to rescue High Streets

affiliate marketing 28 October 2012 Last updated at 20:30 ETBy Emma Simpson Business correspondent, BBC News affiliate marketing Senior figures from across the banking, retail and property sectors have signed up to a new industry-wide group, the Distressed Retail Property Taskforce.They...

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Ukraine’s opposition doing well in election

affiliate marketing KIEV, Ukraine (AP) —Ukraine’s opposition parties performed strongly in Sunday’s parliamentary vote, according to an exit poll, but President Viktor Yanukovych‘s party could still retain control of the legislature as its members are likely to sweep individual races across the country. affiliate...

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